Author: halo@bungie.org

trigger119 sent word that another in GamingTV’s Interviews in Machinima series has now been posted – go read about Alexander Winn, of Edgeworks Entertainment. He talks about The Codex, the Heretic, and moviemaking in general. Good read!(Louis Wu 18:36…

When I got home yesterday, a box was waiting for me; in it, I found a gift from someone who wishes to remain anonymous. I don’t know much about it – but it looks a lot like it was made by Westerfield Studios – you can see a couple like it in use in the…

Three weeks ago, DHalo and Ibeechu released a video recap of the Iris ARG, giving you a way to watch what had been learned in the early days of the game. They’ve released a second episode, now – this one goes in-depth into the whole process, covering …

Rampancy.net posted a Finale version (put together by a fan) of the piano solo from the Halo 3 Announcement Trailer. Grab it and start practicing!(Louis Wu 12:29:28 UTC)

Planet Halo has posted a (slightly belated) review of the Halo 3 Beta, compiled from PH community member comments. It’s not too hard to figure out which comments are useful criticism and which ones are just plain whining.(Louis Wu 12:03:26 UTC)

Ure Paul let us know that ActionTrip has posted a new Halo comic – sometimes it’s hard to be Covenant!(Louis Wu 11:37:14 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy posted a Top 10 Halo Pick-up Lines article, in an attempt to raise the quality bar of lines she has to listen to when she plays Halo 2. Really – don’t try these yourself… but they’re funny to read1(Louis Wu 11:30:43 UTC)

Littlebigman (with some help from Radiago713) pointed out some new pics of McFarlane’s Halo 3 action figures – prototype only at this point, but man, they look detailed!(Louis Wu 11:28:17 UTC)

Random Year Old pointed out a homebrew PSP game available for download – screenshots can be seen at his 1timeuser link.(Louis Wu 11:27:10 UTC)

Eurogamer has written up a First Impressions article based on the level they played in Amsterdam last week; there are, of course, campaign-based spoilers in there (you can’t write about a campaign level without giving SOMETHING away), but it’s all stu…

Last week, _Wheels03 started a small contest to come up with a good slogan for a Halo 3 Launch T-Shirt. In the last 24 hours, interest seems to have picked up quite a bit – I’m mentioning this because entries are flooding in. You’ve got until Friday, …

Boxer pointed out a new Adventures in Disaster comic, based on a snippet of text in last Friday’s Bungie Weekly Update. Boom!(Louis Wu 11:04:02 UTC)

The Seattle Times has a profile of Harold Ryan, Bungie’s Studio Manager, up this morning. It’s nice to get a look at the world as Harold sees it; this is a guy who makes decisions every day that affects what you’ll get to play on September 25 (or 26, …

This morning, I went through the Google News Alerts about Halo that came in in the last few days – and ran across this article at TeamXbox (via Voodoo Extreme). I would have passed on it (it’s old, now – 4 days old – and it’s clearly written specifica…

Monster 2 of 2, of Achieve360Points, let us know that Xbox.com has updated the Halo 3 Achievement list. They’re relatively minor changes (the score needed for certain acheivements wasn’t set before, and it is now, plus one achievement received a new n…

Back – exhausted, but back. It’s going to take me a while to go through my inbox, but this popped out at me; you can now preorder Halo 3 at your local 7-11. That just seems… silly.(Louis Wu 21:20:52 UTC)

Rockslider dropped a note on the forum pointing us to a few new additions to his site, primarily the “Grunty Corridor Fun” to be had on Assault on the Control room. Good Stuff.(KP 21:13:39 UTC)

Brathnok let us know that a friend of his wrote a Halo song; you can read about it, and listen to it, on the Second Foundation website. I wasn’t able to grab all of it here, but the first few seconds reminded me of Lou Reed. And… that’s it for today…

Mister Froggy let us know about Halo, Articulated #62 – not sure where this is coming from, but the diagnosis seems right.(Louis Wu 14:05:25 UTC)

Sam M let us know that he’s working on a game called ‘Grunt Hunt’ – it’s basically a Halo-themed version of Duck Hunt. It’ll be available later this month from his website, for both WIndows and Mac, and you can see a video showing how it plays at YouT…