Author: halo@bungie.org

Out of Australia: in a story that highlights the fact that Halo 3 is the biggest Australian entertainment launch of all time (50,000 copies in 24 hours), you can see pictures of the Prime Minister playing the game and meeting Master Chief (thanks, Tim and newguy2445).(Louis Wu 10:02:08 UTC)

DigitalHer0 created a short clip using the Halo 3 Save Film feature; we’re linking to it because it’s one of the earliest clips released that use this feature, but I’d like to warn submitters that we’ll be pretty picky in the future about front-paging clips. (You’re always welcome to post them on our forum, of…

Old Rich People have posted a Halo parody film – the footage is all from the Halo 3 Beta, for some reason. Thanks, Ashley Salas.(Louis Wu 09:50:06 UTC)

Jason Ross sat down with the Alex Garland script for the Halo movie (this originally surfaced in November 2005, but made a reappearance a few weeks ago). You can read Jason’s thoughts on the script at CC2k.(Louis Wu 09:48:42 UTC)

Robert “Apache” Howarth pointed us to this article at Voodoo Extreme – apparently, Quaz51, a user on the Beyond 3D forum, has done some calculations on his 1080p TV and found that Halo 3 runs natively at 640p. That seems… odd. If we get any more information about this, we’ll be sure to let you…

Canadians often get the short end of the stick when it comes to contests – but Anton P. Nym found a contest sponsored by Xbox.com-sponsored Canadian-only contest. Looks pretty juicy, too.(Louis Wu 21:13:41 UTC)

Okay, so I’ve got good news and bad news for you, if you make Halo machinima, and you want to know how to put your weapon down. The good news is, we’ve got that info for you, thanks to madmax. The bad news? It only works locally or in system link – it will NOT…

Thanks to Joakim Ericson, who let us know about a film on YouTube that shows the Halo 3 kickoff event in Sweden.(Louis Wu 19:30:31 UTC)

Heh – this one’s bizarre. A company has made a custom Halo 3 inhaler, for folks with asthma, and put it up for sale on eBay – 50% of the final price will go to the American Lung Association of Washington. Thanks, JC!(Louis Wu 19:19:16 UTC)

Edge Magazine doesn’t call a lot of games ‘perfect’. The first Halo was one – and before today, there were four others. Halo 3 just became the sixth game in the magazine’s history to earn that coveted score. In other words… one third of all games to ever receive an Edge rating of ’10’ came…

From here on, I’m caught up – news will be posted as it comes! w00t!Heh – the New Zealand Herald has a story about how dangerous videogames can be, and warns parents to keep an eye on their children in the wake of Halo 3’s release.Cinema Blend says Halo is the perfect dance of bullets…

JawReich and DisciplineN2k team up to remind you that the Halo 3 for 3 Sweepstakes Round 3 starts today. (Might not actually be live yet; I’m having trouble getting a confirmation.)(Louis Wu 16:20:43 UTC)

McKeeganWRX noticed that Goblins has a new Tempts Fate comic with a character that looks awfully familiar… (Louis Wu 16:16:16 UTC)

If you’ve got friends like Warbow, today’s Calvin and Halo might remind you why they need a smack in the head occasionally.(Louis Wu 15:51:56 UTC)

Black Six pointed out a preview for the Halo 3 Official Strategy Guide, over at Xbox.com. It’s a 10 mb, 9 page PDF download, and it makes it pretty clear that this guide is GORGEOUS. Go look!(Louis Wu 15:50:32 UTC)

I visited Rampancy.net last night, and found a bunch of interesting articles I’d missed:Chevmeister on Bungie.net has gone to the trouble of removing all default objects from Bungie’s maps, so that you can start with blank slates for your Forge creations – what a bonus! (R.net story)The Sydney Morning Herald has an interview with Damian…

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…