Author: halo@bungie.org

Kotaku reported last night that there will be some type of press event on May 11th at which the press may get some significant hands-on time with Halo 3. Who may be there – that is to say, from which media outlets and/or mediums we can ultimately expec…

Last night Frankie put minds at ease by updating the situation surrounding the playlist update and rank reset. Currently, top men are working to resolve the issues remaining for the few of us who still cannot get the new maps, which is causing them to …

Gamespot posted a Halo 2 graphics comparison yesterday featuring some side-by-side (well they’re more like mouse-over vs un-mouse-overed, but really that’s just too much to say and I don’t think overed is a word) shots of Halo 2 Xbox and Halo 2 Vista. …

GamePro has posted a list of their top 52 video games of all time, ranked in order of importance – the amount of influence they’ve had on the industry. Halo fits in at #45, slightly more important than Super Mario Kart but slightly less important than …

Last night we reported a story from PlayThree.net which was making some pretty outrageous claims. Narcogen filed his dismissive rant last night, which does a fine job of defeating these rumors with logic. FoolsRun wrote this morning, however, to alert …

Stuntmutt takes note of the recent autoupdate, and how certain… er, substances might work against it in today’s One One Se7en.(mnemesis 15:36:40 UTC)

MLG has updated its site with a couple new interviews with two of its teams. There’s one with Str8 Rippin which focuses on their revamped roster and how they look to improve this year and then an interview with 5k, a team that qualified via online play…

Awesome O and pillar of awesome have concocted a Halo quiz which it seems they’ve put a fair amount of work into. The questions aren’t half-baked and there are definitely a few head-scratchers. Go check it out and share your score with the forum.(KP 15…

JeBr0nie pointed out last night that Major Nelson made a quick blog post yesterday afternoon running through his initial experience with Halo 2 Vista. He describes the ease and fimiliarity of the experience and tells us about the three achievements he …

Whoops. RvB Episode 95 came out for sponsors a few days ago, but we missed Twilight Draco’s post. Quality episode, lots of laughs and yet another cliff-hanger ending.(KP 15:00:59 UTC)

There’s an article over at PlayThree.net which is reporting a rumor that Halo 3 will support true 1080p, as opposed to upscaled which is what most were expecting. According to the article, Xbox exec Shane Kim believes that 1080p is becoming increasingl…

Shogo Ishii has updated Hired Gun’s IGN blog with an interview with their Software Design Engineer, Kevin Weston. The interview touches on several UI issues and the obstacles overcome in creating it. After that Ishii goes on talk about a bunch of minor…

Wired’s Geekdad blog has some really interesting stuff for Halo fans this morning. Geekdad was lucky enough to spend a day at Bungie Studios recording dialogue for Halo 3 and goes into a fair amount of detail describing the process. There’s a lot of co…

Xerxdeej made his weekly forum post apprising us of all the goings on of the folks over at TiedTheLeader. This week they lament the loss of the Big Team Battle Skirmish playlist, give TheGameDame her day in the TTL sun via 22 Questions and celebrate th…

In Halo, Articulated #34, the darkest of our Halo 3 casting and plot nightmares are realized. Thanks to Mister Froggy, for the heads up.(KP 11:53:38 UTC)

Dennis over at Halomaps.org has written to tell us of two new maps they released last night. Aside from being beautiful new maps, Fragment V2 and Snow Grove both feature rebalanced weapons and retooled graphics as well as some minor tweaks to gameplay….

Stuntmutt gives us his take on an issue noticed last week with one of the new maps. As usual, he’s willing to point the finger at everyone but himself. See for yourself in today’s

Back at the end of March, we posted about Zach Wigal’s dealings with local school, civic, and law enforcement of…

Over at GamingNexus, there’s a report that I Love Bees creators, 42-Entertainment, may have revealed in a recent interview that their next project is Halo 3-related. The intervie…

A weekly segment at MTV.com, the Multiplayer Stock Report, includes Halo 2 for Windows Vista this week. Unfortunately, they don’t really say much about the game other than to re…