Author: halo@bungie.org

Sean P., over at NeoGAF, pointed out a review of the Halo: Reach Beta from Spartan M619 a little bit ago. It’s… pretty entertaining.(Louis Wu 11:29:25 UTC)

3 new pieces available today in the Fan Fiction section – go read!(Louis Wu 11:28:26 UTC)

Yesterday, SketchFactor posted a bunch of screenshots he’d taken in the Halo: Reach Beta. Fun stuff! If you don’t like ’em, though, he tells us there are plenty more to choose from… as of yesterday, more than 375,000 screenshots had been snapped in the Beta. If a picture is worth a thousand words… that’s a…

I’m so far behind on news right now… ugh. Sorry. Mid7night compiled a bunch of the images shown on the Reach Beta stats page on Bungie.net – it’ll give you a sense for what’s availalble (so far). Give it a read!(Louis Wu 11:26:39 UTC)

The Guiness Book of World Records held a poll to see which videogame franchise was the most popular amongst gamers (that voted in their poll). Halo ranks #1. Wonga! Thanks to Soup Nasty, who found this at Kotaku. (Louis Wu 19:24:31 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy let us know about a couple of new bits on her site: Halcylon whipped up a pretty slick ‘All Halos Included’ wallpaper, and Omega created a pretty slick Halo case mod for an Xbox 360 Elite. Check ’em!(Louis Wu 19:21:53 UTC)

A couple of new vids on Bungie’s Comm Chatter today:IGN’s got another Top 10 Halo Reach Kills vid up for the week of May 4 – good assassinations, some fun moments. (They seem to have snagged a number of the clips Bungie’s already highlighted on Comm Chatter…)Mr Sark and the Dead Pixel team up again…

Capt Spanish, previously known (at least here at HBO) for the fantastic work on his Halo 3 Terminal project, is back with a new masterpiece: he’s recreated the Sadie’s Story Audio Logs from Halo 3: ODST. The interface he built himself – the hi-res images and pristine sound files, we snagged from Bungie. The project’s…

GrimBrother One noticed an article on IGN that’s worth a read – it’s commentary on WHY you should be pumped for Reach. Check it out!(Louis Wu 22:32:00 UTC)

AfroRyan and friends made cake to celebrate the Halo: Reach Beta. After looking at the pics, I think you’ll agree that though the cake is pretty amazing, it’s AfroRyan’s ‘fro that really makes the celebration. Enjoy.(Louis Wu 22:19:53 UTC)

pete_the_duck wrote up a fun-sounding game of SWAT on SwordBase – and annotated it with movies. Check it out! Tell him what you think, either on the blog itself or in our forum.(Louis Wu 22:07:18 UTC)

Boatloads of Beatificality at Bungie.net today:Shocktology 2 is a Halo 3 montage from Aftershock (gameplay) and TM22 (editing). Pretty stuff! (Even for an OLD game…)Spectacle is a Halo 3 montage from Sandman (gameplay) and SillyGoose (editing). Still old graphics, and no armor abilities, but hey – the gameplay’s pretty good.Eamonn’s Halo Reach Betatage has nice…

TTL Demag0gue let us know that Reclaimer #252 continues the Reach-based thread of the story; Reclaimer and Tran are still after Archimedes, but they’re running into some trouble.(Louis Wu 16:23:08 UTC)

The latest episode of The Chronicles of ODS Steve (#69) is now live at Hawty McBloggy’s – the fourth wall takes a blow.(Louis Wu 09:52:41 UTC)

Wired’s John Mix Meyer has put up a list of 5 things to fix in the Reach Beta – see if you agree with him!(Louis Wu 09:52:04 UTC)

Inferno has ported Midship (among other maps, including Derelict) into Unreal – swing by Modacity for cool pics! Thanks, Dwood. (Louis Wu 09:51:22 UTC)

Minime637 stopped into our forum yesterday with word of a new release from the DefendTheHouse crew – Halo: Reach BetaBusters Episode 1 continues in the vein of their previous MythBusters series to look at some of the cool things you can do (or not do) in the Halo: Reach Beta. Worth a watch!(Louis Wu 09:49:58…

I managed to forget to post about a new Halo Action Figure Theater yesterday; #203 (Left Bumper, Dude) has our fearless cast messing around with the Reach Beta goodies. Apparently, Elnea punishes carelessness with NEW episodes – #204 (Valium for Everyone) is live now. It’s a nice segue back into the insanity that is the…

Gizmodo put together a photoshop contest asking you for videogame crossovers you’d like to play. Mario-Kart/Halo made #50! Heh. Thanks, Schedonnardus.(Louis Wu 20:12:20 UTC)

I’m not sure why we forgot to post this this morning (or last night) – but There’s a new PSA up at Red vs Blue. Are you a manly man? You might be their demographic!(Louis Wu 19:56:28 UTC)