Author: halo@bungie.org

Main Dammie and some friends put together an Emile cake for a birthday on Friday… awesome use of frosting! (Louis Wu 17:57:31 UTC)

Joshua Allen pointed out the new trailer for Arby ‘n’ the Chief Season 5 – the actual series starts next Saturday, the 22nd. I’m definitely confused… (Louis Wu 17:56:36 UTC)

Sgt Hartsock was unhappy with the fact that his McFarlane Warthog didn’t have functional lights – so he added some. (Just a simple desk reading light and two pocket flashlights with flexible necks… nothing fancy.) Works great! (Louis Wu 17:55:51 UTC)

Thanks to ZzoMBiE13, who pointed out the latest Fails of the Weak episode – Volume 17 has lots and lots of Firefight sillies. Watch it at Achievement Hunter, or on YouTube!(Louis Wu 15:52:32 UTC)

cellzx is putting together a new machinima series about Halo and zombies. He’s got a trailer up on YouTube. Go watch it!(Louis Wu 15:43:50 UTC)

Mariachi has inducted a new member into the Halo community – go check out the pics!(Louis Wu 15:43:15 UTC)

MatthewDratt has been playing with Halo CE models and MoCap – he’s getting some interesting results! Go see.(Louis Wu 15:42:06 UTC)

Stephen Loftus found a fun tie between Halo 2 and Reach – great memory, and great detective work!(Louis Wu 15:41:33 UTC)

Also up courtesy her angelness is a cool little tutorial on how to drop your weapon in Reach. One cool thing that sets this one apart is that even the instructions on how do do it have been completely written using Forge objects. Give a look!(GrimBroth…

If you get a chance, definitely stop by the Waypoint Blog to check out an interview with uber-Forger xSoGx Grim (GOTTA be awesome with a name like that). Some neat insight into a gamer that takes Forging to new heights. Go check it out!(GrimBrother On…

Friday’s Bungie Weekly Update at Bungie.net is chock-full of good stuff – offerings for the Bungie All-Stars contest, winners from the Forgetacular contest, updates to Matchmaking… and a really fun Blame Stosh. Go read it! (You can, as always, read …

There’s a pretty cool video urk highlighted – it shows a timelapse of a Forge map being created. A fun 3 minutes!(Louis Wu 20:48:44 UTC)

Tyrant’s finished up his Legendary Guide – the final chapter is now online on YouTube. You can read about it (and watch an embedded version) on Bungie.net’s Comm Chatter, or you can visit the Playlist link at YouTube, and see it in order. Don’t worry …

cbwilliams17 dropped by to show off a pretty funny parody he made based of the Origins episode of Halo Legends. Check it out on YouTube here. Plenty of really funny moments, give it a watch!(GrimBrother One 19:33:45 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue let us know that the latest issue of Reclaimer is out, with a nice little reference readers of Greg Bear’s Halo: Cryptum might like. Go give it a read!(GrimBrother One 15:23:11 UTC)

Brian Gilmore let us know that Geekscape’s Teabag Prevention Team is back on the case – this week, they’re out to help you maximize your score on Score Attack (specifically Gruntpocalypse on Courtyard). Go see how they can help!(Louis Wu 14:46:52 UTC)

FyreWulff finishes out the Birthday Week for Fire Team Zulu with a prize challenge set in Reach’s campaign. You can win DLC (or a Banshee avatar item) by playing through Long Night of Solace on Heroic! Read the details at FTZ. (He also pointed out tha…

Morpheus pointed out a couple of Halo-related bits in Game Informer – an online version of their Top 50 Games of 2010 (Halo items show up in a number of categories), and a pretty nice poster they’re selling. Go look! (Louis Wu 14:38:03 UTC)