Author: halo@bungie.org

kabu dropped by to announce the latest HBOFF Fan Fic Pick of the Week, courtesy of eb4642. Go see how it worked out! (Louis Wu 16:03:29 UTC)

Last night, Rooster Teeth posted Chapter 13 of their Red vs Blue Recreation series – this one’s pretty serious, but pushes forth a lot of story material. Go watch! (Discussion, on our forum, if you’re interested.) (Louis Wu 16:03:06 UTC)

Terra Incognita is the latest masterpiece from the behind-the-scenes crew at Bungie – it’s a ViDoc in the original Bungie sense of the word. It cuts interviews with the crew who made the game in with cinematically-filmed gameplay – no huge spoilers, but I suppose if you obsessed about the tidbits in here, you could…

Thanks to Blublur1, who pointed out a Tweet from Bungie that implies that staying up late tonight might be worthwhile… (Remember, we’re still waiting on a ViDoc.)(Louis Wu 00:55:26 UTC)

Spase is selling a couple of helmets on eBay – the ODST replica is currently at $285 (with just under 2 days to go), and the Recon Helmet (which finishes an hour earlier) is at $200 right now. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 22:25:02 UTC)

RevDotNed ran across a very cool feature at Digitial Photography School – 21 Great Reader Shots (and how they were taken). #14 is called ‘Master Chief’s Bad Day’, and it’s not only a great shot, the story behind it is pretty fun!(Louis Wu 22:24:45 UTC)

Azrael stopped in with word of the latest chapter of his Halo fanfic, Minutmen: The Crucible – go check out Chapter 12: An Evening with Rachel Lynch.(Louis Wu 22:24:27 UTC)

Today’s Tag and Release feature at Bungie.net was based on the keyword ‘-blam!-‘ (which I think is subbed in for any curse). Resultant images range from sexually implicit to painful. Go see what they found!(Louis Wu 22:17:08 UTC)

geekinabox was at the Cleveland ODST Roadshow stop… and wrote up his experiences for a less-than-obsessed audience. Check it out!(Louis Wu 16:12:53 UTC)

Brian Jarrard and Joe Staten will be participating in a live chat on the Best Buy forums tomorrow night, September 15, from 6-8pm central time (7-9 eastern, 4-6 pacific, you do the math if you’re outside the US) – if you’ve got questions, submit ’em!(Louis Wu 14:02:54 UTC)

Can Brian Jarrard justify the purchase of Halo 3: ODST in 30 seconds? You decide.(Louis Wu 13:59:45 UTC)

NeoGAF’s Popeck pointed out the GTTV Bonus Round’s Pax Panel over at GameTrailers – Brian Jarrard, N’Gai Croal, and Randy Pitchford discussed marketing and development of games. Sketch once again confirmed that Halo Reach’s engine is new:Something like Reach, obviously, we don’t want to use a three, four year old engine and technology, so we…

Matt MacNabb let us know that Toy Legion has a look at an upcoming bust of the Master Chief, available this winter from One2One Collectibles. It’s the first in a trio of busts (the other two will be a Brute Chieftan and an ODST Marine). Check ’em out; they’re pretty limited in their distribution (650…

Hawty McBloggy wore a cool pair of Master Chief earrings to PAX this year; you can check out a pic on her blog. (She bought ’em from PlasticParadox; they don’t seem to sell them any more, but you can still get this pair of Halo 3 Logo earrings, or the HMB design in cuff links…

A couple of new comics for you today; Hawty McBloggy let us know about the latest Grin + Bear It hosted at her site (sometimes genres don’t mix too well), and TTL Demag0gue let us know about Reclaimer 216 (Bold Moves) – things get a bit dicey for our hero. Check ’em out! (Louis Wu…

PsH Bling is another guy who repainted the Toys R Us Plasma Blaster – check out his pics at High Impact Halo. (Louis Wu 13:44:09 UTC)

Merc noticed that Best Buy is offering a trade-in deal where you can swap two high-value games for a new copy of ODST. Check his post for links with the full details. (Louis Wu 13:43:48 UTC)

GamerX5000 is building ODST armor for himself – and he thought you might want to watch the progress. Go visit www.odstmike.com to see the first post! More to come soon.(Louis Wu 17:11:46 UTC)

Stephen Loftus noticed a heretofore-undiscussed Strategy Guide for Halo 3: ODST; it’ll be coming out from Prima (as the last couple have), and (according to both the Prima page and Amazon.com) will be available on September 22, with the game. (Amazon’s selling it for $16.49.)(Louis Wu 15:33:13 UTC)

xmoosev3 pointed out two recent Arby ‘n’ the Chief episodes – both are from Season 4. Endgame Part One and Endgame Part Two kick off the series finale, and tell the story of both Jon’s new troublemaking roommate, and the beginning of the end for the Arbiter. The cocaine sandwich is pretty absurd…(Louis Wu 15:24:57…