Author: halo@bungie.org

TDSpiral put together a really nice pic of Emile – go see!(Louis Wu 12:08:23 UTC)

Gamespot has summarized what took place during the 343 Industries panel at ComicCon yesterday – if you haven’t been following the forums, this is a nice summary! Thanks, serpx.(Louis Wu 12:07:57 UTC)

LightningNC noticed that in the Firefight videos from SDCC, the DMR no longer has 12 bullets in its magazine, it now has 15. Nice bonus! Update: RvB regular sithhead2 pointed out that this information was released in the Mayish Bungie Podcast – Chris C…

Minime637 dug up a passel of gameplay links – Gruntpocalypse games in Firefight, some Rocketplay Gameplay, and footage of Pinnacle and The Cage. Go watch!(Louis Wu 23:07:02 UTC)

Minime637 dug up a passel of gameplay links – Gruntpocalypse games in Firefight, some Rocketplay Gameplay, and footage of Pinnacle and The Cage. Go watch!(Louis Wu 23:07:02 UTC)

DHalo made his own Noble Team Logo Desktop – shiny! (Louis Wu 23:06:28 UTC)

DHalo made his own Noble Team Logo Desktop – shiny! (Louis Wu 23:06:28 UTC)

Major Nelson tweeted Amazon pre-order links for the Wireless Reach Controller and the Wireless Reach Headset – looks like both are out on August 17. The controller comes with a code for a Banshee avatar for Xbox LIVE! Thanks to James Center, who found…

Rampancy.net released Episode 19 of their Anger, Sadness and Envy podcast – it focuses on the last two ViDocs from Bungie (Deja View and Forge World) 23 minutes, with Narcogen and Blackstar. Go listen!(Louis Wu 15:23:21 UTC)

coreross created another pair of simple-but-elegant desktops for your use – one utilizes the UNSC logo, the other shows off the Noble Team logo. Go see! (Louis Wu 15:22:40 UTC)

The Halo Waypoint team has been pretty busy at ComicCon – they posted a new (high-quality) 4-part recording of the Reach panel (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4), along with a new Interview with RvB’s Geoff Ramsey. Go watch! (Their own panel kicks off…

At Hawty McBloggy, the latest Grin + Bear It looks at what Bungie might have done for gender parity… if they were working on an Adult-rated title. (Louis Wu 15:21:18 UTC)

Ferrex came back for another round of Forge World questions – and again, we’ve made them a little easier to read. Boatloads of interesting information – give it a good read!(Louis Wu 20:53:23 UTC)

Kotaku has posted a gallery for the Square Enix Noble Team figures, if you want to get some nice close-up looks. Thanks, Avateur.(Louis Wu 20:52:55 UTC)

coreross whipped up a pair of simple but beautiful screenshots, based on ONI’s logo. Check ’em out! (Louis Wu 20:52:24 UTC)

We heard from Dennis Powers about a bunch of new maps from the Community Mapping Team (CMT G3 Vestigial, CMT G3 Ruins, CMT G3 Mousetrap, and CMT G3 Augur), along with 240692 from Jepr (inspired by Narrows) and Pitfall by MoooseGuy (unique water feature…

Long day, no time for Halo (::sadface::) – lessee what we got. First up: small article at Wired.com about the Reach 360 – nice little interview on the design. Thanks, Mark V. (If you want to hear the sound this puppy makes when you boot it up, watch t…

I’m pretty sure the Bungie Weekly Update this week sets all sorts of records for length, number of topics, number of embedded videos, number of screenshots, number of interviews… it’s insane. I’m not even going to TRY to summarize it for you – just g…

The Halo Reach Panel is now up on YouTube – go watch! Thanks, Letters.(Louis Wu 20:09:16 UTC)

Minime637 also pointed out the boatload of new content you can find on Halo Waypoint. For the most part, we leave Waypoint material on Waypoint… but their Fun with Forklifts video was too funny to pass up. It’s just a minute long; you can download HD…