Author: halo@bungie.org

Urban Reflex has posted a new blog entry at Ordained Insight, looking at the upcoming Halo 3 beta. Let him know what you think, either in his blog, or in the forum thread he started.(Louis Wu 15:19:21 UTC)

Both GotFrag DPAD and MLGPro.com are keeping track of how things are going in Charlotte – go see!(Louis Wu 15:15:42 UTC)

Adam Kovic, over at machinima.com, put together a short video that compares some of the early Halo 2 alpha and beta footage to the final product, in the context of the Halo 3 alpha footage we’re seeing. His point is that we really don’t have anything to worry about. Check it out!(Louis Wu 15:12:14 UTC)

Devrous put up a teaser for FS2H, his Freespace 2 Halo mod project. 25.5 mb, DivX format; we’re hosting a mirror in case his server gets swamped.(Louis Wu 12:37:17 UTC)

Rockslider has found a new way to have fun on AotCR – amazing. When will it end?(Louis Wu 12:05:11 UTC)

Mister Froggy has posted Halo, Articulated #31 – I guess he’s unhappy about the $4 charge for Tombstone and Desolation.(Louis Wu 11:43:13 UTC)

The MLG Pro Circuit kicks off today – and you can watch the action happening, live, at the MLGPro.com website. (You have to be a member of the site, but registration is free.) As 3Suns pointed out, coverage actually began last night – and if you check out this forum post, you’ll find a whole…

The Bungie Weekly Update discusses the two big Halo newsbits this week – the Vidoc, and the Matchmaking changes that will occur as soon as Tombstone and Desolation are available next week. Good stuff, all the way through. Go read! (As usual, you can read it at Bungie.net, or in our Weekly Update Archive.)(Louis Wu…

tS_veXed stopped by to announce an online 2v2 Halo 2 tourney, being hosted by NXGamers – free entry, $500 top prize. Check it out!(Louis Wu 19:54:38 UTC)

The crew’s been dormant for a while, but Jillybean awoke recently to process a bunch of the accumulated missives to the Halo Story Page. Ooh… tasty.(Louis Wu 19:18:04 UTC)

I think Stuntmutt might be confused about a current Microsoft naming scheme; check today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 15:45:35 UTC)

Hmm… I’m not sure I like where this is going, but according to Major Nelson’s blog, the first five episodes of Red vs Blue (yes, Season 1) are now available for download on Xbox Live Marketplace – for a buck a pop. (Before you get totally bent out of shape about this: in theory, these…

A couple of days ago, we got mail from Benjamin Bailey-Webb, touting a short animated vid he and a friend made – I didn’t find time to watch it until this morning. It’s short, it’s sweet. 4 mb, in either WMP9 or QuickTime formats; check it out!(Louis Wu 13:00:25 UTC)

Big Goalie Dan noticed that Podtacular Episode 109 is now up – discussion of the Vidoc and the Halo 3 Beta. 1:27, 80 mb. (Louis Wu 12:58:07 UTC)

Nabsuh is rendering an entire Covenant fleet for an upcoming story; check out the work in this post. (The followup contains the same video, with some overlaid story text.)(Louis Wu 12:55:44 UTC)

DuBbLe continues his X-Plane work – he’s got some shots of a scratchbuilt Sparrowhawk. Not textured yet, but still fun!(Louis Wu 12:53:46 UTC)

Cheesemaster64 found this Halo/Sonic combo by TheWax at DeviantART – wild.(Louis Wu 12:49:44 UTC)

CaptainKirk let us know that he’s writing a Halo Fan Fiction, being released serially on his blog. The preface and Chapter 1 are up now.(Louis Wu 12:47:37 UTC)

Z let us know about a couple of montages they’ve announced over at the360forum.com; both are hosted by Mythica. The first is inX 2Bit’s Best of Both Worlds Volume II Trailer – a melange of Halo 2 and Gears of War. WMP9, 3:39, 76.3 mb. The second is J Mayne’s 1v1 Trailer (edited by Zola)…

communityhq.org noticed that link4044 is selling his AR model on eBay; nine and a half days left on the auction, current bid is $227.50, and the reserve has not been met. Remember, you can see lots of pictures of this gun on the gallery page we put up for him. Sounds like it’s gonna be…