Author: halo@bungie.org

The term this week for Bungie’s Tag and Release feature is ‘Reach’ – some great shots from the Beta. Go look!(Louis Wu 17:38:03 UTC)

A quick reminder (thanks, urk) – tonight is the live recording of The Running Riot’s 28th podcast, with guest Adam Grumbo from the 405th. Be there at 9:00pm ET if you want a chance to watch from backstage!(Louis Wu 17:36:15 UTC)

Monday Comm Chatter Vids:Sneakier is a hilarious vignette – it’s not what you think. (Plus, it’s only 30 seconds.)Halo: Reach Beta Fails Episode 3 is another collection of Fail moments from the Beta. (I think The1ToFear didn’t really like the whole Weapon Drop kill thing.)G2G is a Halo 3 montage from Orangeclock. Have you jumped…

Domino Theory still has stuff to give away – this time, it’s a 1-month card for Xbox LIVE. If you’re interested, fill out the form; he’ll pick a winner on Wednesday!(Louis Wu 15:45:29 UTC)

SnowJP 360 stoped in with word of ‘Beyond’, a new video from DWT Productions. It’s all glitches and tricks in the Reach Beta, and there’s some funky stuff. (I think Bungie should be watching this one, too – there are some bugs that seem like they should be fixed…) (Louis Wu 13:55:50 UTC)

Pete Cooper let us know that the cast for the teaser for Operation Chastity (the fan-driven live-action Halo film) has been announced – swing by their website for full details! (Louis Wu 13:55:13 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy posted up a fitting farewell video to the Reach Beta – it’s just a clip of a corpse in the Swordbase mancannon… but it’s waving goodbye. For a while. Pretty funny!(Louis Wu 13:53:38 UTC)

It looks like a release date has been announced for Halo: Reach – an Associated Press article (hosted by Google, or Yahoo Finance) mentions that the game is out on September 14 worldwide (September 15 in Japan). A slightly different view (‘worldwide’ is swapped for ‘US and UK’) is shown by Computer and Video Games’…

BierWiser released a ‘Lawltage’ – funny clips from Halo 3 Matchmaking. Not the first time he’s done this – but the first time without a bunch of betrayal clips in it (they were funny to him, not so much to the rest of us). This one’s actually funny. Go see.(Louis Wu 18:23:13 UTC)

Over at Hawty McBloggy’s, the latest Grin + Bear It looks at spawning… in every sense of the word, I guess.(Louis Wu 15:28:34 UTC)

So if you checked the scenery closely on Powerhouse, you might have noticed a ‘Luminateboard’ in the Office. Yesterday, RVideo let us know that he’d been poking through the game files, and found ANOTHER one of these, in the Boneyard map files – but this one wasn’t empty. In fact, it looks more like someone…

harabek stopped in with word of a machinima music video contest – the band Take It To Sunrise wants you to create a music video for them – any game, any style (of course, Halo is a fine choice), and you could win some MS points, the band’s latest album, and more. Basic details on…

It’s a busy Sunday morning here, but this newspost is time-sensitive; if you read it in the next two hours, you’ve got a chance to bid on a fan-made Halo Reach helmet on eBay. Current bid is $217.50, closing time is 8:33 PDT this morning. Thanks, rolandk73 (who also found an already-purchased Spartan CQB Helmet…

General Vagueness noticed (before I did, dangit!) the cake on our front page, signifying our 11th birthday today – in Internet years, that means HBO is ready for Depends and a steady supply of Ensure. Thanks to all of you for being here… we couldn’t do this without you!(Louis Wu 11:10:01 UTC)

Nabsuh stopped in with a teaser from Legendary, an upcoming project from AVCOM Productions – looks great!(Louis Wu 11:09:07 UTC)

NartFOpc noticed a video showing off a mod for Super Smash Bros Brawl – nice work to get Master Chief into the game!(Louis Wu 11:06:17 UTC)

Halo 3 Screenshots is looking at ‘Spawn Points’ in the latest Top Ten Halo 3 Screenshots collection. I wasn’t sure what this meant, until I looked at the pictures… but they’re shots of what you can make with the bright blue spawnpoint symbols in Forge. Very creative stuff!(Louis Wu 11:04:29 UTC)

If you were avoiding Halo Waypoint because you didn’t want your recent Reach Beta films to be cleared from the cache… avoid no more. Lots of good stuff coming this week. Today marks the kickoff of the full-length cut of ‘The Return’, the motion-comic version of the Evolutions story. If you missed it in its…

The Bungie Weekly Update is a quiet one this time around – a wind-down summarizing the end of the Beta, and what you should take away from it. Some great screens – and if you want more than they’re showing, get ’em now, they’ve already said they’re killing the Reach Beta content by the end…

Urban Reflex put together his own tribute to the Reach Beta with a new ‘Multiplayer Madness’ video – some fun gameplay moments! Not your typical montage at all… more a collection of funny bits. Some are VERY funny.(Louis Wu 19:37:01 UTC)