Author: halo@bungie.org

IGN decided to take a look down the road, and to speculate about where some of their favorite game franchises might be in 10 years. Halo’s on the list – go see what they came up with! Thanks, UNKNOWN iXi.(Louis Wu 13:45:44 UTC)

Kal, from GrifballHub, let us know about tonight’s Wednesday Night Grifbrawl – Ball So Hard is facing off against Hot Bikini Guyz. It’s a best of 3 series – swing by their live stream at 9pm to watch all the action!(Louis Wu 13:43:06 UTC)

IGN also has a direct-feed Flood mode video – Kevin Franklin tells you all about the mode. Thanks, IHaveIce.(Louis Wu 17:32:46 UTC)

It’s been a busy few days, and I’ve been remiss – Bungie has published a new Mail Sack (heist movies, nicknames, and advice for the lovelorn) and a new Breaking In (Stephen Hodde, Audio Designer, awesome stories) since late last week – go read ’em! (L…

IGN has a video with 343’s Kynan Pearson introducing yet another new multiplayer map – this one’s called Abandon. It’s a small (4v4), asymmetrical map geared towards CTF, though it looks like it’ll work nicely in Slayer as well. It’s an abandoned scie…

Hedgemony also paid tribute to the new Mantis, with a new comic cover. I’d read that! (Louis Wu 16:40:35 UTC)

New content from the Dust and Echoes crew – they’ve got a Eurogamer Special podcast, covering their impressions of the event (and new Halo 4 material revealed there), as well as the first episode of DAE TV, showing off a new map and some 1v1 CTF. Go l…

Firestream was pretty impressed with the Mantis – so much so that he created a set of wallpapers in tribute. Go grab some!(Louis Wu 16:33:56 UTC)

We have a pretty strict no-politics policy on our forum, but this isn’t really politics, per se… Mig noticed that Halo toys show up at the beginning of one of the most recent Obama promotion pieces. Nice!(Louis Wu 16:27:32 UTC)

Red vs Blue Season 10 Episode 17 went live last night – Church helps Carolina come to grips with some feelings… and (re)learns some critical pieces of the puzzle. Good stuff! Go watch. (Louis Wu 16:24:33 UTC)

The Thursday War is now available – get your copy today!(Louis Wu 16:14:58 UTC)

MLG celeb Walshy has released a video that looks at how grenades have worked in past Halo games… and speculates on what this means in Halo 4. I found it fascinating – definitely worth your time. Thanks, Pok3R Fac3D. (Louis Wu 16:10:08 UTC)

I saw this yesterday on Halo Waypoint, but didn’t get to posting it – Globe is creating Halo-branded shoes and a skateboard. Funky!(Louis Wu 16:08:04 UTC)

If you live in Europe, Microsoft is running a promotion that might interest you. Twenty lucky fans (five each from the UK, France, Spain, and Germany) will be whisked to an unknown location on October 30 for what will almost certainly be an amazing ex…

More Eurogamer content: The Halo Council’s web guy, Kritical, shares his opinions (thanks, CyReN) CheckpointGamesFeed gets footage of a private presentation on Halo 4 (thanks, ElzarTheBam) LiteralGaming has 11 minutes of Flood gamplay on Complex -…

I laughed – thanks, padraig08. (Louis Wu 15:56:11 UTC)

Recently, 343 Industries’ Lead Campaign Designer, Jesse Snyder, took some time to take some questions from the community over Twitter. Fortunately, he decided to forgo the 140-character limitation of the little bird network and post the answers on his …

The DewXP.com website is now live – visit for prizes, rules, and more. (Everything goes active on October 15 – there’s a handy-dandy countdown on the page to let you know when you can start entering codes.)(Louis Wu 16:58:04 UTC)

RC Master has kicked off a new YouTube channel – RC’s Video Game School. The first video, as he showed on our forum, will teach you how to assassinate Sword Elites in Halo: Reach’s campaign. (Yeah… this probably isn’t as easy as he makes it look.) (…

More Ragnarok/Mantis stuff – Paul B. put up a 9-minute game showing a couple of runs in the Mantis (thanks, CyReN), while Shadders wrote up his thoughts on his blog. HaloForum put together a compilation vid showing offscreen Mantis video (thanks, Elzar…