Author: halo@bungie.org

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)

Retro Remakes has queried “various members of the Indie community, Gibbage forums, a few commercial game developers, YakYak forums and […] the wonderful readers of Retro Remakes” and come up with a list of the Top 100 Games Ever. Halo came in at 32,…

Did you like the simplicity of the original Halo 3 T-Shirt from the Bungie Store, but weren’t so fond of the color scheme? It’s now available in Ice Grey (in fact, once the current brown stock is sold, it’ll ONLY be available in ice grey). Thanks, x1z…

Action Figure Insider has an article about some upcoming Halo goodness to be seen at San Diego ComicCon this week – the Halo laser tag set from Jasman Toys, last mentioned a month ago, will be on display at the Tor Books booth. (These products, a plas…

An article in the Daily Herald (covering Cook County, IL, outside Chicago) lays out a situation in which a library in Mount Prospect, IL is planning a Halo tournament this weekend, but being fought by the National Institute on Media and the Family. The…

Nominations for the 2007 Game Critics Awards have been posted (thanks, Kotaku) – Halo 3 is up for ‘Best Action Game’ and ‘Best Online Multiplayer Game’, and Halo Wars is up for ‘Best Strategy Game’. Winners will be announced July 31. Good luck to both…