Author: halo@bungie.org

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…

Jamie98s let us know that he’s released a music video set to the song ‘Somewhere Only We Know’ by Keane; it’s hosted by Mythica. I can’t tell you what it’s like – but his work is usually quite good, and it’s less than 25 mb. Check it out!(Louis Wu 13:…

There’s an MSN Spotlight on Halo 3 today; if you visit the MSN front page, you’ll find a block of Halo 3 links, including articles about the game’s showing at E3 and summaries of in-game features. Thanks, EskimoDragon13.(Louis Wu 13:57:14 UTC)

Today’s Bungie Weekly Update focuses on multiplayer co-op, as well as cool details about other tidbits coming with the release of Halo 3. Go get hyped! (As always, it’s in our Weekly Update Archive, too.)(Louis Wu 04:10:27 UTC)

An EB Games employee sent this link to a youtube video of them going ga-ga over the Halo 3 Legendary Edition display they just setup. I won’t mention his name in case this could possibly get him in trouble!And of course, since da boss is away for anoth…