Author: halo@bungie.org

Halomega’s changed to Halownage, and to kick off the change, they’re got a clip of hte week with a $25 reward. (Warning – that thread is not safe for work.) They’ve also got a 1v1 montage and H3 gameplays.(Louis Wu 19:06:28 UTC)

Everybody loves lists – MSNBC has the top 5 first-person shooter weapons (thanks, a paramedic); Halo’s Pistol makes it in… and GamePro looks at the 11 Worst Trends in Video Games (thanks, SG); Halo’s in there for 4 of ’em.(Louis Wu 18:25:55 UTC)

We got word from trigger119 that there’s lots of new content at GamingTV.org; there’s a Director’s Cut of blackouTT’s Hemisphere, a video called ‘Snowblind’ showing Halo 3 Beta gameplay from blackouTT as well, and a new section being fleshed out – Mov…

Paul Maestri has found a way to look on the bright side of the Spartan Laser (if you aren’t holding it yourself) – made me laugh. Check out Halo Heads #59.(Louis Wu 18:08:15 UTC)

One of the new Matchmaking features you can experience in the Halo 3 Beta is the ability for a group to veto a map. What happens when you expand this idea? Check today’s One One Se7en for an answer.(Louis Wu 15:47:54 UTC)

Devrous has posted FS2H Tour Video #1, which (as you might expect from the name) is a tour of some of the assets in his Freespace 2 Halo mod. Looking great! (Louis Wu 15:18:19 UTC)

Last night, JAY132 stopped by to say he’d gotten a banshee into space. What does that mean? Well, it means Bungie bothered to make the sky above Valhalla high enough that if you actually GET there (which you’re really not ever supposed to do), you can…

Busy week in the Fan Fiction section – 14 new entries. (Including a scary film script from Dave Luck.) Go read.(Louis Wu 14:57:28 UTC)

Okay, he’s getting out of control – Mid7night posted a new X-Plane import… a Warthog. THAT’S NOT A PLANE! Check it out.(Louis Wu 14:37:57 UTC)

HookMeUpImLocal stopped by to post the latest acronym from Bungie – this one’s on the Halo 2 Vista box, and reads ‘DTARAGS’. He’s got some ideas about what some of the letters stand for – go see what you can add!(Louis Wu 14:30:08 UTC)

You might remember Gravemind – when he decides to analyze a subject, he doesn’t hold back. (There was the Halo2/Halo comparison and a look at the graphical evolution of Halo, among others.) He’s back – and this time, he’s set his sites on the Halo 3 Be…

WolfSavior was the first to point us to an article at Gamespot about the projected financial impact of Halo 3 on Microsoft’s bottom line… Goldman-Sachs seems to be suggesting that Halo 3’s earnings in the first 5 days of release should be somewhere …

So the really big news in the Halo community this morning appeared on the Next Generation site yesterday – an email from a Microsoft representative read, in part,It has come to our attention that an unfortunate, obscure content error which includes par…

Bungie.net has a new Humpday Challenge writeup online – there aren’t any custom games in the Beta, so Bungie just went into BTB Training and kicked a whole bunch of patootie. Painful destruction – almost unfair. Fun writeup, though. Thanks, mercury.(L…

eddie m noticed a story at halobase.de – a popular German comedian recorded 1200 lines (in 2 days) for a single marine character in Halo 3. Gonna be a lot of dialogue!(Louis Wu 18:22:39 UTC)

Gamertag Radio has hit 100 episodes – and to celebrate they’re giving away a free Halo 3 Zune. To win, send in an honest review of Episode 100 (yeah, you have to listen to it first), and they’ll let you know the random winner is next week!(Louis Wu 17…

A bit more Halo 2 Vista info: Official release date in Europe seems to be June 8, and halo2pc.org has some useful info for folks. There are directions for manually downloading the recent patch for folks who are having with the auto-update, and some ti…

A roundup of Halo coverage around the net today:PunchJump – ‘smart mayhem’Reuters – a console beta trend? (Thanks, JeSteR 343)Journal and Courier (Lafeyette, IN) – super happy awesome fun times, returnedStar News Group – ‘New Halo Glows’Pretty positive…

Wow. According to Microsoft’s Life Cycle Support page, Halo 2 for Windows Vista won’t be available until July 4, 2007. That’s a heck of a recall! Thanks, Aj Collins. Update: TheGhost writes to say that that page has been up for at least a month, and so…

GameDaily interviewed Frank O’Connor a little while back – nobody told us about it until today (thanks, Impervium) – mostly common-knowledge stuff about the Beta at this point, but hey – go read!(Louis Wu 21:43:10 UTC)