Author: halo@bungie.org

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)

Nomi found some really cool paper recently, and to celebrate, she decided to make a Hunter (it doesn’t use any of this new, rare paper). Right after she finished it, ManKitten showed her a new piece of artwork he’d created (it’ll be in the next Misc Art update), so she decided she needed to make…

Veegie and HawaiianPig have teamed up again – their latest piece of artwork is a scene that could be out of the level Halo. A poignant look at the human side of the Master Chief. It was announced by HP in a forum post, and you can also find it on Veegie’s gallery page here.…

Laird stopped by with some shots of a custom fighter for his upcoming Halo Unyielding Part 2 – a single seater that can operate in space or in an atmosphere. Check it out!(Louis Wu 17:15:24 UTC)

Spartan Erik pointed out a Flash game at Newgrounds – Halo Snake v2. Nice update on a 30 year old game!(Louis Wu 17:01:57 UTC)

DocOctavius announced a new map he’s finished for Halo CE – Hydrolysis. Water-based (as you might guess from the name) – looks pretty! Check it out.(Louis Wu 16:10:09 UTC)

Kiaffex stopped by to point out that Podtacular 106 has been released; they focus on Halo 3 this time around. 1:19 long, 74 mb. Go listen!(Louis Wu 15:27:42 UTC)

Mister Froggy let us know that Halo, Articulated #24 is now available – you gotta wonder if morality can be governed by the same rules as friendly AI…(Louis Wu 14:00:53 UTC)

Rooster Teeth has posted Episode 92 with Director’s Commentary for sponsors – swing by to see how they did some of the trickier shots in that episode! Good stuff. (Heh – how long until some of this pops up in a dozen Halo machinima pieces?)(Louis Wu 02:00:52 UTC)

Bungie Weekly Update is up (Trindacut, in IRC, beat Frankie, on the forum, by at least a minute) – lots and lots of fun stuff, including physics to make your eyes glaze. (I kid – I have an undergraduate degree in physics. But YOU probably don’t – so maybe I don’t kid.) Water Lovin’, even…

Brand-new Hired Gun blog post over at IGN – interesting discussion about bringing Halo 2 to Windows Live. Give it a read! Thanks, PsychoRaven.(Louis Wu 23:51:50 UTC)