Author: halo@bungie.org

What… you thought we’d forget One One Se7en on this day of stupendous news? Nah – everyone needs a puerile sex joke occasionally. If you don’t get it – you probably don’t live in the UK.(Louis Wu 20:47:45 UTC)

Sean Mortensen continues to compose music for Ghosts of Onyx – he’s released Spartans Never Die (4 mb) (written for Kurt), and Reclaimers (4.2 mb), written for Ash. Anyone with questions, comments, or suggestions can mail Sean. (Louis Wu 20:45:04 UTC)

That awfully cool short from Neil Blomkamp that was released yesterday? Looks like it’s the first of a series. w00t! Thanks, Dry Ice.(Louis Wu 20:24:21 UTC)

3Suns let us know about a few things at MLGPro.com – a profile of synide, an audio interview with Legend, and some predictions about upcoming tourneys and the like. Go read!(Louis Wu 19:49:47 UTC)

trigger119 pointed out a pair of montage vids hosted at GamingTV – the Eurotage, a Halo 3 Beta montage (that was first pointed out to me by synide, of MLGPro.com, actually), and a trailer for SiR Tyner’s Montage 2. (Louis Wu 19:42:48 UTC)

Some non-E3 news in the queue – should clear this out too. Deadly Warrior let us know of an online Halo 2 tournament being put together by SBG Omega – swing by their forums for more details.(Louis Wu 19:39:52 UTC)

x1zero noticed a new Valhalla shirt at the Bungie Store. (Louis Wu 19:27:48 UTC)

If you’re interested in Halo Wars, especially past the short (and abruptly-ended) trailer, you might want to read the articles at 1Up.com and the San Jose Mercury News – there are nice written descriptions of gameplay and the like. There’s also new i…

One story we didn’t get to yet involves the release of a Halo 3-themed Xbox 360. You can see pictures of it at Bungie.net right now, and there’ll be a full article about it later today, but the basics are a small (20GB) drive, gorgeous Halo 3 styling,…

Joystiq has put up a frame-by-frame analysis of the new trailer – I disagree with a ton of the commentary, but everyone’s allowed their opinion.(Louis Wu 14:05:12 UTC)

TeamXbox got to watch a chunk of the first level of the game being played last night, after the Press Conference – and they’ve written up the experience. It IS only the first level – but story spoilers abound; skip this one if you want to experience i…

Over at GameVideos.com, there’s short (31 second) trailer for Halo Wars; it seems to end rather abruptly, so it might be that there’s some of it missing, but it’s intriguing nonetheless. If you want to see how this RTS is coming along, grab this!(Loui…

Wow – spending so much time with the Halo 3 trailer, I’ve neglected to post a note about the Arms Race short. It’s linked at the bottom of the Bungie.net Media Blowout page , and it’s available (for now) only in WMP9 formats. It’s the first Halo-relate…

Apparently, a lot of you out there have never read Amaroq’s rant about download accelerators – because a small handful of people are KILLING 300Mbit/sec’s worth of bandwidth by using them. No, we’re nowhere near maxed out on the servers – but when 3 I…

If the movies weren’t enough for you… check out the Screenshots gallery at Bungie.net. There are 8 gorgeous new shots for downloading… I’m drooling.(Louis Wu 05:20:33 UTC)

As expected, Bungie is making a splash at E3 2007 – one of the videos they’re releasing will give you a fantastic two-minute taste of Halo 3 campaign… without really giving anything away about the story. (If you’re adamant about NO spoilers, do NOT d…

As you may or may not have known, E3 kicks off this evening, with a gigantic press conference from Microsoft happening at 8:30 Pacific time (that’s 4:30 am for you folks in the UK). It’ll be streamed live on Xbox.com, as well as via G4TV (both on TV an…

Gametrailers.com has put up a GT Countdown – a video detailing their picks for the Top Ten Most Anticipated Games of E3 2007, which kicks off this evening. Halo 3 comes in at number 7 – because, according to GT, there’s “a feeling of sameness surround…

Tied the Leader, absent these past three weeks, is back with a new update – a couple of new articles for your reading pleasure. ‘Geekery Unyielding’ discusses XerxdeeJ’s MASSIVE role in the recent ‘Halo Unyielding’ machinima (what the heck does ‘beari…

eddie m noticed that Enmon Accessories, a company that makes leather products (we mentioned them in May) has put up an info page with pictures of the Halo 3 products they’ll be making – shots of wallets, bags, patches, and the like. Some of it looks g…