Author: halo@bungie.org

John_117 has updated our forum on his progress of his Cortana/Master Chief wall painting – you can see the latest screenshot in his post.(Louis Wu 14:42:42 UTC)

Also at Rampancy.net this morning are two music transcriptions from spartan182 – a partial solution of the Halo 3 Announcement Trailer, for piano, and Unforgotten (the main menu screen music). You must be logged in to download.(Louis Wu 14:41:09 UTC)

Rampancy.net has a rant from VVV about how broken Halo 3 is. I have to say that I disagree with him on so many points that a rebuttal is pointless; we’re not talking the same language. Others may not feel the same.(Louis Wu 14:38:20 UTC)

Seraphim let us know that the Metroid Online Map Team has released a pair of maps (in Release Candidate status), for testing. If you’re a Halo Custom Edition player, grab these puppies and give ’em a try! (The release announcement contains screenshots and a movie, so you can see a little of what you’re getting.)(Louis…

Capt Spanish has been working quite a bit on Terminal graphics; he’s created a bunch of custom-made images that took their inspiration from Halo 3’s terminals, but have his own touches. You can find 4 separate designs, in two form factors each, in his forum post. We’re still working on making the vector formats available…

This summer was pretty rough, real-life-wise… and then Halo 3 came out. Art submissions have suffered the worst from this; the Wallpaper and Misc Art queues haven’t been touched for many, many months. I’m still working on the Misc Art queue (it’s enormous)… but the Wallpaper queue is cleared out, I think. 84 new images…

Sharkiest pointed out a movie on Gametrailers done by Sabin17 – it’s a remake of the Matrix Revolutions trailer using Halo footage. Great synching!(Louis Wu 22:05:26 UTC)

Everything Awesome has 10 “Don’ts” for Halo 3 – some are screenshots, some are movies, all are pretty funny.(Louis Wu 22:03:56 UTC)

Second Foundation is now providing a live video feed of their recording of the Riot podcast, shown on mogulus.com. (I’m not sure how to find it, and there’s no infiormation on the site itself, nor on Mogulus… but I guess this will become clearer over time.) The current episode, #74, filmed/recorded this morning, has news,…

So Elnea’s been making Halo art, movies, music, and comics for a while now… but she has this weird aversion to bandwidth help. She creates stuff that’s WAY above the mainstream, quality-wise… but she doesn’t want to be a burden, or something. Last night, though, she crossed a line. She posted remastered versions of five…

Mid7night returns to X-Plane Halo building – and adds the UNSC Marathon-class Cruiser, and the Covenant Assault Carrier to his fleet. The screenshots don’t show very much – but based on his previous work, I’d say these are probably pretty cool! If you have X-Plane, go grab ’em.(Louis Wu 16:10:01 UTC)

This popped up on Google News; I don’t know how well it works, since i don’t have a machine I can install it on at the moment, but Shifu-Hacks has a small (200k) program that can show you various armor permutations. Looks like it runs on WIndows XP.(Louis Wu 16:07:26 UTC)

The Boston Globe has an article that suggests that playing games like Halo 3 increases your ability to spot threats quickly – and would be useful training for airport security screeners. How many of them would protest that training regimen, do you think?(Louis Wu 16:04:01 UTC)

LX925 fell into one of the generators on Snowbound… and lost his limbs. (A larger version of this screen can be found in his screenshots collection on B.net.)(Louis Wu 16:02:05 UTC)

Sean Somers ointed out a Halo 3 parody of the “So easy, a caveman can do it” ad campaign, created by mans1ay3r. It uses only static assets, and the animation harkens back to the old-skool Flash parodies of the late 90s – great memories!(Louis Wu 15:56:52 UTC)

Community Projects has kicked off another contest – this one involves playing The Covenant with Campaign scoring on. The winner will receive 1600 Microsoft Points ($20, a couple of Arcade games). Go read the rules and details at Bungie.net. THanks, Maximum Fear. Now… it’s time to head down for some tailgating, before the Yale-Harvard game…

newguy2445 and Godhand have been working on a 2D Halo game for a while – they’ve released a teaser trailer for it, on YouTube. Not much there… but it sounds like they’ll be done sometime next year!(Louis Wu 14:48:19 UTC)

ZZoMBiE13’s Saturday offering for Another Halo Comic Strip takes an easy shot at a classic target. And check out his new Cortana!(Louis Wu 12:37:55 UTC)

Jamie98s is back, with a short project – he says “it’s kind of a trailer but not really”. Filmed in Halo 2, with some interesting mods and lots of post-production work. Sad… but powerful. About 20 mb, in either WMP9 or QuickTime formats… go watch!(Louis Wu 12:35:56 UTC)

Veegie stopped by with some cool signature info – if you’re interested in a Halo 3 signature (for forums other than ours, say) that contains your stats – swing by HaloTech and add your gamertag. There are a bunch of options – nicely done!(Louis Wu 12:23:53 UTC)