Author: halo@bungie.org

TDSpiral has signed on to Cody Brigan’s Fall of Reach movie project – swing by and see the latest piece of artwork he’s created for this!(Louis Wu 13:25:27 UTC)

Gtag=Reluctant Chaos found a video called ‘If Video Games Were Real’ – smosh.com took a look at a few video games to see how they’d play if they were realistic – Halo is among the targets.(Louis Wu 20:20:40 UTC)

NeoGAF’s Shake Appeal has taken a literary look at Halo 3: ODST – and drawn some pretty impressive parallels between the game and Dante’s Inferno. It’s a masterpiece of educated videogame discussion, and a fascinating read – and it makes me more enamored with Bungie’s story-telling after seeing some of the subtleties that worked their…

Dani, the man behind Forward Unto Dawn, received an in-game message last night during HaloGAF’s weekly custom games. The message came from his girlfriend, and was facilitated by DiabolicalBagel, a friend. The message resulted in a shiny new ring for Dani, some unprintable words for Bagel, and a pretty cool story to tell to the…

Nabsuh let us know about The Gift of Mercy, a machinima project directed by Drift0r that uses Halo 3, Modern Warfare 2, and straight-up CGI to tell a story of misunderstanding and betrayal. Narration is done by bs angel. Overall, a great piece of work – go watch it! (Louis Wu 16:29:09 UTC)

Nabsuh let us know about The Gift of Mercy, a machinima project directed by Drift0r that uses Halo 3, Modern Warfare 2, and straight-up CGI to tell a story of misunderstanding and betrayal. Narration is done by bs angel. Overall, a great piece of work – go watch it! (Louis Wu 16:29:09 UTC)

Marcus is back with more information about the Campaign portion of Halo: Reach, over on the Reach Developer Blog. Give it a read to see the overall roadmap for game development that Reach is using to get from the team’s brains to your Xbox. Go read!(Louis Wu 15:48:36 UTC)

HaLo2FrEeEk is back with another cool panorama – this time, it’s a 20mb version of Valhalla. Check his forum post for details on how it was created, then swing by to his panorama viewer to play with it! (The Little World version of the map is pretty cool, all by itself.) And if you have…

SoundWorks Collection is a site devoted to ‘profiling the greatest and upcoming sound minds from around the world’ – and they’ve posted some material they recorded at the Game Developer Conference this year. The second video on the page is an interview with Marty O’Donnell, talking about where he came from, and how he’s carved…

Almost missed this – kabu stopped by to announce that the HBO Fan Fic Pick of the Week is live on the HBOFF forum – (ENS) Rabid_Gallagher wrote it up, complete with pics. It’s EXTREME!(Louis Wu 19:55:53 UTC)

MsValentine remade her Cortana costume – a second iteration of the Halo 3 Cortana – for MegaCon 2010, which took place earlier this month. It’s pretty amazing, and you can look through a collection of shots she sent us for a gallery here. If you like what you see… swing by her site and click…

Marcus Lehto has updated the Reach Developer Blog with an apology – and some serious excitement. I guess it’s going well!(Louis Wu 14:56:53 UTC)

This week’s Top Ten Halo 3 Screenshots list is call ‘Animals’ – and there are some seriously creative shots in there! Check ’em. (Louis Wu 14:53:02 UTC)

We totally missed Friday Caption Fun, Round 85, posted at Hawty McBloggy’s yesterday. Luckily, she went on vacation, and didn’t notice! Bonus days to post… she’s got last week’s caption winners, plus a new (well, old, but classic) shot up for your captioning pleasure – so go pleasure yourself! (While you’re there, check out a…

The Bungie Weekly Update is live (either on Bungie.net, or in our Weekly Update Archive), and it’s full of clarifications about the Player Investment System Reach will have. You need to go read it for answers to your burning questions. (Louis Wu 00:22:20 UTC)

FyreWulff is back with another Firefight Friday – this one is called ‘New Dawn’, and it’s available at every difficulty level. And the new site design is live! Go check it out – and kill some Covenant!(Louis Wu 18:17:54 UTC)

Jaime Griesemer’s talk at the Game Developers Conference this year discussed why Bungie changed the time between shots with the Sniper Rifle from 0.5 seconds to 0.7 seconds in Halo 3 – and now you can download a PDF containing all 130+ slides of his presentation, along with notes. Great read!(Louis Wu 18:12:15 UTC)

Couple of new montages for you, courtesy of Bungie’s Comm Chatter: Glory and Fitzy provided the gameplay for Second Chance – very nice editing by Dudeman27. And Kravedwhipped up a short montage called Welcome to Bangkok with some slick gameplay. Go watch!(Louis Wu 18:11:47 UTC)

Arm the Flag has a new podcast online – discussion topics include how their site got deleted, how cool urk is, and Reach. Go listen! Thanks, urk. You’re cool.(Louis Wu 18:11:24 UTC)

Sean Bradley (you might remember the name; he’s created some amazing Halo universe armor and weapons) has released a ten-minute live-action film with his brother called ‘After the Game’. It’ll give you a bit of an idea of what happens after you turn off your Xbox… (Seems like Master Chief thinks cats are in the…