Author: halo@bungie.org

Der Flatulator, at NeoGAF (and Bry, on our own forum) both noticed some Halo content in the year-end YouTube retrospective vid, Rewind YouTube Style 2012. Nice touch – Halo content appears for the first time… at 1:17. (Louis Wu 16:49:13 UTC)

You knew it was coming – in the wake of last week’s horrific school shooting, video games are being called out as potential threats. NBC’s Chuck Todd names Halo, specifically (though it’s likely he was just picking a well-known title, rather than tying…

CorridorDigital released The Glitch – fantastic effects! And some awesome Halo content, to boot. Go watch! Thanks, robofin117.(Louis Wu 16:28:31 UTC)

IGN reviewed the Forward Unto Dawn Blu-Ray release – they liked it. (Gave it a 9.1, even. Hmm… actually, now that I think about it, for IGN, that’s failing, isn’t it?) Thanks, CyReN.(Louis Wu 16:23:19 UTC)

In the last couple of days, there have been a rash of reports of people being permabanned from Halo 4 Matchmaking after playing the Crimson DLC. (Originally, it looked like it was people who’d downloaded the maps as part of the ‘Pay and Play’ promotion…

Over on the Halo Council forums, K2Five posted some useful pics – they show the ‘red reticule’ range on various maps, for DMR and BR. (This is the range at which you can see the reticule color change to red, to indicate a headshot.) To be clear: these …

Grifball is now five years old – and the folks at GrifballHub are celebrating with a birthday vid! They did some awesome planning to bring this off. Also, they’ll be running four one-night tournaments this week, in honor of its old-age status! (Five is…

Sometimes, cool stuff makes it to us way late. MrSolidSnake745 creates music by feeding MIDI tracks to an Arduino controller that manages the stepper motors of 8 floppy drives. (Are you old enough to remember what a floppy drive is?) If this concept ma…

MoltenSlowa stopped in to announce Episode 5.5 of his crew’s Spartan Ops-themed podcast, Ops-Cast. This is a collection of outtakes that didn’t make it into earlier shows. They’ll be back in January, when Spartan Ops is back – in the meantime, you’ve g…

For their 117th video, defendthehouse decided to revisit Halo 3 and bust some myths. I had no idea that the Arbiter could pick up skulls – wow! Thanks, mattroe. (mastrbiggy 08:45:29 UTC)

What happens when you combine an enclosed spherical map with tweaked gravity settings, plenty of weapons and thruster packs? You get the Episphere! Looks fun, but be sure to bring your motion sickness pills! Thanks, Gabotron ES.(mastrbiggy 08:43:36 UTC)

t00lbox posted a video showing off some really cool tricking. Plenty of neat spaces to check out as well as some funny glitches. Go watch! (mastrbiggy 08:40:46 UTC)

Malukah is a composer and singer from Mexico – she’s covered a number of video game songs, but her most recent one is her first Halo-related release. It is simply spectacular. ‘Frozen Sleep’ is a tribute to Cortana – it combines existing Halo themes, s…

uberfoop went back to Halo 3: ODST’s campaign and found quite a bit worth appreciating. His post is dripping with cool screenshots and fun videos – nostalgia is growing! (You may have missed some of the clever little bits Bungie put into this game, the…

Pete Cooper is still selling off assets built up for the now-defunct Operation Chastity project… if you wanted to get your hands on some high-quality Halo props, this is your chance! Swing by to see a link to what’s being sold, and how much each piec…

NartFOpc stopped in with a ‘Christmas Minitage’ – a bunch of HBO regulars got together for a bunch of games, he pulled some fun clips from these games. Go watch! (Louis Wu 18:20:28 UTC)

Edge let us know about Halotracker’s latest Halo 4 weekly montage – these clips are all from King of the Hill games. Check it out!(Louis Wu 17:18:05 UTC)

Bry posted this a couple of days ago, but I accidentally passed over it when I was posting news: he’s finished the first five episodes of his Spartan Ops series. We mentioned the first episode a couple of weeks ago – now he’s got all five episodes up. …

Clicked continues to document jumps in various Halo 4 maps – check out his latest vid! (Some of these look pretty tough.) Thanks, CyReN.(Louis Wu 16:34:11 UTC)