Author: halo@bungie.org

Unfortunately, it’s come to light that two of the machinima finalists in the Zune Giveaway had been released already on the web – one of them almost two full years ago – and so we’ve had to pull them. Apologies to those who’ve already voted for them. …

ZZoMBiE13 continues with his Guest One One Se7en series today – this strip looks at what might have been. If, say, Bungie’d hired Michael Bay.(Louis Wu 14:27:34 UTC)

A number of you have already noticed that the Machinima finalists are now up for public voting in our Zune Giveaway – swing by, watch the movies, and pick your favorite! Voting is open until Monday morning.(Louis Wu 13:58:25 UTC)

FiringSquad was at the Halo 3 Beta Press Event in New York in May – and they’ve gotten around to posting the interview they did with Frank O’Connor while they were there. Nothing earthshattering – but it’s a nice read. Thanks, Mariachi.(Louis Wu 13:54…

BOLL is known for his sanity-bending Flash creations – but this time, the creation is just an image, no Flash in sight… and we need to seriously warn people prone to epileptic seizure not to follow the link. For the rest of you, the image is pretty …

Time Glitch stopped by our forum to point out a trailer for ‘Brothers of War: Episode 10’. Nice voiceover, nice camera shots. Looking forward to the film!(Louis Wu 13:28:18 UTC)

Harenil released his second Halo 3 montage – nice kills, nice cuts, a fun watch. It’s pretty large; 177 mb for a 7 minute flick. Great quality, though.(Louis Wu 13:24:23 UTC)

Bungie played another Humpday Challenge this week; this one was for something REAL – steak dinners. (This was mentioned in last Friday’s Bungie Weekly Update – Frankie and Joe Staten had to go 31-50 against Luke and Joe Tung in order to win free dinner…

Wil Gieseler let us know that version 3.0 of mindquirk software’s Xbox Live Friends, a Mac OSX program that lets you access your friends list from your Mac) has been out for a bit – lots of new features, like gamerscore charts, sortable achievements, …

Twelve new pieces available in the Fan Fiction section this week – busy writers! Go read.(Louis Wu 12:06:45 UTC)

Devin Olsen found an article on the Baddest Bottle Openers on the Planet. Many of the respondents in the thread disagreed with the inclusion of the Halo Spartan opener on that list… go read why.(Louis Wu 11:56:34 UTC)

There’s an interesting read over at 1Up.com – it’s about the future of online gaming, and it has some pretty cool concepts discussed in it. Halo 3’s Lead Designer Jaime Griesemer was one of the developers interviewed for it – and Halo gets mentioned a…

Venom at SimpleGFX.net wrote up a tutorial for creating cool-looking signatures you can use on Halo forums around the net. Thanks to The Photoshop Roadmap for pointing this out.(Louis Wu 20:11:17 UTC)

Overswarm has written a new article entitled ‘Working on Efficiency’ – playing to stay alive, rather than playing to get kills. There’s a nice example of how this works in a common stalemate situation on Lockout. Good read!(Louis Wu 20:06:15 UTC)

Nice – JAY132 was digging around the WETA Workshop website, and came across what looks to be a BR55 in production. (It’s the first image in the Gallery link he’s posted.) Who knows if they’ll ever get back to those…(Louis Wu 15:35:31 UTC)

ethereal has been working on modeling the Halo 3 Brutes, as shown in the Brute ViDoc a few months ago. Awesome start!(Louis Wu 15:07:49 UTC)

Both Blackstar and nash–housewares noticed that a video of an iPhone knock-off also contains some Halo content…(Louis Wu 15:05:27 UTC)

Wow, very cool. S3NATOR noticed that over at the Digital Domain website, they not only have the Starry Night commercial shown last December, but they have a very cool ‘Making Of Starry Night’ piece, as well. The site is Flash-based, so you’ll have to …

Luke McKay posted a new image in his Red vs Blue collection – we’ve added it to his gallery here. He wanted to make it clear that the Master Chief is very, very tall; I think he gets the point across. (It also seems that I forgot to mention back in Ap…

runnersdialzero let us know that All About the Games has posted a user-generated ‘Brief History of the Halo Universe’ – it outlines the Halo storyline as laid out in the books in a relatively short article. (I tried to read it from the point of view o…