Author: halo@bungie.org

If you’re still playing Halo 3, FyreWulff still has your back for Double EXP Weekend Playlist info! This week, it’s 3-Ball. Go get your hands on some balls!(Louis Wu 19:53:49 UTC)

Laird stopped by our forum with information about the Child’s Play fall auction now going on at Good Game Media – items will be rolled out automatically over the next week and a half, with the first Halo item scheduled to go live tomorrow. The cause i…

There’s a new user-created map spotlighted on Bungie.net today – JoeSki73’s Halftime is designed to look like an American football stadium, and play out nicely in Slayer or Objective gametypes. Go read the interview, and check out the flythrough!(Loui…

CruelLEGACEY is back with another episode of The Fails of Reach – plenty of ‘aw, MAN!’ moments. Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 19:01:44 UTC)

imperial181 noticed a Halo propaganda poster at IGN. Made me smile…(Louis Wu 18:54:53 UTC)

Halo Waypoint’s Vociferous and bs angel teamed up to show off the new Square Enix Emile figure – swing by YouTube for the video. No amputated pieces of Sherilyn Fenn included. Thanks, Chris101b. (Louis Wu 13:40:56 UTC)

Bryan Simon has updated his ‘One Shot On My X’ song for Reach – new lyrics, new video, new autotuning, new lulz. Go watch!(Louis Wu 12:47:43 UTC)

Bryan Simon has updated his ‘One Shot On My X’ song for Reach – new lyrics, new video, new autotuning, new lulz. Go watch!(Louis Wu 12:47:43 UTC)

Remember a couple of days ago, when I pointed out some fun artistic modifications ZZoMBiE13 made to his Reach armor? Yeah… well, I think this time maybe he went TOO far. Oh, barnacles!(Louis Wu 12:45:37 UTC)

The day did NOT go as planned – I thought I’d get the Headshot Heard Round The World results posted, and the voting started on the Guilt O’ Lantern pumpkins. Neither one happened. I do, in fact, have results for the Headshot contest – but the pumpkin v…

There’s a new Top Story at Bungie.net – Chris Carney goes over the design process, from nascent idea to finished product, for building a Reach map. Solid info here – great read!(Louis Wu 01:38:31 UTC)

AfroRyan dropped in with more DeviantART goodness – this batch is all from opticneuralinterface, who’s done some amazing Halo work in the past. (I’ve actually seen the colored version of his ALIENS VS Halo piece before; I’m surprised it hasn’t been fr…

nomis78 stopped by with a collection of links he found at DeviantART – good stuff! (ZZoMBiE13 sent me the physical shot not too long ago; it resonates all OVER the Halo community.) nomis also put up a few new panoramas in his own DA space. Links for e…

General Battuta wrote up a really solid treatise on the options available to a higher-level intelligence in our galaxy… read it and be chilled.(Louis Wu 01:24:43 UTC)

GhaleonEB continues to work on his Forge map – and his Forge blog. The latest Forging Ahead article focuses on playtesting. Great read!(Louis Wu 01:18:32 UTC)

Last week, Dustbunny27 pointed out that Halo got mentioned on Comedy Central’s Pretend Time – I let it go, because there was no clip for it. Today, though, 95ss dropped us a note that this sketch can be found on YouTube – and includes the cheesy Halo …

I was hoping to pass on this one altogether… but ChrisTheeCrappy noticed it and called me out. I played a bit of Firefight with the Waypoint team last month – the gameplay won’t amaze you, but it might amuse you. The company couldn’t be beat (I was …

Raide was walking through town, and saw a label that made him smile. (Those seem to be fireworks of some kind… but I’m pretty sure we have some cross-domain stuff going on there.)(Louis Wu 01:13:41 UTC)

This came in a couple of days ago, but got lost in the insanity that has controlled this week. Slushy has edited a bunch of videos, but he’s finally created a Halo 3 montage with his own footage. Three and a half minutes, muted colors, mellow action. …