Author: halo@bungie.org

Zelahn has been frustrated with the crowd who plays Halo 3 in the afternoon hours – so much so, that he’s written a song about it. Go listen to Real Gamers of Genius – Mr. After School Halo Player.(Louis Wu 16:45:21 UTC)

Josh Nichols pointed out Halopic.com, new site that lets you caption uploaded screenshots – easier than firing up Photoshop!(Louis Wu 16:37:31 UTC)

Injunfett kicked off a blog that is devoted specifically to screenshots of the Bungie team getting killed in Halo 3. Makes you wonder what his childhood was like… (Blog title left out of this newspost because it’s not particularly pleasant.)(Louis Wu 16:34:28 UTC)

Conan O’Brien had a bit with God playing Halo 3 last night – darkendes pointed it out, and PHANTOMFIRE X linked to the clip itself on YouTube.(Louis Wu 16:30:14 UTC)

Koholint was the first to point out Luke Smith’s lying writeup of the Halo 3 Humpday Challenge we played against Bungie on Wednesday night. They were so embarrassed to be beaten by ‘the old men of HBO’ they had to cheat – and claim that the warmup game (Slayer on Construct, Bungie wins) was actually…

Jake Seaton’s romp through Halo 3 continues – Day 7 is now up. He’s fighting through probably the biggest and most expansive battle level in the game… he wanted to give it a perfect grade, but was unhappy with a single aspect (read it to find out what), so it gets a 4.5/5. This one’s…

Fifteen new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section – go read!(Louis Wu 15:34:31 UTC)

Rampancy.net has put up a guide to grabbing the Famine Skull, from NThro_Sraom. Check it out!(Louis Wu 14:57:07 UTC)

Marines in Okinawa want to play Halo 3 – but the exchanges can’t get enough copies. Ouch!(Louis Wu 14:52:32 UTC)

Elnea fails to come up with a French translation of ‘pistol-whipped’ for today’s installment of Halo Action Figure Theater – but she makes up for this oversight with some plain old-fashioned brain-eating. Go read.(Louis Wu 13:52:13 UTC)

Over at Xbox360Fanboy, they found ANOTHER set of Master Chief armor for sale on eBay – this one is being sold by Devastator, and the armor itself (including upgrades) has shown up a few times in our news. Current bid is a bit over $2000, with 9 days to go in the auction. (He mentions…

Columbia (MO) Daily Tribune’s Game Over Blog reviews Halo 3 – 8.5/10, “the title by wich all other console multiplayer FPS will be judged”. And the Albany Times Union felt that the multiplayer matchmaking was too slow, but that otherwise the game was great. (The first paragraph of this review threw me for a loop,…

Sam told us about H3 Customs, billed as the First Halo 3 Custom Game Search. Bungie talked about public custom games at one point, but it didn’t make the final cut of Halo 3 – now some fans are stepping up to help. If you add a game to the list, you still have to…

Saved Films functionality is a HUGE part of the wonder that is Halo 3; it lets you relive spectacular moments, it let’s you figure out exactly HOW you died (and which walls that bullet ricocheted off before it went through your skull), it lets you create gorgeous machinima with a minimum of setup. In order…

Brad, from Soundproof.com, let us know that he’s created a screensaver that “scrapes the user submitted screen shots from bungie.net and shows them as a slide show.” It’s a Windows-only app, and there are two versions – one that just shows you the pics, the other that “takes your gamertag and uses that to gather…

Larry Larson (of Microsoft’s Channel Ten) recently blogged about a bunch of tips that went out over an internal Xbox distribution list, which might help you become a better Halo 3 player. It also answers some basic questions that might have you puzzled. Give it a read!(Louis Wu 00:09:52 UTC)

Weird – this site has created a bunch of “Halo 3 high resolution Photoshop brushes” – I guess for more quickly whipping up that cool wallpaper you’re working on. Check it out! (Louis Wu 00:09:34 UTC)

Jack Thompson got himself on a TV morning show, decrying the church-using-Halo-to-recruit issue; Kotaku decided to break his claims down and look at how accurate they are. Not surprisingly, Jack’s made a few untenable declarations. You could have knocked me over with a feather – I never would have guessed it. Thanks, GryphonOsiris.(Louis Wu 22:39:55…

Laird points out that Combat Part 2 (Neil Blomkamp’s 3rd short) is finally downloadable in HD – head over to GameTrailers.(Louis Wu 22:02:51 UTC)

Heh – G4’s Adam Sessler has some choice words for Halo haters out there… they’re not polite, but they’re choice. Thanks, PHANTOMFIRE X.(Louis Wu 21:58:07 UTC)