Author: halo@bungie.org

Sometimes, a random act of kindness comes out of the Halo community that simply floors me. This morning, I read a post from Seraph XXVII that blew me away. He’s got a pretty amazing collection of Halo paraphenalia – you can see a dozen or so pictures of it in his forum post. But it’s…

CROSSFIRE is back – Dimension X Season 3, Episode 2, Part 1 is now online. (Ten minutes long, to conform with YouTube limits.) Episode 1 was mentioned back in July of last year; there have been some issues with the crew over the past couple of months, so future sections are uncertain. This is a…

ElusiveEagle519 stopped in with word that the Bungie Dev Blog had been updated with a cool piece of concept art, to commemorate the Alpha milestone. What does it say to you?(Louis Wu 15:11:53 UTC)

New interview with Brian Jarrard and Marcus Lehto over at Xbox360Achievements. Surprisingly, there are still new tidbits to be learned! Good stuff about Spartan customization, “nose hair geometry”, bits about map philosophy, the beta, and more! Worth a read. Thanks, Aglor.(Louis Wu 15:10:21 UTC)

Good stuff coming from the Rooster Teeth crew: Grifball Expansion will be unfolding at Halo Waypoint over the next couple of weeks (Episode 1 went live yesterday), and the new season of Red vs Blue will begin on April 1, 2010. w00t! Thanks to kappalocust for bringing it to our forum.(Louis Wu 15:09:35 UTC)

Taco Power needed to clear out a bunch of old clips – so he made a montage. They’re funny clips!(Louis Wu 15:08:36 UTC)

rolandk73 and Hyokin have been building up interest and attendance for a weekly Friday-night gathering they call “HBO Customs Night”. It’s not officially endorsed, or anything… but let’s face it; the staff here is never going to find the time to set up something like this, so if you’re interested in playing Halo 3 customs…

Our policy on magazine scans is “no posts before the issue is off the newsstands” – but Morpheus stopped by with a single-page scan of a bit from a recent GameInformer, and we’re gonna let it slide. (I don’t actually know what issue it’s from – but it’s only a partial page, and even the…

Over at I <3 Halo 3 Screenshots, the latest Top Ten Halo 3 Screenshots list has been posted; this one focuses on Grunts. My favorite is ‘Ode to 300’. Go look!(Louis Wu 18:48:37 UTC)

It’s been a while since we posted a new round of Hide, Seek, Snap – the second image from Round 12 is STILL not solved. So we’ve put up a hint – at least now you know where it’s from! Take a look, and see if you can clear out this round and let us…

CaptainTony stopped in with a link to Joystiq, and an interview with Greg Grunberg (Matt Parkman from Heroes, among other credits). Looks like Grunberg will be doing some voice work for Reach next week!(Louis Wu 18:28:25 UTC)

Big Appleton took some stock Halo footage, blended it with some Modern Warfare 2 stuff, and turned out a very short funny. Go see! (Louis Wu 18:28:07 UTC)

Aylmer van As let us know a few days ago that he’d begun translating the Halo 3 cutscenes into Dutch – swing by his YouTube channel to browse through the already-finished ones. More coming! (Louis Wu 18:27:24 UTC)

We last mentioned Project Aftershock, a Halo mod for Crysis, back in December. Recently, we heard from =SW=warlord, the project’s creator – he’s been working steadily, and pointed out the most recent page with the latest updates on the CryMod forum. Gorgeous!(Louis Wu 18:22:35 UTC)

Micro Center is offering Halo Wars for $10 + shipping. (If you have one near you, you don’t even need to pay shipping.) Nice price! Thanks, Black Six.(Louis Wu 18:21:57 UTC)

OXM has a quote from Brian Jarrard that suggests that Reach will probably have Firefight… and that there could be a Matchmaking component to it. Good news for those of us who had trouble finding games when we wanted them! (Please – do not take this newspost as a promise from Bungie that Reach will…

The Bungie Weekly Update is live at Bungie.net (and, of course, in our Weekly Update Archive, though I had to re-render the funny vid in order to make it show up here). Lots of good stuff – network playtests, droolworthy weapons, great audio clips, clarifications about multiplayer map environments, ridiculous hints, gorgeous wallpaper-ready cover art,…

We missed it yesterday – but Living Dead is the Double XP Weekend list of choice this time around, and it’s live now. B.net has the full details.(Louis Wu 19:40:52 UTC)

Lessee:Community Montage Week 3 is a montage Raincoat is a jump videoSymphonies is another montageNever Again is yet another montageGo watch.(Louis Wu 19:38:57 UTC)

FyreWulff is back with another Firefight Friday; this one is set on Security Zone, and you can pick your difficulty. Swing by his forum post for links, and prepare to fight!(Louis Wu 19:38:38 UTC)