Author: halo@bungie.org

Sigafoos let us know that The Riot 53 is now up – discussion of their recent LAN, and of course community updates. Go listen – 26 minutes, 10.5 mb.(Louis Wu 16:34:01 UTC)

A couple of days ago, Rookie Rabbit Productions released The Spartan Effect: Episode 5. It’s up to their usual standards (check our news archive for older episodes), and they’ve asked for some hosting help, so that folks don’t have to deal with FileFr…

RVideo put together a collection of links to fan art on the DeviantART website that shows off female elites. Interesting way to spend some searching time!(Louis Wu 14:07:46 UTC)

Belchfire is offering a free XP Halo 3 theme – go see if it’ll make your desktop prettier!(Louis Wu 13:38:34 UTC)

A couple of random Halo references in yesterday’s F@NBOY$ – thanks, AngelicLionheart.(Louis Wu 13:32:24 UTC)

Littlebigman found a place where you can preorder McFarlane Halo stuff – in bulk. (As in, they’re not offering preorders on individual figures; you have to buy collections.) If you’ve got the cash, be first in your neighborhood with a preorder!(Louis…

Podtacular #117 (!!) has been released – an hour’s worth of discussion about the new ARG (and other stuff, of course), Guest host is KapnKrunk. 43 mb. Thanks, Big Goalie Dan.(Louis Wu 13:09:45 UTC)

HallwayGiant was at the Red Bull Flugtag event yesterday in Nashville (we mentioned it in early May), and snapped some pics of the Halo Ghostbike that was in the competition. From the Event Results page, it doesn’t look like they won anything – but ma…

Heh – Stuntmutt might be caring for a newborn (well, with help), but he’s still got time for teh funni – he stopped by the ARG forum yesterday to post a bonus shot at the ARG, and at a community regular – and he used the AutoMagic 117 Stripz script to…

Mister Froggy posted Halo, Articulated #49 today – don’t look too closely at it, it’s disturbing.(Louis Wu 04:45:11 UTC)

3Suns pointed out a great Meadowlands writeup at MLGPro.com, written by ShocKWav3 – go check it out. (He also points out that there’s quite a lot of news there, posted recently but not mentioned here – check the News Archive for a full list.)(Louis Wu…

Toronto’s 680 News Radio has an interview (text-based) with Tyson ‘Ferrex’ Green, Halo 3’s Multiplayer Design Lead. Nice read. (Louis Wu 04:33:38 UTC)

Interesting – ripten is creating a ‘King Of The Game’ series – they’ve posted early sketches of Samus Aran vs Master Chief. Fun!(Louis Wu 04:26:46 UTC)

Back in February, we reported on a then-upcoming laser tag set. It’s still upcoming – but there’s a picture now. Check it out at the UK site Forbidden Planet. Thanks, PFG.(Louis Wu 04:07:14 UTC)

The Bungie Weekly Update went up a few hours ago – it’s full of stuff that will make you wish it was already September (except then you’d have missed the whole summer, which wouldn’t be any good at all… or you’d be missing the dead of winter, if you…

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 …