Author: halo@bungie.org

Dust Storm let us know that the latest episode of Podtacular is full of juicy conversation – Ridley Scott, Microsoft’s new digital assistant, Gamespy, and more are touched on. Go give it a listen! (Louis Wu 19:35:32 UTC)

The staff of Beyond Entertainment has taken this anniversary opportunity (today marks 4 years since the original Xbox LIVE service was discontinued) to look back on Halo 2, and what it meant to them in its heyday. Oh, the feels! Thanks, CyReN.(Louis Wu…

Wow. Last week, slYnki beat the world speed record for Silent Cartographer… and yesterday, it happened again. Vetro shaved a full 5 seconds off the total – amazing! Check it out. Thanks, Reed Tiburon. (Louis Wu 19:26:57 UTC)

Revenant1988 bought some UV LEDs and turned his Halo 3+ Cortana into a Halo Cortana. Pretty slick! (Louis Wu 18:32:02 UTC)

Eep – forgot to mention this on Friday… but for the first time in nearly 6 months, there’s a new Fan Fiction piece loaded! Go give it a read.(Louis Wu 18:28:27 UTC)

Reach’s Emile plays a larger-than-usual role in the latest Fails of the Weak (AH.com | YouTube). That guy should spend less time polishing his knife and more time avoiding out-of-the-park swings. Thanks, Nikko B201.(Louis Wu 20:49:48 UTC)

Awesome – Impact Props released a video of Master Chief – on a motorcycle.d It made me happy. Thanks, thebruce0.(Louis Wu 20:47:55 UTC)

Grey101 might be a newcomer to our forum – but he’s hit the ground running, that’s for sure! A second analysis piece in as many days looks at the Starhammer trilogy, from Christopher Rowley, and focuses on how it has affected the Halo universe. (Spoile…

The Latest Halo Bulletin went live last night – and Bravo’s packed it chock-full of goodies. A new fan-made helmet (killer!), matchmaking updates, info on a new Spartan Assault feature, a shoutout to Beyond Entertainment’s Spring Tournament, and a spot…

If you’re into cloud computing and massive data processing, there’s a pretty in-depth talk from Build 2014 in which the team from 343 discuss how they built the cloud services that power Halo 4. SERIOUSLY technical. Check it out! Thanks, Arithmomaniac….

slYnki has (re)broken the world record speed run for Silent Cartographer – it’s now down to 3:44! Take a look! (Louis Wu 20:20:30 UTC)

Rockslider continues his habit of pushing Halo glitches to their extremes; for his 100th video, he decided to mess with the Spirit dropship, in an attempt to keep it from its normal path. He’s successful – to a point. (The end of the video shows some r…

Grey101 stopped by our forum to announce his analysis of Catherine Halsey – swing by his blog to give it a read! A very interesting piece, it is. (Louis Wu 20:10:16 UTC)

Gugga Leunnam (we’ve mentioned his mashups before) let us know that he’s put out his latest work: Halo/The Amazing Spider-Man 2 FINAL Trailer Mashup. Pretty slick! (He even made some wallpaper for this one!)(Louis Wu 20:07:39 UTC)

Hey, it’s Thursday, time for a little catch-up! We got a note a couple of days ago from Gamecheat – he modded Halo 3: ODST to allow the Rookie to wield an Energy Sword. Pretty satisfying! (Might have been moreso without infinite ammo and invulnerabilit…

Running REALLY low on free time – but there’s enough to slip you the info that mikimarquez shot our way: it looks like the Spielberg-helmed Halo TV project announced last year has been postponed a bit – according to Deadline, it’s still in the ‘deal-ma…

Hyokin came across this really strange Halo 4 vehicle mod on YouTube. This one is really neat and certainly worth checking out!(mastrbiggy 20:51:19 UTC)

Sumthing Digital let us know that Spartan Assault composer Tom Salta will be at Pax East next week – if you’re going, schedule some time for the Maestros of Video Games panel!(Louis Wu 23:23:58 UTC)

Bones did a wonderful job of summing up the B.org March Madness 2014 tournament in a monster infographic – go look!(Louis Wu 22:10:37 UTC)