Author: halo@bungie.org

IGN posted their Top Reach Kills of the Week for May 19 – little bit of a lot of things, but the focus seems to be on cool assassinations. Check it!(Louis Wu 12:03:22 UTC)

IGN posted their Top Reach Kills of the Week for May 19 – little bit of a lot of things, but the focus seems to be on cool assassinations. Check it!(Louis Wu 12:03:22 UTC)

Cozmo23 played 500 games in the Halo: Reach Beta – and put together a montage when he was finished. Three and a half minutes of fun… (Louis Wu 12:02:27 UTC)

Cozmo23 played 500 games in the Halo: Reach Beta – and put together a montage when he was finished. Three and a half minutes of fun… (Louis Wu 12:02:27 UTC)

VAVA Mk2 was the first on our forum to notice a Joystiq article about an intent to reissue the first three Halo novels (The Fall of Reach, Halo: The Flood, and First Strike) as trade paperbacks, with “updates and all-new original content.” Our forum isn’t thrilled with the idea of retconned novels (I suppose, though,…

H3Wheelmen.com is hosting the First Annual Charity Hog-off – they’re challenging the Halo community to get as many Wheelmen medals and Warthog gunner kills as possible in Halo 3 slayer-based Matchmaking playlists during the month of June. They’ve got some cool prizes for the winners – swing by the Bungie.net news post for full details!…

No time for news right now – but this one’s pretty time-sensitive, so… Bungie’s looking for saved films (not clips, but entire films) showing off l33t skillz. If you’ve got some… upload ’em. Tag ’em with ‘Sendoff’, so they can find ’em; they might use yours for something cool! You’ve got just 15 more hours…

urk got an early start on the video mania in Bungie’s Comm Chatter today:Mike and Cheese is back with ‘I Got A Jetpack’, a live-action (sort of) tribute to Lonely Island… and Reach.Give It Up is a Reach Beta Montage from Vandelay16 – lots of sniper action, lots of hammer action.Nick Johnston put together a…

Rockslider continues exploring the original Halo – he takes on the Truth & Reconciliation Belly of the Beast battle with just grenades and an AR. Legendary, of course. Go read about it, look at the pics, watch the film!

DefendTheHouse is back with Halo: Reach BetaBusters Episode 3 – some pretty cool game tidbits in there! (I’d seen the plasma turret on Boneyard – but I had no clue how you triggered it.) Go watch!(Louis Wu 13:10:10 UTC)

Brian Jarrard and Chris Carney spent an hour with Ryan McCaffrey of OXM for their podcast this week – go listen to it. (Thanks to Kaboris, who pointed this out, and mentioned that the Bungie interview starts about half an hour in.)(Louis Wu 13:09:36 UTC)

Over at Hawty McBloggy’s, Chronicles of ODS Steve #71 is live now – not sure it’s a good idea for someone like Steve to find new weapons…(Louis Wu 13:08:19 UTC)

cardo 8 atl ran across a funny little live-action film on YouTube – it’s only 15 seconds long, so how can you go wrong?(Louis Wu 13:06:22 UTC)

Tom Mathews whipped up a Halo Statistics Tracker (for Windows) that can host your Halo: Reach Beta stats long after Bungie wipes the data off Bungie.net. (There are certainly alternatives – I love HaloCharts.com, for example – but having the stats offline is definitely comforting.)(Louis Wu 13:05:51 UTC)

HaLo2FrEeEk stopped in last night with a spherical panorama of Powerhouse – what a great view of the map! It’s available, as all of his super-panoramas are, in multiple formats; scrolling panorama, ‘little world’ format, and as a screensaver for your PC. Check it out!(Louis Wu 13:05:15 UTC)

CougRon was the first to let us know about an article at Joystiq – looks like the Reach Beta has been extended a little bit. (It now ends at 10 am PDT on Thursday, May 20 – 10 hours past the original ending time of midnight on the 19th.) Make use of that time -…

UT’s McComb’s School of Business has a video interview with Rooster Teeth’s Burnie Burns on their site today – it’s a great discussion of the evolution of filmmaking in the context of machinima. Lots of RvB footage tossed in for good measure.(Louis Wu 20:01:57 UTC)

UT’s McComb’s School of Business has a video interview with Rooster Teeth’s Burnie Burns on their site today – it’s a great discussion of the evolution of filmmaking in the context of machinima. Lots of RvB footage tossed in for good measure.(Louis Wu 20:01:57 UTC)

Vids today over at Bungie’s Comm Chatter:Empty’s Halo: Reach Beta Experience is a relatively mellow montage – some nice kills, some funny oops moments.Halo: Reach Beta Fails, Episode 2 is… well, a collection of fails. (Surprise, surprise.) In HD. (The only real downside is, most of these clips have been in other vids.)That’s it for…

WillClan4Food wants to close out the Beta with you – swing by Bungie.net for details on their community playdate tomorrow night.(Louis Wu 19:42:27 UTC)