Author: halo@bungie.org

bs angel wrote this morning to tell us about her Halo 3 Countdown activity today, which was baking a Halo 3 themed dessert. She made a pretty cool cake in the shape of a pink Mjolnir helmet. Go check it out and leave your compliments to the chef at Hawty McBloggy. (KP 18:17:52 UTC)

Sigafoos let us know that The Riot 66 is available online. 25 minutes of pre-launch goodness for your listening pleasure.(mnemesis 18:16:00 UTC)

FuzzyWhisper made mention of a cool Cortana shirt that Microsoft was handing out at TGS ’07. Sultry!(mnemesis 18:09:46 UTC)

And… I’m out. That’s all the news from me, for a while. I’ve got to get myself to the airport now, and for the next few days, I’m going to have trouble getting to a place where I can post news. Never fear, though, the HBO crew is on the job, and mail sent to…

Press Start Online seems to have broken the news embargo on full reviews of the game by a little bit (That embargo ends at 12:01 pm, PST, today) – but hey, everyone makes mistakes. I don’t think you can write a full review WITHOUT some minor spoilers, so ANY full review we link to should…

GotFrag DPAD has a summary of the action yesterday at MLG Orlando; go see how folks are doing! (Louis Wu 08:23:06 UTC)

SketchFactor posted a cool image of himself and Luke Smith wearing some new armor variants; you can see a screenshot in his Screenshots section on Bungie.net. Because the Screenshots section in general is rife with spoiler pics right now, we’re hosting a LOCAL copy of that particular image, if you don’t want to risk a…

Veegie let us know that his friend Tural has made a program that can generate player images from Bungie.net; it’s a Windows executable. An example of the output can be seen here, and the actual program (52k) can be downloaded here.(Louis Wu 08:12:34 UTC)

Bungie put up a new Top Story last night – this one is a How-To on matchmaking playlists. Lots of good info in there! As with all their recent How-To guides, you’ll eventually be able to find a permanent link off the Guide page. Looks like Samir Patel was first with the news. (Louis Wu…

Psychophan7 has put together a page containing all the Halo 3 player emblems, so that you can begin choosing your Spartan customization. simpsonsrule thought this was pretty cool, and sent us a link. He’s right, it’s pretty cool, but the HTML page contains 80 separate images, and weighs in at nearly half a meg total,…

Haloplayer let us know that Countdown Comic #5 is now up at Injured Knee Productions. I think Microsoft might have found a new superhero. (While you’re there, there’s also a link to a Guitar Hero Spartan he created, in that same post.)(Louis Wu 21:49:46 UTC)

Heh – Pedro the Penguin noticed that IGN visitors REALLY want some Halo today… because the ‘Most Popular’ sidebar on their homepage changes, we’ve screenshotted it as of about 5 pm, ET, on Saturday September 22.(Louis Wu 21:11:54 UTC)

Decent musings on difficulty levels… and how they affect reviews, over at PCWorld.com. (For the record – Bungie made me play through on Heroic.)(Louis Wu 21:00:11 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy’s activity of the day is drawing Mister Chiefs – go have a blast!(Louis Wu 19:31:25 UTC)

Rapper Lil’ John isn’t much of a Halo player – but his son is teaching him. Thanks, singkeo2002. (Louis Wu 19:13:42 UTC)

Marcelo Vega, of Xbox Today (a Brazilian website), let us know that there was a Halo 3 launch party in Brazil – Halo 3 is going to be the first midnight launch of a game in that country. They put up an article about the launch, as well as pictures of the Limited Edition’s Artbook,…

This is the funniest Halo video I’ve seen in a while. (Yes, that includes Halo Nights.) Go watch it. You’ll laugh. Thanks, Jim Bob. (Louis Wu 18:44:13 UTC)

Also from Anton P. Nym – ReportonBusiness.com (a part of Canada’s Globe and Mail) has an article in which Jerret West, Senior Global Product Manager for Xbox, talks about how the overall marketing campaign for Halo 3 was built the way it was. I must say… it seems to be working!(Louis Wu 18:35:48 UTC)

Wow, this is pretty cool. If you visit this website, you’ll see movies and photos of the Royal Swedish Ballet practicing for an interpretive dance on September 26, at the Berwaldhallen concert hall in Stockholm, Sweden. The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra will be playing Halo music, and Halo machinima will be shown. Pretty amazing looking…

ManKitten sent in a link to a YouTube version of a Believe ad I haven’t seen yet – it’s called ‘Hunted’, and it looks at a soldier reliving a frightening night during the war. It might be my favorite, so far… as far as I can tell, it hasn’t appeared in Hi-res anywhere yet.(Louis Wu…