Author: halo@bungie.org

I’m not really fully awake yet – but I’m posting this now, because the amount of mail coming in about it is rather insane. Today’s Ctrl+Alt+Del looks at the Halo 3 marketing juggernaut… and definitely goes into waters Microsoft has chosen not to tread in. Thanks to everyone who sent in a link; Delta was…

Heh – Anton P. Nym found a pretty cool navigation system for military parachutists… check the headline (and the pic).(Louis Wu 22:27:16 UTC)

Back in 2005, TalkXbox came looking for applicants for a ‘strategy writer’ – they got lots of great options, and were very happy with the end result. They’re back:We are looking for two individuals (one for video guides and one for written weekly strategies). Obviously, applicants have to be skilled at the game, but they…

Kotaku took a LOT of pictures during their recent playthrough of Halo 3 at Bungie’s offices this week – you can scroll through the gallery for tons of memorabilia, including lots of Halo stuff. Thanks, Schedonnardus.(Louis Wu 20:58:01 UTC)

MffnMn pointed out that the Museum ad is now on Xbox Live Marketplace; check ‘Game Videos’, New Arrivals’, ‘Halo 3’ to find it. Nice quality!(Louis Wu 19:53:31 UTC)

Kotaku has a great article about the Halo diorama featured in the Halo ads tearing up the internets this week. The concept of game spoilers is addressed directly (don’t worry, there aren’t any), and there are a bunch of cool photos. Go look! Thanks, Tex.(Louis Wu 18:01:06 UTC)

The Xbox.com Launch Week Announcement (we mentioned it yesterday) noted that a NASCAR entry would be Halo-themed – but there’s a full press release about it now. I heard about it from Hawty McBloggy, who pulled out all the good bits for you.(Louis Wu 17:58:48 UTC)

According to Next Generation, a financial analyst is predicting that Halo 3 sales will ‘quickly reach $200 million’ – but no word on whether ‘quickly’ means ‘less than 24 hours from release. I guess we wait and see how accurate that is…(Louis Wu 16:51:22 UTC)

Not totally sure why this is news – but it’s shown up on both SPOnG (thanks again, Narc, this time in #hbo) and CVG; a couple of Sony developers were chatting about the Museum ad and decided to post the chat online. And yes, one of them says a bad word about Halo. (What’s more…

Shacknews has an interview with Frank O’Connor, discussing how he feels about the final product, what’s next (Bungie employees are ALREADY WORKING on Halo 3 downloadable content!), tidbits about the Peter Jackson project, and more. Good read! Thanks again, Narcogen.(Louis Wu 16:05:26 UTC)

Some news shamelessly stolen from the Rampancy.net front page (thanks, Narcogen): Zanzibar, over at Evil Avatar, took part in the Pontiac ‘First to Play’ event at the IMAX theater in San Francisco (the New York event happens tonight) – he wrote up his experiences. Factoid that might make a difference for the New York crowd…

If you can’t wait for an official, high-res copy, Sep7imus found a YouTube version of the upcoming ‘Believe’ ad; it’s simple and powerful. (Later today you’ll be able to download not only a high-resolution version of this, but a ‘behind the scenes’ video showing how the diorama was created. We’ll shoot you a link as…

Nice blog entry (with a handy-dandy calendar of Halo 3 events over at PC World… almost reluctant enthusiasm! (I LOVE the description of the MC as “a kind of generic looking alpha-marine in an gold-flecked olive-colored exoskeletal wannabe bat-suit”!)(Louis Wu 12:49:37 UTC)

Mr. Titan, over at Planet Halo, got his hands on the Master Replicas gun models – and wrote up a review. Go read!(Louis Wu 12:42:44 UTC)

This Spartan Life has posted Module Two of their Fifth Episode – it’s an interview with the makers of ‘Raiders of The Lost Ark – Adaptation’, a shot-by-shot remake of the original, begun when they were 12. Go find it on the Episodes page!(Louis Wu 02:32:55 UTC)

Our paper spartan queen, Nomi, was contacted by G4 TV; they want to feature her work on Game Heads. She said sure, and even made them a special spartan. Isn’t she great?(Louis Wu 02:26:54 UTC)

1Up posted 33 new screenshots today – I tried to find out if they were part of the media kit distributed this week to journalists (since those are embargoed until September 23)… but had no success. So I’m posting them. There are a couple of dozen new campaign shots, and a dozen new multiplayer shots……

On Monday, PraetoriaGuard released Trinity, Episode One, because they said they would. It was sort of a mess, though, and they asked me not to front-page it, because they wanted to clean it up. So I didn’t. And they did. It’s worth the wait – the cleaned-up version has better audio, better synching, better… stuff.…

Stuntmutt submitted a One One Se7en that was related to the recently-released ‘Museum’ ad – I couldn’t wait until Friday to post it, so you get an extra one this week.(Louis Wu 01:20:48 UTC)

1Up’s 3 Weeks of Halo comes to an end, with Halo 3: The Final Word (“Ten Things We Love about Halo 3… and Five Things We Don’t”), as well as a Retronauts blog covering Marathon Infinity (they wrote about Marathon 2 yesterday – chewpathingy was first to let us know – but I passed on…