Author: halo@bungie.org

Ars Technica has an article entitled ‘Why can’t I win a round?’ – it’s a good read. Halo 3 beta impressions from someone who wishes he were better…(Louis Wu 17:43:41 UTC)

Wayward Spleen™ has started to model the Halo 3 medals, in high resolution; you might remember that he did this for Halo 2, back in the day, as well. sorahn is doing a great job of keeping track of the known medals at this stage, and Narcogen, at…

Tied the Leader has a bunch of new content for you (kudos, as always, to XerxdeeJ, for allowing us to be lazy and click through from our own forum) – the standard features, a 22 Questions interview with Chris Paladino, of GamerScoreBlog, and a Communit…

Z pointed out a nice montage of Halo 3 Beta footage at halo3forum.com – 83.3 mb, WMP9 format. Gameplay from Harenil.(Louis Wu 13:38:12 UTC)

2old2play has a review of the beta, as well. Hefty. Thanks, Sunburned Goose.(Louis Wu 13:34:34 UTC)

New MLG stuff: plasma pistol review, the lengths people go to for the beta, TSquared looks at his life, video commentary from Fonzi, and the Top 10 moments of 2006. Should be SOMETHING to read or watch in there… thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 13:32:39 UTC)

Neo-genesis pointed out a really funny Youtube clip – I never realized you could do that with a mancannon! (While we’re pointing out funny clips, BOLL posted one a couple of days ago…)(Louis Wu 13:24:29 UTC)

Stuff.co.nz has its own beta impressions – go read. (Louis Wu 12:57:07 UTC)

F1rsTxLas7 sent us an update from Halomega – there’s a beta gameplay vid from Valhalla, a minitage from Rektangle, a celebration of their first anniversary, and more. Go check ’em out!(Louis Wu 21:12:04 UTC)

Last week, some details about the next Halo novel were released – Stuntmutt realized that a few things were finally made clear, as explained in today’s One One Se7en. (To save you some clicking, strip #27 is here.)(Louis Wu 20:09:44 UTC)

trigger119 stopped by with lots and lots of movie links to be found at GamingTV.org – drama, gameplay, music vids… go see what’s what. (Because we’ve hosted mirrors of all the other episodes, we’re putting up mirrors of Episode 4 of Jamie98s’ ‘Halo 2…

Thanks also to Narcogen for a link to this article – I’m not sure how you’d describe it, so I’ll just suggest you go read it. (Louis Wu 19:36:32 UTC)

Narcogen has written up his own Halo 3 Beta impressions article at Rampancy.net – it’s a look at how things have changed since Halo 2. Good stuff!(Louis Wu 19:33:55 UTC)

Wow, I’m sad now. Apparently, if you went to the SAN FRANCISCO Halo 3 Beta Press Event, you got a cool t-shirt. (They didn’t have these in New York.) Kotaku picked up a couple of extras, and they’re planning to give them away. madcowjim gets props for …

Penny Arcade has been playing the Halo 3 Beta, too – it’s doing things to them that they don’t like very much. Thanks to Stuntmutt for the first heads-up.(Louis Wu 19:26:58 UTC)

MTV has a piece explaining what you should do to prepare for the beta – thanks to JeBr0nie, who found it on Major Nelson’s blog.(Louis Wu 19:23:09 UTC)

Z let us know that Oxfire has whipped up a ‘minitage’ of Halo 3 beta footage; this isn’t straight gameplay, it’s more like a standard montage (but short). 33 mb, WMP9 format.(Louis Wu 19:04:04 UTC)

Kotaku had someone at the Syndey, Australia, event, as well – a short writeup and some pics are here.(Louis Wu 17:11:18 UTC)

halosavior pointed out an interview with Richard ‘Major.Dump’ Boisvert, the CGI guy behind some of the new space scenes in the most recent episodes of Edgework Entertainment’s The Heretic. There’s a bunch that’s been censored until the series is comple…

We got word from the Briar’s Armor folks that they’ve finished their BR design, and there are 5 models up on eBay right now for sale. Starting price is $200, there are about 6 days left in the auctions – go see!(Louis Wu 16:32:24 UTC)