Author: halo@bungie.org

Joystiq has an article about Xbox Canada and their search for Canada’s biggest Halo fan – if you live in Canada, go check this out! Thanks, mendicantbias00. (Louis Wu 16:01:07 UTC)

IGN posted a 90-second interview with Joe Staten, recorded at PAX while he was wearing ODST armor – thanks, Minime637.(Louis Wu 16:00:36 UTC)

Minime637 pointed out an article at VideoGamer.com, with some quotes from ODST Producer Alex Cutting about how wonderful a partner Bungie is for Microsoft. Nice words!(Louis Wu 16:00:13 UTC)

Bungie has posted the entire PAX panel on Halo 3: ODST – it’s on YouTube, and you can watch all 8 10-minute segments in their news post about it. If you’d rather watch it on YouTube (why?), here’s a link to the playlist itself (just follow the links on the right after you’ve watched the…

A couple of new videos posted yesterday at Bungie.net:The Lucky 20, Episode 3 contains a bunch of clips of those “did you see that?” moments from Halo 3 matchmakingMini Waz posted a montage, including fun stuff that’s happened to him over the past year.Go watch!(Louis Wu 15:26:12 UTC)

Yesterday, the second week of The Spartan Special Ops Favorites went live – there’s an interview about the map ‘Templar’, and all the new goodies in Bungie Favorites.(Louis Wu 15:25:27 UTC)

Elnea pointed out an armor project from a member of the RvB community, Colonel. Everything down to grenades in there! Check out the pics.(Louis Wu 10:29:03 UTC)

Yesterday, over at NeoGAF, Domino Theory stumbled across a newspost from Gamezine.co.uk that suggested that new Halo Reach footage would debut at the Tokyo Game Show (September 24-27). Everyone got excited until SketchFactor informed the board that Bungie neither created this footage, nor knew of its existence. Bummer!(Louis Wu 10:16:02 UTC)

VelocityTino sent word that he’d created a tribute image to pay his respects to Peter Marks (see yesterday’s post for details). A very nice gesture! (Louis Wu 10:15:36 UTC)

Morpheus announced winners of his multikill contest – didn’t end the way *I*’d expected, but then, anyone could vote multiple times, so… (Louis Wu 10:15:01 UTC)

Yesterday, Kotaku posted an article called “How And Why Halo 3: ODST Was Made In 14 Months” – it’s a fascinating read that tells the story of how a small team of old-school Bungie employees found themselves in the company of Mr. Opportunity. Go read it. (Looks like a thread popped up discussing this article…

Narcogen and Blackstar are back together again in very short order – and a nearly-2.5-hour-long podcast covering the entirety of the level ‘The Covenant’ is the result. They’re still on target to finish the Halo 3 campaign levels before ODST drops – but it’s a really accelerated pace. Go grab a copy! (Louis Wu 10:14:07…

We’ve got two for you: Hawty McBloggy let us know about ODS Steve 40 (Secrets), and TTL Demag0gue let us know about Reclaimer 214 (Dumping Ground). Solid entries in long-running strips!(Louis Wu 10:13:25 UTC)

We recieved word that Peter William Marks, known to Bungie fans as Mordia, Lud, and “the guy who built Hang ’em High” (among other things), passed away on September 7th, 2009 at 11:35 p.m. He fought to the very end, and will be missed greatly. The page we set up a couple of years ago…

GameTrailers has posted the HD, full-length ‘We Are ODST’ short that showed for the first time on Spike TV last night – swing by and check it out!(Louis Wu 17:46:40 UTC)

The latest Average Joe at Bungie.net is BerserkerBarage – he’s been around for a while, and has a long history of Bungie game fannage. (Fannage? That’s not right…) Go see what drives him!(Louis Wu 17:43:16 UTC)

Today’s Tag and Release term at Bungie.net is ‘Dark’ – and the resultant images are just that. Go look!(Louis Wu 17:40:42 UTC)

Pup and Friends whipped up a Grifball highlights reel for PAX – it’s online now. Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 17:37:53 UTC)

Dennis Powers let us know about new stuff at HaloMaps… The Halo Custom Edition archive jumped by 120 new submissions during August, bringing the total to 4,333 files. Highlights of the new stuff include Maridia (Public Beta) (Metroid total conversion), TM Immolate, and Garden CE (very cool-looking). The Halo 2 Vista Map Archive got 22…

The record-it-live train continues to barrel through the Halo podcast scene – Episode 21 of The Running Riot podcast (guest-starring CMNeir) will be recorded September 14 at 9:30 pm ET, and Episode 5 of Zoxin It Up! LIVE (guest-starring Bryan Simon) will record on September 19 at 9 pm ET. Read the B.net posts about…