Author: halo@bungie.org

Laird sent along a link to the Child’s Play auction site he’s set up – if you’re interested in Halo-related paraphernalia, check out the Bungie, Halo Community, and Robot links. More goodies coming soon! (Louis Wu 15:17:32 UTC)

The Top Ten Halo 3 Screenshots collection this week is called ‘A Day at the Beach’ – lots of fun shots involving fun in the sun. Check ’em! (Louis Wu 15:15:59 UTC)

It’s been a couple of months since we mentioned the Video Games Live broadcast on PBS, coming in late July – if you swing by Xbox.com, you can read a full press release, including information about an upcoming DVD/Blu-Ray release and a trailer. If you …

UGO posted their list of ‘The Best Sci-Fi Games of All Time’ – our forum isn’t terribly happy with their choices, but Halo 3 made #5, so… thanks, Toxic Mayhem. (Louis Wu 15:13:23 UTC)

The Bungie Weekly Update went live last night – later than usual, but SketchFactor did a great job of shifting most of the blame to urk. (Slacker spent the day with his mom. Pfft.) It’s an interesting read – status report on Reach, some fun bugs, new …

FixPix is a puzzle game for your iPhone – you get a fun pixel-art puzzle, and you use the iPhone’s accelerometer to shift the pic into its ‘fixed’ format. the second-to-last level, according to Will Wild, contains a picture of a guy in a Master Chief h…

FyreWulff is back with another Fire Team Zulu challenge – this one is called ‘Craneworks’, and is campaign-only, in all four difficulties. It’s set on NMPD HQ (can you think of another level with lots of cranes? Didn’t think so). Go play!(Louis Wu 12:…

I looked for this yesterday morning, but IGN updates late. IGN’s posted their Top 10 Halo 3 Kills of the Week – nothing spectacular, but lots of clutch plays for the rest of us. Thanks, BuzzJuice, for waiting longer than I did.(Louis Wu 12:49:57 UTC)

Closing in on that 100th round, the latest Caption Fun offering from Hawty McBloggy shows off last week’s best captions, and offers a new image that has most people thinking about ‘No Girls Allowed’. (How would you know if that Spartan on the ground i…

Don’t forget – MLG Columbus, the second event of the 2010 MLG Pro Circuit, kicks off today… put some time aside to watch on MLGPro.com! (Louis Wu 12:48:19 UTC)

100% of our submissions this week for the Fan Fiction section came from The Meep. Go read ’em!(Louis Wu 12:45:37 UTC)

They didn’t make the May 31 deadline… but the latest Bungie Podcast is now live, just a couple of days late. No Luke, but Sketch and Urk have guests Chris Carney, Josh Hamrick, and Chris Gossett in their discussion about the Reach Beta wrapup. 1:17 long (heh), 75 mb. Go grab a copy!(Louis Wu 17:44:38…

There’s been a bit of discussion about campaign-oriented Halo Custom Edition creations recently – and ArteenEsben posted a bunch of links today to content he just uploaded that you can check out. Awesome!(Louis Wu 17:36:16 UTC)

There’s been a bit of discussion about campaign-oriented Halo Custom Edition creations recently – and ArteenEsben posted a bunch of links today to content he just uploaded that you can check out. Awesome!(Louis Wu 17:36:16 UTC)

Videos available on Bungie’s Comm Chatter today:Anoj has released Top 10 Halo Reach Beta Snipes: Episode 5 – 5 minutes long, lots of snipes.Fragtality, Robbie Steeze, and Zola put together ‘Back to Basics’, a Reach Beta montage – reasonably heavy on the editing.Solarity created his Halo Reach Beta Experience, another montage.Clownin Around II b is…

Videos available on Bungie’s Comm Chatter today:Anoj has released Top 10 Halo Reach Beta Snipes: Episode 5 – 5 minutes long, lots of snipes.Fragtality, Robbie Steeze, and Zola put together ‘Back to Basics’, a Reach Beta montage – reasonably heavy on the editing.Solarity created his Halo Reach Beta Experience, another montage.Clownin Around II b is…

A few days ago, we mentioned bevbor’s life-sized cardboard Banshee – he’s finished it. It’s amazing. You can see a video showing the final build, and a Flickr photoset with some great shots from every angle.(Louis Wu 12:57:25 UTC)

So someone went to a convention dressed as Cortana… and the part of the picture that Hawty McBloggy focuses on is the guy in the background ogling her. That woman is so predictable… (Great pic, though.)(Louis Wu 12:56:18 UTC)

Minime637 noticed a quiz at IGN – which Halo character are you? Turns out it’s a little more extensive than it appeared to me… but I still wasn’t happy with the choices.(Louis Wu 12:54:56 UTC)

Wow, cool beans. Bungie’s got a guy on staff doing mocap – and when he needs a prop weapon, he builds one. Well… the frame of one. Because it’s mocap, and there’s no need for the whole thing. (In fact, the whole thing gets in the way.) Very fun article at Bungie.net – go read…