Author: halo@bungie.org

Last year, ManKitten set up a treasure hunt on our forum – he provided clues, forumgoers guessed what they referred to. There was no prize other than feeling good about your Halo knowledge. (It happened the year before, as well – a link can be found i…

411Mania.com has a summary of the best of E3, and although they felt that Microsoft had blown their chance at locking up the console wars, and although they were VERY unhappy with the Halo 3 trailer, they STILL rated Halo 3 as Best of Show. Heh – not …

You might remember a link we posted last week – a very nice Master Chief drawing at DeviantART. The artist is back, with an awesome piece, created for the San Diego Comic Con – check it out! Thanks, Tactic.(Louis Wu 12:09:02 UTC)

Gamepro has posted a Halo 3 Campaign Preview, primarily based on the demo given to the press at E3, but including, apparently, information about the REST of the game, as well. (The conclusion of our forum denizens is that they’ve extrapolated this inf…

Speaking of odd images… we got this one tonight. Ton of clues in there… I gotta say, it looks exciting.(Louis Wu 03:55:15 UTC)

sui, on irc, pointed out this link at the Bungie.net forums – this is a little creepy. Pan out… and you’ll find you’re in Baghdad. Whoa.(Louis Wu 03:45:45 UTC)

Frank O’Connor talked to Joystiq about the future, including some interesting answers about the upcoming Peter Jackson project. Go read! Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 03:15:29 UTC)

Sigafoos sent the heads-up on The Riot 56 – 45 minutes, 18 mb, filled with clan challenges, E3 news, and stuff that like that. (Louis Wu 18:45:49 UTC)

Ever since the E3 trailer was released last week, I’ve seen occasional ‘it doesn’t feel right’ posts describing the emotions generated by the trailer (usually comparing it to older Halo trailers). Some fans have assumed that this ‘offness’ is due to a…

The guys at Gamersyde honored the ‘no filming of the screen’ rule during their private Halo 3 gameplay demo at E3 last week – but they DID film Frankie’s face as he played. You can hear all the content, which is what has many people excited. (The rest…

Okay, that IceWeasel guy… he’s just crazy. Makes me laugh… but he’s crazy. He’s followed up ‘…For the Sake of Talking’ (released last week) with …For the Sake of Yelling. It’s only 80 seconds long, but there are a number of WTF moments in ther…

Sean Mortensen continues his musical tributes to Ghosts of Onyx – today there’s a theme for Lucy (mp3, 1 mb), and one for the Spartan III program (mp3, 2.5 mb). Give a listen! (Louis Wu 20:42:11 UTC)

You know… normally I would have let this slide, because we’ve already posted about the news that this article is ostensibly about, but there’s a comment that I simply don’t feel comfortable letting by. Xboxer put up a news post about the Jeff Bell co…

1Up has a writeup of the level one demo that many press folks saw at E3. So does Too Opinionated Gaming. So does Ars Technica (which uses the article to mention the Saved Film editor and the playable gravity hammer, as well). And Wired. ActionTrip was …

Gizmodo talked to Peter Moore about the ‘tepid reaction’ the audience had to his unveiling of the Halo 3 Xbox 360 at the Microsoft Press Conference last Tuesday. Moore wrote it off to his poor showmanship, rather than a true indication of the demand f…

Mintz tells us that the next ‘regularly scheduled podcast’ is now available at Halo: Portable. They discuss a bunch of stuff (itemized on that link page above.) Hmm… given that the last one was in late February, I suppose you can expect Episode 10 t…

Mister Froggy let us know about Halo, Articulated #56 – Bungie didn’t give you the dialogue that goes with some of the scenes in the recent Halo 3 trailer, but one of them is unveiled here for you.(Louis Wu 12:34:59 UTC)

Hmm… Either Jeff Bell (Microsoft VP) slipped up and admitted something he shouldn’t be talking about… or we’re just misunderstanding the context. UNSCleric.com picked up a throwaway comment at the end of an interview Jeff gave to Major Nelson – and…

The Bungie Weekly Update is up now (both at Bungie, and in our Weekly Update Archive) – a nice summary of how the week went for Brian and Frankie, down in LA at E3, plus an awesome shot of the cover for this fall’s Halo novel. Go read! Avateur was firs…

Spong has an interview with Colin Riley, Technical Artist for Halo 2 Vista, covering the game and how some decisions about it were made. For a technical artist, he certainly seems to have the marketingspeak down…(Louis Wu 19:37:34 UTC)