Author: halo@bungie.org

This is interesting – sawnose, over at Bungie.net, has posted stats of the number of unique product keys of Halo PC (and CE) that have played online in the past 30 days. 4 years after release… and there are still nearly 150,000 people playing it? Wo…

Heh – I’m not sure this won’t cause a rush to find these outfits before they get pulled off the shelves… but Kotaku has a story about a Master Chief-looking costume for sale in K-Marts in Australia. It sure doesn’t look Microsoft-sanctioned… but w…

GameDaily has a rant up today about how Microsoft seems to be trying to kill PC gaming – and Halo 2 Vista is Exhibit One. Ouch! Interesting read, though.(Louis Wu 14:51:52 UTC)

Apparently, NO GOOD TV, “the world’s largest producer of uncensored celebrity news and entertainment programming” is going to host an event in which celebrities play Halo 3 before release – with the matches televised by NGTV. Um… okay. More in the p…

Cybrfrk dug around and found yet ANOTHER Halo-branded item – Halo Trading Cards. According to the TFAW page they’re on, they’re due out at the end of August – looks like Topps wants in on the Halo cash cow.(Louis Wu 21:28:25 UTC)

PsychoRaven found a page at the online store for Things From Another World for Uprising #2 (the second of four Marvel Halo comics coming this summer). It shows the cover of this issue – something that Marvel’s page for the same issue does not. Pretty …

Kotaku’s Halo 3 Beta t-shirt contest is nearing its end; they’re down to the final 7 contestants, and looking for help from you, the public, to help with the voting. Thanks, madcowjim.(Louis Wu 17:47:44 UTC)

Last week, Bungie posted an article about the audio for Halo 3 (see here) – it started off with a description of Jay Weinland’s hunt for specific sounds. Stuntmutt has an idea about where some of those sounds might be coming from… check today’s One …

Narcogen used the discussion between two journalists last week (parts 1|2|3) as a jumping-off spot to explore the ease with which beginners can get into Halo multiplay. Interesting read!(Louis Wu 16:22:06 UTC)

Toby Allen wrote to point out an auction on eBay.uk – It’s a Halo 2 cardboard cutout, the kind you’d find in a game store. Looks to be in pretty good shape. Starting bid is £19.99, almost 10 days left on the auction. Check it out!(Louis Wu 16:17…

Z pointed out that over at Stats Reloaded, they’ve compiled full stats for the MLG Charlotte tournament – it’s pretty interesting to compare teams this way! (As far as I know, this sort of statistical analysis isn’t available anywhere else – including…

The Seattle Times has an article asking what all the hoopla is about – go see if you agree!(Louis Wu 15:54:34 UTC)

Last month, we mentioned a Halo trailer that had been created from clips from other movies; since then, Lt. Tuma has gotten quite a bit of feedback about his film, and he’s gone and recreated it. Go watch!(Louis Wu 15:25:57 UTC)

Back in early April, we mentioned a teaser for an upcoming ‘Halo 2 Challenge’ that was found in Trixie’s blog on Xbox.com. The Thurmanator noticed that an info page is now up at Xbox.com – go check it out! Cool prizes, 15 days to play (starting, proba…

Yesterday, John_117 posted a note about an article in his local newspaper – the Toronto Sun. Our policy with newspaper scans is the same as our policy with magazine scans – we will not link them until the issue is no longer available on newsstands. (I…

watchwood stopped by to point out a new fan fiction contest at Halo Wars Heaven. Submit a story by July 15, win a shot at some cool Bungie schwag. Go read their page for full details.(Louis Wu 14:44:34 UTC)

DS noticed a Halo 3 Countdown Dashboard widget for OSX users – the page it’s on also has a few Halo 3 icons for your folders. (They have to be pretty big to be nicely viewable, in my opinion – but they’re well-done.)(Louis Wu 14:38:09 UTC)

Action Trip looked over Halo 2 Vista, and found it to be fun, but (under Vista) a resource hog. Well… Vista was the hog, apparently, but since you can’t play H2V on XP (yet), it comes down to the same thing in the end. Give it a read. Thanks, Ure Pau…

Rockslider stopped by with word that he’d written up some new tactics (as well as expanded on ideas already listed) for enjoying the beginning of the level Keyes in the first Halo. Go see!(Louis Wu 22:39:59 UTC)

Sigafoos writes to point out The Riot #50 – a special episode. They’re a year old! There’s standard community stuff, retrospective stuff, and more. (Part of the more – and this is a direct quote – “Oh, and we strip Chief naked and have him fight a bea…