Author: halo@bungie.org

litereddonut pointed out an article at Wired.com that looks at parents who game, and how that affects the rules they make (or need to make) for their children. An interesting read, and Halo gets mentioned. Take a look! (Louis Wu 15:03:41 UTC)

Over at Bungie.net, a new top story has gone up – and it’s a doozy. The Halo 3 Beta finally has fixed dates: May 16 through June 6. (If you don’t have a calendar handy, that’s three weeks, Wednesday through Wednesday.) To give you a tiny taste of what’s in store (tiny as a percentage…

A couple of years ago, we were following a machinima series called ‘Silver Stars/Purple Hearts’ – it was being filmed in the HaloPC engine, and it told the story of a squad of female spartans. Elnea had written some music for it – but the series had died in production before her music saw the…

Computer and Video Games sat down with Chris Satchell, head of the Microsoft Development Group, and some of the questions discussed the Halo 3 beta, and the ramifications it might have for future beta tests for other games. Thanks, LordGideon.(Louis Wu 22:32:19 UTC)

GamingBits noticed that TriXie’s blog mentions a ‘Halo 2 challenge’ – you’ve got a chance to win one of 5 Xbox 360 Elites, playing in a Halo 2 tournament. Stay tuned!(Louis Wu 17:24:11 UTC)

…well, anyone who’s ever played with Stuntmutt knows the punchline to today’s One One Se7en. For the rest of you, go read.(Louis Wu 16:02:15 UTC)

Alexei TND modeled a new Covenant Frigate for the heck of it in Cinema 4D – the end result is pretty cool! Take a look.(Louis Wu 15:25:49 UTC)

Gryponosiris noticed a fan-made trailer for the Halo movie over at GameTrailers.com – it uses only officially released clips from Halo 2, Halo 3, and Halo Wars, but it’s pretty nicely done! Very consistent.(Louis Wu 15:20:20 UTC)

jtdoepke created an animation in Lightwave showing off his concept of a UNSC ship entering slipspace. Local versions are about 3 mb each, in QT and WMP9. Nice!(Louis Wu 15:17:54 UTC)

Mid7night went back to his X-Plane Longsword – retextured, now. Check out the pics! If you want to see how it’s changed, here’s the original post.(Louis Wu 13:47:58 UTC)

All sorts of Halo 2 Vista info – Achieve360Points added to the achievement info released yesterday with pictures of the achievements (thanks, Mutated Waffle), evidence surfaces of a beta for Halo 2 Vista on Games for Windows – Live, and the system requirements for the game have been posted. (Thanks to rapture, at H2Vista, for…

Sigafoos told us that The Riot 101 is now available – 29 minutes (12 mb) of Halo wackiness. When you can fit Halo and the Princess Bride into the same program, you gotta be doing SOMETHING right. (Louis Wu 19:20:04 UTC)

bndud let us know that Robbers Unite, Episode 1, is now available on their website. It seems to have potential, though this episode dragged for me a bit. (Could be that I really, really, REALLY need sleep, so judge for yourself.) (Louis Wu 19:14:51 UTC)

TheGhost pointed out a thread on H2Vista.net’s forum that references a full list of Halo 2 Vista Achievements at MCGNews.net. (No guarantee these are real… but it’s quite possible.)(Louis Wu 19:11:01 UTC)

WRAL.com has an article about a new media research report called Gamemeasure, that looks at the entire gaming market (apparently something that others don’t do) – some interesting numbers, though I’m not 100% sure I believe them all. Fun fact that’s cool if true: 21% of all males between the ages of 18 to 34…

Red vs Blue episode 94 is out now for sponsors, in two flavors – 250k and 400k bitrates. As they come down the home stretch, they’re back to their roots – and the result is glorious. I just watched this in a room full of people, with headphones plugged into the laptop; the laugh-out-loud moments…

KP might have discovered the next big thing in Halo play – or maybe not. Either way, his narrative is hilarious. Go read.(Louis Wu 12:47:19 UTC)

darthbob noticed that Gamespot has an article about District, the second of two new exclusive maps coming out with Halo 2 Vista next month (the first is Uplift, profiled by GameSpy recently). 6 new screenshots – this level looks to be an amalgam of Turf, Terminal, and Outskirts. Check it out!(Louis Wu 05:21:57 UTC)

Mister Froggy posted Halo, Articulated #29 – Sarge’s true nature comes out.(Louis Wu 05:01:23 UTC)

I posted this last night (Funkmon noticed it) – but somehow, the news post vanished. Thanks to J23 for getting me to look again. Once again – Edgeworks has posted Episode 5 of the Heretic; the Praetor draws suspicion upon himself during the search for the Heretic. Voice acting continues to be superlative, cinematography is…