Author: halo@bungie.org

PFG has begun to display his rather awesome Halo memorabilia collection – check out the first batch of pictures.(Louis Wu 06:03:53 UTC)

Dust Storm sent us a note right after Christmas, asking us to help with one last push for the Podtacular Community Appreciation Giveaway – apologies for the lack of coverage! We mentioned this last month – but you still have a bit of time to get your w…

Yeah, so… what’s all this about? (You’ve only got another day and a half to wait to find out…) Update: sadface. (Thanks, DEEP NNN. No, really.)(Louis Wu 21:57:28 UTC)

Fails of the Weak 171 (AH.com | YouTube) will show you 10 new fails. Of the weak. Thanks, Nikko B201.(Louis Wu 22:02:19 UTC)

Recently, we’ve had a few people playing with detached Spirit turrets (most of the newsposts have been from kreativekill) – but yesterday Rockslider got into the action. Check out his Detached Dropship Turret guide – and play with one yourself!(Louis W…

Sliding Ghost posted a film he calls ‘Halo 1 Christmas Special/Funtage’ – messing with Rocket Flood in some really entertaining ways! Go give it a watch.(Louis Wu 19:03:28 UTC)

Over at The Halo Forum, BxSouljah001 is putting together a collection of links showing off gameplay from the finals of every major Halo tournament since 2002, as well as published results. He’s not quite done yet – but what he’s got up so far is alread…

TheSparbiter told us about “I Will Not Bow”, his latest Halo music video – Breaking Benjamin is no stranger to Halo!(Louis Wu 20:42:22 UTC)

Dogiojoe built a gingerbread house for the holidays… then added some Halo content with pink and purple Nerds. Yum!(Louis Wu 20:40:15 UTC)

Mator dropped off his Christmas gift to the community – a Halo CE trickin-jumping video he calls ‘Succession’. Fun stuff! (Louis Wu 20:35:04 UTC)

M E R R Y   C H R I S T M A S !(Card shamelessly stolen from 343)

We’ve mentioned reviews of the Windows 8 version of Spartan Assault in the past – but now there’s a review of the Xbox One version, courtesy of Xbox360Achievements. Go give it a read! Thanks, Fear_Of_Falling.(Louis Wu 16:27:50 UTC)

Want to buy some Halo schwag? Looks like that becomes easier soon! mrkevinhurd stopped by with a visual list of everything that’s coming to Entertainment Earth (all of it’s available for preorder now). That’s a lot of keyrings!(Louis Wu 15:28:25 UTC)

GameTrailers is celebrating winter by looking at their five favorite winter-themed game moments… and the original Halo makes their list. Go watch!(Louis Wu 15:25:47 UTC)

MixMaker117 is celebrating the support his YouTube channel has gotten by giving away a bunch of digital content (Map Pass, Champions Bundle, and a bunch of Campaign add-ons) – a comment on his video is needed to enter. Go let him know what your favorit…

Over at Halo Waypoint, there’s a fun interview with TTL Hoovaloov, a fan whose latest claim to fame is the 100% completion of all Achievements on all 8 Halo titles that HAVE Achievements. Pretty impressive! Go give it a watch.(Louis Wu 21:33:38 UTC)

Speedruns are sexy again – goatrope just set a Halo 1 Easy world record (beating another one set by Lephoque just fourteen hours earlier)! Thanks, Hawaiian Pig. (Speaking of speedruns, Cody Miller let us know that Mr Monopoli will be running Halo 2 liv…

It might be too late – preorders for this very limited release went live several days ago – but SlideShow Collectibles is offering Red and Blue Team Leader Premium Format figures (that name is trademarked, by the way) for $400 apiece – if you want one…

kreativekill let us know that he’d posted a tutorial for recovering the turret from a Halo 1 dropship – it’s pretty fun to watch! (That turret still shoots at you if you’re visible, even though it’s not attached to a dropship!) Check it out.(Louis Wu 2…