Author: halo@bungie.org

ZZoMBiE13’s got a new take on an old saying in today’s Another Halo Comic Strip. I gotta say… that bouncing thing happens to me all the time.(Louis Wu 13:48:50 UTC)

I don’t think I’d normally even post this as news – but it sort of blows me away. oriol pointed out a newspost on Grunts R Us that purports to find the first Five-Star General in Bungie’s ranking system. I went to look, just because I couldn’t imagine how good the guy had to be……

bs angel found a pretty interesting female Spartan sculpture on eBay – she thought it was a bit too anorexic to blog about, but hey, we’ve got no such qualms. I’m not really sure what’s going on with that energy sword, though…(Louis Wu 13:04:37 UTC)

Bah. Michael Smith let us know several days ago that the Halo Wars crew had posted a new Update on Halloween. It even included a link to a video at a local TV station, where they were featured. Unfortunately, I totally spaced on posting it… and when Trindacut reminded me of it this morning, it…

Stuntmutt’s been playing a lot of… another game. Go read about it in today’s One One Se7en. (There’s music involved; check your speakers. And there are spoilers for a non-Halo game. Sort of.) Some things never change.(Louis Wu 18:17:59 UTC)

MatchBox360 is hosting the MatchBox360 XL Tournament in Birmingham, England, on November 17 and 18 – and it looks like XLEAGUE.TV has just signed on as a sponsor. (I can’t link to the actual article, because the whole front page of MatchBox360 is javascript-driven, but it’s currently the top article.) The event will be filmed,…

Rooster Teeth’s newest Red vs Blue series, Recovery One, has had its second episode posted for sponsors on their website, and available for download in HD (80 points) on Xbox Live Marketplace. This one’s WAY darker than Red vs Blue. WAY darker.(Louis Wu 16:29:28 UTC)

Charley117 poked around the WETA website and found this page… I can’t wait to see what they are selling!(Louis Wu 16:01:23 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue has decided to update his Reclaimer comic on a more regular schedule – Monday, Wednesday, Friday this week. Monday’s is live; Chapter One, Part Four delves into the origins of the Reclaimer project. (Louis Wu 15:59:05 UTC)

Onebitrocket noticed an article on the WETA website which looks at Peter Osborne, the man responsible for the creation of the functioning Halo Warthog WETA built for Neill Blomkamp. I gotta buy that guy a beer!(Louis Wu 15:06:04 UTC)

This was posted yesterday, but yesterday was a very, very bad day: c0ld vengeance has followed up with a second Puzzleball map. (We mentioned the first one here.) Early feedback suggests this one might be a little frustrating… give it a try! (Louis Wu 15:03:17 UTC)

V10L3N7 JAY continues his Section 3 comic series – Issue #9 is now up. Looks like it’s gonna get hot… (Louis Wu 15:01:11 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy points out a series of gaming prints available from Pavel Dolgov – all are pretty impressive, two are specifically Halo-related (and therefore newsworthy). You can buy ’em in a bunch of sizes, with or without frames – go see what there is! (Louis Wu 14:58:47 UTC)

Grunts R Us has done some work on Construct, and turned it into a ‘Boarding Action’-like map. They use the external pieces to great advantage; it works pretty nicely! (You can download it here.) Thanks, Fires7orm.(Louis Wu 14:55:46 UTC)

A week or two ago, CROSSFIRE released a teaser for his next machinima project. Yesterday, trigger119 stopped by to let us know that a second teaser is now up at Gaming TV – again, it’s very difficult to tell what the film’s about, but at least we know what it’ll be called now. Cinematography looks…

Melfina accompanied kornman00 on his tour of Bungie last week (she’d won the tour auction he held a couple of months ago), and she’s written up her own summary of the event. Go read it, with pics, in her forum post! (Louis Wu 14:37:33 UTC)

We’re still working on our local Terminal Guide, but that doesn’t mean the rest of the web is waiting for us. Anthony stopped by yesterday to announce a nicely formatted skull/terminal guide he’s put up at The Final Fight (it’s in two parts, links are both in his forum post), and altfan113 let us know…

We have a pretty strict rule on our forum – there’s no discussion of politics. This is because we are, at heart, a gaming community – and political discussions tend to be fractious. Barring discussion is simply an easy way to keep the peace. Sometimes, though, gaming and politics mix in our news – and…

We’ve finished off the remainder of the single-player cutscenes from Halo 3 – you can find them in our Halo 3 Cutscene Library. We’re still planning on adding those variants that appear when you play coop – but for now, you can see the ending scenes and the credits! Thanks for all the recording is…

Sigafoos told us about The Riot 72 – 11.5 mb and 29 minutes of the usual stuff, plus zombies. Everything is better with zombies.(Louis Wu 22:40:10 UTC)