Author: halo@bungie.org

Rockslider has been launching Elites. The pink and blue explosions are beautiful! Read his forum post for details – then go watch the vids!(Louis Wu 11:48:11 UTC)

Caleb 117 noticed a Windows Phone 7 app that displays the daily and weekly challenges, and can be linked to your gamertag to show you YOUR progress. Nice! Check his post for full details.(Louis Wu 11:45:08 UTC)

James M. let us know that GamesRadar has a piece on ‘The Top 7 Games with Fantastic Flashbacks’ – Halo 3: ODST comes in at #6. Always nice to be remembered! (c wut i did thar?)(Louis Wu 18:51:04 UTC)

Derek ‘_mantis’ Carroll and Eric ‘urk’ Osborne had 20 minutes of time on Major Nelson’s latest podcast to discuss the Noble Map Pack – the writeup gives you the timestamps, if that’s the particular part you want to listen to. Check it out!(Louis Wu 18…

Hedgemony has posted pages 17-23 of his “Guard Duty” comic – start in this post, then follow his links. His artwork is fantastic! (Louis Wu 18:00:51 UTC)

Hypertrooper got some cool Reach schwag from Microsoft Germany, but couldn’t use it – so he’s offering to give it to you. All you’ve got to do is provide him with a crazy Armor-Lock clip. It has to be yours (no submitting your friend’s cool kill or fa…

We received almost 400 entries to our “I’m So Poor” contest for Noble Map Pack codes – I wish we had that many codes to give away! (Only 10, folks – sorry.) So here’s what happened: the entries were split into “funny” and “serious”, and dupes were remo…

chris10023 let us know that Halo Reach Fails: Episode 5 hit the net recently – always fun to see players (and AI!) showing serious lapses in judgement! (Only thing worse than firing too close to yourself when you’re ambushing someone with a Rocket Laun…

Jimmy Jangles wrote up a review of the Noble Map Pack after playing for a while – go see if you agree with him! (Louis Wu 15:11:28 UTC)

UK’s Electronic Theatre put together their list of the Top Ten Xbox 360 Exclusive Games – and both Halo 3 and Halo: Reach make the list (at #3 and #1, respectively). Not bad!(Louis Wu 15:09:31 UTC)

HaLo2FrEeEk took the time to collect and organize the image assets that can be found throughout Bungie.net – if you ever find yourself in need of, say, the outline of a Skirmisher, or the medal for an Assist Spree, this pack can help. Almost 1500 imag…

Bryan Simon is back with another vid – this one’s called ‘I Wish I Had a Jetpack’, and tells a sad story. (Amazing gameplay from Kampy, though.)(Louis Wu 21:16:45 UTC)

Mr.Sci-Fi created a Forerunner diorama, for displaying your Halo action figures – fantastic work! It’s for sale on eBay right now, if you’re interested.(Louis Wu 14:28:36 UTC)

ViDoL put together a 15 minute ode to MLG Pro Snip3down – I could live without the soundtrack, but the gameplay is UNREAL. (Well, it’s not Unreal, it’s Halo 3, but you know what I mean.) This is Halo 3 gameplay at a level I can only gape at. Thanks t…

Bry is considering making an Aces video in Reach – his teaser is up now. Go watch! (Louis Wu 14:17:45 UTC)

Achievement Hunter’s Fails of the Weak Volume 11 (that’s not a roman numeral 2, that’s eleven) contains funny situations and funnier commentary – go watch. Beckx embedded it on our forum, if you’d like to watch it there. (Louis Wu 14:14:17 UTC)

As expected, the Bungie Weekly Update went live yesterday – lots of good stuff in there. There are reminders of what the week brought (Noble Map Pack, Podcast), warnings about a new wave of autobans (don’t mod stuff!), new mobile wallpapers, info abou…

Are you one of the sad ones left out of the Noble Map Pack fun? We’ve got 10 more codes to give away – so tell us what’s keeping you from buying, and you might just find yourself in possession of a freebie! (Louis Wu 18:41:13 UTC)