Author: halo@bungie.org

Haloplayer continues his Injured Knee Productions Countdown Comics – number 2 is now online.(Louis Wu 14:59:20 UTC)

Avateur stopped by last night to point out that Radio Shack is now selling Halo 3 – and their ‘screenshots’ section contains a few pictures that haven’t been seen before. (Thread readers seemed to like this one a lot.) (Louis Wu 14:57:07 UTC)

1Up’s Retronauts continues their look back at the Halo series – Revisiting Halo 2, Part 1 (covering gameplay on and near Earth) is now live. Go read!(Louis Wu 19:53:36 UTC)

Sigafoos sent word that The Riot 63 is now up – community news, challenges, tournaments, and love. (Love? Hmm.) 12 mb, 30 minutes. Go listen!(Louis Wu 19:40:38 UTC)

Ron Cacace sent us a link to a forum that keeps track of comic releases – they’ve got the following dates listed:Halo: Uprising #2 – Oct 17, 07Halo: Uprising #3 – Dec 19, 07Halo: Uprising #4 – Feb 20, 08Marvel has removed the info pages they used to have for Issue 3 and Issue 4…

Today’s Sunday One One Se7en was created by ZZoMBiE13 – spot on, even if I DID take a week longer to post it than I should have.(Louis Wu 15:26:52 UTC)

RVideo’s saying goodbye to Halo 2 with a final set of panoramas – these are simply gorgeous. Take a look. (If you’re on a slower connection, try the JPEGs – quality is almost identical, filesize is MUCH smaller.) (Louis Wu 15:23:18 UTC)

Laird got a bunch of signatures from RvB cast and Bungie on a 360 faceplate – he’s put it up for auction, with proceeds going to Penny Arcade’s Childs Play. Check it out!(Louis Wu 15:20:28 UTC)

DominoEffect was the first to point out this thread at the Gamertag Radio forum – looks like Master Chief is going to join other famous figures at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum! Coolness.(Louis Wu 15:15:54 UTC)

There’s a calendar floating around, purporting to show Microsoft’s marketing plan for Halo – don’t buy it. Thanks to MasterChief2829, who found this at Xbox Family.(Louis Wu 15:12:25 UTC)

Wow, this showed up in my Google alerts – bizarre. How to create the Halo 3 logo in 5 steps. Might be useful to folks making .signatures for their forum profiles…(Louis Wu 15:04:57 UTC)

Remember that cool poster Ironlion got his hands on? Sean Mortensen contacted artist Alex Maleev, and got this response:A high resolution print on archival Epson paper 13X19 is available for purchase. Let me know if you are interested. The price is 50 bucks plus shipping.Alex can be contacted through his website (check the About page…

Radiago713 noticed an interview with Frankie at Xbox.com. Give it a read!(Louis Wu 14:27:26 UTC)

VVM noticed that the Bungie Store is now updated with all the cool stuff you could buy at PAX. Check all sections – there’s new stuff in a lot of places!(Louis Wu 14:17:41 UTC)

Avateur noticed that the Be in the Game contest is now open to enter – you’ll need to register at Pepsi’s website, but that’s free. Some are unhappy that the only two t-shirt sizes are XL and XXL – does Pepsi think we’re all eating their products, exclusively?(Louis Wu 14:13:15 UTC)

Littlebigman, and others, pointed out a new treasure hunt in the latest Xbox newsletter – there are a bunch of exclusive screenshots on Xbox.com. Most of us could only find 2 – can you find the third, or did Xbox.com make a mistake?(Louis Wu 14:08:45 UTC)

3Suns let us know about a new editorial at Newspail – when Halo 3 comes out, will you spend more time in Matchmaking… or Forge?(Louis Wu 14:06:27 UTC)

Syracuse let us know that Mr. Vociferous is releasing a multipart fan fiction at Ascendant Justice – part 1 is up now.(Louis Wu 14:04:18 UTC)

A week ago, Elnea sent along a bunch of artwork that had been created since the last update of her gallery here. Somehow, I forgot to get it posted. Which turned out fine… because very recently she added a finished version of a piece she’s been working on for a little while – along with…

Tex wants to know how much Halo has cost you… she’s put up a new blog post. Go compare notes! (Louis Wu 02:21:50 UTC)