Author: halo@bungie.org

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)

Took longer than I’d hoped, but the voting for this year’s Guilt O’ Lantern pumpkin-carving contest is now online. There were a few entries we had to disqualify (pictures were too small, etc), but there are 54 pumpkins for you to peruse – pick your top 5. Please – don’t stop after page 1; there…

We’ve got a one-two punch for you today from ZZoMBiE13 and Stuntmutt – a joint joke (well, sort of) that starts in Another Halo Comic Strip and ends in a Sunday One One Se7en. I take no responsibility for the stomach upset.(Louis Wu 16:31:00 UTC)

Rockslider has started a section for Halo 3 Fun on his Bad Cyborg website – first article looks at some slaughter available on The Ark. Check it out!(Louis Wu 16:21:17 UTC)

Big Goalie Dan let us know that Podtacular 133 is up – strategies for beating Crow’s Nest, as well as skull locations, are included. Just over an hour, 30 mb. Go grab it! (Louis Wu 16:19:49 UTC)

Delta was the first to let us know about a spoof of Halo 3 in last night’s Mad TV. If you missed it, apparently it’ll be available on iTunes soon (thanks, bad pogo).(Louis Wu 16:18:20 UTC)

PEZ pointed out a halowiki.net page with Halo 3 survival tips – add your own!(Louis Wu 16:13:47 UTC)

LadyRziha stopped by last night to post pictures of the costumes she made for her husband and her brother. (A few years ago, she made a costume out of plastic jugs for her husband; this time, she used cardboard. Way cheaper, way easier, and they look fantastic!)(Louis Wu 16:12:31 UTC)

Capt Spanish took some GORGEOUS shots way, way, WAY outside of the Ark; they’re linked in his forum post.(Louis Wu 20:56:34 UTC)

RVideo let us know about a thread over at Halo3Forum which has pictures of other date-related goodies to be found on Valhalla. If you liked the Halloween tombstones, go see what they’ve found! Update: looks like they missed some; Grunts R Us found 2 more (Earth Day and Cinco de Mayo). Thanks, oriol.(Louis Wu 19:40:43…

TrueDarkFusion let us know that Forge Hub has expanded dramatically, and now contains a tutorial section along with new high-quality creations. Swing by and see what you can find! (Louis Wu 19:39:08 UTC)

It seems that a bunch of groups are using the recently-filled-out Infection medals to narrow down what’s still missing from the medal chest. Herr Zrbo pointed out this thread at the Bungie.net forums – they’re only missing one. And PEZ told us that halowiki.net is hunting down just a single medal – check the page…

GryphonOsiris found (at TechEBlog) a Halo battle rifle made of Legos – and man, it’s pretty impressive-looking!(Louis Wu 19:33:10 UTC)

1UP has revisited an article from 2005 which discussed the ways in which Halo 2 ‘was broken’. They looked at the charges leveled in that piece against Halo 2, to see whether they were addressed in Halo 3. The upshot? According to 1UP, Bungie fixed most of what was supposedly wrong in 2005 – but…