Author: halo@bungie.org

Mostly, we leave tricking to the folks at High Impact Halo – but occasionally, there’s a trick vid that reminds everyone how beautiful it all can be. dantheman87 reproduced an old trick – launching to the top of the MAC gun – but did it with a new technique that shaves hours off the setup…

Jamie98s continues his feature-length movie of Halo – today he releases Halo 2: The Series Episode 3. This one is set in Metropolis – a Covenant Scarab is wreaking havoc on New Mombasa, and it’s up to the Chief to destroy it. The episode is nearly 21 minutes long, and weighs in at 152 mb…

SourceGuy pointed out an interview with Nick, Project Lead for Prometheus, the upcoming Halo CE map editor, over at HaloVicis today. Give it a read!(Louis Wu 11:50:13 UTC)

Shady IIV stopped by with an episode of Barbie & M!KE (a German Halo comic). Pretty pictures, even if I can’t read the balloons…(Louis Wu 22:20:35 UTC)

Mid7night continues to work on his Longsword model for X-Plane; check this post out for formation flying! (Nice cockpit, too!(Louis Wu 22:18:13 UTC)

A few days ago, 3 new screenshots from Halo 2 Vista circulated the web; we mentioned several articles about the program (news from GDC, mostly), and most of the articles contained one or more of these three pics. I didn’t really see the need to draw special attention to them. Today, though, WorthPlaying has posted…

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)