Author: halo@bungie.org

343 Industries has released web versions of the two Halo Channel pieces revealed during the MCC Panel at PAX last week – go watch the Behind-the-Scenes look at Nightfall and the Halo 2 Anniversary Gun Audio Demo (thanks, Grizzlei). If you have comments…

Prime999r stopped by with word of ‘Icy Silence’, his latest machinima. It’s short, but powerful – a powerless observer stands by as an alien invasion takes place. Check it out! (Louis Wu 16:15:22 UTC)

Postmortem has kicked off another writing round of his Visualizing the Halo Universe project – this one looks at Solitary, the Halo CE Anniversary remake of Prisoner. What can you come up with? Let him know!k(Louis Wu 16:11:27 UTC)

tadboz pointed out Halo x Attack on Titan, a Halo-based recreation of an anime opening. (If you check this comparison link, you can see how amazingly the Halo 4 shots mirror the originals.) I’d never seen the anime – but that didn’t stop me from apprec…

Whee! You’d think that now that PAX is over, we’d have more time to update HBO. (You’d be wrong.) Apologies for the downtime (again). Sort of feels like a broken record… During the weekend, Urban Reflex posted a link to his Halo Timeline – it does a …

Tex was a little devious, and mucked around the settings menu on Halo 2 Anniversary when nobody was looking – check out what she found!(Louis Wu 23:46:26 UTC)

Swing by the Sci-Con Tampa Facebook page for some awesome pics of a fan-made mini-Warthog created by Mystic Makings LLC (for their young daughter): here are some in-progress pics, and here is an awesome shot of their 3-year-old on the main gun. Thanks,…

Today is the final day of the Halo Showdown tournament – 10k and bragging rights are on the line! Remember to pick ‘source’ as your viewing option for the 60fps experience. See you in the chat!(mastrbiggy 17:33:04 UTC)

If you missed yesterday’s Pax Prime 2014 Halo panel, you can watch the archived version on the PAX Twitch channel. There’s plenty of new info on H2A, Forge, Audio and a small taste of the Master Chief Collection version of Halo 3. Ducain23 also uploade…

Urban Reflex wanted a local, easily-to-access version of the Reach Data Pads on his PC – so he compiled them (thank goodness for Halopedia!) and saved them in PDF format. And then he was courteous enough to send US a copy, so you can have them too. Enj…

Astro posted a short interview with Bravo and Goldenboy about the Master Chief Collection and the Halo PAX Prime 2014 Showdown. Go watch – thanks, Hypertrooper.(mastrbiggy 17:42:52 UTC)

Gamespot released over a minute of H2A gameplay on the recently announced Lockout remake. Go check it out! (mastrbiggy 17:41:41 UTC)

YourExWife put together his second ‘Clips of the Week (or whenever)’ – some great kills, and biggy stuck in a Wraith. Whee!(Louis Wu 22:46:31 UTC)

Major Nelson announced the free games available to Xbox LIVE subscribers in September – and for the second half of the month, 360 owners will be able to download Reach. Nice! Thanks, FyreWulff.(Louis Wu 22:38:30 UTC)

The next Anniversary remake has been announced – and Gamespot’s got a bunch of comparison pics. Go see the latest iteration of Lockout! Thanks, thebruce0.(Louis Wu 22:34:36 UTC)

RVideo told us about Chops III – if you don’t want to hear a lot of Xbox LIVE verbal abuse, skip this one… but there is some entertaining gaming here, and some very pretty cinematography. (Louis Wu 22:30:38 UTC)

Revenant1988 combined two of his favorite things, and the result is marvelous. Go look.(Louis Wu 19:11:21 UTC)

Whoa. Garrett “TDSpiral” Post threw this up on Facebook recently… it’s his idea of a pre-Covenant Sanghelios. I feel like he nailed it! (There’s a 1080p version here, and you should check it out.) (Louis Wu 23:26:59 UTC)

PFG (who’s been in our news many times in the past for his incredible collection of Halo memorabilia) is back with some bust prototypes he got his hands on. (These were never marketed.) Go look at the pics! (Louis Wu 20:43:42 UTC)

Postmortem has kicked off another Illustration round of his Visualizing the Halo Universe series – this one focuses on an ancient crashed vessel. Go read the details in his forum post! (Louis Wu 20:37:54 UTC)