Author: halo@bungie.org

Nice. Canadians have been complaining for a while that the price of an Xbox in Canada is unreasonably high, due to the strength of the Canadian dollar; Microsoft seems to have acknowledged that, with the latest price cuts. As of tomorrow, the price of …

QuickTactical posted word of a monster film on our forum a couple of days ago – Fireteam Bravo is the story of a small squad fighting on after their entire side is wiped out. It goes on a bit long… but the cinematography is quite good. Nice battle s…

Spartan Erik let us know that Blue vs Green Ep 3 is up at Newgrounds; seemed sort of weak, but the grand larceny section was well done.(Louis Wu 16:51:29 UTC)

Big Goalie Dan points out that Podtacular 123, Part 1 is now up – 40 mb of discussion about the EGM info.(Louis Wu 16:48:33 UTC)

Heh – We got word from Andrew that Fire Team Charlie has a promo for the MLG Canadian Open on the MLG Canada website. (Even if you’re not planning on entering the tourney, it’s a funny vid.)(Louis Wu 14:56:36 UTC)

XerxdeeJ stopped by last night to point out new content at Tied the Leader; there’s a readers’s poll asking about whether you plan to try out the HaloClix tabletop game stuff, and an update on the TTL Foundation, a non-profit organization kicked off l…

Major Nelson has announced a price on the Halo 3 Xbox 360 (and some price drops on the other 360 SKUs) – that puppy will cost you $400, which means you’re paying $50 for the goodies that come exclusively with the Halo 3 box. Doesn’t sound too terrible…

Apparently, there was (is?) an Xbox 360 Soundtrack Competition – and the Irish band Director has entered it with a song set to video of the Halo 3 Announcement Trailer. Nice work! Thanks, MasterChief2829.(Louis Wu 14:29:42 UTC)

Mister Froggy pointed out that Halo, Articulated #63 is now up. Trust me – you don’t want to be taking courting lessons from the MC.(Louis Wu 14:22:53 UTC)

Interesting. Microsoft has decided to release yet another Halo 3 Zune – this one is brown, and is labeled “Zune – Halo 3 Military Edition”, and will be available exclusively at military retail stores in August. 300 of them will be given to soldiers in…

He’s on a roll! Warbow has submitted another new Calvin and Halo for your perusal… poor Calvin.(Louis Wu 21:05:35 UTC)

WorthPlaying put up a review of the Halo 3 Level 1 runthrough they watched at E3 a couple of weeks ago – give it a read.(Louis Wu 20:40:09 UTC)

As mentioned earlier, last week we were sent a high-res version of ‘Outback’, a fun live-action video created by Westerfield Studios. Because I was out of town, there was no way to reencode this until today – but now you can grab WMP9 or QuickTime ver…

Dojorkan seems to be unhappy about a new sweepstakes he noticed at GameStop – you’ve got a chance at winning a grand prize package consisting of a training session with one of the Ogre twins, a copy of Halo 2, an Xbox 360 Elite, a Halo 3 headset, a po…

thePheonix9 noticed that the second of five Retail Exclusive Red vs Blue vids is now available at GameStop. Sarge tries to teach the Red Team about trust. Red Team fails.(Louis Wu 19:24:32 UTC)

Stuntmutt returns to a theme from last week (sort of) in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 19:15:15 UTC)

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)