Author: halo@bungie.org

It’s Tuesday, which usually means a Tied the Leader update – but we’ve heard nothing from our gunslinging friends, so I visited all by my lonesome, and found some tasty stuff. There’s a 22 Questions interview with Michael ‘Fluffaluffer’ Karlsson, the leader of Planet Halo, there’s an interesting piece called ‘Century Milestone’, which looks at…

In the last 6 months, we’ve chronicled the release of 50 episodes of the Halo Heads comic on these pages… but a couple of weeks ago, fans started noticing that the site was unreachable. An unfortunate disaster had occurred, and the original blogspot website was gone – but never fear, a replacement has been created!…

That Halo 3 Voice Cameo auction ended yesterday… the winning bidder paid a whopping $7,300 to be immortalized, vocally, in Halo 3. Now THAT’S fanaticism! Thanks, Kornman.(Louis Wu 17:42:09 UTC)

xbryboyremix pointed out a collection of useful pages for machinima makers, part of a new section of the Halopen Films website. The Process has opened with ‘How to Film’, a page showing three common ways to get Xbox content into your computer, and ‘Guidelines’, a tutorial that can help you make better machinima. Go give…

One of the more impressive Halo 1 tricksters, over the years, has been Ms Man – and now all of his work has been collected in one section of High Impact Halo, thanks to Dantheman87. A friendly wave to Ducain, for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 17:20:40 UTC)

The official World of Warcraft website has a monthly comic contest – the Honorable mentions for February were posted yesterday, and one of them is Halo-related. Thanks, JeSteR 343.(Louis Wu 17:13:31 UTC)

Over at MLGPro.com, there’s a profile of Foulacy; give it a read to see how he got to where he is. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 17:07:48 UTC)

Mister Froggy pointed out that Halo, Articulated 17 is now available. That Arbiter’s a mean guy…(Louis Wu 16:26:25 UTC)

trigger119 pointed out a spotlight on Halo: Unyielding, an ongoing machinima project that integrates CGI into Halo footage – go read it over at GamingTV.org!(Louis Wu 15:33:26 UTC)

Wow. The hot rumor of the morning seems to be that the upcoming Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero II will have Halo’s ‘Mjolnir Mix’ as a downloadable song later this spring. Coffin Joe saw it last night at Xbox360Fanboy, but today you can find it at CVG, Xboxic, XBOX 360 Wire, MyGen, GamingNexus, OXM…

Phil Spencer talked to Game Informer a little while ago, and said some weird stuff about the Halo 3 Beta. This, of course, gave Stuntmutt an opening for weird comments of his own – check today’s One One Se7en. (And with that, I’m off – airport in an hour, home, if all goes well, in…

Hawaiian Pig and Veegie have come up with another collaboration – a really cool scene rendered with in-game models by Veegie, then majorly customized by Pig. There’s a forum thread with multiple links, and it’s been added to Veegie’s gallery here at HBO, as well.(Louis Wu 12:53:34 UTC)

The More Deluded posted another batch of pictures of his Arbiter Model project – it suffered a few setbacks (see the forum post for details), but overall, it’s looking pretty good! Check it out.(Louis Wu 20:53:58 UTC)

Sigafoos writes to let us know that The Riot 37 is now up – community updates, the upcoming Halo comic, laser tag toys, and more. Enjoy the newly-designed Second Foundation website when you go! 31 minutes, 12.5 mb.(Louis Wu 20:34:44 UTC)

A couple of days ago, Major Silva mentioned a blog post he’d written, in which he lamented the scarcity of ‘Wow moments’ in Halo 2. (I’m not sure I understand what a ‘Wow moment’ is, actually – he says they’re the moments that are more movielike than what’s around them, but also more immersive than…

Rockslider has posted a new Frontline with Suzie – sounds like she should be having fun, but I’m not sure she is…(Louis Wu 17:52:23 UTC)

New York Comic Con is going on right now – and one of the announcements that was made during the Cup O’ Joe panel last night was that the creative team that will bring the ongoing Halo comic to life had been decided on – Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev. (Google ’em for more…

Two of the three cool Bungie-related auctions benefitting Hollywood Arts ended yesterday – and longtime community member Kornman is taking home the life-sized Master Chief statue and the tour of Bungie Studios. Ding to his wallet: $2700. Nice haul for underprivileged children! The Halo Signed Swag Pack went for $610 – sounds like an awesome…

Over at IGN.com, there’s a blog written by one of the team members that’s putting together Halo 2 Vista, introducing the Hired Gun team and explaining some of the nuances of the development – give it a read!(Louis Wu 16:09:15 UTC)

Mister Froggy writes to let us know that Halo Articulated #16 is available for your amusification. Spartan senses… tingling!(mnemesis 05:42:27 UTC)