Author: halo@bungie.org

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…

Sane Intolerant sent word of his latest Halo Toy Box effort – Red Light, Green Light. You know… I’m starting to wonder if I’m living in someone ELSE’S video game…(Louis Wu 20:39:56 UTC)

Elnea wrote up a much more complete description of how she did the Cortana scene in the recent ‘I Want Master Chief’ vid – you can read it in her RvB Journal, if you have an account there, or on our forum, if you don’t. As someone who doesn’t know how…

It must be YouTube Sunday. We got three separate YouTube links in the last 12 hours – let’s see what’s up, shall we?Desound Molo let us know about a GameDaily piece that picks out the Top 5 Halo 3 Beta Weapons. I was amused by how the demonstrator kept…

Remember that movie last week – I Want Master Chief? It got a little bit of press. (And scored the ladies an interview on Bungie.net.) A bunch of people were curious about the Cortana scene in the video – so Elnea put together a short video explaining …

Mothergoat stopped by to release a new Halo-inspired tune – ‘When the World Ends’. Go listen. (2:29, 3.4 mb) That man is pretty amazing.(Louis Wu 20:52:47 UTC)

James Falcon has sent along pictures of his facemask, improved shin guards, and thigh guards for his in-progress Halo armor; check out his page for details.(Louis Wu 19:22:05 UTC)

Leinil Yu is a comic book artist who’s done quite a bit of work for Marvel comics. Last year, for the San Diego Comic Convention, he created a pretty cool Halo-related image, which he uploaded to his DeviantART space. A couple of days ago, Cody Paulso…

CitizenErased27 is still working on the details of his Spartan Laser replica – today’s pictures don’t show much improvement, but they DO show a rather disturbing proclivity…(Louis Wu 18:55:32 UTC)

prometheus found a list of the Top 25 Video Game Heroes of all time – Master Chief came in at 25. Some forum regulars are pretty suprised by the list. (Two links in the first post, in case one doesn’t work.)(Louis Wu 18:51:26 UTC)

Speaking of Red vs Blue – if you’re a Sponsor, you should visit the Sponsors forum there; Director’s Commentary for Episode 98 (last week’s episode) has been posted. There’s no explanation of some of the plot intricacies… but there’s some nice discu…

If you swing by Xbox Live Marketplace, you’ll find that three new episodes of the Red vs Blue series – 20, 21, 22, the first three episodes of Season 2 – are now available for download in HD format. Nice! Thanks, DHalo.(Louis Wu 18:29:24 UTC)