Author: halo@bungie.org

Hedgemony continues to add new assets to his ‘shopped screenshot site – HedgemonyLovesHalo now contains over 300 images. He’s nowhere near done yet, apparently… go browse the archives for some really cool bits of Reach screenshot art! (Louis Wu 11:…

CaptainTony put together an understated desktop image, involving Noble Team – go check it out!(Louis Wu 11:40:53 UTC)

Tobias Buckell and a number of other authors talked to io9 about why established authors take on franchise tie-in writing gigs. Buckell’s discussion focuses on The Cole Protocol and Halo, for the most part, but several of the authors involved have wri…

Newsarama talked to Brian Reed recently about his upcoming Halo comic series based on The Fall of Reach. It appears that the series coming out this fall is just the first in a SERIES of series. There are also other details which might give you a sense…

The Bungie Weekly Update is live – bug squashing, studio shenanigans, teases, and a great double hijack. Go read it! (It is, of course, available in our Weekly Update Archive, as well – no need for Silverlight!)(Louis Wu 02:23:51 UTC)

GrimBrother One noticed an article at Kotaku – Stephen Totilo got the low-down on the seemingly out-of-character music in the Reach campaign demo unveiled at E3. It IS Marty’s work, and the fact that it’s different from everything else you’ve heard is…

It’s like a rebirth of Halo Babies, or something…(Louis Wu 18:55:25 UTC)

So last fall, we mentioned a project a couple of times (one | two) – a team called ‘Kre8-fx’ was building an animatronic Elite costume. Well, it looks like they’re back – urk just highlighted the latest post from the team on the 405th forums… and I’m…

New vids for you, up on Bungie’s Comm Chatter this afternoon:The Detonation is a Halo 3 montage from Kottiz – guy likes his sniper.Top 10 Halo 3 Splatters: Episode 54 is the latest from Anoj – lots of splats.Cloud (a Pro player with Team Instinct) gav…

Interesting interview with Brian Jarrard and Chris Carney over at Gamasutra this morning – they discuss the Halo Reach Beta, and the take-home messages from it. It’s a monster – 6 pages of good questions and better answers, lots of info about how the …

Minime637 was browsing YouTube, and ran across a vehicle montage with some nice gameplay – go check out oaklesss’ Vehicular Annihilation.(Louis Wu 14:52:54 UTC)

Exige created what he thinks Spartan-II emblem should look like… pretty snazzy!(Louis Wu 14:35:35 UTC)

Ready for more Fire Team Zulu challenges from FyreWulff? Banshee Battle is a Campaign challenge on Kikowani Station, while Post Mortem is a Firefight challenge on Alpha Site. Pick your poison – and kill some Covies!(Louis Wu 14:31:48 UTC)

Willy’s back with another 20 Questions for the month of June – he interviewed Krewtaun, a guy who makes videos highlighting entertaining dialogue in the Halo campaign. Fun read!(Louis Wu 14:29:15 UTC)

We missed this when it went live a couple of days ago, but Stephen Loftus’ Scale Comparison can now be found on Halo Waypoint – it’s even got new artwork that isn’t in the HBO-hosted version! If you’ve got Xbox LIVE, swing by and check it out! Thanks …

Pennybags stopped in with a heartwarming story from the MLG forums – a community outpouring for a kid who just wants to play with pros. Check it out! (Louis Wu 14:08:40 UTC)

There’s a full game of Firefight, recorded on the map Beachhead, by the Halo Waypoint team – no voiceovers, just gameplay. (Not always very GOOD gameplay – but gameplay.) You get a great sense of the level itself, see what Wraiths can do, and so on. T…

Thursdays come awfully fast these days – I totally missed it when one went by yesterday. But if you were paying attention, the latest Double EXP Weekend Playlist went live then – and you can go play Living Dead right now (through Monday morning). Soci…

Inside Gaming awarded Halo Reach ‘Best Online Multiplayer’ in their E3 Wrap-Up. Also, Ten FTW looked at the Top 10 Xbox 360 games at E3 2010 – Halo Reach came in at the number one slot. Thanks, The Alpha Elite. (Louis Wu 13:57:58 UTC)

The Fan Fiction section has been augmented with six new pieces – go read ’em! Also on the fanfic front, we got word from MaxRealflugel that a consortium of Bungie.net groups (FanFicFactor, The Mirratord and The Writing Guild) have gotten together to pu…