Author: halo@bungie.org

Stephen ‘SoundEffect’ Loftus wrote to let us know he’d picked up the Strategy Guide for Halo 2 Vista. Basically, they updated the Halo 2 Strategy Guide (for Xbox) with new screenshots, keyboard info (duh), and all the new maps released since 2004. Fin…

Mid7night has run out of flying vehicles to port to X-Plane – so he’s bringing in the rolling ones. (We already mentioned his warthog.) Last night, he pointed out preliminary shots of a Scorpion. I think he plans to take over the X-Plane universe by f…

Devrous put up a new update for his Freespace 2 Halo mod – a shot of the Seraph, and a second video tour. Check it out!(Louis Wu 12:06:03 UTC)

rapture wants to know what fans think of halo 2 Vista – the whole package. Swing by Halo2(pc).org for a poll, and make your voice heard!(Louis Wu 12:00:39 UTC)

jayWHY let us know that he ranted a bit about Halo PC in the wake of yesterday’s player stats update – there are some long-suffering fans out there.(Louis Wu 11:58:50 UTC)

There are Halo 2 reviews at Home Theater Magazine (liked it – 4/5), Game Informer (liked it – 8/10), and IGN (sort of liked it – 7.5/10). Similarly, there are Halo 3 musings at 24 Hours (they discuss an exclusive interview I can’t find), Monsters and …

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)