Author: halo@bungie.org

Gamasutra has a writeup of the NYC Reach Launch event – nice quotes!(Louis Wu 20:08:24 UTC)

Good news for Brazilian Halo fanatics – Marcelo Vega let us know that Microsoft has issued a press release stating that while folks with Legendary preorders will have to wait at least 10 days to get their product (we mentioned the problem a couple of …

Slushy suggested we watch a community fiestatage edited by Anthraxx – you might wonder a little about the timing, but maybe if you don’t have access to Reach right now… (Louis Wu 20:01:03 UTC)

Back in August, we mentioned a Bungie.net thread devoted to building a community music playlist – That ODST Dude let us know that the list has been compiled, and is ready for your playing enjoyment. Go check it out!(Louis Wu 19:45:37 UTC)

Dragon from GrifballHub sent word that they’ll be kicking off GRUNTs – Grifball in Reach Neighborhood Tournaments (don’t ask where the ‘u’ comes from) beginning this Thursday, and running through Sunday, September 19. Full details can be found on this…

Paul Shelley sent word that Treeskunk Productions ALSO participated in the Fantastic Arcade 48-hour Machinima Challenge (we mentioned it yesterday) – you can see their entry on YouTube. I enjoyed it!(Louis Wu 19:37:26 UTC)

Veegie was at Redmond Town Center for the midnight launch of the game – he caught Bungie’s buses rolling in on camera. Oh, the love… Update: more film here, from CMNeir.(Louis Wu 19:32:21 UTC)

Over at Examiner.com, Matt Furtado did some testing – he measured loading times for various aspects of Reach, then installed the game to the hard drive and did it again. The results may surprise you. (Louis Wu 19:30:05 UTC)

Elnea has a special Halo Action Figure Theater episode, mostly just celebrating her ability to play as a girl. w00t!(Louis Wu 19:29:39 UTC)

Willeth let GAF know that he’d written up a comparison between Reach and a famous piece of literature. Do NOT read this until you’ve finished the campaign, as it is nothing BUT spoilers… but read it then, because it’s pretty interesting! (Louis Wu 1…

We’ve mentioned Roger Travis before (most recently at the launch of Halo 3) – but he’s back, with more on his thesis that Halo’s story plays the same role to the current generation as the ‘Aeneid’ played to listeners in Homer’s day. (No, he’s not sayin…

To keep you up to date on where Reach stands in the Media, Bungie.net has put together a ‘Welcome to Reach’ article, with some links, som reviews, and some resources. Check it out!(Louis Wu 19:16:48 UTC)

ARG guy thebruce0 is back with another puzzle – he’s found a bunch of ringcodes scattered throughout Reach. He’s pretty curious if anyone else has noticed these, or knows what they might be about. (Me, too.) Obviously, there are spoilers here, so thi…

ChenK noticed that Halo 3 has passed the 20 million mark, in terms of all-time players. Not a shabby milestone to reach (no pun intended)! (Louis Wu 19:16:04 UTC)

Anton P. Nym’s sharp eyes saw a quote in a recent ars technica article about surviving the idiots on Xbox LIVE – ferrex says that Reach has a feature where if too many people mute you in-game, you’ll start being auto-muted by the system. Nice! (Louis W…

Nevan noticed that the shirt of the day for yesterday at RIPT Apparel was Halo-related. Funky! (Louis Wu 19:09:52 UTC)

Not exactly Halo news, but important to those who follow Bungie – Develop Online has a small article mentioning the next project Bungie will be working on… and confirming that it WON’T be using the Reach engine (or a licensed third-party engine). In…

Halochief89 is offering to custom-color a cartoony Spartan he drew, just to match your in-game model. CaptainTony has already taken him up on it – go put in your own request! (Louis Wu 19:08:26 UTC)

If you’re looking for a new theme for your Xbox 360 Dashboard, check out the Halo: Reach Invasion Theme – it costs nothing. Nice!(Louis Wu 19:07:26 UTC)

Bungie’s Developer Blog has a bunch of pics from last night’s festivities in New York – check it out! (We’ll have more of our own, soon, I hope.) (Louis Wu 19:05:36 UTC)