Author: halo@bungie.org

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…

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)