Author: halo@bungie.org

IGN has a writeup of the ARG stuff to date online. If you haven’t been following along (and you didn’t feel like reading Sir Topham Hat’s summary this morning), this might be a nice way to catch up. Thanks, xMixMasterx.(Louis Wu 19:00:33 UTC)

Today’s Guest One One Se7en was created by Shishka – while the artwork bears NO resemblance to the original, the Shleprock-like personality should be easily recognizable.(Louis Wu 16:39:46 UTC)

Podtacular 116 has been released – discussion with an H2V player, plus Tied the Leader, 2old2play, and Halo Unyielding. Go listen! Thanks, Kiaffex.(Louis Wu 16:20:18 UTC)

A quick reminder: voting for the best original song entry in our Zune Giveaway ends in less than 24 hours; if you haven’t looked them over and made a choice, now’s the time! We’ll be putting the montage finalists up in the morning.(Louis Wu 13:07:52 UTC)

Eleven new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section for you today – enjoy!(Louis Wu 12:52:59 UTC)

Over on Bungie.net, there’s a new Halo Humpday Challenge written up – it’s not really a typical challenge, it’s a bunch of internal games on a network none of us has access to, playing at least one map we’ve never seen… but it’s an interesting read …

BARBARIC RAGE was looking around, and stumbled on this thread at the Statue Forum – pictures of the upcoming Master Chief ARTFX statue from Kotobukiya. That thing is gorgeous! The thread links to a website that purports to have a preorder available fo…

GameTrailers has a video review of Halo 2 Vista (in HD) for your viewing pleasure (QuickTime or WMP9). Thanks, MasterChief2829. Update: Should have looked through my mail before posting this – there’s another H2V review at Voodoo Extreme. (Pretty unhap…

A few months ago, KP took his mandatory break from Bungie (contracted employees must take three months off after nine months on) – and the way things worked out, he was hired back not by Bungie, but by Xbox.com, working under TriXie and organizing the …

The new ARG that kicked off a few days ago is exploding; last night saw the uncoverings of an absurd amount of new information. There’s a summary of the earlier parts of the timeline at args.bungie.org, written by Sir Topham Hat – it’s a bit behind rig…

BlendedEcks posted a pic of his latest CGI work – Spartan III armor. Wow.(Louis Wu 20:31:57 UTC)

This is just… weird. Sometimes I don’t know what Attack of the Show is thinking… Update: Wow, it’s even worse. nash_housewares points out that the MC video is a parody of THIS vid. Don’t watch this if you have any respect at all for David Hasselhof…

The big news this morning is an email that went out to folks who’ve signed up for Xbox Flash mail. Compton started a thread on our forum about this (but you’re probably better off getting a discussion going at the ARG forum, since this is almost certa…

More info about the halo 3 Xbox Controllers – apparently Todd McFarlane created the artwork, and each one will be packaged with a limited edition Halo 3 figurine created by McFarlane, as well. Pretty nice! Lots of people got us this news – looks like …

JustyB also made a Halo rifle out K’NEX pieces – his work’s here.(Louis Wu 14:21:36 UTC)

Newsweek has done their OWN post-mortem on the Halo 3 Beta – it comes in two parts. Part 1 has comments from the print media: representatives of Newsweek, EGM, OXM, USA Today, San Jose Mercury News. Part 2 has comments from the online media: The Hushe…

Bungie’s written up a post-mortem on the Halo 3 Beta experience; what they learned, what they were surprised by, what they expected. How much they’re listening. Read it; it should make you more confident that the final product will be a lot of fun to …

Over at Rampancy.net, Narcogen has written up a final look at the Halo 3 Beta, comparing some of the changes in gameplay from Halo 2’s model. Take a look.(Louis Wu 13:44:42 UTC)

You might remember Zach Wigal, the guy who had his dreams of a Halo lanfest dashed by his school administration, and went on to form a charity in response… well, that charity’s website is now up and running. Go check it out!(Louis Wu 13:32:17 UTC)

In order to keep traffic on the main HBO forum to tolerable levels, we’ve opened a forum specifically designated for ARG discussions. If you’re interested in the Adjutant Reflex mystery, args.bungie.org is the place for you! Thanks a million to Webshif…