Author: halo@bungie.org

Black Aye slipped something in my beer last night, and when I woke up, an interview was posted on his website. (Follow the link in the first news post.) And then he’s brazen enough to post on our forum about it… man, when this hangover goes away, I’…

Over on Bungie.net, you’ll find an interview with SmokedYeti. Who’s SmokedYeti, you ask? Oh, nobody… he’s just the first guy to gain ‘General’ rank in the Halo 3 Beta. Over 20,000 kills (in over 1100 games) – it’s unlikely you’re gonna catch up to h…

xMixMasterX pointed out a new stats site – it’ll take a while to grab your Halo 3 Beta data, and it’s switching back to Halo 2 on June 11, so if you haven’t registered yet, you’ll be doing it twice in a week… but if you want someplace that can add u…

This week’s Halo Humpday Challenge had a bunch of Blizzard guys meeting a bunch of Bungie guys on the field of battle – but not along company lines. They split up every game, making it really hard to tell who was challenging whom (and why). The writeup…

Last month, we mentioned a Pelican addon for Microsoft Flight Simulator – gijake noticed that a Warthog has been added to the same page. Check it out!(Louis Wu 22:35:15 UTC)

Blackstar found a pretty nice price for Halo 3 – saves you $10, at least. Check it out!(Louis Wu 22:32:31 UTC)

James “Peench” McCormick, of PreGameLobby.com, let us know that the site is giving away a Halo 3 Beta shirt (one of the green ones from the press event, not the charcoal or brown ones you can buy at the Bungie Store). You have to hurry, though – the c…

Almost forgot to post this – rapture found a version of Halo 2 for a platform nobody ever expected. (Local version of the image, if they happen to fix it.) Nice typo!(Louis Wu 16:56:49 UTC)

This isn’t exactly Halo-related… but phoenix.bungie.org is pretty dead, and the Phoenix team DID all move on to work on Halo 2, and it’s cool. John Andersen dropped Gholsbane a line (Gholsbane created the original EPS line art that folks messed with…

Dang. Those High Speed Halo guys are HARDCORE. Check out Full Path Halo – a project designed to see how fast Halo levels can be speedrun… with all baddies being killed. The Halo Vidmaster is finally defined. Thanks, Ducain.(Louis Wu 14:35:40 UTC)

Kiory dropped in with pictures of his new Master Chief model. Take a look!(Louis Wu 14:20:31 UTC)

BoneKin has put together some fun “omg what did you do!” moments in a video he calls “Noobs Gone Wild: Beta!” If you’ve never done any of these yourself… I don’t ever want to play with you.(Louis Wu 14:16:55 UTC)

ManKitten has been playing a lot of Forza 2 lately… but he never forgets his roots. Props.(Louis Wu 13:51:50 UTC)

Last week, we pointed out that Amazon had posted an image nobody had seen before as the Halo 3 Standard Edition box art; we suggested it could very well be the final version. A couple of days ago, SPARTAN-137 noticed that the box art shown on xbox.com …

Big Goalie Dan points out that Podtacular Episode 115 is up – 56 minutes, 40 mb, guest hosted by George from aeropause.com (a general gaming blog). Go listen.(Louis Wu 13:31:53 UTC)

If you’re an IGN Insider, you can download a ‘Video Head-to-Head’ comparison of Halo 2 Xbox and Halo 2 Vista (as well as H2V vs H3 Beta). It’s sort of an interesting concept; they tried to play through Cairo Station on both boxes at similar speeds, wi…

Halo press for the day: Gamespy has a review of Halo 2 Vista (3/5, they thought it was too little, too late) – thanks, HaloPlanet; The New York Times has a profile of Lil’ Poison, the (now) 9 year old Halo pro (don’t forget about Bug Me Not if you don…

Paul Maestri has sent along Halo Heads #60, ‘Bubblehead Over Heels’. We’re back to Kitty 117… and things are getting messy. Check it out!(Louis Wu 20:22:46 UTC)

Stuntmutt’s thinking ahead, looking for potential gotchas in the Custom Game options for Halo 3; check today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 15:18:13 UTC)

Wow. IGN put together their list of the Top 10 Best Co-op Games… Halo 2 made the list (at number 7), but Halo is nowhere to be seen. Bizarre. Thanks, Morpheus.(Louis Wu 15:12:44 UTC)