Author: halo@bungie.org

Sep7imus let us know about a new podcast started up by a couple of Seasoned Gamers – the ‘cast is called ‘Push to Talk’, and while it’s a general gaming blog, the first episode is all about Halo 3. And hour and a half, 21 mb.(Louis Wu 04:57:12 UTC)

GryphonOsiris noticed that Game Politics brought up a flaw in the ESRB rating system – they believe that the recent ‘Halo in Church’ controversy shows that the ESRB is too broad in its categories. Good read!(Louis Wu 04:56:37 UTC)

Elnea stopped by with Halo Action Figure Theater 94 – what do you do with a zombie? That’s right – you use a Barbie videocamera and film it.(Louis Wu 04:56:16 UTC)

DOH! Somehow, I managed to announce the Guilt O’ Lantern contest without activating the upload folder – not sure if this affected anyone, since we didn’t get any emails saying “the upload doesn’t work!”, but it’s working now. Sorry!(Louis Wu 23:57:18 UTC)

Ducain pointed out a thread on the High Impact Halo forum in which ||| Tyrant ||| shows off an amazingly simple technique for climbing vertical walls in Halo 3 – as long as you’ve got a corner around. Awesome for exploring! Man, that’s easier than Jackie Chan’s method…(Louis Wu 18:41:45 UTC)

Stuntmutt looks at one of our larger Halo 3 foes in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 16:39:39 UTC)

Anton P. Nym points out an article at Adweek that looks at a bunch of mediocre ad campaigns in September… and then gives props to the Believe campaign. Nice!(Louis Wu 15:39:18 UTC)

I’m not sure I understand where these are coming from – but ResilientMonkey pointed out a store on eBay that is selling the bonus discs from Halo 3 Legendary Editions (they currently have five sets for sale). Buy it now price is $14, WELL below the $70 price differential between Legendary and Standard editions. (Of…

Spenser noticed a vid at GameTrailers, showing an in-game, non-orchestrated Killtastrophe. (I found the game link, so if you want to you can download the film clip and get views from other angles.)(Louis Wu 14:33:30 UTC)

Advertising Age wonders if low ticket sales at the movies recently can be attributed to many moviegoers playing Halo 3 instead… interesting question.(Louis Wu 14:32:57 UTC)

Big Goalie Dan let us know that Podtacular 130 is up – interview with Luke Smith, call-ins, and Tales from the Foxhole. 1:22 long, 28 mb. And Sigafoos pointed out The Riot 69 – 32 minutes, 13 mb, filled with news of a new beta from halo3.junk.ws (a stats aggregator) and the new streaming video…

CVG has an article about ‘Achievement whores’ – folks who are entering the Lone Wolves playlist specifically trying to get others to help them gather up the Halo 3 online achievements. Thanks, Avateur.(Louis Wu 19:12:28 UTC)

ZZoMBiE13 is back for another Guest Sunday One One Se7en – I think he has something to say about the power of commercialization.(Louis Wu 15:34:32 UTC)

We’ve got word of a couple of interesting clips that have been FileShared. One came from this thread at High Impact Halo; as far as I can see, the Halo 3 engine somehow thought that a doorway was a solid wall, because of precise placement of the sniper rifle barrel and probably the speed of…

Heh – DigitalPh33r (the guy behind the ‘Master Chief sucks at Halo’ series) posted a vid called ‘Road to Voi’, looking at the Master Chief and the Arbiter’s journey to save Earth. Language definitely needs a rating, but it’s pretty funny! You can watch it at Machimima.com, where it was originally posted, or YouTube, where…

V10L3N7 JAY stopped by with word of another Issue of Section 3 – looks like things are about to heat up!(Louis Wu 14:36:43 UTC)

Lordstemplar1 is back, with another Prophecy update. (Search our news if you don’t remember this project – it’s been in the works for a while.) There’s also a wallpaper linked in the post.(Louis Wu 14:33:57 UTC)

A couple of cool changes to the Guilt O’ Lantern prize packages… the three copies of Contact Harvest are now to be signed by the author, Joe Staten, and the Legacy package has just received an additional game, Crackdown, courtesy of a generous fan! w00t!(Louis Wu 13:46:06 UTC)

Heh – talk about taking over the world… thanks, wesley burket.(Louis Wu 19:45:45 UTC)

LC pointed out a video review of Halo at Play Digital TV – it’s a tad spoilerish with the included footage, but a fun review. (Louis Wu 19:43:30 UTC)