Author: halo@bungie.org

The Lionheart stopped in with new artwork from LoneFireWarrior – pretty epic piece! (It was created with Garry’s Mod plus liberally-applied Photoshop.)(Louis Wu 20:44:00 UTC)

Kete stopped by to announce that The Riot Sandbox will be kicking off tomorrow night, with host Damien Lacedamian. Drop in and participate!(Louis Wu 20:39:04 UTC)

The Council Gamer is a live videocast from The Halo Council – the latest episode has guests Walshy, Goldenboy, and Flamesword discussing Halo news and ideas. Go listen! Thanks, CyReN.(Louis Wu 20:37:29 UTC)

Rockslider stopped by our forum to announce a new video – he calls it ‘Chasm Shoot in the Library’, and it’s an extension of his Spore Herding experiments. He gets some really odd visuals… go see!(Louis Wu 20:35:00 UTC)

Do you live near Ohio? Do you love playing Halo with fun people? If you answered yes to either of these questions, you might be interested in HBOhio, a LANfest being planned by Revenant1988 – go read about it and see what’s going on! And don’t forget t…

Waypoint released this week’s Halo Bulletin last night – if you were expecting details about the upcoming Title Update, you will probably be disappointed. What you WILL find is a summary of the changes to the Matchmaking Playlists next week, a bit abou…

Travis Knight let us know that Halo has made an appearance (and will continue to do so) in a podcast he runs – it’s called ‘Games as Lit’, and the current series focuses on the Halo novels. Part One, out today, covers Fall of Reach, The Flood, and Firs…

Stephen Loftus has completed a massive update to his Halo Scale Charts – the total number of pages has increased from 12 pages in the last version to 27 pages in this one! It contains a mountain of new items from previous games, plus most major vehicle…

The Tyrant has kicked off a new series – ‘Let’s Play Spartan Ops’. He’s starting at the beginning – he’s never tried out Spartan Ops before. It’s him, alone, on Legendary difficulty, in his first time out – no preparation, no practice. Fun! Go watch Ep…

Channel 9 released a video interview with 343’s Caitie McCaffrey, Hoop Somuah and Angus McQuarrie. They talk about the many ways in which Halo 4 utilizes Windows Azure Service Bus, including porting game statistics from console to Waypoint. Pretty inte…

Dust Storm sent word that episode 338 of Podtacular is live – this is a mashup of their mini-series of shows they have been doing for Campaign, Spartan Ops and War Games. In this episode they talk about Dawn, Departure and Complex. Go listen!(mastrbigg…

CruelLEGACEY let us know that he uploaded a screenshot gallery on his site that includes images from the first episode of the new season of Playtime. Check it out!(mastrbiggy 08:38:14 UTC)

Polygon posted an article about how Bungie handled the recent leak on their upcoming project – instead of staying quiet and letting speculation run wild, the studio managed to turn the leak into something beneficial for both Bungie and the fans. The ar…

Concept artist Albert Ng released some Halo 4 concept art – he worked on in-game touchscreen interfaces/consoles, props and Spartan armor designs. Pretty cool stuff! Thanks, Hypertrooper.(mastrbiggy 08:07:24 UTC)

Waypoint released a trailer for Spartan Ops Episode 7 – someone gets slapped silly and some unwelcome guests board the Infinity. Looks like things are starting to heat up! Thanks, TheOddOne.(mastrbiggy 07:45:40 UTC)

It looks like Halo 4, or something related, is the next lightning deal on the Amazon Gold Box. The offer begins at 2PM PT, 5PM ET or 2200 UTC if you’re into that kind of thing. It’s unclear exactly what the offer will be and I’m also unclear on regiona…

flugelmeister, from The Secrets Within, has posted a request for help – his son missed the window for the Halo 4 Remix contest, but still wants to create something fun. Unfortunately, the official contest site has taken down the stems they’d offered du…

Wahrer Machine shared his 8-bit rendition of ‘Nemesis’ from the Halo 4 soundtrack. Now all you need is an 8-bit version of the game :). Neat!(mastrbiggy 10:28:20 UTC)