Author: halo@bungie.org

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)

Tyrant’s Mythic Difficulty Guide grows by another chapter – this time, he’ll help you get through Tip of the Spear with no deaths and all skulls on. Twelve videos supplement his writeup, showing you exactly how he does it. But wait! That’s not all! His…

We’d like to remind you that the Fighting With Fairfax outREACH Tournament, to raise awareness for Infantilie Spasms (and have a lot of fun playing Reach), is taking place THIS weekend – there’s still room for more teams (2 player or 4 player) to sign…

Brian Gilmore let us know that the Teabag Prevention Team has tackled Anchor 9 in the first of their series of Noble Map Pack Tips articles. Getting pummeled in low-grav? Give this a read! (Louis Wu 16:04:21 UTC)

Two new pieces for you this week in the Fan Fiction section – give ’em a read!(Louis Wu 16:03:12 UTC)

FyreWulff filmed an odd effect visible when playing Assault on hilly maps – made me laugh! (Louis Wu 16:02:37 UTC)

Hedgemony found some random Halo-related Tumblr goodies – go see!(Louis Wu 16:02:00 UTC)

FyreWulff has posted the final Double Experience Playlist list for the lifetime of Halo 3 – he’s pretty sure the list is now dead. Sadness!(Louis Wu 16:01:20 UTC)

Richard Ross sent word of a couple of academic articles about Reach – as odd as that sounds. That is – these are articles written about the Reach storyline, but from a scholarly viewpoint. Halo: Reach as epic draws parallels between Reach and the Greek…

Bungie’s Playlist Fungineer, Jeremiah, posted a changelist for the Reach Matchmaking playlists over at Bungie.net – check it out to see what’s been updated!(Louis Wu 22:56:02 UTC)

Only 5 months late, Bungie’s 6th podcast of 2010 has finally hit the interwebs – go listen as Derek Carroll, Sam Jones, and Jason Sussman talk about the Noble Map Pack and the meaning of life. (Well, the map pack, at least.)(Louis Wu 22:39:53 UTC)

This week’s Halo Humpday Challenge was against the HaloCharts crew – and the fact that the writeup is not a Top Story on Bungie.net should tell you who won. (But it doesn’t, actually.) Go read it – It’s a decent writeup, and it sounds like there was a…

JDQuackers tipped us off to a new live action/machinima mashup from Chalan Marsalus (I had better luck watching it directly on Vimeo). Can our heroes protect their precious cargo? Watch and find out!(Louis Wu 22:08:40 UTC)

JDQuackers tipped us off to a new live action/machinima mashup from Chalan Marsalus (I had better luck watching it directly on Vimeo). Can our heroes protect their precious cargo? Watch and find out!(Louis Wu 22:08:40 UTC)

Bungie’s Comm Chatter has a couple of community map-making stories: Forever Forgers has a listing of some favorite maps, along with descriptions and links. a rascal cat has Week 6 of his Map Spotlight series – focusing on Troubled Waters, by Odin12…

snakegriffin pointed out a pretty cool thread at Bungie.net – I learned all sorts of things about the Grenade Launcher by reading it. Take a look!(Louis Wu 20:06:34 UTC)

Cracked has a collection of 6 Video Game Heroes Made Useless By Supporting Characters – and Halo’s Master Chief is #1 on the list. You may or may not agree with their logic, but it’s a fun read. Thanks, Sl’askia.(Louis Wu 17:25:39 UTC)

FoxmanFX stopped in with word of a new Noble Map Pack Achievement Guide at Halo Reach Daily – as well as the HBO edition of HRD’s daily Challenge guide. Check it!(Louis Wu 17:01:57 UTC)