Author: halo@bungie.org

The Halo Insider is running a montage competition – win and you get $300 in cash, plus a bunch of intangible goodies, too. Go read the full details at TheHaloInsider.com! Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 17:53:43 UTC)

New vids for you today, courtesy of Bungie’s Comm Chatter: MLG Requiem v3 Teaser promotes a new map available at Forge Hub (map link is in the post, too), and The Chronicles of Lyle: Chapter 3 (Part One) is a new episode of the Lyle saga, in which Lyle loses some friends. Go watch!(Louis Wu…

The Hollywood Music in Media Awards & Conference is happening next month – November 19th, in Hollywood, CA. Lots of Halo content in the Video Game categories: both Stephen Rippy (Halo Wars) and Martin O’Donnell (Halo 3: ODST) are up for ‘Best Original Score’, and Marty’s also up for ‘Outstanding Music Supervision’. (These final nominations…

Stuntmutt sent along one final strip, for posting yesterday – I managed to screw up and forget it. You can read it now on the One One Se7en page. There was also a new grin + bear it posted at Hawty McBloggy’s yesterday – I think it was Punday! Go read ’em both.(Louis Wu 15:55:24…

Cracked.com has posted the ‘8 Manliest Images on the Internet’ – and Bungie’s head of Security Jerome Simpson appears in #4, with a Gravity Hammer. Nice! Thanks, elpolloguapo.(Louis Wu 14:37:51 UTC)

There are currently only eight entries in the Guilt O’ Lantern contest – and we’ve finally gotten around to posting the prize list. You can win some pretty sweet schwag, just for creating a cool Halo-themed pumpkin – so what are you waiting for? Don’t forget, we recently posted both Halo 3 Emblems and Halo…

Nori ‘kilaMOMjaro’ Fox reminded us that the time is fast approaching for the 2nd Annual HALOween Zombies Charity Tournament – have you registered yet? There are plenty of goodies to win, and all proceeds go to Be the Match Foundation – play Halo, kill zombies, help people who need bone marrow! The first day of…

bildinabubble created some artwork showing off some of the lesser-known aspects of the Master Chief’s life – and Hawty McBloggy has collected them for your viewing pleasure. Who knew?(Louis Wu 12:39:09 UTC)

Looks like there’s a new episode of Hard Justice online – Season 2 Episode 9 can be found on YouTube. Bernard and Eddie are being chased by some pretty bad dudes. Are they going to live through the night? And who’s living in that cave?(Louis Wu 22:20:33 UTC)

Nick Singer pointed out an article about the Operation Chastity Warthog, which made an appearance at the London Expo – pics and a short writeup are online. Looks amazing!(Louis Wu 14:40:22 UTC)

The final episode of Rampancy.net’s Anger, Sadness, and Envy – Episode 11, Halo – is online. This podcast covers the final level of Halo 3, and has Narcogen, Blackstar, and Miguel ‘Freewill’ Chavez discussing the level, how it fits into the game, and how it compares to Halo 1. 90 minutes, 90 mb; go listen!(Louis…

Tommy92L told us about ‘The One’ – a player who’s more than a man, less than a god, and does things with toothpicks you don’t want to know about. Here’s hoping you never meet him… (Louis Wu 14:32:12 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy has been building a Firefight Teammate Friends List – you can use it to help find people in your local time zone to play Firefight with. Finish the fight!(Louis Wu 21:27:47 UTC)

Peter Molyneux listed what he considered to be the five most revolutionary games in the past 20 years – and Halo made the roundup. Not too shabby! Thanks, rolandk73.(Louis Wu 13:25:17 UTC)

ElusiveEagle519 noticed that the interactive Halo timeline is now live at the official Halo Portal run by the Waypoint team – you can check out key events in the Halo universe, and get more information about them as you choose. Nice work!(Louis Wu 13:24:56 UTC)

I <3 Halo 3 Screenshots has their latest Top Ten Screens of the Week online – I’m seeing stuff in there that would be suitable for framing at HaloScreenshots.com. Gorgeous stuff – go look!(Louis Wu 13:24:34 UTC)

Yesterday was busy, so we missed this… but IGN has posted another ‘Top 10 Halo 3 Kills’ video, collected from user-submitted clips during the week of October 11. Nothing super-special, but they’re entertaining clips, filmed nicely – definitely a good example of the fun to be had in Halo 3 matchmaking! Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 13:24:15…

The Bungie Weekly Update is live – and it’s full of nice tidbits. Reach progress info, a survey (you can get stuff if you play), lots of ODST killin’, Bungie-downloadable Dramatis Personæ copies, FLAG details, November Playlist details, and more. Go read! (It is, of course, also available in our Weekly Update Archive.)(Louis Wu 01:56:18…

Double XP this week is Team Flag – and the list is live. Full details can be found on Bungie’s Playlists page (or hey, Bungie.net’s front page) – but hey, it’s Flag. What more do you need to know? Go capture some.(Louis Wu 18:43:38 UTC)

XForgery is hosting a contest that uses the Halloween Double-XP Playlist coming in a couple of weeks – be the user with the highest number of Living Dead experience points gained during the weekend, win a bunch of Microsoft points and some site-specific stuff. Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 18:19:00 UTC)