Author: halo@bungie.org

Heh – Ain’t It Cool News wrote up the Preview Night walkabout at San Diego ComicCon – and there are some Halo shots, with a pretty prominent ‘No Pictures’ icon right in front of them. I’d bet these make up the Gentle Giant Master Chief Mini Bust Case P…

The BBFC (the British equivalent of the US ESRB, a rating entity, though their version has more legal clout than ours does) has rated Halo 3 (specifically the Limited Edition) as ’12’ – the same rating they gave the Halo 2 Expansion Pack. (They didn’t…

Advanced Media Network gave out its Best and Worst Awards for E3 2007 – and Halo 3 picked up just a single award: Most Disappointing Game. Ah, well.(Louis Wu 16:20:07 UTC)

Xbox.com is holding a series of sweepstakes – you’ve got a shot at winning copies of Halo 3, books, schwag – and a Halo 3 Xbox 360 console. Grand Prize winner for the last round gets some amazing stuff, including an “Xbox 360 Halo 3 X-shaped Ibanez Xip…

MLG is rebroadcasting the Dallas Video on Demand footage; if you missed the gameplay last weekend, here’s your chance to catch it! Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 10:11:48 UTC)

Hellhawk sent along a couple of dozen new Cortana snippets for the Halo 2 Dialogue Databank; lots of great stuff! Go listen.(Louis Wu 10:09:01 UTC)

If you didn’t listen to the Bungie Podcast on Monday because it wasn’t on iTunes, now’s your chance to hear all the Grunty goodness. Thanks, Luke.(Louis Wu 10:07:04 UTC)

Halo: Portable has posted another podcast – hosts this time around are Tex and Mintz. E3 musings, Comic-Con discussions, and more. (They know the sync is broken; they’re working on it.) Thanks, Tex.(Louis Wu 10:04:36 UTC)

Frankie has posted an interesting discussion with Curtis Creamer, Bungie’s Design Producer, over at Bungie.net – how Curtis got involved with Bungie, what he does every day, how Halo 3 is coming along. (No, Frankie didn’t let him say anything REALLY ju…

Sane Intolerant continues his Transformers/Halo storyline in Halo Toy Box – The Light Will Save Us All and Watching Over You. (I thought these were supposed to be funny?)(Louis Wu 22:19:19 UTC)

Today’s One One Se7en takes a shot at the folks who are getting reactionary about online coop before they even know whether it’s included in the game or not. I don’t know what Stuntmutt was thinking – don’t we all overreact like those guys?(Louis Wu 14…

Podtacular 121 contains a discussion of the Halo 3 closed-door campaign demo – thanks, Unr3alChi3f.(Louis Wu 11:43:05 UTC)

Whoa. The last Calvin and Halo strip we posted was back in March, 2005… I thought that puppy was dead. Warbow surprised me, though – there was a new one in my inbox today. Pretty funny, even.(Louis Wu 11:39:20 UTC)

Play N Trade put together a video review of the Halo 3 Beta – you can watch it at blip.tv. Basically, it’s a runthrough of the weapons/vehicles/equipment available in the beta.(Louis Wu 11:32:18 UTC)

So over the past year or so, I’ve gotten WAY behind on submitted content of specific kinds; there’s just been so much, and things have been going so fast. I’m happy to say, however, that one section is now up-to-date – the Halo 2 Dialogue Databank. Th…

Dolbex stopped by to mention a side project he’s been working on for a little while – an online bracketing system that will let anyone run their own tournament on the web. Read his post, then check out the site – good stuff!(Louis Wu 16:15:54 UTC)

Chilton Webb pointed out a new article on the Weta Holics website (run by Weta NZ) – it contains a few interesting tidbits about the functional Warthog Bungie revealed in Friday’s Bungie Weekly Update. Did you know that this hog was just built (as in,…

570News (a Toronto radio station) has a bit this morning on video game sales in Canada; sales have hit half a billion dollars in the first half of 2007, with Halo 3 and Grand Theft Auto 4 still coming… how much over a billion will they go? (Year end …

Gamespot posted their E3 2007 Editors’ Choice Awards – and Halo 3 didn’t do so well. It didn’t even make the finalists for ‘Best Shooter’ (though it did make the finalist list for ‘Best Xbox 360 Game’). Halo Wars was in the finalist list for ‘Best Str…

Mister Froggy let us know that Halo, Articulated #59 is up – that poor Arbiter…(Louis Wu 12:51:45 UTC)