Author: halo@bungie.org

LikeTotallyAwesome’s Matty boy did his own Reach MP Trailer analysis – nice presentation, and he fits an awful lot into 3 minutes. Check it out!(Louis Wu 15:40:23 UTC)

The Top Ten Halo 3 Screenshots theme this week is “Faces’ – if you hated Oonsk, don’t visit, because these will get stuck in your head. Shots like ‘The Inner Child’, though, are simply amazing. (Louis Wu 15:40:04 UTC)

In honor of Marcus Lehto’s birthday, the Bungie Developer’s Blog has released a ringtone (in a couple of flavors) of Marcus describing his neuronal firing. Go grab a copy! (And not only a Happy Birthday to Marcus, but a belated one to Joe Tung, who was fêted on February 28 – we managed to skip…

Toxic Mayhem pointed out a video that went up on YouTube just a few days ago – but it was clear that it’s a much older vid, so I did a little digging. Apparently, it was originally released in September 2007, just before Halo 3 came out. (We missed it then.) Regardless, it’s funny -…

No, the Bungie Weekly Update doesn’t provide you with the skinny on the Multiplayer Trailer teases. That doesn’t mean it’s not worth reading, though – lots of good stuff in there. Everything from a clean version of the trailer’s soundtrack (C Paul – you rock) to winners of the emblem contest, to a really funny…

Pretty odd movie on Bungie’s Comm Chatter today – ‘The Bomb’ is the latest film from Tommy92L, and while it’s only 3 minutes long, it manages to draw you in to the ending. Give it a watch!(Louis Wu 18:13:10 UTC)

Thanks to XerxdeeJ for the heads-up about a pretty cool Reach Multiplayer Trailer analysis, done by TTL’s Hoovaloov. Rather than step through the trailer frame by frame, as others have done, he’s taken a more systematic approach, and grouped changes and intriguing bits by content, rather than reveal time. It’s very comprehensive, and I’d say…

We forgot to mention this yesterday, but Mythic Brawl is once again the Double XP Weekend playlist. Ranked FFA play – though if you’re looking for those last few pesky MP Achievements, realize that this list seems to be full of very high-level players either building up accounts to sell, or simply donging on noobs…

Hawty McBloggy is back with another Rorschach Inkblot Test – she’s provided some of the best answers from the last one of these (which looked at Orbital), and now brings you the heatmap from Longshore. What do you see?(Louis Wu 14:10:50 UTC)

Today’s Ctrl+Alt+Del comes back to Halo – amazing what a little flying pack can do. Thanks to Hawty McBloggy, and Toxic Mayhem. (Louis Wu 14:09:52 UTC)

FyreWulff has set up another Firefight Friday – this one is called ‘My Way or the Highway’, and is available in all difficulties on the map Last Exit. Go read about it – and see if you can do it! (The site is getting out of beta at the end of this month – and…

Wow. There’ve been a few forays into single-player gameplay with Halo: Custom Edition – but mostly they’ve been recreations of the standard Halo PC campaign levels, or small tests. Check out Lumoria – a full campaign experience from the TM Mapping Team. It’s not available for download yet, but the link above should show you…

Justinian is putting together a new piece of H alo artwork, and wants some feedback on the WIP. Swing by and take a look!(Louis Wu 14:05:55 UTC)

There’s another post up on the Reach Developer Blog – always fun when an engine breaks! Great pic of the studio – a surprising number of people at work at 11pm.(Louis Wu 14:04:40 UTC)

Eight new pieces are up in this week’s Fan Fiction update – solid collection! Go read ’em.(Louis Wu 14:01:33 UTC)

Seraph XXVII stopped in to mention that the remaining action figures he’s selling for a couple of good causes will go up on eBay tomorrow – he gave HBOers first crack at buying this stuff, but now it’s time to offer it all to the general public. We’ll keep an eye on this! (Louis Wu…

Brighton’s back with another iteration of his ZBrush ODST WIP – new shaders, mostly. Go see how it looks!(Louis Wu 18:29:04 UTC)

New vids at Bungie.net today:IGN stepped through the Reach Multiplayer release, frame by frame, and let you know what they found. (Folks did this on our forum, as well – one’s here, another one’s here – but they’re text only, no video.)Kinetic is a jump video from Mooseman93 – bouncy bouncyGamble posted a Halo 2…

This is really interesting – I received an email this morning that (I assume) went out to all subscribers to the original Xbox LIVE service (or maybe to folks who’d played Halo 2 online, or maybe just to people who used an original Xbox online). Microsoft is offering some goodies for folks who will be…

Kaboris stopped in from deepest Japan (okay, Nagoya) with a tidbit from a recent issue of Famitsu Xbox that I haven’t seen yet in Western media. His translation:”In Reach, the chemistry (or lack thereof) plays a role in how the members in Noble Team interact with each other. If a character harbors a disliking towards…