Author: halo@bungie.org

The Halo Wars forum post with the slowly emerging image now contains the fully decrypted image – it’s a shot of the new UNSC SparrowHawk. Nice! Thanks to everyone who kept us informed on the forum – final image was first mentioned by j41m3z.(Louis Wu 21:51:03 UTC)

Sane Intolerant has updated Halo Toybox with not one, but two comics – check this forum post for details.(Louis Wu 12:50:53 UTC)

Walshy looks at his strengths, and weaknesses, in an interesting player commentary at MLGPro.com. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 03:13:17 UTC)

Bungie HQ suffers from a blown transformer, so the Weekly Update is image-less (though Frankie promises to try and rectify that tomorrow). The update contains a bunch of tidbits of polish progress – sounds like we’ll even get to see some of that in the upcoming beta. (No, no dates yet.) Go read! (As usual,…

Paul Maestri has updated Halo Heads – The kitties finally meet their attackers! Just when you thought you’d seen everything…(Louis Wu 01:27:48 UTC)

Mister Froggy pointed out Halo, Articulated #20 – sometimes, you just can’t give a threat the weight it asks for.(Louis Wu 01:21:17 UTC)

If all goes well, today is the day that the image at the bottom of the Halo Wars update post will be revealed in its entirety – Stuntmutt gets a leg up with the current One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 15:57:05 UTC)

Edgeworks Entertainment has released Episode 3 of their series, The Heretic. Not a lot of action, but some great plot development – and current political commentary. (Shh…) Nice camerawork, as always. Thanks to Da Nang for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 15:43:31 UTC)

The 1Up Yours podcast is being recorded this week at the Game Developers Conference… and the most recent podcast (dated 3/8) has a small teaser related to Halo 3. Apparently, they were discussing how many titles are being released this fall, and how rough that’s going to be on Joe Average Gamer (who’s got $300…

Eight new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section this week – go read!(Louis Wu 15:15:49 UTC)

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)