Author: halo@bungie.org

If you like Grifball, you should swing by Grifball.com – signups for the 12th season of the American Grifball League of America open tomorrow! Thanks, urk. (Louis Wu 21:08:35 UTC)

Last night’s Defiant Map Pack Preview Event went down as planned – there’s a single shot in Community Manager DMZilla’s Twitter feed. Apparently, attendees got map codes. Nice!(Louis Wu 14:11:43 UTC)

trappeddark1 pointed out that the latest Achievement HORSE is online – Geoff, once again, is out of town, so Jack has pulled in Michael, from Rage Quit, to play along. More like Resigned Quit this time around…(Louis Wu 13:21:09 UTC)

We didn’t want to announce this until we’d heard from all of the winners, but Domino’s Cryptum Giveaway is finally complete, with all four books out to their new owners. Congratulations to SHADOWJUDGE10, crazy ace91, lostguru585, and XplosiveLugnut – …

Hedgemony had some issues with his Tumblr site… but he’s returned with something new. Check out ‘Don’t Shake the Light Bulb’ for seriously awesome ‘shopped screenshots.(Louis Wu 22:54:39 UTC)

What? I… what?(Louis Wu 22:36:33 UTC)

Another funky map/vid combo from NOKYARD – check this post on GAF for links that might elucidate.(Louis Wu 22:34:57 UTC)

SK1LL4XED let us know that Post Game Carnage Report has released Podcast 69 – and yeah, their ‘adult-themed’ podcast definitely takes advantage of the numerical positioning. Lots of Halo discussion – go listen! (Definitely NSFW.)(Louis Wu 18:41:53 UTC)

Bungie’s CJ Cowan will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Game Developers eXchange, a conference held at the Savannah College of Art and Design (a school CJ graduated from in 1998). There’s no information about what he’s going to talk about on the G…

padraig08 whipped up a pretty nice panorama outside Anchor 9 (WAAAAY outside)… take a look!(Louis Wu 14:24:33 UTC)

Don’t forget to check out the new issue of Reclaimer. More mind games and awesomeness Go read!.(GrimBrother One 14:21:26 UTC)

I woke up this morning to a whole passel of videos announced on our forum – they were ALL good, so watch the lot! Blinding announced Firelight Studios’ newest short, ‘Welcome to New Mombasa’. Filmed in ODST, it’s a tribute to Helljumpers everywhere. …

Marissa’s Bunny is the place to be – again – if you’re interested in getting your hands on a TON of free stuff. This time, the giveaway contains (and yes, all of this is going to ONE WINNER): For the Winner: Reach SE Xbox 360 Slim Kinect Halo:Reac…

}SoC{BrownSound noticed a funny little (very little) stop-motion video highlighted at Kotaku – go check it out. (Louis Wu 20:03:09 UTC)

Stephen Loftus has kicked off a new section here at HBO – he’s going to be posting high-quality versions of various signs that can be found around the Halo universe. The first 8 are up now – click thumbnails for high-resolution previews, and a downloa…

This made me laugh. (Found it at NeoGAF.)(Louis Wu 15:01:49 UTC)

David Ellis from 343 Industries sent word of two awesome new Defiant media pieces are ready for rabid fan consumption. Check out the Defiant Map Map Behind-The-Scenes ViDoc as well as the new Sparkast! The ever-newsworthy Man’s Man, SNIPE 316 also was…

It’s Monday, so Bungie’s Comm Chatter probably has some video material for you… hmm, lessee… ASiKK Entertainment put together a community montage from the Australian Cyber League – 5 minutes of MLG action. The Good Games League released Week Fo…

Mr.Sci-Fi was at the Emerald City Comicon this weekend, and grabbed some videos of the Defiant Map Pack with his phone… quality is what you’d expect, but hey, it’s footage, right?(Louis Wu 18:10:27 UTC)