Author: halo@bungie.org

We got email from Tucker Barrie, who let us know about one of the coolest stop-motion Halo films to pass through our doors in quite some time. It’s called ‘Spartanarena’, and probably not for the reason you’re thinking. You can download it in QuickTime…

Gamespot has a nice writeup of Halo 3 Coop, as played in Sydney. Thanks, Sir Topham Hat.(Louis Wu 22:05:40 UTC)

Astounding number of singleplayer clips appearing today – Nucflash found another one at IGTV, and Bootsman found a pair (one | two) at GameVideos.com. I’m sure there’ll be more – but I’ve got to call it quits at this point. (Louis Wu 21:53:36 UTC)

Awesome. If things go as planned, standbyers in Halo 3 will find themselves playing only other standbyers. (Well… and people with really crappy connections.) Bungie.net forum post found by Nucflash.(Louis Wu 21:43:23 UTC)

Halo Universe has some photos of the Halo 3 Ferris Wheel we mentioned a couple of days ago, set up at the Leipzig Games Convention – as the pics show, there are 360s set up in each car, so you can play Halo 3 as you rotate over Leipzig. Thanks, Marc. …

360RantRave.com was at the IMAX showing last night; they grabbed some audio from the show. (Bungie’s restrictions barred “Photography, video cameras and cell phone camera use” – no mention of audio recorders, so I guess this is okay.) Thanks, SIRBOE.(…

There’s an article in the New Zealand Herald that purports to be about Peter Jackson’s Halo game – but really, it’s just about how it’s not really related to the Trilogy, story-wise. Thanks to Blackstar for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 18:53:18 UTC)

There’s a small clip of actual gameplay from Halo 3’s campaign, shakeycam’d off a monitor and recorded during hte Leipzig Games Convention, at IGN (first movie on the page). (Sort of has that start-of-Delta-Halo feel to it… but prettier.) It’s actua…

Andras Ostrom has sent along a new, and MASSIVE, piece of Halo machinima; it’s 30 minutes long, and weighs in at about 200 mb, depending on format. It’s called ‘Opus Machinima’, and it pokes fun at… well, the entire genre. It’s really nicely filmed, …

Bungie’s new weapon choices might cause some trouble during gameplay – check today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 15:16:53 UTC)

The Age’s Screen Play blog has a great discussion about Forge – info collected during the Sydney playtest, but embargoed until today. The more I read about this tool, the more drool collects on my keyboard…(Louis Wu 15:11:19 UTC)

Over at Rampancy.net, Narcogen noticed a note from Marty on the Marty Army group page that suggests that Halo 3 Audio might be nearly done. I guess that’s good, because the game has to get to replicators soon…(Louis Wu 13:29:38 UTC)

Flipa15 posted his Mallow Chief (170k) creation (thanks, Narc) to the denizens of IRC; in his words, ‘a bit stale, but still delicious.'(Louis Wu 13:16:40 UTC)

Over the last few days, we’ve received a number of reports of a commercial put together by Gamestop, saying goodbye to Halo 2 on the way to Halo 3 – but the very first time I saw it was at LiveVideo.com last Friday, when I received a Google News Alert…

There are a number of writeups of the IMAX showing of Halo 3 last night in Seattle – you can find them around the web at places like Gamerscoreblog and CyberRoach – but there’s also quite a bit of info in our own forum. x1zero started a thread while w…

Gamespy has put up a nice preview of the upcoming ActionClix Halo figures – they caught up with WizKids at GenCon last week. Thanks, Black Six.(Louis Wu 12:00:33 UTC)

Saw this on Digg – a French TV channel is sponsoring a contest involving photoshopping Halo 3 content into your own pictures. The winner gets to play Halo 3 live against a famous personality. Sounds cool, right? The problem is… there’s zero moderatio…

ClassyDude put up a podcast which had Laird and RvB community member Dark54555 discussing the new Microsoft Game Content Rules, and how they affect Halo machinima. You can find it on this page – you’re looking for Episode 2 (it’s down near the bottom)…

bluerunner wrote to let us know about a Halo 2 tournament that will be happening in Hendersonville, TN (near Nashville) on September 21 and 22. Grand prize is a Legendary Edition of Halo 3, all proceeds go to charity. They’re shooting for 32 4-player …

Game Invasion has a bunch of clips from the extra content DVD included with the Limited and Legendary Editions – if you want to see what you’d be getting by buying something above the standard edition… check this out. Thanks, Sir Topham Hat. (Loui…