Author: halo@bungie.org

Quirel is back with another Fanart Tuesday (well, west coast Tuesday) – this time, the focus is Cortana. And the images he’s found make a fantastic collection of perspectives – go explore! (Louis Wu 22:23:41 UTC)

Masterz1337, the co-lead for the CMT project (search our news if that doesn’t ring any bells), let us know that they’ve discovered an interesting discrepancy in player speeds between the various Halo games – read all the details on the Halomaps forum!(…

DeviantARTist SebastianvonBuchwald envisioned a battle between Master Chief… and Mario. Nice artwork! Thanks, SEspider.(Louis Wu 23:54:29 UTC)

MixMaker117 cut a new Halo vid to ‘Once Upon A Time’ – nice feels! Go watch. (Louis Wu 23:39:52 UTC)

You may have seen some reports of leaked pictures from the next Halo recently; the ‘leak’ has been debunked across the board (by 343 and by the creators of the images, who are actually building a CryEngine 3-based mod we mentioned back in July). If you…

TD Spiral had created an alternate cover for Cryptum as a present for his Secret Santa recipient. Today, he decided to share with the forum. BEAUTIFUL. (Louis Wu 22:50:47 UTC)

Rockslider noticed some more bizarre grenade behavior – this time it’s a Frag, though. Go see! (Louis Wu 22:45:53 UTC)

Elan Lee has some experience with setting up out-of-the-ordinary experiences with stuff like videogames; he was part of the team that created I Love Bees, for Halo 2, and he was part of the team that created Sadie’s Story, for Halo 3: ODST (at a comple…

With the announcement of Microsoft’s acquisition of the Gears of War franchise from Epic, Polygon thought it fit to provide an opinion on how they feel that Halo 4 laid the blueprint for the next generation of Gears of War. It’s an interesting read reg…

This keeps coming around, it seems. IGN is reporting a rumor that Neill Blomkamp has been tapped to direct the upcoming pilot for the Stephen Spielberg-led Halo tv series. I guess we need to wait and see. Thanks, Avateur.(Louis Wu 16:24:39 UTC)

Katie Satow does a vlog for Geek & Sundry, and her latest shows you how to paint your fingernails in a full-on Halo theme. Awesome! (Really cool final product.) Thanks, doober187.(Louis Wu 16:19:17 UTC)

Another week, another set of fails. They actually look at them this time… you can watch on AH.com or YouTube. Thanks, as always, Nikko B201. (Louis Wu 19:50:37 UTC)

Grizzlei noticed a new article at Halo Waypoint, showing off the spring line of Mega Bloks – some pretty cool stuff in there! Go look. (Louis Wu 19:50:16 UTC)

pete_the_duck is back with a new Rube Goldberg machine… and it’s awesome. The Mantis Shuffle, especially, rocked. Go watch.(Louis Wu 13:40:04 UTC)

Trendt Boe stopped in with a link to ‘Salvation’ – a 2d digital painting of Halo 4’s Master Chief and Cortana, animated just because he could. Pretty nice! Take a look.(Louis Wu 13:39:48 UTC)

Looks like there were a couple of extra skulls in Halo 3: ODST that were cut before the final game was released; YouTuber TehBanStick posted a film showing off gameplay with the ‘Third Person’ skull activated. (As you might guess, it moves you into a 3…

Goose Checka let us know that screenshot maestro oObex has opened voting on the best Grifball screens of 2013. Go make your opinion known! (Louis Wu 23:10:03 UTC)

Zachary let us know that Guys Playing Games would be playing through all of the Halo campaigns on Legendary, for charity. They’re starting at midnight tonight, and you can watch them on Twitch.tv. Check out the reddit thread for more info! (Louis Wu 23…