Author: halo@bungie.org

Elnea, shameless in her misuse of a numbering system that wasn’t designed for her ramblings, gives us Halo Action Figure Theater 98.74: Last Year’s Transport. Fantastic use of props… (Louis Wu 14:33:22 UTC)

Wow, nice. SodaGod has started a Halo news show over at Machinima.com; yes, these have been done before, but not with audio this good, or with SG’s whacky brand of humor. The video information listed is pretty much entirely wrong; the downloaded video is 48 mb, not 37, and the running time is 5 minutes,…

Wow, nice work – KidWitPotential, over at Bungie.net, recreated the original Halo Combat Evolved box art using Halo 3, with a friend – and then they did the Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack art. If the screenshots disappear, we have local copies (Halo CE | Multiplayer Map Pack). Thanks, gijake.(Louis Wu 10:02:02 UTC)

Awesome – Walshicus noticed some tombstones on Valhalla, apparently tied to the date today (it is Halloween, after all) – in case the FileShare links he posted disappear, we’ve downloaded local copies (one | two). RVideo also took a pic.(Louis Wu 09:48:08 UTC)

Today’s update for the Halo 3 Cutscene Library contains the cutscenes from the level ‘The Ark’ – but it also contains a cleaned-up version of the closing cutscene for ‘The Storm’. A number of people noticed that there was overlapping music in the first version we uploaded, so Cody kindly went back and re-recorded the…

ninjakilpirate let us know about HaloUnofficial.com, which has leaderboards for the Campaign meta-game scores. Submit your scores, and see where you stand! (Louis Wu 22:38:55 UTC)

This is actually quite cool – The More Deluded created a sculpture of the Arbiter… in wire. Artistic!(Louis Wu 22:26:26 UTC)

Devrous stopped by for the first time in a while – looks like he had a pretty rough summer! He’s back on track with his Freespace 2: Halo total conversion, and has a new website online. Take a look!(Louis Wu 22:17:44 UTC)

Zeouterlimits pointed out yet ANOTHER Staten interview – this time at 1UP. Short – but solid!(Louis Wu 20:49:15 UTC)

ZZoMBiE13 has a new funni for you today, over at Another Halo Comic Strip – a mystery of the ages… solved.(Louis Wu 18:26:38 UTC)

Last Friday’s Bungie Weekly Update hinted at fun changes to the playlist roster around Halloween. Swing by Bungie.net right now for full details – they’re putting up an Infection-based playlist for 27 hours, starting tonight at midnight (PST). Full details (including ways you can use this information to get some of the harder-to-grab achievements out…

It’s clearly Joe Staten day (not surprising, since it’s the day Contact Harvest is officially released) – we got word that GameTap has an interview with him, as well. Well, Part 1 of an interview, anyway. It’s pretty meaty already – and there is more coming! Thanks, Jared Rea.(Louis Wu 17:46:07 UTC)

Bungie has posted the prologue from Contact Harvest – if you didn’t get a chance to read this in the current issue of Official Xbox Magazine, you can read it here, for nothin’. Thanks, Dry Ice.(Louis Wu 16:33:20 UTC)

Heh – there’s an interesting piece at the Weekly Dig; it originally appeared in Willamette Week, an alternative weekly newspaper in Portland, Oregon (my old stomping grounds). It’s a writeup of a grudge match between Michael Evans (who worked on Halo and Halo 2, but not Halo 3) and a friend of his (who plays…

Hoovaloov stopped by to point out the newest content at Tied the Leader – there’s an article from your favorite Halo General, XerxdeeJ, about the importance of rank, and a vid from Hoovaloov himself, LagtaculaR, a hilarious look at the vagaries of internet connections.(Louis Wu 16:16:22 UTC)

IGN has a podcast called ‘Three Red Lights’ – Episode 12 contains an interview with Joe Staten, about Contact Harvest (which is officially released today, don’t forget!). The interview kicks off about 53 minutes into the podcast, and has a lot of info about the book and how it was written. There are some silly…

Heh – Kotaku points out a Halo billboard that’s… not really pulling its weight, advertising-wise. Thanks, KP.(Louis Wu 15:42:59 UTC)

We’ve posted a lot of fan-made armor over the years – everything from paper to injection-molded plastic. Spartans, mostly, but also Elites, Grunts, Hunters, Flood. Yesterday we got mail from Frank Carradine, who created an Elite costume for Halloween this year… it’s amazing. You’ve got to see it. I wish we had more pics.(Louis Wu…

We got word from Tim ‘343 Guilty Spark’ Dadabo – he’s willing to create, as he has in years past, a recording (using the voice of Spark) for the answering machine/voicemail of the winner of our Guilt O’ Lantern pumpkin-carving contest; if you thought the first-place prize package was just a little too small to…

TTL Demag0gue has posted the next episode of his Reclaimer comic – Chapter One, Part 2 is called ‘Shut Up and Listen’. I’m already jonesin’ for the next ep! (Louis Wu 13:46:14 UTC)