Author: halo@bungie.org

slYnki stopped by with word of a new segmented speedrun on Truth and Reconciliation. It’s under 7 minutes! (This shaves two full minutes off the old record… amazing.) The end of ‘Belly of the Beast’ was the most impressive shortcut I saw, but there w…

t00lbox shared his latest trick/glitch video – this time he gets out of the level Shutdown. This one is especially neat because of how large the explorable space is. Also, you can get a purple and gold Banshee!(mastrbiggy 13:55:18 UTC)

Moa ran into a hacker during a game of Halo 4 – the unsavory individual was able to take out tanks, call in multiple ordnance drops and kill players with a single shot all by simply using the Carbine. Hey, at least the Carbine is useful now ;). (mast…

Earlier this month, Reddit user fiscal_ reached out to the Halo community about getting in contact with the Bungie Foundation. He was hoping to get some smiles out of his son, who had just undergone a liver transplant. With a ton of neat stuff in tow, …

Luke McKay (who has his own gallery here at HBO) is part of a new web venture called ‘The Button Mash’ – and the very first Button Mash comic (about a week ago) was called ‘Darth Didact’. It combines Halo and Star Wars, and answers a few questions you …

A gathering of HBO regulars is happening this weekend, deep in the Colorado Rockies. Information is beginning to leak out… (Louis Wu 16:27:49 UTC)

DeathMcGunz let us know that MLG Episode 2 is now live – who’s gonna make the team?(Louis Wu 16:26:23 UTC)

If our roundup of news articles on the upcoming Spartan Ops episodes didn’t give you enough information, Halo Waypoint shared one we missed – OXM Magazine posted their hands-on preview. Get complete! Update: and this video walkthrough of Chapter 3 was …

Fails of the Weak 122 was released yesterday (thanks, Taco Power) – you can watch it on AH.com or YouTube. The final fail is really more of a win… and the best clip in the bunch.(Louis Wu 14:32:57 UTC)

Clever Musings posted their latest recap of Spartan Ops episode 5 – head on over to their site to check it out. Thanks, Carmelo M.(mastrbiggy 20:11:47 UTC)

Gandemo posted another of his fun ‘I play like a crazy person and it usually works out’ vids – go take a look! (Louis Wu 17:50:01 UTC)

There’s one new piece available for your reading pleasure in our Fan Fiction section this week – go see!(Louis Wu 17:49:22 UTC)

A game called Sins of a Solar Empire (a PC-based real-time strategy space sim) just got a Halo mod – Sins of the Prophets has a new trailer online. Looks pretty amazing! This beta release is UNSC-only, but apparently Covenant ships are coming. Check it…

Sparth continues to post Halo 4 concept art on his Tumblr blog – yesterday he put up both environment concepts and some ideas for the Broadsword. Very cool! Thanks, TheOddOne.(Louis Wu 17:41:30 UTC)

Hypertrooper found a nice little piece of fanart at MagicalGameTime.com – oh, the fun of ridin’ a warthog with your buddies!(Louis Wu 17:35:52 UTC)

Galpin Auto Sports has posted Part 2 of their ‘Making of the UNSC Raptor’ series (Part 1 came out a couple of weeks ago, if you missed it). It’s a pretty cool look at pimping out a monster truck! Thanks, Deadly Paw.(Louis Wu 17:33:56 UTC)

RC Master has yet ANOTHER Legendary All Skulls On speedrun for you – this one is on Requiem, and it contains some tricks I WISH I’d known for easier difficulties than this one! It’s 18 minutes long, and it makes me want to jump into Campaign to try thi…

Zylon 0217 stopped by yesterday with a video showing off a pretty cool behavior that can be generated in Forge – I’m not sure whether to call it a glitch or simply logical behavior from unexpected specific situations… but either way, it’s awesome, an…

As mentioned in the Halo Bulletin a couple of days ago, a press event took place at 343’s offices this week to give gaming sites a chance to see a little of the upcoming Spartan Ops episodes. The first few reviews have begun popping up around the net -…