Author: halo@bungie.org

Today’s guest One One Se7en looks at life in Blood Gulch Outpost, as seen by some not-so-tough soldiers. Red vs Blue characters courtesy of Luke McKay. (Louis Wu 21:14:56 UTC)

Some very nice hi-res pictures of Halo 2 weapons in this post… check ’em out.(Louis Wu 20:48:08 UTC)

Time Glitch stopped by to point out ‘The Forsaken’, a new machinima from Flem Productions – it’s a cool little story about MIAs/KIAs, nicely filmed in the Halo 3 Beta. Lots of links in the forum post. Go grab a copy!(Louis Wu 20:46:28 UTC)

GamePro has announced the winner of their Halo 3 Zune Haiku contest – I like it, I like it a lot. Thanks again, Dry Ice.(Louis Wu 19:05:18 UTC)

Ginormous numbers… that’s what Major Nelson is reporting today, about the Halo 3 Beta. Thanks, Dry Ice.(Louis Wu 19:03:33 UTC)

TrustedReviews put up a review of Halo 2 Vista – 6/10, good but not great.(Louis Wu 18:55:02 UTC)

MLG has a great writeup of the final battle between Carbon and Final Boss at MLG Meadowlands last weekend. Check it out! Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 18:50:10 UTC)

Today’s Ctrl+Alt+Del has a small Halo mention – if you don’t understand what the rest of the strip is about, read this article. Thanks to Mattgcn for letting us know, last night.(Louis Wu 17:34:45 UTC)

Pedro the Penguin found a Halo 3 countdown widget for his Windows Vista sidebar. Gotta keep up!(Louis Wu 16:14:20 UTC)

A while back, we mentioned a Lego rendition of Zanzibar, by Kooberz. Recently he was contacted by the folks putting together some fan-related content for the Legendary Edition of Halo 3 – so he got back into it, and posted some links to the newest wor…

Obliticutter put together an Assault Rifle (MA5B) using K-NEX bricks. Nice!(Louis Wu 15:22:55 UTC)

Screen Play, a column in The Age (a Melbourne, Australia newspaper), has a post up today that suggests that the Halo 3 Beta had nothing whatsoever to do with beta testing, and everything to do with hype-building. (The main argument is that since you h…

Wow. So the whole AdjutantReflex thing (looks to be another ARG, this time with possible Bungie input) is taking over our forum – it’s cool, but it’s drowning out all other content. (It’s hard to find tidbits now. I’d be willing to put up a temporary f…

Voting is now open for the first category of the Halo Zune Giveaway – swing by and grab the 7 finalists for the Original Song category, and then pick your favorite!(Louis Wu 12:07:13 UTC)

Very interesting article about the team working on Halo 3 Cinematics over at Bungie.net – all I can say is ‘D.A.M.N.’. Go read. Thanks, Avateur.(Louis Wu 22:47:56 UTC)

Adam Kovic, over at Machinima.com, pointed out a page containing 40 entries to their Halo 3 Anything Goes contest – voting starts in 2 days, so you still have a tiny bit of time to get an entry in and be eligible to win a free copy of Halo 3! (We firs…

Looks like some new Halo 3-branded schwag has appeared – Mariachi was first on our forum with a link to the wireless headset, and MasterChief2829 pointed out a page over at TeamXbox that contains shots of the headset and two new controllers. Reaction …

Games Toaster wrote up a preview of the Halo 3 Beta – they think it bodes well for the final game.(Louis Wu 19:45:20 UTC)

It’s early… but XerxdeeJ has returned to the Tied the Leader Tuesday Updates with a vengeance. There’s an open letter to Bungie in thanks for the Halo 3 Beta… and a call to arms, Halo 2 arms to be specific. Get fired up!(Louis Wu 06:15:14 UTC)

Grunts”R”Us is firing up a new contest – put together your favorite moment from the Halo 3 Beta, and you could win a shot at one of three Beta T-Shirts (the green ones you had to be at the Halo 3 Press Events to get). Nice! Thanks, oriol zertuche.(Lou…