Author: halo@bungie.org

Wow, pretty cool. R.Geiter let us know that he’s created a site covering all the Halo action figures that were available to the public. Great resource!(Louis Wu 12:21:40 UTC)

Weird. This WAS on Bungie.net for a short time, but is gone now – but it’s still on Xbox.com. (It was gone from THERE, too, for a bit, but it’s back.) If you have an Xbox, and a Live account, Microsoft is offering you a deal: buy a 360 between November 21 and December 21…

Gamasutra has a great interview with Todd McFarlane, discussing his involvement in the Halo Action Figure industry (among other things). Check it out!(Louis Wu 12:12:07 UTC)

Straight.com has an overview of the Halo story (its history, not the in-game story), which is sort of centered around Bungie’s Mike Zak, one of Halo 3’s Environmental Art leads. Nice summary – and some nice background on Mike! (He also made the cover of the magazine.)(Louis Wu 12:08:19 UTC)

The 2007 Spike Video Game Awards are coming up on December 9; Halo 3 has been nominated for Most Addictive Game Fueled by Dew, Game of the Year, Best Shooter, Breakthrough Technology (for Saved Films), Best XBOX 360 Game, Best Original Score (though not Best Soundtrack), and Best Multiplayer Game, and Bungie’s up for Studio…

DL.TV has a video walkthrough of Forge, hosted by 1UP’s Mark MacDonald. If you’ve put off figuring out how this works, go watch! (Louis Wu 11:46:15 UTC)

Heh – fun editorial over at FileFront – has Halo 3 spoiled you for other games? (It’s not just about the gameplay… it’s about the options.)(Louis Wu 11:40:52 UTC)

Another interview up over at MLGPro.com – this one with another pair of pros, Cpt Anarchy and Vash. Again, they hold forth on Halo 3, how the gameplay is changing, and what they’re looking forward to – nice read!(Louis Wu 11:30:26 UTC)

There’s an interesting writeup from a non-gamer who attended a marketing conference in Las Vegas this week – MS’s Jeff Bell discussed the ad campaign for Halo 3, and what they’d hoped to accomplish with it. 55% of the ad budget was spent on “non-traditional marketing and social media extensions” – seems like it turned…

A guy who used to review video games for a living, but now works for ExtremeTech, takes a look at the current crop of games he’s got around. Halo 3 (well, the whole Halo series) takes a whupping.My theory is that, just like television and movies, mediocrity pleases the gaming masses more than true inventiveness.Ouch……

Rooster Teeth’s Burnie Burns shares my unhappiness with the quality level of YouTube videos – so he grabbed the fileshare’d version of the ‘rogue shotgun’ video we mentioned yesterday, and whipped up a nice little downloadable version. Nice camera work, too. You can snag it in WMP9 or Quicktime formats from us – about 6…

According to a news item at Music 4 Games, The PLAY! concert, a video game music show, will be coming to Seattle in late January – and Marty O’Donnell will be there, doing Halo stuff. Tickets are onsale now.(Louis Wu 11:17:12 UTC)

Last night, Luke posted the Bungie Weekly Update at B.net – a bunch of SF 49ers showed up at Bungie’s offices to playtest the upcoming new maps, they’ve tracked a few campaign/achievement stats about the Halo 3 population, there are more playlist changes coming to Xbox Live, and there’s some big news coming Monday. As…

rkwlnvrdy13 found a contest for fan-made Beowulf trailers – one of the winners was Halowulf. Timing is quite good.(Louis Wu 11:11:56 UTC)

Vincent stopped by yesterday with a whole passel of sprite comics he’s created over the past year or more. In general, we stay away from sprite comics these days… but these are quite good. I’ve left his .png links alone, but also added a local .gif mirror for each comic; same visual, considerably smaller filesize.(Louis…

QJ.net has some statistics from the online PC gaming companion XFire that would suggest that something happened in late September/early October that caused a lot of PC gamers to stop playing PC games… XFire’s senior director of marketing suggests it might be Halo 3. Heh.(Louis Wu 18:18:28 UTC)

Bungie has taken to awarding the Recon Helmet to people who make them happy. This has led to people doing all sorts of silly things to try and make Bungie happy. (This will never work; they’ve said, very clearly, that the easiest way NOT to get the helmet is to ask for it.) Stuntmutt looks…

Fourteen new pieces for you today in the Fan Fiction section – busy week!(Louis Wu 15:52:47 UTC)

It’s time for more Anger, Sadness and Envy – Episode 3 of Rampancy.net’s podcast is now available. Trindacut and Narcogen look at Tsavo Highway. 48 minutes, 22 mb – go listen!(Louis Wu 13:21:09 UTC)

Bungie used yesterday’s Game With Fame as fodder for this week’s Humpday Challenge (a bit off the hump). The writeup’s a little… disjointed (in a couple of places sentences just go off in weird directions; looks like it wasn’t ever proofed), but the end result is solid – three wins for Bungie, out of three…