Author: halo@bungie.org

News dump, yet again (I don’t know about you, but I’m looking forward to the day when coverage can go back to commentary on every item):The Seattle Post-Intelligencer thought Halo 3 was good, but not great; there were plot holes. Three stars out of four.3of9 found a very cool UNSC logo shirt at MyTeeSpotGamespot created…

Bungie’s got a Halo 3 Launch FAQ posted; the answers to some of the most common questions they’re seeing can be found in there. Worth a look, even if you’re not having trouble – you might learn something!(Louis Wu 04:19:00 UTC)

We got mail from a couple of people about some recent Halo 3 events in Singapore; Spu7n1k sent along info from his blog (17 September | 19 September | 22 September), showing the progress on his launch party costume – winner of best costume got a Legendary Edition, which isn’t even sold in Singapore; I…

Sunburned Goose, from 2old2play.com, sent along this animated gif showing the Online World Map (visible with real-time data on Bungie’s Online page) over the course of 24 hours, from Monday afternoon through Tuesday afternoon. For a slightly different view of the same sort of data, Tieno, over at the Neogaf forum, put up a similar…

3Suns pointed out a couple of hot links at MLGPro.com – their Halo 3 Launchtacular page, and a recap page from Orlando, including a spotlight on Str8 Rippin, the 4v4 champs this time around. Check it out!(Louis Wu 03:24:02 UTC)

According to this story at 1Up, there is new content on Xbox Live Marketplace that’s free to Gold users. However, following the image shown in the story gets me to a page that has 5 theme/gamerpic items available – all of which cost money (well, points). There are supposedly also videos coming later this week…

Shacknews has posted an article about Forge, and what it can do. It’s a great read – go check it out! Thanks, Chris Remo(Louis Wu 03:04:18 UTC)

trigger119 pointed out the GTV Spotlight over at GamingTV – it focuses on Zukan, a longtime community contributor who is suffering from Hodgkin Lymphoma – he’ll be starting chemo soon. Stop by and give the guy some support!(Louis Wu 03:02:05 UTC)

Samir Patel pointed out Halomen, an adult-rated Flash vid at Newgrounds which comes up with an alternate storyline for Halo. Animation and artwork are great, story… not so much.(Louis Wu 02:59:37 UTC)

Kooberz let us know he’s finished his Lego Zanzibar video – you can see it on YouTube. It’s a 9 minute walktrhough, showing how closely he matched the Lego stuff to the in-game map. Even the bridge works! Insanity. It also contains tons of info about the building of the project – if you’re into…

We’ve received news from a couple of fronts about the upcoming Halo 3 Official Soundtrack. SeannyD got email from Risa Malkinson, from Sumthing Distribution, letting him know that the release date will be in November. This is corroborated by Aj6627, who noticed that the Amazon listing for the soundtrack has a release date of November…

You think YOU’RE devoted to Halo? You ain’t got NOTHIN’ on Alterb0y, a soldier in Iraq. He had his wife pick up his copy Legendary Edition copy and FedEx it overseas. Legendary Edition of Halo 3: $129.99 (plus tax). FedEx shipping: $326. The ability to play Halo 3 with your buds in the desert -…

Major Nelson posted a press release about yesterday’s sales – Halo 3 is officially the biggest single-day sales event in entertainment history. $170 Million in the US, in 24 hours… not too shabby. Thanks, KP.(Louis Wu 22:46:39 UTC)

Comic roundup for Wednesday:LostRock11 noticed that SORE THUMBS had Halo 3-related strips on Monday and Wednesday – they both hit homeUre Paul let us know that ActionTrip celebrated the release of Halo 3 with a Muppets-inspired comic (I love those guys)Subnova comes back online with a new .Comic – and a mini-review of Halo 3…

News roundup:The New York Times wrote a pretty long article about Halo 3 – not a lot new in it, but significant for the column space in a paper like the Times (thanks, Usul)TalkXBOX wrote up 10 Reasons they’re Pumped for Halo 3 – thanks, Rishi ModhaESPN (really? ESPN?) checks out what makes Halo 3…

Darkphibre created a “walkaround” viewer which runs in Windows – you can use it to see really cool pics of the Limited Edition Scarab ActionClix Figure (he took the pics at PAX). (Louis Wu 20:13:10 UTC)

Wow. So I was going through mail that came to email addresses other than halo@bungie.org, thinking that I’d make a summary of all the news that hadn’t gotten posted in the last couple of days before I STARTED posting – but the list is so enormous that I’ll never get through it unless I just…

Check out this Halo bundle on eBay. Zowie. Got a bunch of spare money, anyone? 😉 (Thanks to MffnMn for the link)(mnemesis 16:10:02 UTC)

The HBO forum is now back online – if you haven’t finished the game, I’d caution you to be careful. We ask that folks not post spoilers without warning (and not to put spoilers in subject lines); we’ll do our best to remove or relabel spoiler posts if it does happen (and we’ll ban folks…

We got more than a few notes over the last couple of days that some of the Limited Edition buyers were finding that their discs were scratched. Today, Microsoft is offering to replace those discs free of charge.(mnemesis 15:41:14 UTC)