Author: halo@bungie.org

BusyGamerNews.com is giving away a big bag of schwag collected at the Emerald City ComicCon last week – included is one of those cool Halo Reach posters available at the show. (The runner-up also gets one of those posters – that’s two shots at a very cool item.) All you gotta do is visit the…

Facility B5D is hosting a Spring Break Screenshot Contest – take a cool shot, win 1600 points. There are a few rules – check the newspost for full details. Thanks again, urk.(Louis Wu 17:15:19 UTC)

The latest episode of Halo 3 Fails shows off some epic bad luck and bad judgement – funny stuff. Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 17:14:50 UTC)

Brian Gilmore let us know about the final tips page for the ODST Firefight series at Geekscape; Teabag Prevention Presents: Firefight – Windward. Wanna see some tips for getting through this level? Go read! Now that ODST is finished, they’re going to head back and finish up their Halo 3 collection, and the end result…

bloogyo is back with three more pages of Rat’s Nest Chapter 25. New gear and a surprise… (Louis Wu 15:34:56 UTC)

There’s a new Firefight Friday offering from FyreWulff – Hero Heroics is an unrestricted Lost Platoon challenge! Go check it out. (Remember, you’ve got one more week to participate if you’d like an exclusive beta-tester marking associated with your profile on the Firefight Friday site once it goes live. (You can see a mockup of…

It’s Friday, so it’s time for another Friday Caption Fun episode at Hawty McBloggy’s – Hawty makes fun of me for seeing sex where there wasn’t any (she’s SUCH a bad influence), and posts a shot of a Bungie staff meeting for your captioning pleasure. While you’re there, thinking of some funny thing to write…

ShackNews posted a more in-depth look at Halo: Reach’s Arena system, building on the article they posted yesterday. It’s a fascinating read, and the more you learn, the harder it’s going to be to wait through the 6 weeks remaining until the Beta goes live. And it looks like they’ll have even more for you…

TripleZeroFilms has posted Mandlbaum in: “Core Tempature” [Part 5] – singing henchmen, rants about stupidity, and plump, juicy salsa. Will Evile Profesure get away? Will Roboclaw forgive his old henchman? Will Master S meet Alex Trebek? You’ll have to watch to find out.(Louis Wu 12:49:37 UTC)

This weekend’s Double XP Playlist (which went live yesterday afternoon) is Maption Sack – a collection of community created maps with a variety of slayer and objective gametypes. Tons of fun – but be careful of the 4-player teams of Generals you seem to meet every other game… (Louis Wu 12:49:08 UTC)

Morpheus told us about 17’s Labyrinth, a new puzzle map from Unlucky17. There’s a bit of info in his forum post, as well as a link to the map and gametype. Are you up for it?(Louis Wu 12:48:41 UTC)

There are four new pieces up for your perusal in the Fan Fiction section this week – go read!(Louis Wu 12:48:03 UTC)

According to the Reach Developer Blog, the team is shifting back towards Campaign – just because YOU’RE waiting for the multiplayer Beta, doesn’t mean THEY’RE sitting around doing nothing!(Louis Wu 20:37:57 UTC)

Ross Mills pointed out that a sample character in Eclipse Phase (a recent pen & paper RPG) is a pretty close match for Cortana. You can see a couple of sizes of the image in question in this post.(Louis Wu 20:30:37 UTC)

Firestorm12 sent word that the Halopen Pencast 18 is now online – it’s all discussion about Reach. You can download it from PodBean, or discuss it on the Halopen forum.(Louis Wu 20:18:51 UTC)

As expected, Shacknews has a pretty interesting article online right now – it discusses some of the new Matchmaking and social features coming in Halo: Reach. Active Roster and Arena, terms we’ve heard before but had no explanation for, are now laid out – along with a description of better voting options, queue-joining, new party…

A couple of new videos, courtesy of Bungie’s Comm Chatter today: Peeps created his first Halo 3 montage – Peeps likes his sniper rifle. And Hudson Creations whipped up ‘The Wheel’, a short Halo 3 machinima about the wheel of death.(Louis Wu 18:34:08 UTC)

Dani was kind enough to stop by with a summary of some information dug up by the HaloGAF crowd – looks like SOMETHING is getting revealed today… we’ll have to wait and see what.(Louis Wu 13:03:13 UTC)

This is why you want to watch how much rage talk you allow yourself to spew after a bad match. Thanks, Tashi0106, for a seriously funny look at self-delusion.(Louis Wu 12:56:37 UTC)

Aymeric Neau, of Halo.fr, sent word of an article (with lots of pics) about Operation Chastity – it’s in French, but Google will translate acceptably. A bunch of interesting tidbits in there… go give it a read! There’s a second part of the article coming next week, with the promise of a huge reveal… so…