Author: halo@bungie.org

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)

Laird took a few shots of the new Bungie schwag he was able to buy at PAX this weekend (this stuff should be available at the Bungie Store in the not-too-distant future). That stuff looks great!(Louis Wu 14:21:54 UTC)

There are no references for this, but if it’s true, it’s pretty interesting; Portalit lists the top ten selling games (all platforms) on the US sales charts (for this week? Dunno) – and Halo 3 – the UNRELEASED Halo 3 – is in there twice; once at 2nd place (!!) and once at 7th place…

NPR’s “All Things Considered” had a piece on the Console Wars yesterday; the gist of the piece is that hardware has been driving Nintendo’s current sales lead, but with the release of Halo 3, Microsoft is betting that software will take over (and the tide will turn). Thanks, Cornballer.(Louis Wu 14:07:24 UTC)

GamesFirst has a preview of the Halo 3 ActionClix game (along with new shots of the pieces) – go look!(Louis Wu 14:02:30 UTC)