Author: halo@bungie.org

Bungie, apparently unwilling to face any of the hundreds of community teams clamoring for a shot at burying them in a Humpday challenge, went up against the Bungie.net moderators this week. No warmup game at all (I guess they were afraid they wouldn’t be able to pull off the same bait-and-switch tactic twice in a…

Not fully Halo-related… but interesting nonetheless. TeamXbox has put up some interviews with the voice actors that worked on Mass Effect – and one of those actors is Keith David, who also voiced the Arbiter in Halo 2 and Halo 3. He’s talking about voice acting in general; it’s not a long interview, but it’s…

Simpsons Rule pointed out a pretty cool kill over at the MLG Gameroom – Blackstar even made a new medal for it.(Louis Wu 20:42:22 UTC)

halowiki.net wants to know what your favorites are in Halo 3. Current options are Weapons and Maps. I can see this page getting pretty massive… thanks, PEZ.(Louis Wu 15:13:09 UTC)

GU Comics takes a look at the “Master Chief killed movie sales” argument in today’s comic – nice artwork. Thanks, Ross Mills.(Louis Wu 14:24:06 UTC)

Yahoo has put up an article for gamers who want to get their significant other into playing videogames. Halo is considered the graduate school program of the Xbox 360 curriculum. Thanks, Deten. (Louis Wu 13:32:12 UTC)

See… now THIS is why I love the Halo community. Cocopjojo let us know about a way he and a friend had stumbled on getting out of multiplayer levels in Halo… it’s ingenious. And the results are pretty darned interesting to look at.(Louis Wu 13:23:29 UTC)

Elnea’s son replaced Terence Stamp with Chris Crocker in a cutscene from Crow’s Nest. (If you haven’t PLAYED Crow’s Nest (mission 2), you’ll be faced with some minor spoilers here.) I’m disturbed by how well it works…(Louis Wu 13:04:48 UTC)

Rampancy.net has posted another entry for its Halo 3 Weapons Guide – this time they’re looking at the SMG.(Louis Wu 12:24:44 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy points out a somewhat risqué custom-made Cortana statue for sale on eBay; this can probably be considered NSFW. That said, it’s a pretty amazing piece of work. Starting bid is $200, with just under 5 days to go.(Louis Wu 12:18:27 UTC)

September numbers are expected to be announced today – but there are plenty of people already predicting what they’ll say. Next-Gen has an article which quotes Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter as predicting that the Xbox 360 numbers for the month of September will be around 450,000, beating out the Wii, and due in large…

Play N Trade stores will be hosting a Halo 3 tournament in most of their stores through the US, with national winners competing for thousands in in-store credit and Halo merch. You can read all the details in the press release, over at BusinessWire. Tournament rules are on Play N Trade’s website.(Louis Wu 12:03:15 UTC)

I woke up to a mailbox full of older Google News Alerts – a few dozen messages from Saturday through Tuesday, that all came in together. Much of the news they contained has already been mentioned, but here’s a roundup of the interesting tidbits we hadn’t gotten to: MSNBC.com has an article about how Halo…

Wow. I’m as disturbed by the fallacies presented by last week’s The Morning Show as GamePolitics is. Someone needs to open a dialogue like this when there HASN’T been a school shooting in the past few days; we need people to be thinking rationally when they’re making decisions on concepts like this. Thanks, GryphonOsiris.(Louis Wu…

Sh0rtBusKid found an interesting picture at DeviantArt – it’s generated a lot of discussion on our forum, but I’m not sure everyone’s seeing the same message. What do you see?(Louis Wu 21:24:24 UTC)

Kevin Graham is one of the artists tapped by Topps to create sketch cards that have been inserted into their Halo card packs. Kevin wanted to share his work with the Halo community – so we’ve put up a page containing almost 3 dozen sketch card images. Check ’em out – they’re beautiful!(Louis Wu 20:43:41…

AnTi PRO let us know that ArmTheFlag.com is in the process of creating the first episode of a Halo 3 machinima project titled ‘ Oregon Trail: Pioneering Evolved’. They released a trailer a month ago, using the Halo 2 engine… but didn’t want to spread the news too widely until the Halo 3-based first episode…

Rampancy.net has posted another installment of their Halo 3 Weapons Guide – this one looks at the Carbine. (Louis Wu 13:46:03 UTC)

deadox is kicking off a new blog, showing off motivational posters made from Halo 3 shots. He’s looking for your input.(Louis Wu 13:21:42 UTC)

Interesting – 1Up’s review of Super Mario Galaxy (coming out for the Wii next month) draws parallels between this platformer and Halo 3 – in a good way. Interesting read! Thanks to Gravemind for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 13:18:31 UTC)