Author: halo@bungie.org

Narcogen has put up the second of his three-part series comparing Gears of War to Halo – this one focuses on friendly AI and weapons. It’s more a summary of Gears of War than a comparison, actually – but read it so that you’re ready for part 3.(Louis Wu 12:16:14 UTC)

Paul Maestri let us know that Halo Heads 56 was up – the things that can go wrong when you’re on the bleeding edge…(Louis Wu 20:42:34 UTC)

Tuesday – hey, it’s Tied the Leader Update Day! XerxdeeJ came by to point out the new content put up since our last mention. There’s a 22 Questions interview with JVB. There’s a bizarre Halo-laced travelogue that will make you wonder for XerxdeeJ’s sanity – or maybe glow with the warmth of reflected kinship. And…

Okay, I figured that the little bits of text visible in the recent Warthog QuickTime VR were obvious enough that they didn’t need a news post – after all, they were pointed out in the same forum post that announced the article in the first place (and quickly corrected with an accurate transcription). However, There…

Turtle Mann dropped into our forum to point out a music video he’d made, setting Nelly Furtado’s ‘Promiscuous Girl’ to Halo action. Nice editing, heavy use of filters and effects – take a look! 66 mb in QuickTime format, 60 mb in WMP9 format.(Louis Wu 10:22:01 UTC)

Mid7night stopped by again last night to drop off pictures of a Phantom, his latest Halo-into-X-Plane vehicle. A little dark – but pretty cool!(Louis Wu 10:05:11 UTC)

There’s a cool new Top Story over at Bungie.net – the Warthog is taken apart for your viewing pleasure. There’s a cool QuickTime VR file – and a TON of stats. (Who knew that puppy could hit 125 mph, and run almost 500 miles without a fuel resupply?) Thakns to Pkmnrulz240, who noticed it first.(Louis…

Strongside has become the newest member of Final Boss, one of the top Halo pro teams – if you swing by MLGPro.com, you can listen to an audio interview with him. Check it out! Thanks, Tyger.(Louis Wu 23:52:07 UTC)

Mister Froggy has posted Halo, Articulated #25 – that Arbiter sure is a whiny one!(Louis Wu 23:48:05 UTC)

Machinima.com is running a new contest, in honor of the upcoming flim ‘The Condemned’. (The movie is about a reality game where 10 hardened criminals fight to the death for the right to be pardoned.) Submit a machinima video telling them why you should be one of ten Condemned, win cool prizes. (nVidia graphics cards…

Bungie.net revised the stats you can see when it was revamped last week – Stuntmutt realized that there might be more going on behind the scenes than we knew. See today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 13:25:11 UTC)

Narcogen, over at Rampancy.net, has written up the first part of a comparison between Gears of War and Halo – observations about the two games, how they do things differently (or the same), and why one route might be better than the other. An interesting read, though full of Gears spoilers. Give it a look!(Louis…

finalcuthalo let us know that he’s created a Mac OSX Widget (to be used in the Dashboard) which will show you the latest HaloGrid news – it can save you the trouble of opening a browser to view the HG front page. Grab a copy from this forum thread.(Louis Wu 10:32:21 UTC)

Wow. We just a few hours ago learned of Fantasy Halo – and Part Two has now been released. (Granted, Part One was released 3 days before anyone told us about it, but still…) Part Two (Original Chaos Films link | HaloGrid link) is for the most part a story-telling episode, so the RPG style…

Dennis Powers pointed out a TON of new Halo CE maps available at Halomaps.org – you can browse them by visiting the HaloCE maps section (they’re already sorted by date), but he wanted to point out Hydrolysis (we mentioned it yesterday, but there are a couple of great screenshots on the Halomaps page), along with…

KP noticed an article at Kotaku which discusses a gorgeous paint job on an Xbox 360 – it’s for sale on eBay (already painted on a 360). It ain’t cheap – Buy it Now price is $925, plus almost $30 in shipping – but wow, it’s pretty.(Louis Wu 23:13:44 UTC)

JRod4549 was the first to let us know that Episode 41 of the Riot is now up – 31 minutes, 12.5 mb. Community news, personal opinions, info about a LAN. Go listen!(Louis Wu 23:07:29 UTC)

Craig Mullins dropped off a new image today – not really NEW, I guess, but the inclusion of a piece of it in the new Bungie.net design has generated quite a bit of new interest in it. (It was originally published in the Halo Graphic Novel, last year.) It’s an awe-inspiring image of carnage on…

RVideo found a fantastic video posted on the HaloGrid forums (yep, they’re back) – it was done by the the guys over at Chaos Films, and it emulates a standard turn-based RPG using the Halo engine. These guys did an amazing job compressing the vid – the original is in WMP9 format, but I couldn’t…

This is… weird.(Louis Wu 19:53:09 UTC)