Author: halo@bungie.org

If you live in Canada, boesman found a deal for you – $20 off the cover price of Halo 2 Vista, at Futureshop. (Louis Wu 14:27:29 UTC)

Big Goalie Dan pointed out that Podtacular 111 has been released – 60 mb, 90 minutes, focuses on leaked Halo 3 video stuff. That’s about as close as we’re gonna get to the leaks, ourselves…(Louis Wu 14:26:18 UTC)

James Falcon sent us a few pictures of the Shin Guards that go with his Mjolnir Armor outfit – you can find them on his Rifle/Armor page. Gettin’ there!(Louis Wu 14:23:33 UTC)

Z pointed out Lithium’s 1v1 montage over at Halo3forum.com – 8.5 minutes, 155 mb, nice editing, and some sick sticks and snipes. The use of fusion cores as placement engines is great – haven’t seen much of that before. Check it out! (Louis Wu 13:56:54 …

Fan Fiction offerings this week are slim – only 4 pieces. Shouldn’t take you long to read!(Louis Wu 13:49:25 UTC)

Nelson, Game Videos, wrote to let us know that they’ve put up ‘tours’ of the two new Halo 2 Vista maps, District and Uplift. They’re pretty bizarre vids; it looks like they’re just the first time someone jumped onto these maps. There’s no real attempt …

Whoa. rapture pointed out an entry in EnragedGnome’s Shadowrun blog that references some comments by Derek Carroll, Game Designer for FASA (the guys behind Shadowrun) – looks like that game started life as a Halo mod. (Okay, not really – but when they …

Mid7night posted a link to some cool pics of his X-Plane conversion of the Marathon-class cruiser – being escorted by a pair of Longswords. Nice!(Louis Wu 23:36:29 UTC)

Darksage let us know that over at his new site, Nation of Gamers, you’ll find a contest with Halo-related prizes. Tell ’em why you’re a mature gamer, win cool stuff including a redvsblue sponsorship (the Halo part) and a 360 Elite. You’ve got a month! …

If you’re not a fan of Flash-based content (it’s harder to search, it can be annoying to navigate if you’re going over the same route multiple times), Narcogen, over at Rampancy.net, has transcribed the content from halo3.com into a standard html forma…

A couple of weeks ago, Bungie released the Blastacular Map Pack – Tombstone and Desolation – for the Xbox and Xbox 360. A lot of people had trouble downloading it. According to this news post on B.net, those problems should be over; go ahead and give i…

Our good friends over at High Impact Halo have branched out with a new endeavor – the very first fansite devoted to Certain Affinity is now open for business. Pretty stuff – and according to CA themselves, you should be finding some exclusive content t…

Heh – Joystiq’s Jared Rea stopped by to point out a subtle campaign by Marvel to keep Halo in the minds of their readers until this summer’s release of the Halo comic… clever.(Louis Wu 11:41:38 UTC)

TheGhost sent us more news – Microsoft has just released a trailer for Halo 2 Vista, showing off the map editor, and the new maps (as well as some nicely crisp single-player footage). Check it out! (WMP9 Professional format, streaming – might be hard t…

According to H2Vista.net, quite a number of game resellers are changing their listing of the availability of Halo 2 Vista from May 8 to May 23. Now, normally we don’t put a lot of stock in release dates as supplied by game resellers… but May 8 is les…

Over at Gamasutra, you can read ‘Halo Science 101’, one of the pieces compiled in the recently-released book, ‘Halo Effect’. It’s a fascinating study of the science behind Halo – what Bungie got right, what they got wrong, what you can actually pull fr…

Frankie pointed out a new story at Bungie.net – they’re currently accepting submissions for a new emblem to be used in Halo 3. Go read the rules – and get designing!(Louis Wu 18:56:13 UTC)

Today’s One One Se7en has our favorite Halo schmuck getting his hands on the Halo beta a bit early… (Louis Wu 18:16:39 UTC)

Yesterday, we mentioned the Halo 3 figures coming from Gentle Giant – today, they’re preorderable, for $18 for the set. Thanks to Carsten for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 18:07:20 UTC)

In late march, we mentioned Parts One and Two of ‘Fantasy Halo’, a machinima project that turns Halo 2 into a turn-based RPG. Yesterday, Deep Reaver stopped by to let us know that Part Three had been released – and I have to agree with RVideo on our fo…