Author: halo@bungie.org

Hawty McBloggy had a nice writeup of some cool Halo faceplates for sale on eBay – check ’em out, you still have a couple of days to bid! (Do you remember the toilet seat she found a few days ago? Turns out, that guy also created an Elite engraved toilet seat, and Hawty was the…

Numbers are out for the first four days of sales in the UK – Halo 3 sold nearly half a million copies (in a country with 1.4 million 360s). It’s not the biggest seller ever in the UK (GTA San Andreas sold nearly 700,000 copies in 2 days), but it’s prety impressive! This information is…

GameDaily has a series of pictures of someone wearing a cardboard Master Chief face (I couldn’t see any eyeholes, so I can’t call it a mask), wandering around New York. Oddness! Thanks, Empress Cortana.(Louis Wu 17:20:22 UTC)

A 61-year-old Halo fan created some music inspired by the game literally minutes before he entered the hospital, and died. His son posted the music on a blog. Thanks to GamesBond007 for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 17:15:06 UTC)

Bootsman pointed out the picture that’s associated with this news post on a Finnish site – I don’t know really what the point of the article is (online Finnish translation tools are… weak), but the shirt she’s wearing is pretty fun. (Louis Wu 17:10:32 UTC)

Dweezle let us know that his writeup of the Halo 3 Community Lock-In, and the Launch Event that followed it, is now up at Tied The Leader. Great pics! There are also a few writeups that haven’t been linked here at the bottom – we pointed out a bunch last Friday, but there are new…

Halo Wars has had another update, on their forum – it’s a discussion, for the most part, of AI, and what you should expect from it – but there’s also a very cool wallpaper of the Spirit of Fire. Thanks, Mike Smith.(Louis Wu 16:45:31 UTC)

Interesting Op-Ed piece at the New York Times (with an almost disturbing drawing) – Daniel Radosh posits that Halo 3 is not art because it doesn’t try to be. The debate of ‘videogames as art’ is one he considers valid… he just doesn’t think Halo 3 is in the running. Thanks, Ragnarok.(Louis Wu 16:43:09 UTC)

Gamasutra posted last week’s Gamefly rental charts – Halo 3’s on top, which isn’t a huge surprise, but this paragraph was notable:For the third straight week, the top five all-platform requests are identical to the top five Xbox 360 requests, reflecting the same movement and demonstrating a telling dominance for the console in the rental…

Kyle Vibert found a Gamespot feature called ‘User Friendly Halo 3′, summarizing the newest features and how to use ’em. (Louis Wu 16:28:39 UTC)

Review Roundup for Tuesday:Australian IT says it starts slow, but is awesome once it picks up – 9/10Pariah’s Guild put up the second part of their review, this one focusing on the Campaign – it gets a 4/5. (They felt it was “seriously shorter than Halo 2’s”, and that the ending was disappointing.)Ars Technica (who…

I don’t think I understand what this story is about. I think that’s a good thing. (Louis Wu 16:15:18 UTC)

I’ve seen a lot of Halo-themed stuff – but never Halo 3 sushi before. Thanks, Kotaku. (Louis Wu 16:09:22 UTC)

SNobleJr put together some pretty cool Lego Covenant figures – check ’em out!(Louis Wu 16:07:00 UTC)

It’s disturbing how many things get mashed into internet memes. Thanks, Red_Breast. (If you LIKE this stuff, go visit Gamepro; they’re giving away a Legendary Edition Helmet (no game, just the helmet) to the best lolcats line they see before Friday.) (Louis Wu 16:05:49 UTC)

Lots of Halo-themed or -related comics out there right now: Today’s VGCats is Halo-themed – and potentially spoileriffic (thanks, Psychophan7 and others) Elnea summarized the last 800 episodes of HAFT V10L3N7 JAY pointed out that Section 3 Episode 4 is up Slith, among others, pointed out a recent ep of GOD MODE (ads might be…

Mat Galvin sent us links to a five-part video documenting the Halo 3 launch in Universal City, Hollywood. It includes interviews with Bungie’s Vic DeLeon, Allen Murray, and Jonty Barnes, comments from tons of fans, some truly bizarre moments. Each piece is about 4 minutes long – go watch ’em in order.Part One – The…

The really big news today (well, yesterday) was a red-hot rumor flying through the interwebs; is Bungie leaving Microsoft? It showed up first in a blog post on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer site (thanks, Nijhazer), but has since gone on to the big gaming sites (Gamespot, IGN, Kotaku, etc) – it’s even made its way around…

Today’s Dork Tower comic is about Halo 3. Given the way Bungie’s online stats have been trending, there might be some folks out there acting this out. Thanks, RIPFrodo.(GhaleonEB 04:07:27 UTC)