Author: halo@bungie.org

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…

Heh – Yahoo has put up a feature called ‘Games are Good for You’, which points out some positive benefits that games have had (with specific examples). Halo gets mentioned as a tool to help students “understand the complexities of Homeric epics” (check…

Nick Paton pointed out a large (4′ x 5′) Halo canvas painting for sale right now on eBay; if you’re looking for a gigantic acrylic, this might help! No bids yet, but there’s still almost a week left.(Louis Wu 16:27:22 UTC)

In the spirit of yesterday’s wall poster, Zerowind117 put up pics of his own wall hanging… Halo is gracing walls everywhere! (Louis Wu 16:23:54 UTC)

Master Kim stopped by our forum yesterday to point out a new Halo 2 headset, made by Plantronics, for your PC – presumably in conjunction with the release of Halo 2 Vista. Looks good! (Thanks to rapture, who pointed out that MK also posted this at the …

A couple of weeks ago, it became known that Luke Smith was leaving 1Up, and soon after that, he announced he was being hired by Bungie. Yesterday, Kotaku posted a an article explaining how it all happened. Sounds like Luke will soon be helping to bring…

New top story at Bungie.net – it’s an interview with the crew from Shadowrun. Wait, you say – how is this Halo-related? Well, see, it’s Bungie doing the interviewing – so half the questions tie back to Halo in some way or other. And oh, yeah, the Lead …

Littlebigman noticed that Toy News International has posted some early pictures of the new figures coming from Gentle Giant this fall – there’s a set of Halo Kubrick figures (they’re so cute!), and a Master Chief mini-bust which is for the moment liste…

Okay, just to clear up a small misunderstanding that might come back to bite Bungie (unfairly) in the future… yesterday, we mentioned that halo3.com had been updated with new content about the game, its characters, weapons, story, and so on. One thin…

Wow, cool. Xbox Australia and Bungie have gotten together to make some money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation – there’s a charity auction for a custom-painted, signed-by-Bungie Xbox 360 on eBay.au right now. Auction runs for another week and a half, bid …

Beorn printed out Bungie’s latest graphical offering on a nice large-format printer… wow, that looks nice. (Louis Wu 16:21:28 UTC)

Another Tuesday, another Tied the Leader update. Dweezle hits on another gamer chick – this time it’s Becky ‘Aktrez’ Young, part of far too many websites to list here – and XerxdeeJ waxes poetic about Halo – again. (Great graphic, too.) Go read!(Louis …