Author: halo@bungie.org

Sane Intolerant stopped by to point out his newest Halo Toy Box installment – today’s lesson involves dividing by zero.(Louis Wu 12:10:27 UTC)

Yesterday, Games for Windows Live was officially announced by Microsoft – and with it, a solid release date for Halo 2 Vista. Mark your calendars for May 8! I read this at GameSpot – so did Kaboris.(Louis Wu 12:08:44 UTC)

Over at MLGPro.com, the newest Player Match Commentary comes from Ogre 1- he talks about awareness, and how it (generally) separates the top tier from the almost-top tier. Good stuff! Thanks, as usual, to 3Suns.(Louis Wu 12:05:42 UTC)

Back on February 14, we mentioned a national Halo 2 tournament, run by Play N Trade. Looks like they’ve declared a national champion – Nathan Clark. Congrats to the 17-year-old Clark! (Louis Wu 21:00:25 UTC)

A couple of days ago, Vegechan stopped by to point out that he’d recorded a new Halo/300 vid. So far, we’ve announced 4 different trailers that tie Halo to the movie ‘300’ (one | two | three | four). I didn’t think I’d be linking any more – but Vegechan’s version really hit home for…

Wow. scurty accomplished (with a little help from MadRoX) a feat I’ve never seen before; he put six Banshees into the Control Room on AotCR. Six. Wow. Go watch. Thanks, Ducain.(Louis Wu 17:41:42 UTC)

Gamasutra has put up an article that looks at the importance of exclusive games to a console – and to the developers that create the games. It gathers its opinions from three industry analysts, and it doesn’t require a Gamasutra login to read. Halo 3, as you might expect, features heavily. Thanks, LegendaryMark.(Louis Wu 16:16:56…

Marc, from Halo Universe, let us know that they’ve got an exclusive preview of “Geister von Onyx” (the German version of Ghosts of Onyx) available now – you can read the first chapter. The book will be available in April or May.(Louis Wu 16:02:03 UTC)

Over at the website for Digital Producer magazine, there’s an article about machinima, and where it might be going. Part 1 (discussing machinima’s origins) starts here, Part 2 (aesthetics) starts here. Both mention Halo (via Red vs Blue).(Louis Wu 15:58:22 UTC)

As we mentioned last weekend, the mystery image first shown a couple of weeks ago on the Halo Wars forum was revealed on Saturday as a UNSC Sparrowhawk, a new unit that will be available in Halo Wars. Yesterday, Ensemble’s Community Manager, Thunder, posted some new information – a short history of the vehicle, and…

If it’s Tuesday, it must be Venice. Erm… I mean Tied the Leader. XerxdeeJ stopped by with a summary of the goodies available this week at this grandaddy of Halo blogging sites – there’s a 22 Questions Interview with Ellie Gibson, editor of GamesIndustry.biz, a recap of the most recent Tied the Leader Potluck (I…

Mister Froggy has released Halo, Articulated 21 – learn the deepest, darkest secrets of your favorite Halo characters!(Louis Wu 14:11:00 UTC)

Podtacular released Pod TV 8 – a video tutorial showing you how to get your hands on the Scarab Gun and the Soccer Ball on Metropolis. Tricksters have known how to do this since late 2004 – but most Halo players don’t even know they exist. They’re both pretty fun to play with, and the…

Chris Orgeron let us know that he’d created a version of the Halo 3 theme – you can check it out on his band’s MySpace page, or you can download it directly from us (mp3 format, 2.5 mb). Give it a listen!(Louis Wu 16:43:13 UTC)

Today’s One One Se7en was a no-brainer; I’ve been waiting for it since Friday’s Weekly Update. (I guess ‘no-brainer’ isn’t a very good descriptor for a specific One One Se7en… too general.)(Louis Wu 14:48:17 UTC)

link4044 got some more parts in for his amazing Assault Rifle – check out the progress pics (they start here). He says he should be done sometime next week! The detail is incredible…(Louis Wu 14:01:17 UTC)

NOKYARD sent word of a new country represented in the world Halo speedrun community – High Speed Halo has two new French runners, who are blowing away Legendary Coop records on Halo 1. Go check out some of their runs!(Louis Wu 13:58:11 UTC)

AnTi PRO stopped by yesterday to announce the launching of Froman Productions, a new machinima website. As our submission guidelines suggest, we no longer announce website launches on our front page – unless there’s something there we can point people to… and in this case, there is. They actually created a number of vids before…

We don’t do this very often (heh – more like ‘never’)… but he asked so nicely! ViralSyris asked us to wish his girlfriend a happy birthday today – what a guy!(Louis Wu 13:10:31 UTC)

Sigafoos writes to let us know that The Riot #39 has been released – the usual stuff, plus info about this summer’s Riot LAN in Western New York. 30 minutes, 12 mb – go listen!(Louis Wu 21:16:26 UTC)