Author: halo@bungie.org

Sketchfactor stopped by last night to mention that Bungie and Microsoft are planning a week-long launch celebration for this game – but that they don’t have a name that’s catchy enough yet. Do you have a suggestion? Check the thread (to make sure your …

One more E3 demo writeup, this one from AusGamers.(Louis Wu 12:30:42 UTC)

DHalo noticed a story at 1UP about the upcoming EGM – more info coming soon, but right now, a look at the three covers for this issue. GORGEOUS!(Louis Wu 12:22:18 UTC)

Newsarama interviewed Michael Bendis about his work on the upcoming Halo comic miniseries from Marvel. Great interview, with nice story tidbits (no real spoilers, but an overview of how they attacked the problem), and some very cool artwork. Check it …

Bzerker was the first to point out ‘It’s a Halo BETA’, a new Flash video at Newgrounds. It’s just a teaser to a longer vid (not finished yet) – but it looks pretty promising! (Louis Wu 11:14:34 UTC)

Whoa. I hate it when things get away from me. In mid-June, we received a really cool CD (outside, 166k | inside, 150k) from The Unchosen, a UK band who’s been in our news before. They wrote a song called ‘Mjolnir’ (news | news), and then commissioned P…

We have still MORE scores inspired by Ghosts of Onyx, from Sean Mortensen – there’s Pegasi Delta Assault (3:07 long, 2.8 mb), and the Ghosts of Onyx Suite (10:43 long, 9.8 mb). Looks like we’re going to need to set up a page for organization soon!(Lou…

Great quote from Shane Kim, in an interview with Wired:”…this is our belief. We love our Halo fans. And the Halo fans are generally willing to spend a lot of money on Halo. But you have to be careful in how you take advantage of that.”I hope they con…

A couple of days ago, we mentioned Horus’ Grunt Plushie – he stopped by this morning to let people know he’d put up some rough templates, if you want to create your own. Nice!(Louis Wu 14:01:36 UTC)

ManKitten posted Day 4’s clues for his Halo Treasure Hunt on our forum – you’ve now got 16 clues, are you getting warmer?(Louis Wu 13:56:46 UTC)

Sane Intolerant let us know that a new episode of Halo Toy Box has been released – he promises that he didn’t see a similar strip from Mister Froggy’s Halo, Articulated until AFTER this was posted.(Louis Wu 13:55:26 UTC)

Gamespy announced their E3 Awards – Halo 3 pulled down #5 in the Top 5 360 Games category, and #6 in the Overall Top 10. According to the judges, a strong field of contenders, rather than any shortcoming in Halo 3, kept it from climbing higher on thos…

1UP talked to Shane Kim about the ‘overstretching’ of the Halo brand – Kim says with a franchise worth four or five billion dollars to Microsoft, diluting it with low-quality properties would be foolish. Good to hear, I guess… (Louis Wu 13:45:36 UTC)

UGO has decided to take a look at their favorite outer space adventures – their list contains 4 movies, one TV show… and Halo. Nice!(Louis Wu 13:40:56 UTC)

Wow. Before I get to actually posting news today, I would like to beg for a little more rationality in the gaming press. I simply CANNOT BELIEVE how many articles are out there this morning that say “Bungie has cancelled online Coop!” (To be fair, the…

Whoa, very cool. El Burritoh climbed near the top of Mt. Fuji, in Japan… and took Master Chief with him. Nice pics!(Louis Wu 21:31:24 UTC)

Frankie has clarified the ‘100 item limit’ on uploaded films and screenshots for Halo 3; the limit is per profile, and it should be possible to juggle between profiles. Since anyone with a 360 can make Silver profiles for free, you should be able to, w…

ManKitten has posted clues for Day 3 of his 7 day Halo Treasure Hunt – this batch includes an awesome video. Who knew hornets died at 117 degrees? Go join in the hunt!(Louis Wu 21:21:12 UTC)

Remember this? Now we’ve got this.(Louis Wu 20:23:36 UTC)

If you read Bungie’s interview with Freeverse’s Bruce Morrison, you got to see a few screens of new levels they’d created specifically for their new ‘Survivor Mode’. Well… we’ve got a few more. Plus wireframes of the levels, as overviews. Check ’em …