Author: halo@bungie.org

GrifballHub is selling ” Grifball World Tour” t-shirts featuring your favorite maps from Halo 3, Reach, and Halo 4. You’ve got until next Monday to grab yourself one. Thanks, Kal Belgarion.(mastrbiggy 20:42:03 UTC)

Team Beyond is hosting a Valentine’s Weekend Halo 3 2v2 tournament – prize pool maxes out at $576. Go check out the rules! Thanks, CyReN.(Louis Wu 20:12:44 UTC)

Heh – this made me grin.(Louis Wu 20:10:29 UTC)

In the last couple of days, we’ve gotten a number of emails pointing out Halo machinima projects – both new and updated. Here’s a roundup: ZoxinTV turned us on to Rookshot, a new Halo machinima series from Red Rook. There are two episodes live at t…

Quirel did some digging through DeviantART, and came up with a bunch of Halo goodies. He’s organized them, and his first dump is focused on Spartans. We’ve seen some of these pics before… but as a whole, this is a great collection! Go explore.(Louis …

Over the past weekend, a number of HBO regulars got together for the second annual HBO Mountain Bash, a ski-and-fun weekend organized by Schooly D in Heber, UT. Tex wrote up a pretty exhaustive recap of the event, chock-full of pics, and others in the …

The Tyrant has released a new Halo 4 WTF moment – he’s found some misbehaving Promethean Knights on Infinity. (I’m not sure what he’s complaining about – his film is what ALL of my runthroughs look like, on ALL difficulties.)(Louis Wu 21:43:09 UTC)

Halo Waypoint has published an interview with Karen Traviss, focusing on Mortal Dictata, the third book in Traviss’ Kilo-Five trilogy (out officially today). Interesting read! Thanks, Grizzlei.(Louis Wu 19:27:17 UTC)

Dust Storm sent word that the first Podtacular episode of 2014 is live – the crew covers that latest Halo news, including some Halo 5 speculation. They also discuss their goals for the new year – go listen!(mastrbiggy 23:20:29 UTC)

Levi visited the Facebook page of The Fallen, a fan-made live-action film project… and found a gorgeous model-in-progress of the Pillar of Autumn. Looking great!(Louis Wu 20:21:44 UTC)

Jack and Geoff from Achievement Hunter released Fails of the Weak episode 174 – nothing too worthwhile here, but the team coordination fail on Haven is pure gold. You can watch it on AH or YouTube. Thanks, Nikko B201.(mastrbiggy 23:16:18 UTC)

Jason Evans has appeared in our news a bunch recently; he creates fantastic Master Chief sculpts. He stopped by today to show you the process. Fascinating! (Louis Wu 22:27:22 UTC)

crazedone1988 is back, with another really entertaining video combo. What do you get when you combine Halo: Reach with Starfox? You get win, that’s what. (Louis Wu 22:26:03 UTC)

DeviantARTist Siphen0 did a wonderful mashup recently – check out Chief of Thrones. Thanks to The Lionheart for pointing it out! (Louis Wu 22:24:41 UTC)

The How It Should Have Ended crew put together new scenes for the latest Hobbit movie (if you haven’t seen The Desolation of Smaug yet, some of these might not make any sense) – the final clip has a great nod to the Halo series. Thanks to both SEspider…

Keeping the novel ideas rolling, Tor Books has put up Chapter 2 of Halo: Mortal Dictata for your visual perusal. Go and check it out! Thanks to Grizzlei for letting us know.(GrimBrother One 20:31:59 UTC)

Halo Waypoint put up an awesome preview of the upcoming novel Halo: Mortal Dictata, the third and final installment in Karen Traviss’ “Kilo-Five” series. The preview includes the prologue and first chapter, and aims straight for the heart, especially i…

Rockslider stopped in with a pair of videos, showing off some megabattle action under the Twin Bridges on AotCR. One is longer-ranged fighting than the other; both are fun to watch. Go explore! (Louis Wu 23:23:22 UTC)