Author: halo@bungie.org

Twelve new pieces for you this week in the Fan Fiction section – a goodly collection! Go read.(Louis Wu 13:26:41 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy highlighted a hilarious vid yesterday – it’s called ‘Inside the Mind of the Greatest Halo 3 Player’, and it has a nearly-pro Halo 3 prodigy narrating a match he played on Narrows (MLG Team Slayer). We have ALL met this guy. (Louis Wu 13:14:26 UTC)

Sarcastic Gamer posted an episode of their [GAME] in 30 Seconds series focused on Halo 3: ODST – the actual ODST part is 45 seconds, but hey, who’s counting? (I’m still waiting for the funny part.) (Louis Wu 13:12:35 UTC)

Geekscape’s Teabag Prevention Team is taking on the Vidmaster Challenges, to help you earn that coveted Recon armor. Week 1’s article – focusing on the Endure achievement – is live now. Thanks, Brian Gilmore.(Louis Wu 13:11:41 UTC)

GamesRadar posted an article about pompous game ads – and Halo 3’s Believe campaign made the list. Twice. And the ODST live-action ad is ALSO there. 3 of 10 – not bad! (Warning – some browsers don’t show the entire article; not sure why.) Thanks, UNSC Trafalgar.(Louis Wu 13:10:24 UTC)

Yesterday’s Breaking In article at Bungie.net had animator Mike Hoffman talking about what he’s doing on the Halo: Reach team and how he got to Bungie in the first place. Want to follow him? Go read!(Louis Wu 13:09:45 UTC)

gunluva won one of the ‘limited edition, exclusive UNSC Spartan’ figures from Mega Blocks Halo Wars Authentic Collector’s Series. Pictures of the packaging and the figure are available in his post.(Louis Wu 19:10:10 UTC)

If you’ve got a copy of Halo 3: ODST, you can participate in this week’s Double EXP Weekend, Mythic Brawl. Go get those last few Halo 3 Achievements! (Or the first few, if ODST is your first excursion into Halo 3 multiplayer…)(Louis Wu 19:06:00 UTC)

Decadence Night took a bunch of Firefight panoramas on Crater – some great action shots in there!(Louis Wu 18:45:25 UTC)

Bunch of new vids, courtesy of Bungie’s Comm Chatter:H3 Wheelmen’s YouTube Pitstop is a new home for the videos of the H3WM – and they’ve whipped up a promo vid for it.Funny Halo 3 Productions created their fourth Splattertage – To Hoedown from Rodeo. Lots of people beat up by lots of stuff.There’s a Community…

thebruce0 has summarized the new puzzle tidbits found on the ONI Alpha Site Memorial – if you’re good with mysteries, swing by!(Louis Wu 14:35:05 UTC)

pete_the_duck spent some time getting a clean mosaic of Mombasa’s Streets – if you’re building something where you want to show people where something is, this is a great starting point. (There have been other maps posted online – but none of them are this clean – or unmarked.) I wrote this up for posting…

Narcogen has started the process of mapping New Mombasa – using Google Earth. Check out his post on Rampancy.net for details!(Louis Wu 12:43:40 UTC)

The latest ODST-related ‘Insider Moves’ feature on Xbox LIVE’s ‘Inside Xbox’ is called ‘Halo 3: ODST survival and combat tips’. It’s pretty basic stuff, but if you’re on the fence, it’s worth watching. You can watch it for free on Xbox LIVE, of course, but for those without LIVE access, or who are far from…

Hawty McBloggy has posted a new ‘Twitter T&A Thursday’ – she wanted folks to finish the sentence “You know you play too much ODST when…” Some of the answers she got were pretty funny.(Louis Wu 12:33:42 UTC)

doober187 took the time to snap hi-res pictures of the ONI Alpha Site Memorial plaques – all text is fully readable. I’m pretty sure there are eggs buried in there somewhere… (The puzzle crew has already latched on to anomalies in the images.)(Louis Wu 12:32:59 UTC)

Minime637 whipped up a few ODST panoramas – they contain story spoilers, so view at your own risk.(Louis Wu 12:32:41 UTC)

Fyrewulff pointed out that the new playlist info for October is online at Bungie.net – all playlists, required maps, and the month’s worth of Double EXP Weekends are online. (A sad fact: if you haven’t dished out the cash for ODST, you can no longer play in Double XP playlists. Period.)(Louis Wu 12:32:14 UTC)

Missed this yesterday, but CyReN announced a 20 hour Halo 3 LAN at Unleashed Gaming on the weekend of October 10-11 – swing by his post for full details. (Louis Wu 12:31:50 UTC)

GhaleonEB, a pillar of the Halo community (though he rarely ventures out of his comfortable NeoGAF lair), has written up some of his thoughts on Firefight. I find myself agreeing with many (though by no means all) of his points, and I hope (as he does) that the criticism he offers is accepted in the…