Author: halo@bungie.org

Games.net has posted the second in the series of Gamepro video interviews with Bungie developers; this one is with Frank O’Connor and Brian Jarrard, and covers everything from multiplayer to Bungie’s relationship with Peter Jackson. 5 minutes – go wat…

Nick, from HaloDev, wrote to say that there was a new update about Prometheus (the Halo-everything editor) posted on their site; lots of details about what’s gotten better. Sounds like they’re nearly ready to beta-test it, even. Go read!(Louis Wu 19:1…

Sane Intolerant let us know that there was a new episode of Halo Toy Box. I have nothing useful to say about it, so I’ll just tell you it’s there.(Louis Wu 19:00:33 UTC)

Urban Reflex lost his net connection about halfway through the Halo 3 Beta – but he’s (sort of) back now, and there’s a new update at Ordained Insight. It’s an interview with some friends about the beta; give it a read! (By ‘sort of back’, I mean he s…

Mister Froggy has posted Halo, Articulated #52 – just in time for tomorrow’s US holiday.(Louis Wu 12:41:18 UTC)

Kotaku has another article about Kotobukiya’s upcoming $99 Master Chief statue – along with a few pictures from Toy News International. Interchangeable weapons… nice. (It’ll look great on my shelf next to the Muckle statue…)(Louis Wu 12:20:06 UTC)

Pro-G looked at Halo 2 Vista, and found it lacking – buggy, visually unimpressive, too slow to be worthy of the title ‘PC Shooter’. (You’re certainly welcome to disagree.) Overall rating was 6/10 (enjoyable).(Louis Wu 12:12:08 UTC)

Sean Mortensen sent along a piece of music (MIDI format, 139 kb) he wrote as a score for a section of Nylund’s ‘Ghosts of Onyx’, because he was inspired by the book. He knows it sounds a little like the Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End score, …

There’s a small interview with Frank O’Connor over at CVG – discussion of what got learned from the beta, and what might be changed by the time we see the final product. Nothing horribly new, but if you’re looking for confirmation that Snowbound was i…

If you’re interested in super-high resolution versions of those cool new screenshots, without any watermarks… swing by Bungie.net. Wowza.(Louis Wu 20:58:40 UTC)

If you’re working on new content for Halo 2 Vista, and your app of choice is 3ds max 9, you’ve probably already discovered that you can’t use the exporter script distributed with the game. TheGhost has come to your aid, with an exporter that works wit…

Gamepro has put up a video interview with Bungie’s Lars Bakken – discussion of how multiplayer design happens, overlain on standard Halo 3 gameplay. Go watch!(Louis Wu 19:09:46 UTC)

Edge has posted its World Best Videogames list, according to Next Generation – and the results might surprise you. 3 of the top 4 are games that Edge gave 10/10 reviews to. 5 and 6 – Super Mario World and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past – were …

Today’s Guest One One Se7en comes from Warbow, who finds himself surprisingly busy this morning. (No, there’s no relationship between his guest strip and his forum activities. I just found the timing amusing.)(Louis Wu 16:14:54 UTC)

There’s a short review of the Halo 3 Beta in The Beacon, the student newspaper of Florida International University. I’m a little surprised that the problem folks with Crackdown had getting in at first is the primary ‘bug’ noticed by the author… but …

Aglor stopped by to point out a teaser trailer for The Blade, an upcoming machinima project. Looks to be a mix of space battles and up-close combat. Take a look!(Louis Wu 15:43:14 UTC)

Bad news for folks without an internet connection – Bungie’s made a pretty major change in how the single-player game will be handled, outsourcing the AI to cheap humans instead of expensive computer algorithms. The upside? Infinite variation in how th…

I’ve never heard of these guys – but $40 for Halo 3 is as cheap as I’ve seen. This showed up at FatWallet.(Louis Wu 12:30:45 UTC)

mike g pointed out that Gamepro has put a series of pictures of the Brute Chopper (and some shots of the map Shrine) up online, as their magazine article said would happen starting today. Clearly, the embargo on this content is over, because IGN has p…

Sigafoos let us know that The Riot 54 has been released – community news, challenges, speculation… and Brathnok on speed. (Okay, not really. He’s just not asleep, as usual.) 33 minutes, 13 megs, energetic. Go listen.(Louis Wu 19:04:48 UTC)