Author: halo@bungie.org

Snave put together his own Xbox vs Vista graphics comparison for Halo 2 – does a pretty good job of showing what you’re getting!(Louis Wu 11:38:29 UTC)

Kotaku has announced the winners of their Halo 3 Beta t-shirt giveaway (thanks, madcowjim) – congrats to PostIt-Chief and to Sean Bradley (whose energy sword was featured here just last week). Nice going, guys!(Louis Wu 18:28:19 UTC)

XerxdeeJ surfaced on our forum to point out a sneak preview of an upcoming writeup – the Tied the Leader clan held a large event over Memorial Day weekend on the beach. Great pics (except for the naked guys at the end – can YOU prove they’re wearing b…

Over at Bungie.net, the winner of the Emblem Design Contest (remember?) has been revealed… it’s a Pirate Yang to the Flaming Ninja Yin. Thanks, Radiago713 and deadguy71.(Louis Wu 17:53:40 UTC)

Veegie found a pair of models posted by Ian Joyner, who did some 3D modeling work for the Halo Wars trailer last year. Gorgeous!(Louis Wu 16:06:05 UTC)

Heh – Major.Dump watched ‘I Want Master Chief’ and couldn’t help himself.(Louis Wu 16:03:45 UTC)

A couple of new pieces for you over at MLGPro.com – there’s an interesting article about ‘team killing’ (no, not the griefers that kill their own teammates, but the practice of working together to take down an opponent), and the surprising conclusions…

Mister Froggy pointed out that Halo, Articulated #45 is up. That Arbiter seems pretty resourceful…(Louis Wu 15:22:01 UTC)

Wow – two Fan Fiction contests announced in two days. Yesterday, we mentioned one at Halo Wars Heaven – today, we’ve got news from CommanderTony, of Halopedia, who points out a fan-run one there. As far as I can tell, there aren’t any prizes – but jus…

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…