Author: halo@bungie.org

Hawty McBloggy found a Custom Halo Master Chief figure on eBay – made from a GI Joe base. Interesting-looking!(Louis Wu 13:08:12 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue continues the exposition in Chapter One, Part Nine of Reclaimer – Ferial explains why he’s bothering. Sounds like things will shake up a bit next week…(Louis Wu 12:59:56 UTC)

Angela, a character on The Office, heads to Wired Magazine’s offices… and plays Halo 3. Oddness. Thanks, NickLee808.(Louis Wu 12:57:09 UTC)

Halo 3 sold 3.3 million copies in the last 5 days of September – and according to Kotaku, another 434,000 in October. It was the biggest single-platform console game of the month, beating Guitar Hero III’s 383,000 Xbox 360 copies. (If you count the Wii and PS2 sales of GH3, though, it climbs to 1.4…

Last summer, if you visited the San Diego ComicCon, you had a shot at buying a battle-damaged Scarab from WhizKids, only $250. Well… if you missed out on that chance, never fear; as of last Wednesday, you can buy the Scarab Vehicle Pack at your local hobby and game store. You get the Scarab, some…

So last week, we got an email from omfg a cat69 about a funky death he caused; after he died, he dropped his shotgun… which went off when it hit the ground, and killed his opponent. He sent a link to his fileshare, but I passed on the news, because I’m afraid that we’re getting…

Harlan pointed out that there’s a new Top 5 list on MSNBC – the Top 5 Game Swords. Halo’s Energy Sword made the list. (Picture’s credited to Bungee Studios – awesome.)(Louis Wu 12:17:13 UTC)

chrisvioxxx noticed that the circular for Target for Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving), as seen on the Black Friday Ads website, contains a deal for Halo buyers on Page 6; buy the Halo 3 Edition Xbox 360 for $399, get a $60 gift card for free. (In other words – buy the console, get…

Another Halo Comic Strip takes a look at what’s happening on other parts of Xbox Live… heh. Bad ZZoMBiE13.(Louis Wu 21:19:13 UTC)

Grantix stopped by to point out Helljumper, Issue 2 – looks like that Spartan’s in trouble.(Louis Wu 21:14:46 UTC)

Mike Gravel has been excluded from the Democratic debate this evening in Las Vegas; you can watch this video to see him explaining to NPR’s Diane Rehm why this is… or you can visit this YouTube page to see him explaining the REAL reason in today’s episode of Elevator, a web-based video series created by…

Major Nelson has clarified that the Xbox Originals, officially announced yesterday as older Xbox games to be available for download on Xbox Live Marketplace, will NOT contain additional functionality; they will not have Achievements or be used in your Gamer score. And though it wasn’t mentioned specifically, I’d GUESS that this means that the downloadable…

MsValentine continues to hone her Cortana outfit; last month, she added a very cool wig to the outfit… and a Grunt Birthday Skull. There are some really amazing poses in this group… including a bunch of shots with MC’s helmet, and a few with a nice reversal of the MC/Cortana standard placement. Go check out…

Strangely enough, we have word of ANOTHER video that looks at what happens to Master Chief in Multiplayer… DigitalPh33r, the guy behind the Master Chief Sucks at Halo series (and other funny bits) has released Playin’ With the Chief, a video that might give you an idea of just how single-minded Master Chief really is……

Raulboy posted a piece he made for class – how does Master Chief deal with matchmaking? (Not too well.) About 10 mb, in either QT or WMP9 formats, linked from his forum post. (Louis Wu 14:26:44 UTC)

Over at MLGPro.com, there’s a dual interview – Ogre 2 (from Final Boss) and Ghostayame (from Carbon) – discussing Halo 3, how it differs from Halo 2, and what the future might hold. Good reading! Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 14:17:22 UTC)

Cody Miller noticed a new site – Halo 3 Leaderboards. It’s unclear where they get their data from (a few forumgoers suggest that they’re not in the rankings but should be), but it’s a great place to go for aggregated leaderboards. Here’s hoping it doesn’t lead to the cheating that made Bungie pull down THEIR…

A couple of days ago, we mentioned the Game With Fame Developers day – which is today. Participants, and a time for the Bungie dev team participation, were unknown at the time. They’re up now – you can see who from the Halo Wars dev team will be playing from 9am – 1pm today, and…

Yesterday morning, x Zero x mentioned that Tuesday night’s episode of Caveman, a comedy on ABC, contained a Halo reference. I didn’t get around to mentioning it in the news… but last night darthbob noticed that there was a clip of it on Kotaku. I’m gonna have to agree with them – it looks more…

TKD 117 was the first to let us know that Halo: Combat Evolved is the Featured Article of the Day on the English version of Wikipedia today – Happy 6th Birthday! (While it’s true that the game itself was released a few days before the 15th, nobody could PLAY it until the Xbox hit the…