Author: halo@bungie.org

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)

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)