Author: halo@bungie.org

Jamie98s has released a new music video, set to Strata’s Night Falls – it tells the story of mysterious murders on Turf, and a solution to the problem. Great effects. You can download it in WMP9 or Quicktime formats over at GamingTV. Thanks, trigger119.(Louis Wu 12:13:07 UTC)

Wow. If you live in Australia or New Zealand, you need to check this out. Pidgeo is giving away a Halo 3 Special Edition Xbox 360, plus a Halo 3 poster, signed by Frankie and Lars Bakken – all you need to do to win is send your best Halo or Halo 2 gameplay story…

MasterChief2829 noticed a post at Gamer’s Creed that contains a video interview with Harter Ryan, Ensemble’s executive producer, which mentions a ‘demo’ for Halo Wars which will be hitting Xbox Live Marketplace sometime today. Before you get TOO excited, though – Magni Harvald found a description of this demo over at Computer and Video Games.…

Sigafoos let us know that The Riot 62 is now up – the longest podcast they’ve put up in a while, at 46 minutes (and nearly 19 mb), it contains community news, clan updates, an interview with a member of Team Awesomeness, and more zombies than you can shake a torn arm at.(Louis Wu 19:48:26…

I’m not sure I understand how this works – but Team Conquest, HaloResort, and Spartan286 are hosting Resort Circuit, an event that brings Halo 1’s Race gametype to Halo 2 – for money. (I think.) Read more details in KingChuck’s forum post.(Louis Wu 17:25:48 UTC)

halosavior sent word of The Flood, a project to honor Halo on the eve of Halo 3. They (Abyss Studios) are looking for content folks are willing to submit to them that they can showcase just before Halo 3 is released. You can read more details in this forum post, and get a sense for…

Achievement Junkie was on hand at the Leipzig show, and has now posted a Hands-on of the Halo 3 level they played there. (Louis Wu 12:57:10 UTC)

Flustered pointed out a piece put together by a New Zealand TV station – Frankie talks about the Peter Jackson connection without saying very much. (He’s good at that.) Nice clip, anyway. (Louis Wu 12:55:13 UTC)

FireDragon04 has started a website devoted to Halo theories – his first movie is up. Go see what you think. (Louis Wu 12:52:13 UTC)

oriol003 let us know that GruntsRUs has a nice pencil drawing of the Master Chief.(Louis Wu 12:50:27 UTC)

Halownage is offering $50 for the Best Flag/Ball/Bomb Kill in their latest Clip of the Week contest. Go give ’em your best!(Louis Wu 12:49:03 UTC)

In 2001, Matt Soell let us know that Halo had gone Gold. In 2004, we received official word again, this time from SketchFactor. We’ve received no public word this time around – but this screenshot posted by Lamonster (and the Halo 3 entry on Frankie’s Mygamercard.com profile – thanks, FuzzyWhisper) would suggest that the game…

Elnea stopped by to point out the latest few episodes of Halo Action Figure Theater – just remember, half the battle to beating an addiction is admitting you have a problem.(Louis Wu 12:24:51 UTC)

Major Silva noticed that DigitalPh33r has released “Master Chief Sucks at Halo 2”, a sequel to ‘Master Chief Sucks at Halo’. This one is as profanity-laced as the original, and as on-target with its lampooning of teamkililng griefers on Xbox Live. I thought it was pretty funny.(Louis Wu 12:21:42 UTC)

An article at Ars Technica looks at the upcoming HaloClix release from WizKids – and warns of story spoilers that will be available before Halo 3 ships. Hmm…(Louis Wu 13:51:51 UTC)

There’s a boatload of new content at the Xbox.com Halo 3 portal – check out the Articles section, for example. Too many to list – just go through ’em. Poke around!(Louis Wu 13:48:26 UTC)

Okay… what? sleepingdragon80 created a Chief of Death. Boredom is a wonderful thing.(Louis Wu 13:46:03 UTC)

Awesome. DocOctavius was unhappy with the color in the recently mentioned Blomkamp short shakeycammed at Leipzig – so he corrected it. Looks great now! (Still waiting on official word on this one…) Save his bandwidth – use our link.(Louis Wu 12:16:18 UTC)

Wow, bizarre. You can make your own Halo 3 Mashup by combining clips from released trailers – and there’s also a link to enter a Halo 3 gear sweepstakes (17 or over, US resident). Swing by Halo3.msn.com for more details.(Louis Wu 11:44:59 UTC)

Phoenix Sabe pointed us to this thread at Bungie.net – he claims that he’s got confirmation that Nathan Fillion, who plays Mal in Firefly and Serenity, can be heard in one of the new gameplay clips coming out of Leipzig. There’s no mention of him on the IMDb page for Halo 3 – but that…