Author: halo@bungie.org

Last night, I was lucky enough to find myself at the Video Games Live concert that was performed at Yale University’s Woolsey Hall. Great music, for a couple of hours… and then the piece de resistance – the standard Halo theme, followed immediately by the Halo 3 ‘Finish The Fight’ piece. Miguel Chavez was able…

Sigafoos points out The Riot 42, with coverage of the community, the new maps, and some silly soap opera stuff. And more, of course. 31 minutes, 12.5 mb.(Louis Wu 20:59:36 UTC)

Filmspot has info about the resurrection of the Halo movie – new details include Lions Gate as the new studio, Steve Downes confirmed as the Master Chief. More in the article. Thanks, BlueNinja.(Louis Wu 19:21:07 UTC)

Bungie.net has posted an apology for an industry leak of the upcoming Pimps at Sea movie – apparently, a distributor leaked a poster that was NOT supposed to be public. I guess this has the potential of hurting the upcoming ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ finale… it’s not Halo-related, but it IS Bungie-related, and if anybody…

Hardly Halo-related, except for the names… but TeamXbox has a story about the new Xbox 360 Brute Edition (a step up from the Elite Edition). 1TB drive, Super Multi Blue drive (reads both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD), motion-sensitive controller. List price of $599. Thanks, MasterChief2829.(Louis Wu 16:49:53 UTC)

After almost four years of strips, Stuntmutt has finally updated the look of One One Se7en. (Details on the changes can be found in his personal blog – swing by and let him know what you think of the new look!)(Louis Wu 14:55:10 UTC)

Simply Greg stopped by to point out Energy Episode 4: The Aeros – we’re getting a glimpse at the bigger picture. This is available in quite a few formats – check his forum post for details.(Louis Wu 14:47:55 UTC)

Mini-update from Devrous about FS2H, his Freespace 2 Halo project. Dangerous day for mini-updates…(Louis Wu 14:15:13 UTC)

Team Xbox has a story about the ‘Power In My Platform’ edition of Halo 3, estimated retail price of $999.99 – instead of just a helmet, you get the whole Spartan. Comes with pretty special content – read the story. Thanks, Spec_Ops_Assault (and Wayward Spleen™).(Louis Wu 14:12:06 UTC)

Game Stooge has an article about Halo Zero, an upcoming prequel to the Halo series starring the I Love Bees cast. Joystiq cries foul. Thanks, Spec_Ops_Assault.(Louis Wu 14:07:21 UTC)

We got word from bndud that a trailer for ‘Cops and Robbers: Robbers Unite’ has been released – swing by their website to grab a copy (2:19, 22 mb, WMP9 format). THe ywant to make clear they’re not an RvB ripoff, even though their color scheme is Red and Blue. Cinematography looks good – release…

MLG held a Halo 2 Online Tournament last week – the writeup is now available, with some cool stats at the end. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 13:31:23 UTC)

Mister Froggy tries to let you know to be careful when playing April Fool’s jokes on your friends, in today’s Halo, Articulated.(Louis Wu 13:28:15 UTC)

Sane Intolerant sent word of a new Halo Toy Box – looks like things are getting violent.(Louis Wu 13:27:00 UTC)

Phan7om noticed that Certain Affinity’s website is hosting very high resolution versions of the two new screenshots – 3480×2106 pixels apiece, to be exact. Nice!(Louis Wu 19:45:03 UTC)

Red vs Episode 93 has now been posted for sponsors. (As always, it’ll be up for the general public in a few days.) This won’t make a lot of sense if you’ve never watched the Out of Mind series they posted on Marketplace last year; all 5 episodes are available in their video archive, if…

NeuroKoNeza had been working on a remake of Hang ‘Em High for Halo2Vista – he was shooting for a Colossus-type environment. You can see a couple of shots of his work in progress over on the Gearbox forums – looks like he’s not sure whether to continue work, or simply let the Bungie version step…

A high school student in Michigan spent 9 months organizing a Halo tournament to be held on school grounds. He did everything right; he talked to school officials, he organized parents and teachers to act as chaperones, he advertised both in school and out. All was copacetic – until 4 days before the event, His…

Teen Ink has reviewed the Halo 2 Original Soundtrack, Volume 1. At least, it LOOKS like a new review… (Louis Wu 11:29:47 UTC)

Last weekend, we posted a link to an article at Unconfirmed Sources – it was clearly parody, but at the time I thought it was a one-off. I was wrong. They’ve got a followup.(Louis Wu 11:25:58 UTC)