Author: halo@bungie.org

The latest render from Tony ‘Ubald’ Marcotte went live in his gallery here today – ‘Spartan’ is a great shot with an epic feel to it. Take a look!(Louis Wu 18:00:18 UTC)

Newsarama’s John Stvan played some Halo 3: ODST Firefight at PAX – and wrote up his experience yesterday. Go give it a read.(Louis Wu 17:35:48 UTC)

Another day, another huge batch of videos, courtesy of the BungLog™:Aberrant Designs whipped up a screenshot montageThe Skookumchuk released his second goosetageStewie2552 shared Funny Halo Fails and Laughs 6Clantacular.com has announced their first Top 10 Plays vidThe August ESPN/MLG Top Ten is live (this one, as usual, deserves special mention – amazing plays)Send urk a…

xmoosev3 was the first on our forum to point out a tweet from the Halo Waypoint team… looks like Waypoint’s going live on November 5.(Louis Wu 17:01:46 UTC)

The 405th was out in force at last weekend’s Dragoncon 2009 in Atlanta, GA – and you can see some great pics in this thread on their forum (thanks, Sean Bradley). Sean’s own photos can be found at photobucket – including a brand-new energy sword he debuted at this event. (More on that coming soon!)…

RVideo was the first to point out a new song from Mac and Cheese – it’s called ‘Master Chief Left Me’, and it’ll make you cry. (Not so much from the story, either.)(Louis Wu 16:44:39 UTC)

Adam De La Rosa let us know about a new image created by Halcylon and posted recently on Hawty McBloggy’s forum it’s called ‘We Are ODST’, and while it was inspired by the live-action flick, all the imagery comes from the game. Nice piece of work!(Louis Wu 16:42:26 UTC)

Thre are tons of new Halo-related positions available at Microsoft – go see if there’s anything for you! (Thanks to LazerBlader, who found it on Halo Waypoint’s Facebook page.)(Louis Wu 16:12:06 UTC)

GameTrailers TV Episode 222, broadcasting tonight on Spike TV at 12:30 am, will contain ‘behind-the-scenes access’ to the making of the live-action ‘We Are ODST’ short released recently. Watch it, record it, or find it on GameTrailers tomorrow! Thanks, Felix Mui.(Louis Wu 16:07:48 UTC)

Minime637 pointed out a video showing Master’s Challenge at PAX, playing Firefight. Funny commentary. (Louis Wu 16:03:18 UTC)

LoneRanger 2.5 pointed out a couple of G4TV pieces you might be interested in – they interviewed Brian Jarrard at PAX (sort of a wide-ranging discussion about game sales, and ODST, and Reach, and Bungie, and marketing, and more – it’s huge), and there’s info about an episode of X-Play broadcasting tonight (Thursday) at 6:30…

Blaidd Dawg noticed a photo posted by Major Nelson, showing off the packaging for the Halo 3: ODST Limited Edition. Not exactly what I thought it was going to look like! (Louis Wu 16:02:08 UTC)

Zerowind117 let our forum know that his college (Arizona State University) has a single-player Firefight booth set up for folks to mess with. Are these at other schools, too? (Firefight in single player… what?)(Louis Wu 16:01:35 UTC)

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)