Author: halo@bungie.org

hyokin decided to put together a paper Marine helmet – took him a few hours. Amazing what you can do with a few hours!(Louis Wu 10:58:54 UTC)

Jagged went through the Deja View video second by second, and pulled out many of the notable tidbits; it’s the first list of its kind I’ve seen. Pretty impressive list!(Louis Wu 10:57:36 UTC)

Kral let us know that he’s finished up a teaser for Chrisdx1’s upcoming montage called “Relentless” – you can find it on YouTube, or grab a downloadable version from FileFront (720p, 71 mb). Just a minute of gameplay, but some nice synching. Take a lo…

What happens when a group of fans get together and decide to see how funny a cutscene can be if the dialogue is redone with odd voices? One answer can be found on YouTube – the Customs Clan redid the final Floodgate cutscene. (Miranda sounds like Daff…

Hawty McBloggy solicited submissions for a collection of screenshots showing off fans wearing the Bungie-only flames that were made available to the entire community on Wednesday – she got so many she had to put them up in two parts. (Part 1 | Part 2) …

Just a couple of pieces this week, both in the same series – go check the Fan Fiction section! (Louis Wu 10:53:54 UTC)

Yesterday was a busy day, so we hope you’ll forgive the oversight… but at 2pm PT, Maption Sack went live as the Double EXP Playlist for the weekend. 56 fan-created maps, in a mix of slayer/objective 4v4 gametypes… how can you go wrong? Take advant…

TheDuoGroup put together ‘Halo: Reach: Rise & Fall’, an unofficial trailer for the game. As with all TDG content… it’s really, really well done. Go watch. Thanks, Kibbles.(Louis Wu 21:32:27 UTC)

So you know how there was a note at the end of the Deja View video yesterday? The one that read ‘Go outside the canyon – Comic-con 2010’? Well, Voltron64 noticed that the program for Thursday’s talks include the following:6:00-7:00 Halo: Reach— …

kornman00 is selling his life-sized Halo 2 Spartan statue – you can see a thumbnail of it in this thread, or visit the eBay page directly for full details. This bad boy’s a monster! Starting bid is $300, you’ve got 10 days to decide. (Louis Wu 20:57:5…

Dennis Powers let us know about Video Game Webs, a new video game search engine. If you have (or know of) a clan or fan website that isn’t already listed… add it in!(Louis Wu 20:57:13 UTC)

HaloCharts’ Firestream let us know that he’s created a (free) widget for phones running Google’s Android – it’ll give you a countdown to Reach’s release. He sent along an example image – must have been taken a month ago, because the current count is 6…

Bungie’s migrating Halo 3 (and Halo 3: ODST) from their existing servers to the new Reach-generation servers that will be in full use when Reach goes live in a couple of months. No new features, no loss of features – just faster, more powerful hardwar…

Lightning0Struck put together a trailer for Halo: Reach – nice energy! Go watch.(Louis Wu 18:33:10 UTC)

Sketchfactor stopped in with word of a ‘hot seat interview’ that Campaign Design Lead Chris Opdahl has agreed to be a part of; add your questions to the thread, and Chris will do his best to answer them for tomorrow’s Weekly Update. (Ask some good que…

sqorck wants to a Rogue helmet for Reach – but needs money to do so. He’s GOT a Rogue helmet he built for Halo 3; he’s willing to sell it to raise cash to make a new one. He wants to know where to price it – can you help? (He’s put up some pictures…

Antithesis has uploaded another bunch of images, this time mostly of personalized clay Spartans. We’ve added them to his gallery here; the first new one is a streamlined Master Chief, but if you use the ‘Next’ button on that screen, you can see a seri…

We missed yesterday’s Chronicles of ODS Steve, special for Bungie Day – so go read it now! (I think I like Steve’s new look…)(Louis Wu 15:16:41 UTC)

Ken Taya used his Twitter account to explain how the Hologram Armor Ability works. Pretty cool – means you can send off your hologram and run in a different direction! Thanks, Kibbles.(Louis Wu 15:14:05 UTC)

Dielectric pointed out that G4TV was only one of the sites that showed off new McFarlane figures yesterday – there are also new images at Spawn.com (Mark V Spartan, HAZOP Custom Spartan), UGO (Jorge, another HAZOP Custom), USA Today (another Mark V), a…