Author: halo@bungie.org

Over at Mix Online (devoted to the professional audio and music production community), there’s an in-depth article on the sounds of Halo 3 – it’s a fascinating (if sometimes out-of-my-league technical) look at the way the Bungie team creates audio content for Halo. If you’re in the industry, this will be even MORE awesome, because…

After a long quiet period, This Spartan Life is back with a new video blog – Damian deals with dissention in the ranks the way dissention SHOULD be dealt with – via bloodshed. Well, virtual bloodshed, anyway. Check out ‘Civil War’ on TSL’s Blog page (QuickTime format, 44.3 mb, WMP9 coming soon).(Louis Wu 22:38:02 UTC)

Jamie98s put together a new music video, setting Blue October’s ‘Into the Ocean’ to Halo action – nicely done. ‘Twas originally released at GamingTV.org, but we’re hosting copies, as well (including the original WMP9 version, 29.9 mb, and a locally-encoded QuickTime version, 30.1 mb). What are you waiting for?(Louis Wu 20:57:43 UTC)

Paul Maestri has updated Halo Heads, with another chapter of the Kitty 117 series. The plot thickens!(Louis Wu 16:34:36 UTC)

A few weeks ago, we mentioned a pretty amazing Assault Rifle being built by a fan. He’s added more pictures to the collection, and we finally asked if we could put up a local mirror, organized by date. He said sure, so you should check it out; the work here is astounding. As work continues,…

Narcogen has brought Rampancy.net back online after a day of downtime – and with a new article, to boot. He looks at the cover system in Gears of War, and speculates about the use of cover in Halo. It’s an interesting, if long, read.(Louis Wu 13:02:50 UTC)

Game Informer has made a short video available (8.4 mb, WMP9 format), showing a tiny bit of the Map Editor that will be included with Halo 2 Vista (mostly, it’s Jo Clowes discussing some of the features that will be available to mapmakers while the camera pans around a monitor). Thanks, Talin64.(Louis Wu 21:00:29 UTC)

Wow, cool. Jane McGonigal, one of the organizers of the I Love Bees campaign leading up to Halo 2, discussed lessons learned for future projects in a talk at the Game Developers Conference. When they first began presenting information to gameplayers, lots of people proposed meanings for the info – and while most of these…

Over at Gamasutra, there’s some intriguing information about the Peter Jackson/Bungie project first announced at X06 last fall. Details are sketchy (okay, that’s almost an overstatement), but it looks like there will be at least two episodic gaming series, with at least the first being set in the Halo universe. If and when more info…

Danny ‘Ephrum’ Medvec has been working on modeling a Brute Spiker, from scratch. He’s sent along a bunch of pics, with more to come as the skinning progresses – check out his work on this page!(Louis Wu 18:47:15 UTC)

Last Friday, the Bungie Weekly Update contained information about the upcoming Halo 2 maps – and SketchFactor said “I don’t know how I ever played Halo without monkeys.” Stuntmutt comments in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 17:23:10 UTC)

TeamXbox has posted a few high-res (3000×2400) pictures of the Legendary Edition helmet you can buy when Halo 3 is released – looks pretty nice! Thanks, RevDotNed.(Louis Wu 17:11:31 UTC)

GameTrailers interviewed a representative of WizKids, the folks who will be making the upcoming Halo ActionClix figures, at NYC Comic-Con a couple of weeks ago. He discusses the Halo products, including a tease about an unannounced Halo 3 item. Thanks, Wolverine Monkey.(Louis Wu 17:06:59 UTC)

Over at MLGPro.com, the front-page vid is a player match commentary from Ghandi, looking at some footage from MLG Las Vegas last year. I love these things! Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 16:11:13 UTC)

Jump Tactics have been around for a long, long time; in the early days of Halo 2, they were everywhere, showing off ways to bounce around the multiplayer maps. They’ve been quiet for a long time – but they’ve finally released Transcendence, a jumping montage with some truly incredible footage. There’s some modding here -…

Scott Guthrie works for Microsoft – and recently, he got to be a guest star in a Red vs Blue segment. It’s not a segment I ever saw mentioned over at Rooster Teeth… but if you’re a fan of the show, it’s got some funnies in it. You’ll need to install WPF/E (mac | windows),…

Tons more Halo 2 Vista info coming out of the Game Developers Conference – a hands-on at Gamespot (thanks, LoneRanger 2.5), a preview at Shacknews, a hands-on at GamePro, and a summary of new features at Game Informer. Things you might not know yet (or that have changed in recent months):The game is expected out…

Hired Gun (the team putting together Halo 2 Vista) has posted a blog entry detailing some of the thought processes (and a few of the specific procedures) involved with the Halo 2 Gamerscore Achievements you’ll be able to unlock soon. Coolness abounds! Thanks, PsychoRaven.(Louis Wu 20:19:43 UTC)

trigger119 has posted an interview with machinima maker Jamie98s over at GamingTV; go read about what got him into machinima, where he’s going, and a little about Koko.(Louis Wu 17:09:13 UTC)

Next Generation is doing their annual ‘Hot 100 Game Developers’ list (last year, both Jason Jones and Alex Seropian made the list, which was ordered alphabetically) – this year, the list is ordered by influence. Seropian’s not on the list this time around (Wideload Games has been pretty much under the radar until very recently),…