Author: halo@bungie.org

trigger119 points out that the GamingTV Spotlight of the week is Evolution of Halo – if you haven’t seen this video (created years ago, to show where Halo came from), now’s a good time!(Louis Wu 17:03:29 UTC)

Trunks let us know that the latest episode of Trunks and Soto has a couple of Halo references. It also has nearly naked men. You need to decide your own level of exposure comfort.(Louis Wu 17:00:15 UTC)

Warbow gives us a new Calvin and Halo – but I have to say, if this were my kid… never mind, this is a public newspost.(Louis Wu 16:54:18 UTC)

If you live in Toronto, you might want to get to Gaming Invasion ’07 this weekend – they’ll be letting people play Halo 3 a few days before release. Thanks, Anton P. Nym.(Louis Wu 16:34:38 UTC)

Menelven let us know that he visisted his local Game store in the UK, and found out they’re planning on having a midnight opening. If you’re not sure about your own store – ask ’em!(Louis Wu 15:46:30 UTC)

Char Easter was another of the people who got in to play Halo 3 at the Seattle press event last week – there’s a writeup of his experience at halo3.msn.com (no spoilers, just some interesting background). Thanks, Master D0rk. [Side note: this is the 20,000th news post we’ve put up, in a little more than…

A couple of days ago, several people pointed us towards the Half-Life Fallout forum, where tastybread had once again created a pretty amazing piece of work out of prosaic materials. (DominoEffect was first, but a bunch of people were hot on his heels; this was Dugg early Sunday morning.) If the name sounds familiar, it…

Pinflux entered a contest we mentioned a few weeks ago – write a gameplay story in 100 words or less for a shot at a 360. He didn’t win – but his entry is pretty cool nonetheless. (Since a picture is worth a thousand words, he probably lost on technicalities.)(Louis Wu 11:10:11 UTC)

The Seattle Times has an opinion piece about how Halo might be pushing it with its current ad campaign, which (according to the piece’s author) plays off the Iraq war. If you disagree, you’re not alone – Frank O’Connor tells the author to loosen up; that the messages in Halo are pretty universal, and not…

GameDaily has put together what they consider to be Ten Great Halo Moments from the first two games – if you still haven’t played those, this contains spoilers. (Louis Wu 10:34:37 UTC)

It’s been a little while since we mentioned TheGarbageMan – but he’s back, with three new piano variations. You can find them on his webpage – but if there’s a bandwidth issue, let us know, and we’ll host local copies. Pretty stuff!(Louis Wu 10:30:12 UTC)

411mania.com has looked at three upcoming first-person shooters – you can read what they think. (It seems as though the most important aspect of FPSs is spawn camping – and what the creators have done to stop it.) Halo 3, of course, is one of the three (otherwise, the article wouldn’t be mentioned here).(Louis Wu…

The Xbox 360 Halo 3 Special Edition went on sale officially yesterday, and apparently the big news today is what it looks like, coming out of the box. Yes, I know, we’ve seen pictures of it for months – but as Narcogen pointed out on Rampancy.net, or as this article at the Unboxing website (!!)…

Luke McKay whipped up a few Master Chief sketches on Friday – we’ve added them to his gallery here. Good stuff!(Louis Wu 23:11:17 UTC)

Havok Se7en visited Madame Tussauds’ Wax Museum in Las Vegas, and took some pictures of a familiar character. Groovylicious!(Louis Wu 22:43:01 UTC)

Ibeechu and DHalo have released a pair of videos in their ‘Perceiving the Dimensions of IRIS’ series – these two episodes were a bit delayed by real life, and they realize the ARG is over now… but if you’re curious to know how it all (almost) ended up, you should go watch episode 4 (WMP9,…

Back in February, we mentioned a Halo 3 tourney being planned by Games In Action – the link in that post has died, but Hexudus pointed out a new thread on the GIA forum with more info. There’s still time to sign up!(Louis Wu 21:20:43 UTC)

Sigafoos let us know about The Riot 65 – 32 minutes, 13 mb worth of news, tournaments, Trinity, and Medie – erm, never mind. Stuff. Go listen.(Louis Wu 20:07:37 UTC)

Daily TV Deals is a blog with cool deals – they found one from Best Buy that might be of interest to some of you. Buy a selected Samsung HDTV, get a free Xbox 360 and a copy of Halo 3. Nice!(Louis Wu 20:04:04 UTC)

oriol zertuche pointed out a Halo Universe quiz at Grunts R Us – see how good your knowledge is! (So far, nobody’s gotten more than 18/20 right, it seems…)(Louis Wu 19:47:39 UTC)