Author: halo@bungie.org

Laird (who’s likely enjoying CanWest right now, with a lot of other RvB fans) sent along a link to a teaser for Project Bob (WMP9 format, 12.8 mb). Your guess is as good as mine what ‘Bob’ is… but the teaser looks great!(Louis Wu 14:06:00 UTC)

Sane Intolerant pointed out a pair of Halo Toy Box comics – Beta Crazy and Crazy Beta. Guess he’s had a crazy week. (Louis Wu 14:02:56 UTC)

There’s another Halo 3 Beta first impressions article at Ars Technica.(Louis Wu 13:47:19 UTC)

oriol003 has gotten into the ranks and medals game – at Grunts’R’Us there are pages for Halo 3 Beta ranks and medals. That’s the third set I know about…(Louis Wu 06:14:51 UTC)

Oh, the dangers of changing your settings… check out Halo, Articulated #40. Thanks, Mister Froggy.(Louis Wu 06:12:27 UTC)

Edgeworks Entertainment has posted the finale of their machinima series, ‘The Heretic’ – a massive 23 minute piece that wraps up a great storyline. (Well, SORT of wraps it up – there’s some nice setup for future work here.) Beautiful CG footage, awesom…

CertainAffinity.net wrote up a bunch of great questions (and some silly ones) for Shishka, over at Certain Affinity – more than a couple are Halo-related, and even if they weren’t, they’re good readin’ – so go read. Thanks, Ducain. (And Shishka – those…

Major Silva wrote up his impressions of the beta over at UNSCDF, then told us about it.(Louis Wu 05:12:38 UTC)

Wolverine Monkey noticed a cool interview with some of the team behind the upcoming Marvel Halo comic – go read for details… well, not really, but there’s still some good stuff.(Louis Wu 05:09:42 UTC)

Wow. This sort of disturbs me. When nerd goes chic…(Louis Wu 05:05:14 UTC)

The Bungie Weekly Update is up very early this week – mostly because Frankie is in Europe, where it’s later now. So for him, it’s the same. Or something. Anyway, go read it. Beta stuff (yeah, they’re sorry), a huge discussion about game ratings in Ger…

Funny Beta-related cartoon at Red vs Blue today…(Louis Wu 18:27:31 UTC)

Trust Stuntmutt to find humor in a miserable situation – check today’s One One Se7en. …wait, WHAT? Scratch that ‘humor’ part…(Louis Wu 16:39:43 UTC)

Adam Kovic, from Machinima.com, sent word of a new contest – grand prize is a Halo 3 Legendary Edition, plus an accessory of your choice. (There are two other prizes as well, containing the other two versions of Halo 3.) You’ve got until June 16 to su…

Over at h2vista.net, there’s news that Halo 2 Vista has been released in Australia (a bit ahead of the revised schedule) – and that there are indications that the map tools work under Windows XP. (Not the game itself – just the tools. Still – that’s g…

We’ve mentioned Halo-related content for Microsoft Flight Sim before (here, and here) – now Bobflop points out a Pelican addon at Simviation. Take a look!(Louis Wu 14:12:41 UTC)

Devrous had some hard drive problems recently – but he’s back now, with new content for his Freespace 2 to Halo conversion. Check out his forum post for pictures and movies!(Louis Wu 14:09:28 UTC)

A few days ago, we mentioned some Halo 3 Beta shirts that Kotaku was planning to give away – they’ve decided how, now. Dress up as the Master Chief, take a picture of yourself, and send it in – best couple of pics win, I guess. You’ve got until June 1….

This is pretty strange… Gamespot has bundled up 25 Halo 2 desktops created by Bungie (and served from Bungie.net) and made them available for download – to Gamespot members. (Again – these are all available at Bungie.net – in many more resolutions t…

Ten new pieces available in the Fan Fiction section this week – go read!(Louis Wu 13:42:09 UTC)