Author: halo@bungie.org
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The History of Metroid Online
Seraphim wrote to us to point out The History of Metroid Online, a nearly half hour long movie showing exactly how this HaloCE mod came to be. I’m not sure who this is aimed at – it’s awfully long, and about a relatively obscure subject, to be of inter…
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Yelo Battery Released
Kornman00 let us know that Yelo Battery – a plugin for HaloPC and HaloCE – has been released; it lets you change your field of view to better accomodate widescreen monitors, and move your weapon position so that it’s not so cut off. It also lets you d…
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Halo Toolbar from H3Press
Mike Riess let us know that H3Press.net has just released v3.0 of their Halo Toolbar, which adds Subnova’s Seeker and fixes a lot of Bungie.net links, as well as streamlining the overall interface. Check it out – screenshots are available for Firefox …
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…For The Sake of Talking
IceWeasel is back, celebrating Bungie Day with yet another stop-motion film starring his ODST and his Heretic Elite (with a few extra characters this time around). Rather surreal in parts. (His first production was here, and his second here.) Nicely d…
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Bungie Day Goodies
In celebration of Bungie Day, Bungie has released a whole bunch of fun stuff for you to play with; some of it is available through this article on Bungie.net, and some of it is available only through Xbox Live Marketplace. The article contains links t…
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Halo: Uprising details (and cover art)
We had a release date for Halo: Uprising #3 (the third of four installments from Marvel comics this summer) – but no cover art, until now. IGN Comics has put up a sneak peek of the first three comics, including nicely-sized cover art of all three epis…
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Se7en Se7en Oh Se7en
Stuntmutt has updated his blog with a whole bunch of content – a special 7/7/07 strip from him, plus several guest strips mailed in by fans. Check it out! He comes back for real on Monday.(Louis Wu 12:33:42 UTC)
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The Lone Spartan
Sean Mortensen has submitted ‘The Lone Spartan’, a 2:13 long, 2.4 mb MP3 of a piece of music he wrote to commemorate a specific moment in the novel ‘Ghosts of Onyx’. It takes place in Chapter 8, and involves three young Spartan-IIIs. If you haven’t re…
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X-Play Explores Halo 3 Beta
G4TV has a video wrapup of the Halo 3 Beta – it seems like it would have been more appropriate a week or so INTO the beta, but hey – you post what you got when you got it.(Louis Wu 12:00:25 UTC)
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Fallout Preview
Turtle Mann stopped by our forum to point out a trailer for Fallout, an upcoming action series. Cinematography is intriguing – this one looks to be good! Check it out.(Louis Wu 11:22:49 UTC)
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Things You Might Not Know
This past week, we’ve mentioned a series of video interviews that Gamepro held with Bungie employees during their recent trip to Kirkland – there’s now a short text article that pulls out ten interesting nuggets from those interviews (most of which ne…
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CamoTourneys
Shayne pointed out that CamoTourneys hosts online Halo 2 tournaments with cash prizes. They’ve got a free-to-enter 1v1 today, with a $10 prize.(Louis Wu 11:12:42 UTC)
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I want that checkbook.
Monster Bungie Weekly Update this week – though very little of it is about Halo 3. Tidbits about tomorrow (Bungie Day), mockery for the folks who thought yesterday’s screenshot was fake, VERY cool info about the upcoming toys from McFarlane, an awesom…
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Bungie Day Extravaganza
Bungie is celebrating Bungie Day (7/7/07) in style – there’s going to be new content on their website, but more importantly (and more time-sensitive), there’ll be content on Xbox Live Marketplace that will only be available tomorrow. Get it between 12…
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Setting dorks back 20 years
Wow, disturbing. Today’s Dork Tower makes me wonder if I want to buy Halo ActionClix after all… thanks, Anton P. Nym.(Louis Wu 16:43:18 UTC)
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Halo Wars to be shown at E3
Thunder, over at the Halo Wars forum, has posted a note that lets people know that Halo Wars will be demoed at E3 next week – and there might be some stuff that makes it out to the public from there. Good news! Thanks, CHAOS1212.(Louis Wu 16:13:36 UTC)
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Product Placement.
Today’s Guest One One Se7en is c0ld vengeance taking a shot at the mass marketing of the Halo brand.(Louis Wu 15:16:15 UTC)
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Iris Update
We haven’t commented very much recently on the Iris ARG – because there hasn’t been much to comment on. On June 20, Server 5 was unlocked at Halo3.com – and there hasn’t been a lot of action since then. However, yesterday, a number of people who were …
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How to come back from a deficit
Overswarm’s put up a new article – this one’s about turning the tide when you’re down. Interesting read – go check out Not So Common Sense!(Louis Wu 12:31:05 UTC)