Author: halo@bungie.org

IGN Australia has posted an editorial entitled “Is Halo Behind the Curve?” Our forum wasn’t very impressed with their reasoning. Go decide for yourself! Thanks, Avateur.(Louis Wu 12:41:05 UTC)

Defendthehouse has released Episode 2 of their Reach Mythbusters series – some very, very cool stuff in there. Go watch! (I gotta try that AA swap trick…)(Louis Wu 01:08:48 UTC)

Unsure about buying the Halo: Reach Official Soundtrack? Go check out the review at G4TV – they loved it. There are three pieces included in the article, so you can listen for yourself before committing. G4 calls it “the one video game music album yo…

Bungie’s Weekly Update went live on Friday, as expected (and in fact even made it into our Weekly Update Archive on Friday) – but the newspost has been a bit delayed. If you haven’t read it yet, go do so – there’s info about upcoming matchmaking chang…

We also missed the Fan Fiction update this week – swing by the page for four new pieces, updated Sunday evening.(Louis Wu 00:55:04 UTC)

We missed a bunch of videos last week on Bungie.net… let’s see if I can summarize them here:JBSpudster created the Accelatron VFW – and you can fly in a Hog now.Mr Fizzl noticed a Moa saving Noble Six from a sticky blue death.A bunch of Elites show …

Taco Power stopped in with word of ‘Adieu’, a montage celebrating Clan AB’s love of Halo 3, and a farewell of sorts. Go watch.(Louis Wu 00:54:16 UTC)

Ghost Faction recreated Assault on the Control Room, set up for Invasion – go look at the pics, then download the map!(Louis Wu 00:53:52 UTC)

Devin Olsen pointed out an odd occurance that appears near the very end of Reach’s campaign – forum consensus is that it’s just there for scale comparison, but who knows? (As should be obvious, watching this will spoil the end of the game if you haven…

Frank Mackey and a friend are building a Halo Reach MLG Weapon Timer App, for learning the timing of weapon spawns on various maps. It’s Android-only right now, and free. (Louis Wu 23:30:25 UTC)

bs angel pointed out a few new features on Halo Waypoint’s website:Halo: Reach – Perspective II is a scenery montage (gorgeous)Halo: Reach Assassination Compilation is what it sounds likeSounds of Halo Reach is weapon noises used to a rhythmic effectGo…

Asian Inferno apologizes for it being a little late – but his writeup of the Seattle EMP/Gamestop Launch Night events is now live on Grunts R Us. Go read.(Louis Wu 23:26:33 UTC)

halosavior wanted to announce that he’s hosting a short story fanfiction contest over at Abyss Studios. Your job is to expand the history of Noble Six prior to joining Noble Team. You have until October 31, 2010 at 11:59pm CST, with submission rules o…

Maximum Fear let us know that he’s compiled the top speeds of all vehicles in Halo: Reach (along with calculations such as acceleration). Swing by Bungie.net to read all the details!(Louis Wu 23:24:11 UTC)

SK1LL4XED sent word that Postgame Carnage Report has released their Halo Reach Special podcast – they review and discuss the game. (Of course there are spoilers.) If you’ve spent any time on our forum recently, the story change discussions will be fam…

Greg O’Connor-Read sent word of a couple of articles about Marty O’Donnell – MSN Entertainment has an interview where Marty looks back over Halo, and remembers the good parts, and G4TV has an interview with him where he discusses Reach’s Soundtrack. Bo…

Spartan-270 sent us a few shots of his made-from-scratch Reach suit – looking pretty good! (He also sends a shout-out to his buds at the 405th.) 250k205k309k261k (Louis Wu 16:24:00 UTC)

Brian Gilmore wanted you all to know that the latest Teabag Prevention article at Geekscape is called ‘How to Use Jetpacks’ – and it gives you the dos (and don’ts!) you need to be a master of the air. Firebird, yo! (Louis Wu 16:23:41 UTC)

Bryan Simon let us know about a Halo Reach Rap he wrote – takes a pretty nasty shot at Black Ops near the end, but otherwise is pretty lighthearted.(Louis Wu 16:23:22 UTC)

Bry wanted to know just how big a Covenant ‘Super Carrier’ really is – so he took some pictures, and did some math. Them babies are HUGE. (A direct comparison with an Assault Carrier is in this post.)(Louis Wu 16:23:04 UTC)