Author: halo@bungie.org

Rockslider noticed that Halo (the original) was being played in an episode of The Twilight Zone (the reboot of the series), from 2003 – with a few oddities. (It takes someone like Rockslider to even NOTICE a few of those oddities – pretty observant!) G…

Rooster Teeth’s Red vs Blue Season 11 continues, with last night’s release of Episode 6 adding a new and entertaining character to the mix. I’m loving this season! robofin117 has started a thread on our forum if you have comments.(Louis Wu 19:11:26 UTC)

NukemDukem has released a Spartan Assault Walkthrough – if you want to see some gameplay, this is a great way!(Louis Wu 19:06:52 UTC)

Missed this last week – but on the same day that Spartan Assault was released, the Official Soundtrack was released, as well. 27 tracks of music from composer Tom Salta are available on Amazon, iTunes, Xbox Music, and elsewhere. More details in the off…

JDQuackers pointed out a pretty amazing acoustic guitar rendition of the Halo theme a friend found on YouTube – I can’t stop listening to it. I wish I could play like that!(Louis Wu 19:26:11 UTC)

Postmortem announced that Round 14 of his Visualizing the Halo Universe challenge has kicked off – your task, should you choose to accept it, is to envision an ancient human pet described in Greg Bear’s fiction. As always, HBO will deny knowledge if yo…

Cody Miller has been upgrading our Halo Cutscene Library with surround-sound versions of each game’s cutscenes since 2011 – and yesterday, the newest additions went live. The Reach cutscenes are now available in full surround sound, in either QuickTime…

Last night, the live-streamed Video Games Live concert took place at San Diego Comic Con – and Marty O’Donnell and Mike Salvatori were there. (Their segment starts around 3:16:30 or so in the Twitch.TV archived video.) It’s focused on Destiny… but at…

Fails of the Weak 148 (AH.com | YouTube) has 10 entertaining fails and wittty banter. Meanwhile, Halo HORSE 136 (AH.com | YouTube) pits Ryan against the Martinizer for the second slot in Round 2. Go watch!(Louis Wu 21:35:06 UTC)

There’s another Top 10 from Anoj – this one focuses on unusual kills. This one is especially fun to watch – lots of good stuff. Check it out! Thanks, Jordan Bell.(Louis Wu 21:28:34 UTC)

GunRunner48 let us know that Section 3 (the fans devoted to finding all of the hidden codes in Halo 4) have solved another one – this code requires that you unlock the ‘Recruit’ achievement in Spartan Assault. Once you do, you’ll get 10,000 XP and begi…

CruelLEGACEY has released Part 2 of his ‘If I were making Halo 5’ thought project – this one focuses on campaign and encounter design, along with enemy AI and level design. Go look!(Louis Wu 21:17:52 UTC)

Gravemind has revisited his ‘Building the Ultimate Halo Game’ essay – you can find a list of the changes he made in his forum post. (Or you could just read the tome on his website.) (Louis Wu 21:17:26 UTC)