Author: halo@bungie.org

Hawty McBloggy pointed out a very snazzy Septagon Xbox 360 case mod – pretty!(Louis Wu 18:10:21 UTC)

B Mc Gann is back with another episode of Top 10 MLG Plays – 5 minutes of tricky multikills and clutch saves. Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 18:09:11 UTC)

PyroSmile Productions have posted the first three episodes of their ‘Road2Recon’ series – Episode 1 gets you through the first 3 Mythic Skulls, Episode 2 is 7on7 and Lightswitch, and Episode 3 covers the Annual Achievement. When they’re done, you’ll have a full guide to all 7 Vidmaster Achievements. Update: Fixed.(Louis Wu 17:14:11 UTC)

RvB’s latest Gamestop video is actually an announcement of a contest – you can submit your own script for a Public Service Announcement on Gamestop’s website, and if you win, RvB will make the PSA. Very cool! (The vid’s pretty funny, on its own.)(Louis Wu 15:44:51 UTC)

It’s Tuesday, so it’s time for… wait! It’s not Tuesday! Crap. XerxdeeJ stopped in with word of an ‘Official ODST Review’ from Tied the Leader’ – we’re not generally listing reviews any more, this isn’t your normal review.(Louis Wu 15:44:26 UTC)

The tricksters/egg hunters have already gotten going – check this stuff out. (We’re not, for the most part, going to be covering ODST tricking; there’s going to be just too much of it, and there are already entire communities dedicated to it. But it’s early days, and it’s fun to see where folks are starting.)Bud,…

HaLo2FrEeEk created a nice ODST VR Panorama from the top of NMPD HQ. Check it out in multiple formats! (No real spoilers here, other than a location you might or might not have reached yet.) (Louis Wu 15:42:39 UTC)

VGChartz is not trusted by all… but it’s the only public source of sales stats on the web, so we go with what we got. They’re listing a 2 million unit sales point for the first 24 hours of Halo 3: ODST. Nice round number, there! Thanks, Avateur.(Louis Wu 15:41:51 UTC)

Schedonnardus went to a launch event at his local Gamestop in Texas, Bliany went to the Bungie Launch Event in Seattle. Both took pics and wrote up tehir experience. (They were very different.) Bryan Simon went to HIS local Gamestop in Maryland, and didn’t just take pictures, he recorded video. He also rewrote his “Thank…

If you swing by Marvel’s page to read up on the upcoming Halo: Blood Line comic (we mentioned it a couple of days ago, thanks to onebitrocket for finding the Marvel entry), you might be interested to check Frankie’s followup post, as well – some teasing tidbits in there…(Louis Wu 15:39:50 UTC)

MTV Multiplayer has a piece that suggests five new sequels that COULD be made in the Halo universe. (No, they’re not claiming that any of these are actually in production – they’re just talkin’.)(Louis Wu 15:38:59 UTC)

Over at NeoGAF, Botolf noticed that someone’s remaking The Pit in Halo Custom Edition – looks great! (Louis Wu 15:38:32 UTC)

Bungie posted ‘Let’s Get Mythic’ yesterday – it’s a nice overview of all 24 maps available on the Mythic disc of Halo 3: ODST. Check it! (Louis Wu 15:37:50 UTC)

Whee doggies. Something to watch for, in the future… I pre-ordered two copies of ODST from Amazon back in July. This morning, an unlock code for Sgt. Johnson appeared in my inbox. When I wrote to Amazon to find out where my second code was, I was told that their policy was 1 code per…

Whoa – swing by Sumthing.com’s custom ODST page to listen to full, uncompressed versions (320kpbs mp3s) of four of the tracks on the Halo 3: ODST Official Soundtrack. NICE!(Louis Wu 22:27:14 UTC)

JDcongote dropped into our forum with word that he’d imported a portion of Delta Halo and Regret (from Halo 2) into CryEngine2 (the game engine behind games like Crysis). The stuttering made my head hurt – but the graphics were cool. Go watch!(Louis Wu 21:45:45 UTC)

Totally missed this when it went live yesterday… but Bungie has posted a sizeable Frequently Asked Questions list for Halo 3: ODST – and they’re continuing to add to it. If you’ve got questions… they’ve got answers. You should DEFINITELY read through this – I learned a bunch of stuff from it.(Louis Wu 21:12:37 UTC)

It’s Wednesday, so it’s time to update Bungie Favorites – week two of Forge Union’s prize stuff is now live. Go check it out!(Louis Wu 21:10:41 UTC)

kabu let us know that the winners for the HBOFF Feet First into Hell contest have been chosen – go see what they won (and read the stories submitted the grand prize winner and the runners-up)!(Louis Wu 19:15:24 UTC)

Narcogen has posted the image gallery that goes along with yesterday’s podcast discussion of the Cortana level of Halo 3. Narcogen is doing what he can to stay busy until his copy of ODST arrives, on yak-back, at his remote outpost in Inner Mongolia (or Kazakhstan, or wherever). Go check ’em out, and make him…