Author: halo@bungie.org

Urban Reflex has written up his game of the week for his Halo 3 Beta blog, Ordained Insight. An interesting blow-by-blow… comments can go on the blog, or in his forum thread.(Louis Wu 22:11:18 UTC)

Great article at Austin360.com, focusing on the 100-episode run of Red vs Blue, coming to an end in the next few weeks. It includes a look back on the influence RvB has had on the machinima genre, as well as some of the best moments in the series. Giv…

Interesting. According to Major Nelson, the Halo 3 Beta was the 3rd most-played title on Xbox Live last week – behind Gears of War and Crackdown. (Heh – I guess all those people playing Crackdown while waiting for access to the beta added up… thanks…

alex chainsaw stopped by the forum to show off his Legendary tattoo – impressive detail!(Louis Wu 14:13:17 UTC)

CitizenErased27 has begun work on a Spartan Laser Replica – you can see plans (and read about them) in this post. Great start – looking forward to the final product!(Louis Wu 14:10:42 UTC)

Gamespot was pretty unhappy with Halo 2 Vista – too little, too late is overall feeling. Thanks, boesman.(Louis Wu 14:06:53 UTC)

Interesting – Peter Jackson did an interview for OnFilm Magazine in which he discussed, among other things, the Halo movie.Jackson said he expected renewed interest from Hollywood studios 20th Century Fox and Universal Pictures to have Halo made as the…

Devin Olsen was in Wal-Mart, and noticed a new ‘Halo 3 Pre-Sell Kit’ – a poster and a reservation for the game. Costs $10, but that goes towards the price of the game, so the poster’s free. If you haven’t already preordered, and you want to – this mig…

oriol pointed out that the Grunts’R’Us team are working on a Rank calculator – they need your statistics to help. Swing by this page, and add your details – see what they come up with!(Louis Wu 13:48:16 UTC)

Xieros let us know that the Halo: Blood Covenant team has set up a new website and added a new screenshot. The site redirects to another domain for me – one that doesn’t resolve – but Marcus-626 pointes out that Halowiki has updated info about the revi…

Talkxbox has posted an impressions article about the Halo 3 Beta. Thanks, Joel Kownacki.(Louis Wu 13:30:33 UTC)

Mister Froggy has posted Halo, Articulated #42 – you can finally get an idea about who’s complaining about the Beta.(Louis Wu 13:21:07 UTC)

Wow. The Zune giveaway was announced just 3 hours ago, and already we have 31 people registered to be able to submit, and two actual submissions. Just wanted to remind everyone, the submission deadline is June 10 – over two weeks from today. There’s ab…

The Bungie Weekly Update is (predictably, in the middle of the Halo 3 Beta test) all about the Halo 3 Beta test. Good stuff. Go read! (It’s here, too, of course, in the Weekly Update Archive.) Looks like LoneRanger 2.5 got to it, finally. (He got it w…

Don’t say we never gave you anything… you know those cool Zunes with the Halo art and the movies and the other stuff? Thanks to Bungie, we’ve got a bunch of ’em to give away – and we want you to have one! (And you, and you, and you too.) All you’ve g…

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)