Author: halo@bungie.org

Decadence Night stopped in with a whole bunch of new Halo 3 panoramas – go see the pretty stuff! (Louis Wu 19:11:20 UTC)

HBO forum regular Mid7night was featured on Xbox.com’s Gamer Spotlight today – go learn a little more about him!(Louis Wu 19:10:29 UTC)

Pyrosmile Productions has posted a trailer for their ‘Road2Recon’ series – I’m thinking the series will really be a guide to getting Recon, even though the trailer is more… how not to get it. Go see.(Louis Wu 19:05:48 UTC)

Both shiruken and Paul Shelley let us know about Side Note with Paul Shelley, Episode 7 – it’s got some Firefight tactics, and it’s also got detiils on a new contest that Treeskunk Productions is running. Go watch, go enter!(Louis Wu 19:03:43 UTC)

Wow… these guys have aleady gotten out of Lost Platoon – check the vid. Unclear how far they can go… but MAN, the views from the edge are already amazing. Thanks, Devin. Update: link fixed. Eep!(Louis Wu 17:17:55 UTC)

Kotaku Australia was at a midnight launch event, and took pics. Go see. (Louis Wu 17:17:34 UTC)

Gamasutra has a ‘Critical Reception’ article about ODST – they talk to a few different reviewers (folks from the high, middle, and low – or low middle, anyway – end of the scale), to see what they liked and didn’t like about the game. Nice overview.(Louis Wu 17:16:59 UTC)

RvB’s MsValentine turned us on to this image at DeviantART – it’s a pretty cool pic, but what’s cooler is that other DeviantARTists colored it in. MsValentine’s favorite is this one – I’d agree, that rocks! (Louis Wu 17:16:11 UTC)

Comics are light today – folks are playing ODST, as expected. ODS Steve has only a ‘gone fishin’ pic (of sorts)… TTL Demag0gue, bucking the trend, has posted a full episode of Reclaimer. 219 (Trading Blows) has Bold and the Reclaimer… well, trading blows.(Louis Wu 17:15:07 UTC)

GameDaily is posting a strategy guide – it seems to be aimed at selling the Prima guide. An example page is ‘Know Your Enemy’ – all other pages are easily found in the ‘Training Grounds’ sidebar at the top of the article.(Louis Wu 17:14:13 UTC)

Bunch of new content on Bungie.net already today (I’m really late getting started)… let’s summarize what’s there for you:Burnie Burns did a video interview with PPMooCowPP, the Commissioner of Grifball, about the sport.HaloCharts has summarized the progress made by folks who took up their Campaign Challenge – wow, those guys killed a lot.Some Bungie forum…

Joystiq wrote up a mini-FAQ for ODST – check it for stuff you might not have thought about.(Louis Wu 22:44:37 UTC)

IGN wrote up a blurb about the Launch Party in Seattle last night – and posted about 20 pics. Go look!(Louis Wu 22:43:43 UTC)

Gamasutra has an interview with Curtis Creamer – it’s a discussion about how ODST came to be. It’s a pretty interesting read! Thanks, soldat7.(Louis Wu 22:28:34 UTC)

Today’s Average Joe over at Bungie.net (what an honor, for drop day!) is ContactTango, one of the kind souls who wants to help you get your Vidmaster Annual Achievement. Go read more about him!(Louis Wu 21:51:08 UTC)

Avateur noticed an article on IGN announcing the release of ‘Halo: Blood Line #1’ in December – apparently, ‘Halo: Spartan Black’ has changed its name. Nice cover!(Louis Wu 21:47:08 UTC)

Halo Waypoint, the Microsoft Halo Portal, is live on the web. You can get there from HaloWaypoint.com or halo.xbox.com – both work. It contains lots of information and links about the Halo community and resources – dig through it to find cool tidbits! It’s definitely pretty slick-looking!(Louis Wu 18:49:26 UTC)

Welcome to New Mombasa is a new Top Story at Bungie.net – it gives you the lowdown on Halo 3: ODST. Who you’re playing as, what you have available, what you’re up against. Nice summary! Check it out.(Louis Wu 18:44:05 UTC)

Stuff for you this afternoon, from Bungie’s Comm Chatter: Warthog Memoirs is a four and a half minute machinima from CMNeir and friends – a couple of guys in matchmaking remember better times with their friend the warthog (I think it needs a voice). Physics Evolved: Episode 1 shows off some of the crazy stuff…

If you have an Xbox LIVE Gold membership, you can snag a free ‘Prepare to Drop’ Premium Theme for your dashboard – it’s pretty nice to look at. It’s a limited-time deal (it doesn’t say how limited) – so grab it soon! Thanks to NeoGAF’s Jtyettis for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 14:23:45 UTC)