Author: halo@bungie.org

Over at Reddit, a reader noticed a pretty cool factoid that was new to me: in the standard Halo 4 UNSC logo, the text reads ‘UNSC’ both horizontally (normally) and vertically (rotated and flipped). Clever!(Louis Wu 14:57:59 UTC)

OboeCrazy dropped in yesterday with some campaign coop footage (a 4-player playthrough of Dawn)… with a twist. There was a load failure near the beginning… in which the game managed to lose the majority of the Forward Unto Dawn. The funny part is, …

Skywalker DSP is back with another commentary vid – this time, it’s a CTF game on Ragnarok. It’s a fun watch!(Louis Wu 14:35:25 UTC)

Artem is a company that makes special effects stuff – they were hired to create a Halo 4 of armor that could be worn for launch events (including the Lichtenstein weekend). They’d documented the process last month (both in text and with a behind-the-sc…

Robowski sent word that Post Game Carnage Report Episode 142 is live – it focuses on great Forge maps, and they’ve invited master Forger DarkPrince909 on the show to help out. Go listen! (Louis Wu 14:15:46 UTC)

IGN’s posted their nominees for the best games of 2012 – Halo 4 is up for quite a bit. (Game of the Year, Shooter, Multiplayer, Graphics, Sound.) Go see who they’re up against! Thanks, CyReN.(Louis Wu 23:59:37 UTC)

The last we’d heard from the Tenacious Tricking group, Project Phase – a Halo Reach ‘what sort of cool things can we do in campaign?’ compilation, level by level – was up to Nightfall. (That was back in October.) Looks like they just released Long Nigh…

Heh – this guy has a problem with the Boltshot. Do you? Thanks, CyReN.(Louis Wu 23:52:58 UTC)

Another one from AchievementHunter – Halo 3 Five Facts. These are tidbits you might not know about this now-5-year-old title. Awesome! Thanks, Enfinit.(Louis Wu 23:51:11 UTC)

AchievementHunter has the latest Halo HORSE (PIG, until the Halo 4 Fileshare actually works) online – watch it at AH.com or YouTube. Cool maps! I love the creativity. Thanks, Nikko B201. (Yes, this is a duplicate newspost. Gonna leave it alone this tim…

343 has updated the stats app on Halo Waypoint with some new goodies that include ways to view upcoming awards and stats for the Virgin Gaming Tournament. Head over to the Waypoint News section for complete details. Thanks, CyReN.(mastrbiggy 23:27:17 UTC)

Jack takes on Michael in the newest episode of Halo 4 PIG. Funny moments and cool maps inbound. Thanks, Nikko B201.(mastrbiggy 23:05:45 UTC)

There’s no film (or other recording), because the tools are no longer built into the game… but Postmortem has transcribed some pretty cool Halo 4 campaign dialogue you may or may not have heard yet. Makes me want to go in with a recorder…(Louis Wu …

It’s been one of those days. Sorry for the late updates. This made me happy yesterday – it’s not Halo-related, but it IS Bungie Community related, and it’s heartwarming. (And cool.)(Louis Wu 22:58:42 UTC)

Rockslider approached the recent AotCR PAL-only bridge descent method with his usual methodical completeness – his latest video shows you how to make it a bit more consistent, and how to use it to shave multiple seconds off a speedrun. Nice!(Louis Wu 2…

mrkevinhurd created a nice all-round view of the new Forward Unto Dawn Hunter statue – you probably STILL can’t get your hands on one, but at least now you can see how it looks from every side! (Louis Wu 23:32:23 UTC)

An opinion-piece on Kotaku today brought up Halo in an interesting way today as it relates to “getting things right” in a shooter game. The focus of the article is actually the Borderlands series, but the author uses Halo as an example of good shooter …

OboeCrazy mentioned to us a friend who is one of a very small few to complete 117 Weekly Challenges in Halo: Reach! Holy crap! (GrimBrother One 18:22:47 UTC)

Firestream whipped up a couple of nice wallpapers involving the Play Arts Kai Sarah Palmer action figure (we mentioned it most recently last week) – go grab one! I found this at Halo Waypoint – I thought angel was on break until January?(Louis Wu 17:44…