Author: halo@bungie.org

Johnrap let us know that Games in Action has extended their One Liner Contest – contestants must record one of the finalists of that contest for the new Audio Line Contest, prize is a copy of the Halo 2 Original Soundtrack Volume 2. Go read the details…

Edgeworks has posted Episode 6 of the Heretic – some amazing CG work on the space scenes, and a powerful storyline twist. Top-notch machinima – go watch! Thanks to clippit for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 13:59:15 UTC)

Jared Rea points out that his girlfriend photo-blogged the making of the Mister Chief cupcakes shown in last night’s Weekly Update – yum!(Louis Wu 13:58:47 UTC)

Heh – look what darthbob found on bungie.net. 😉 (We’ve grabbed local copies, in case they mysteriously vanish again…)(Louis Wu 13:44:11 UTC)

Over at Red vs Blue, Burnie released Director’s Commentary for Episode 96 – it’s almost more of a podcast than actual commentary on the piece, but there IS some cool stuff about how various shots were put together. (They’re definitely getting fancier i…

The Hired Gun crew has put up a new blog entry, this time discussing dedicated servers for Halo 2 Vista. (The DS doesn’t need Vista – only Windows Server 2003. This should help tremendously in finding a host that can handle one.) There’s lots of other …

As usual, Friday night brought a Bungie Weekly Update last night – but I went to see Spiderman 3 instead. (Decent movie, but a bit too sappy in places. I guess that’s what you get when you’re trying to wrap up a storyline. Amazing effects, no matter WH…

Last week, we mentioned a ‘press event’ happening on May 11 – very few details. Yesterday, Gamerscoreblog released their latest podcast – and in it they’ve made a pretty amazing offer:”…one in New York, and one in San Francisco, for Halo 3. They’re b…

Some people have been expressing unhappiness about spoilers from leaks of Halo 3 gameplay. Stuntmutt thinks he might have a solution, in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 16:32:07 UTC)

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…