Author: halo@bungie.org

This isn’t really Halo-related, but it’s video-game related, and the submitter shows up around here quite a bit. Gina ‘Dogiojoe’ Johnson has just kicked off a Kickstarter campaign for a book she’s written called ‘Why I Game’ – it’s a response to the ‘v…

An article focusing on the aborted Halo film helmed by Neil Blomkamp was written last April at One Room with a View… but it popped up in my Google feed last night. Weird. It’s a nice overview of the project, and contains a bunch of tidbits I’d never …

This morning a blog post by Xbox Corporate Vice President of Marketing, Strategy and Business, Yusuf Mehdi thanked fans for “an epic 2013” and touted some of the cool happenings and titles on their way in 2014. Missing conspicuously from the list was H…

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HaloGAF Radio Episode 16 is live – Tashi is joined by Steelyuhas and Heckfu to discuss the Xbox One and the recently faked Halo 5 images. Go listen!(mastrbiggy 08:36:38 UTC)

Halo Waypoint focused on a gorgeous painting by ThePriceOfPower a couple of days ago – if you missed it, you should swing by. (Louis Wu 22:56:04 UTC)

MixMaker117 put together a level-specific Achievement Guide for Spartan Assault – pretty helpful! Give it a look to speed up your achievement hunting.(Louis Wu 23:01:19 UTC)

DrummDragon filmed Master Chief’s Christmas… I’m not sure his friends are really friends! Go watch.(Louis Wu 22:58:00 UTC)

This might be our last news post about Fails of the Weak – the AH crew seems to have pretty much lost interest in actually doing them any more. (There were some fun fails this week – but you’d have trouble telling from watching the vid.) Anyway, here a…

DeviantARTist Tekka-Croe put together some concept art for the Venerance team (search our news archives if ‘Venerance’ doesn’t ring a bell)… very nice. Thanks, TheLionheart!(Louis Wu 21:19:44 UTC)

Arithmomaniac pointed out a review of Spartan Assault from Ars Technica – their biggest complaint is the microtransaction situation. (The weapons/abilities you need at higher levels require either experience or real cash, and experience is hard to come…

Do you want to get every gold star in Spartan Assault, but find yourself lacking XP? Fear not because MixMaker1 found a way to earn 1000XP every minute or so. Doing this will allow you to get the weapons and boosters you’ll need for those hairy situati…

Justin Barr posted his nearly 60 year old (Wu still not dethroned) farther Guy’s entire Halo service record, which adds up to 17,000 online games played across various Halo titles. After garnering quite of bit of attention, Bravo from 343 reached out t…

MixMaker1 let us know about his Halo 4 easter egg video compilation – there are over 30 different easter eggs to check out and each one of them is time-stamped. Nice work!(mastrbiggy 00:38:12 UTC)

Cinema Blend reviewed Halo: Spartan Assault. In a marked departure from most of their Halo coverage, they actually liked this game. Go give it a read!(Louis Wu 19:10:10 UTC)

DeathMcGunz let us know about the start of Suicide Season 2… looks like SOMEONE needs a better grip on their high school memories.(Louis Wu 19:09:11 UTC)

CyReN stopped in to announce a new Halo 3 2v2 tournament being hosted by Beyond Entertainment – $20/team gets you in the door, and if the full 32-team roster is filled, the prize pool will be $480. Competition takes place in less than 3 weeks – go sign…

About a month ago, we received a Fan Fiction submission – but it came without a title. The submission system hid it from view, unfortunately, until I happened to look at some back-end tools and noticed it. Apologies for the long queue time – go take a …

Ack – someone needs to step in and save Pete Cooper’s glorious Warthog – if he doesn’t find a buyer by tomorrow (minimum price is £500 plus shipping from Hertfordshire, England), it’s going to the scrap heap! What a sad, sad loss. 🙁 If you’ve go…