Author: halo@bungie.org

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…

RVideo noticed a tiny asset in the Halo 2 map files that I’ve never seen reference to before (yeah, I know – I’m just waiting for the ‘OLD!’ emails); his image is pretty self-explanatory, and pretty interesting from the perspective of this Halo fan(ati…

XerxdeeJ pointed out that new Tied the Leader content is now up – a ginormous 22 Questions interview with Epileptic Gaming (it’s really 3 interviews in one, so bring a big mug of coffee), and a discussion of spoilers, and why you should avoid them. Go …

Over at Nation of Gamers, there’s an article suggesting that it would make good business sense for Microsoft to purchase MLG. (Personally, I think that not only is this not true, but I doubt EITHER party would be interested in the attempt… but that’s…

Dielectric posted a bunch of pictures of what can only be described as an insanely large Halo action figure collection. This is like nothing I’ve ever seen.(Louis Wu 13:06:32 UTC)

Over at 2Old2Play, there’s a great article about the impact that a gaming parent has on one’s kids. Halo (not surprisingly) is mentioned more than once. Thanks, litereddonut. (Louis Wu 13:05:04 UTC)

Mister Froggy told us that Halo, Articulated 37 is now available. If I hear one ‘Jenkins’ joke about this strip, I’m going to hunt you down and kill you with a spoon.(Louis Wu 12:42:32 UTC)

Over at HCRealms, GAMA took a couple of photos of Haloclix prototypes at a recent show – it’s a bit difficult to dig your way in to see the pics from the links in the first post, but we’ve put up local versions (hunter/arbiter | odst/tartarus). These l…

Sane Intolerant let us know that there are three new ‘Halo Toy Box’ comics up on DeviantART – Loose Ends (closing same), Hax0rs Never Prosper (looks like it hurts), and Halo 3 Blooper Reel (um…). And so it goes.(Louis Wu 21:02:46 UTC)

I Love Bees still pops up periodically in our forum. Stuntmutt has some thoughts about that – check today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 18:18:18 UTC)

JeBr0nie found a nice article in the Washington Post – it looks at companies that are putting game consoles in break rooms (and two of their three examples involve Halo). Wow… a company that encourages its employees to play Halo, on company equipment…

Last night, we got word from Sodagod that Machine Enema had released two new movies. Both were created for the Halogrid Affinity Machinima Challenge – they contain footage ONLY from Tombstone and Desolation. They are, as usual for Machine Enema creatio…

Over at Bungie.net, WOZMAN84 posted pictures of a ceramic Master Chief helmet he created for a class; folks suggested he point this out to us, and I’m glad they did. Should look great on the shelf!(Louis Wu 12:55:20 UTC)

JapAniMan stopped by yesterday to point out his new tattoo – Halo lovin’ at its best! Nice work.(Louis Wu 12:52:25 UTC)

On Saturday, we got mail from Tim Sweeny, telling us to check out the latest Game Head – the end of it mentions that they’re going to be at Bungie’s headquarters next week for a big Halo 3 show. I didn’t follow up, because I knew that the ‘big show’ wa…