Author: halo@bungie.org

The Bungie Weekly Update is online – earlier than usual? Maybe. It’s a discussion of the reviewing that lots of European journalists have been doing of the full game this week – and the same process that US journalists will be going through soon. And the first Mister Chief in a really, really long time.…

Wow. nash–housewares found a thread on an Italian forum with some pictures that, if they’re what they look like, do NOT bode well for keeping Halo 3 secrets until launch day. We’re looking into this – but if it turns out to be what it looks like, I’m thinking we’ll probably close the forum down…

Are you a machinima maker with content near completion (or completed)? Hugh Hancock’s discussion of the Game Content Rules mentioned, almost incidentally, Machinima Festival Europe 07, taking place in Leicester, UK in mid-October. The deadline for submissions is TOMORROW – but if you can make that deadline, and your work meets the submission guidelines, you…

Hugh Hancock wrote up the full discussion of his conference call with Microsoft about the Game Content Usage Rules we mentioned yesterday. He mentions Halo specifically, puts forth some very common-sense arguments to some of the overreactions that hit the net soon after the Rules did, and even manages to squeeze in an xkcd reference.…

It’s not often that a One One Se7en makes me laugh out loud without puns. Today is one of those times.(Louis Wu 16:42:37 UTC)

Yesterday’s F@NB0Y$ was Halo-related – and pretty funny. Thanks, Pixellated. (Louis Wu 15:39:13 UTC)

Next Generation has a tidbit about the Halo 3 marketing flood in Japan. More of a wave, actually. They’re giving out fans. (The paper kind.) (Louis Wu 15:25:06 UTC)

Jamie98s sent along another music video for your perusal – this one’s set to Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing”, and tells the story of lost, and found, love. Available in both WMP9 format (36.5 mb) and QuickTime format (34.8 mb).(Louis Wu 14:34:54 UTC)

Entertainment Weekly has new Halo 3 screenshots – a baker’s dozen. (Well, a few are not new – but most are. Unfortunately, all the new ones have a huge EW.com watermark right over the middle of them…)(Louis Wu 13:51:59 UTC)

We occasionally post magazine scans of Halo articles, though we never post stuff before the issue’s off the newsstand shelves, and we never post stuff from magazines that have specifically asked to be removed from our site. One thing that hasn’t happened before, though, is that until now, we have not been contacted by a…

sorahn hacked his iPhone to be more Halo-flavored – there’s a standard background, and a Cortana background. Nice!(Louis Wu 13:29:19 UTC)

Mrguy got hold of a very large version of the MC-with-Gravity-Hammer image that will grace the third issue of Halo: Uprising – this is the same image that Ironlion’s now got in poster form. If you want to download the huge one – swing by Mrguy’s post.(Louis Wu 13:25:26 UTC)

Daijitsu has updated his Hunter Armor – check out the forum post for some cool shots of the shield! (Earlier shots were mentioned here.)(Louis Wu 13:05:09 UTC)

Nitro288 stopped by to point out a blog post from DonkeyXote, otherwise known as Don McGowan, a Microsoft attorney who wrote up (helped write up?) the Game Content Usage Rules. (He was one of the guys who spoke to Hugh Hancock yesterday – here’s his note about the call.) Again, it sounds like the gloom-and-doom…

Four stories this week in the Fan Fiction section… getting light!(Louis Wu 12:41:37 UTC)

weephun noticed another Maxim list that Halo made – this time, it’s the ’12 Worst Video Game Bosses Ever’, and they’ve taken umbrage with a certain albino ape.(Louis Wu 11:38:34 UTC)

Interesting mainstream writeup of Halo in Time magazine this week – it still talks about Halo as though it’s an underground obsession and gamers are still geeks who live in their parents’ basements… but they’re STARTING to see the power of the brand. (Louis Wu 11:36:04 UTC)

Wow. Sometimes it pays to ask. Ironlion got in contact with the artist behind the Halo: Uprising comic series – and now he’s the proud owner of a very cool print. Check it out!(Louis Wu 22:27:16 UTC)

Entertaining read about Halo 3, and the team that made it, in Sydney’s The Age newspaper. It’s harder to get into Bungie Studios than it is to get into the White House! Thanks, Anton P. Nym.(Louis Wu 21:15:02 UTC)

JeSteR 343 reminded us that the second phase of the Halo 3 for 3 Sweepstakes kicks off today. (US-only, sorry world.) I’d forgotten about this until Ender sent a note.(Louis Wu 19:48:52 UTC)