Author: halo@bungie.org

Podtacular is doing a 3-part special farewell to Halo 2 – the first part is up already. Part two will be recording Monday – and will feature Foo Mo Jive, returning to say goodbye to an old favorite. If you’d like to recount your favorite stories from Halo 2, you need to send submissions to…

Kombo.com started up an article series they call ‘Out of Reach’ – it’s full of things they’re hoping to get out of Halo: Reach. (Geddit? Out of Reach? Geddit?) Part 1 went up on Monday (we missed it, sorry), Part 2 is live today. They’re expecting to post Part 3 tomorrow.(Louis Wu 21:42:54 UTC)

Remember Bridge CE? (Yeah, it was a long time ago.) It’s risen from the grave, though… and moved to a new engine. Go read about it!(Louis Wu 19:58:25 UTC)

There’s not a lot of Halo content, but it’s a good read all the same – elpolloguapo wrote up a summary of PAX East 2010, from the standpoint of the UNSC Spirits of Fire (a bunch of HBO/HMB fans, for the most part). If you didn’t make it, go see what you missed! (If you…

mendicantbias00 sent word that Halcylon has created a new piece of Halo artwork, inspired by the movie 300. Really nicely done!(Louis Wu 19:42:11 UTC)

New Bungie ViDoc! It’s only on Bungie’s YouTube channel right now, but I’d guess it’ll be up for download on Bungie.net soon. Forget Grifball… specialized Halo will never be the same. May 3 can’t come soon enough! Update: it IS already up on Bungie.net – I just didn’t get a node that was updated yet,…

2good4u2 dropped by with links to a bunch of pics – some panoramas, some modified panoramas – awesome work across the board! Go look. (I liked Mindblast a lot.)(Louis Wu 16:29:16 UTC)

Whoa. Looks like a site that USED to be devoted to Halo PC/CE (and mods for those games) is now selling maps and cartography supplies. We’ll miss you, Halo Maps.(Louis Wu 16:20:50 UTC)

Anakade stopped in to let us know about Echopraxia, a Halo 3 multiplayer tricking vid. Some fun stuff in there!(Louis Wu 15:22:52 UTC)

Devin Olsen noticed a trailer for the Halo Movie Series that popped up today at IGN – this explains that mysterious pic Bungie Tweets posted recently!(Louis Wu 15:18:09 UTC)

According to Blast, Bungie is capitalizing on the superior power of the Cell processor to bring Reach to the Playstation 3 a week earlier (and $10 cheaper) than to the Xbox 360. What platform will YOU buy it for?(Louis Wu 15:12:34 UTC)

Do you have what it takes to be a BUNGLE Pro? Alien Emperor has put together a three-part testing regimen; go see how good you are!(Louis Wu 13:31:57 UTC)

neoxdonut pointed out a video at College Humor – it’s called the Video Game Health Care Bill. This is Halo news because the Master Chief is sitting in the Speaker of the House chair during the speech. Cute stuff!(Louis Wu 12:15:29 UTC)

Two new posts went live last night on the Reach Developer Blog – Marcus talked about improved AI, ‘ambient moments’, and assassination animations… and teased with a clip of a screenshot that shows off some pretty nice trees. Sounds like things are really coming together!(Louis Wu 12:01:26 UTC)

This went live yesterday evening – but yesterday evening was busy. The Game Informer article we were all waiting for discussed the Halo: Reach Sandbox – the toys you’ll get to play with in-game. Sandbox design lead Sage Merrill, sandbox designer Josh Hamrick, and community manager Brian Jarrard discussed Reach in detail with the GI…

Yesterday, we mentioned that ‘The Return’, a story from the Halo: Evolutions collection, would begin appearing on Halo Waypoint this Saturday. Later tonight, the teaser for this series will appear on Waypoint’s YouTube channel… but we’re here to give you an early taste. You can download it from us, in glorious 720p, in either WMP9…

Ducain sent word of yet ANOTHER new Halo 1 trick the HIH guys have put together – BigGruntyThirst has gotten two Sarges, AND a Hog, to the end of AotCR. Pretty amazing! (Awesome launching.) (Louis Wu 20:37:26 UTC)

JeuxVideo.com has interviewed Luke Smith and Brian Jarrard about the Player Investment system in Reach – the interview is in French, but Google does a tolerable job translating, and there are a bunch of new, pretty, screenshots. Thanks, overdoziz.Update: MagniHarvald has done some nice translating, if you don’t feel like wrestling with Google.(Louis Wu 19:51:51…

Gear61 Owns submitted a ridiculous number of montages to Bungie’s Comm Chatter today – and urk posted ’em all. All told, we’re talking over 37 minutes of footage.Overclock, from Muggsy and How2BR Revolver, from Dutchy and Herbal T Let Me In, from Frezz Halo 3 Minitage 2, from Tranquility Off the Chain 3, from Stubby…

According to SketchFactor, the next big Reach info drop will hit GameInformer sometime today – keep your eyes open! (Louis Wu 16:41:19 UTC)