Author: halo@bungie.org

gameSniped has a shot of a pretty cool Halo 3 faceplate for a 360 – take a look! Currently at $100, with 4 and a half days to go… hmm. Steep!(Louis Wu 16:26:42 UTC)

Warbow continues in his recently revived production of Calvin and Halo strips – this one’s even topical!(Louis Wu 16:16:24 UTC)

Narcogen’s latest blog entry looks at replayability – and what Halo 3 brings to the party. Interesting read! Go visit Rampancy.net.(Louis Wu 15:57:14 UTC)

Yesterday’s Bungie Podcast makes you wonder if today’s One One Se7en shouldn’t be titled… oh, never mind. I’m not good enough at puns to come up with a word that sounds like ‘Behemoth’ but means ‘unimportant’. Just go read the flippin’ joke.(Louis Wu 14:54:33 UTC)

It’s been a really long time since we’ve done a 7 on the 7th contest – but then, we’re schwagwhores, and we only do these when someone gives us stuff we can give away. This time, the sugar daddies are over at Freeverse – they’ve got a bunch of copies of Marathon: Durandal they want…

Haloplayer stopped by with a link to an Injured Knee Productions comic celebrating the upcoming arrival of Halo 3. Yes, it takes all kinds.(Louis Wu 14:03:18 UTC)

shinesevens let us know that there’s a YouTube movie up showing off the first of 6 parts of the Halo 3 Korea Promotion – this one has a Master Chief posing as a statue in a mall, and then freaking out the folks who want to touch. Cute! (Louis Wu 13:53:21 UTC)

Got word of a couple of different tournaments coming up soon. Zoolu let us know about Battle for Scouting a tourney to benefit the Boy Scouts – they’ve got a MySpace page, or you can read about it at 1Up.com, if you’re allergic to MySpace. Entry fee is $50/team, 32 team max, with up to…

Simpsons Rule posted a music video set to the Offspring’s ‘Why Don’t You Get a Job’ – it uses Halo and Halo 2 cutscenes to tell a story. General consensus (which I agree with) is that the Halo parts are better – but it’s a fun movie in its entirety. Grab a copy! (It’s about…

The latest Bungie Podcast was posted yesterday evening – Frankie and Luke talk to Tyson and Lars about Forge, and all the cool stuff you can do with it. Intriguing tidbits – Frankie calls it ‘Forge’ while Tyson and Lars call it ‘The Forge’… and ‘Infection’ (a Bungie-created Zombies variant) is officially in the final…

There’s a short bit at Stuff.co.nz about the filming of the second Neil Blomkamp short – seems it was filmed in a landfill. Thanks, Flustered.(Louis Wu 12:07:09 UTC)

X07 took place in Toronto this week – you can find writeups at Canada.com, the online network Digital Journal, and the online portal for The Toronto Star, among other places. Halo 3 plays a pretty big part of everyone’s impressions, apparently.(Louis Wu 11:46:06 UTC)

Kudos to Nick, who suggested a small change in our news post layout; we’re still posting news with UTC timestamps, but the link now goes to a page that should make it easy to see what that time is in your local zone. Thanks, Nick!(Louis Wu 11:34:53 UTC)

Tied the Leader this week contains content from community members – a substantial writeup of PAX (from lots of people), and a review of the IMAX event last week, from TTL L Askan. Thanks, as always, to XerxdeeJ, for keeping us from digging for this stuff.(Louis Wu 18:59:32 UTC)

Did you like that messenger bag that Laird posted a pic of this morning? How about that sling bag over at Gamestop, as noticed by X1Zero? Well, okay, fine – then what about THIS messenger bag, picked up by Boxer? All of these are alternatives to the huge number of bags being marketed by Enmon,…

A couple of weeks ago, Horus stopped by with news that he’d posted some of the templates needed to sew his Grunt Plushie – Brandon dropped into our forum today to point out that the other half of those templates have now been posted. Go grab the Head and Armor Front pages – and you…

rapture was first with the news that The Hushed Casket has reached its fifth birthday – go read about it (writeup by Midnight)! Lots of pics, and news of a halo 3 LAN coming up in October. Congrats, guys!(Louis Wu 14:36:30 UTC)

LoneRanger 2.5 pointed out that the Retronauts blog on 1Up has been updated – Part 2 covers Silent Cartographer to the Library.(Louis Wu 14:32:31 UTC)

The Minibosses played some Halo music at PAX this weekend – folks loved it. You can watch it on YouTube – thanks, Laird.(Louis Wu 14:28:55 UTC)

chewpathingy noticed that the Halo 3 Slurpee Sweeps page has been updated – there are new wallpapers you can download, if you have UPC codes from special limited-edition Halo products, along with a list of prizes, and some other stuff – go poke around!(Louis Wu 14:25:04 UTC)