Author: halo@bungie.org

A bit earlier than usual, but the week’s Fan Fiction offerings are now up – 13 in all. At least one author didn’t bother to follow the rules… I guess there’s always next week.(Louis Wu 06:12:20 UTC)

We’ve posted a few ridiculous Halo schwag collections recently – we got one more in the mail today. (I posted it on the forum, because that seems like the easiest place to put it.) ZigZag Master says he’s obsessed – I’d have to agree. I think this is p…

Last week, we mentioned a charity auction in Australia, to raise money for the Make-A-Wish foundation… Spec_Ops_Assault pointed out that the auction is now over, with the custom-painted 360 going for a whopping AU $24,300.00. Now that’s some real cas…

MrJukes has been a part of the Halo moviemaking community since the very beginning; we still host an old mirror of his website, because his jumping vids ROCKED. If you swing by Bungie.net, you’ll find a cool interview with the man – and a link to ‘Beta…

Bungie.net has an interview with Joe Staten, the author of the next Halo novel, ‘Contact Harvest’, coming this fall. It’s the story of the first contact with the Covenant – told from the point of view of many, but primarily “a young UNSC Staff Sergeant…

I’m not sure I like the fact-checking (“five different Greater Cincinnati Gamestop locations’?), but the numbers are pretty amazing – according to Xbox Evolved, Gamestop is reporting that they’ve already taken 4 million preorders for Halo 3 (at Gamesto…

Looks like Europeans will be waiting longer than the rest of us – again. Yesterday, we mentioned that the US release date for Halo 2 Vista was bumped back two weeks, to May 22. According to Xbox 360 Wire and a Microsoft press release, the European date…

Last night, SketchFactor posted a note on Bungie.net – the playlist update and stat reset mentioned a few weeks ago are both now operational. (Well, according to sawnose, the full reset didn’t actually complete until about an hour ago – but you get the…

Jo Clowes sat down (well, stood up) with Tina Wood, of Microsoft’s Channel 10, to discuss Halo 2 Vista – interesting conversation. 7 and a half minute movie, various sizes – go watch! Thanks, darthbob.(Louis Wu 11:53:36 UTC)

Wow. 15 minutes ago, the 5 millionth unique Live account (not including guests) started a game of Halo 2 online… that’s a lot of fraggers! (Louis Wu 20:28:01 UTC)

Nabsuh posted a cool little animation of a frigate (retextured) flying by the camera. Tiny, fun – go look! (The local QT mirror is H.264 encoded; I’m thinking it might be time to move that way, finally. QuickTime 7.1.6 plays this admirably on a multitu…

Okay, not OLD, really – he just turned 9. But man… the kid’s been present on the pro scene for YEARS! Happy birthday, LiL P! (There’s a documentary about him coming out next year…)(Louis Wu 15:49:54 UTC)

One Porta-Potty joke wasn’t enough for Stuntmutt – there’s another one in today’s One One Se7en. Child.(Louis Wu 15:46:14 UTC)

Back in December, we mentioned Reid 18’s fifth montage; we just got word from Z, at Halo3Forum.com, that Vox has remixed it. I found it a bit hard to watch in places, but the synching is really good. Take a look – WMP9 format, 91 mb.(Louis Wu 13:40:19 …

Big Goalie Dan pointed out that Podtacular Episode 112 has been released – they’re still focusing on leaked content. 75 minutes, 72 mb.(Louis Wu 13:08:49 UTC)

DuBbLe stopped by to announce Austrocity, a new Australian Halo 3 Beta blog – swing by for some basic info about what’s coming in the future.(Louis Wu 13:05:12 UTC)

If you’re an IGN Insider, you can go watch a video comparison of the Blastacular Map Pack maps (Desolation and Tombstone) with their original Halo counterparts (Derelict and Hang ’em High). (If you’re not an Insider, there’s not even a low-res free ver…

Yesterday, we mentioned an insane Halo action figure collection – today, there’s another one. Joerhyno has been doing his own collecting… I’m floored by this one, too.(Louis Wu 10:51:01 UTC)

Spartan Erik pointed out a new Halo Flash vid at Newgrounds – thewax70 has set the first couple of cutscenes (audio and action) up with Sonic the Hedgehog graphics. I found it to be really well-done – definitely worth a watch!(Louis Wu 10:45:40 UTC)

Last week, we mentioned that game retailers had been adjusting their availability listing for Halo 2 Vista from May 8 (yesterday) to May 23. All week long, European and Australian sites have been contacted by Microsoft with the news that the overseas v…