Author: halo@bungie.org

EnergyPigeon let us know that KidConfidence rated Halo 3 an 8.5/10 – they suggest that although it’s an M-rated game, it’s actually “at the lower end of the ‘M’ scale” and should be fine for many children. (They recommend limiting online play to friends and family if your kids are under 12.) Interesting writeup for…

Z let us know about The Splatter Tage, a Halo 2 montage of (yeah, you guessed it) splatter kills. It was put together by the Fighting Wombats, and it’s actually a lot of fun to watch. (I could have done without the blurry stuff from Ascension – that gave me a headache – but for…

Both Red_Breast and Black Six noticed that Amazon was offering the Legendary Edition of Halo 3 for $110 yesterday – apologies for not getting the news to you sooner. However, its not such a bad thing; Black Six pointed out a news post at gamerawr! that also had a listing for a site selling it…

TrueDarkFusion wrote to us about Forge Hub, a new site designed to give you a central location to learn about and download high-quality Forged maps. There are a few already on the page, with many more to come – and they’re looking for people interested in helping out. Go download, and build some fun!(Louis Wu…

PEZ is looking for help from the HBO community. The Medals Talk page at halowiki.net has a question from bark0de – “Has anyone seen anybody that has earned the second Bungie.net-only medal? The first one is Perfection, the second one I’ve never seen, the third is the Steaktacular, and the fourth only appears if you…

DunnyPanMan pointed out ‘Face It’, a song commissioned by Xbox Australia (it’ll be used in future marketing) and performed by Phrase, a notable name in the Australian hip-hop scene. News about the piece is at Xbox Australia’s website, the song itself can be heard (and watched) at a special Halo 3-themed site set up for…

kapowaz has started collecting Halo 3 screenshots on Flickr – he feels that the sorting and tagging system there (not to mention the unlimited storage space) makes it a better choice for sharing these. He’s looking for help in both tagging his shots, and growing the corpus of Halo 3 shots overall; join him!(Louis Wu…

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)