Author: halo@bungie.org

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)

w00tw00tw00t! The Rule of Three contest winners who still haven’t received a beta code finally have a way to get in to the beta! Read this. (Louis Wu 17:49:55 UTC)

Mariachi (who’s clearly pushing for the Daily Postactular, but currently only has a Triple Post) has put up a couple of photoshopped images; they show off Halo 3 Beta maps… at night. First was High Ground, followed quickly by Snowbound. Personally, I…

Also at Bungie is a new top story – Frankie interviews Kari Erickson, Bungie’s recruiter, about what it takes to get a job at the Best Microsoft Game Studio Evar. Thanks, Stuntmutt.(Louis Wu 17:28:17 UTC)

Over at Bungie.net, a news post suggests you can submit questions to this week’s Bungie Weekly Update in this forum thread. (I’m pretty sure Achronos meant ‘subject’, rather than ‘succept’ – but maybe Bungie knows more words than me.) Thanks, calmkille…

Stuntmutt looks at buttons in today’s One One Se7en. I hate to say it, but I have the same problems he does.(Louis Wu 16:33:55 UTC)

Two new articles on MSN.com this morning – a listing of the top 5 games that should be movies (thanks, Mariachi), which includes Halo, of course (would we be mentioning it if it didn’t?), and a beta writeup (thanks, JeSteR 343) that suggests that sinc…

MLGPro.com has a new Player Commentary vid – Strongside looks at a couple of games from Charlotte – really interesting discussion. Check it out! Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 15:54:08 UTC)

Whee doggies. Jack Thompson, the self-aggrandizing lawyer bent on shutting down the violent video game industry (or at least making a decent profit off suing it) has fired his next shot across the bow of the SS Microsoft. According to GameAlmighty.com …

Nice… if you read the description of the new Halo 3 Zune at Gamestop, you’ll see it comes preloaded with “collection of music, videos and artwork” – and the artwork is described as “Over 120 different images, including game concept art, storyboards,…

Two new tantalizing tidbits on the Marvel Comics website – a short summary of the second episode of Halo: Uprising (the 4-part series coming this summer), and a description of an episode of ‘Marvel Spotlight’ that focuses on the Halo universe. Thanks, …

Gamepro.com has put up a short vid they call a ‘Weapons Showcase’ – it’s designed to show you some of the Halo 3 Beta guns in action. I suppose if you haven’t looked at any of the OTHER beta footage that’s been released… thanks, demus.(Louis Wu 12:2…