Author: halo@bungie.org

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…

The Seven Streak is broken; for three weeks running, we had seven new pieces each Friday in the Fan Fiction section… but today there are 11. It’s a natural!(Louis Wu 12:29:33 UTC)

Bizarre – Escape Station is trying to set up a Halo 3 Tournament, using the beta test. (Since there are no custom games in the upcoming beta, scheduling play is going to be…tough.) Thanks to RevDotNed for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 12:23:13 UTC)

Now that Bungie has made public the fact that there are ‘deployables’ in Halo 3 (we know of the bubble shield, the trip mine, and the portable grav lift, and Bungie’s made it clear that there’s more stuff we’re not being shown yet), folks are having a blast speculating on what happens when you mix…

Bryn Casey stopped by to let us know he’d updated the Halo Art page at Yayap.com – we’ve added the 8 new shots to his gallery here, as well. (Scroll down to the bottom; I’ve really got to set up a better navigation system on that page, there are WAY too many pictures now).(Louis Wu…

We finally got our hands on the actual press pack Certain Affinity sent out yesterday; turns out, we’d already put a good deal of it online with the stuff we stole off the CA website. We’ve added a couple of dozen first-person shots to the collection.(Louis Wu 17:06:13 UTC)