Author: halo@bungie.org

Pete Cooper and friends have made a special helmet for their Operation Chastity project – one that will be presented to Bungie at the completion of the movie. Fun! (Louis Wu 16:37:48 UTC)

Joystiq got some footage of the Firefight round of PAX’s Omegathon. The crowd has some great advice (“don’t get shot!”!), but mostly it’s an interesting (if hard to see) view of Firefight on Legendary.(Louis Wu 16:36:16 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy has yet another tattoo for you – she found a guy who inked a less-than-common image from Halo 3.(Louis Wu 16:35:54 UTC)

Computer and Video Games has a preview of Halo 3: ODST that’s also an interview with Bungie’s Curtis Creamer about the game – no spoilers, but some information about the full length of the game presented in a way I haven’t seen before. (Remember; difficulty, number of players, and personal skill all work into how…

IGN posted a small ‘behind-the-scenes’ clip showing some fun dialogue recording with Nathan Fillion (Buck) and Tricia Helfer (Dare), overseen by the Bungie audio team. Go watch!(Louis Wu 17:14:54 UTC)

We heard about a slew of different fan-made ODST t-shirts this weekend: PsH Bling and his girlfriend whipped up a design shown off on High Impact Halo, reaper75 created a design based on the new interactive MS site, and LastSpartan recreated the trainee shirts from the live-action short. Nice stuff!(Louis Wu 17:12:26 UTC)

Morpheus noticed a ’30 Days of Halo’ promotion at Best Buy – they’re giving away more of the ODST-branded Xboxes that we first mentioned in the Mountain Dew promotion. Go sign up!(Louis Wu 17:11:29 UTC)

Trunks recorded more RC Warthog footage – with a camera strapped to the car. Fun!(Louis Wu 17:10:47 UTC)

pete_the_duck thought you’d enjoy playing Halo Mad Gabs – read his post for details, and try out the first few he’s come up with.(Louis Wu 17:09:34 UTC)

G4TV has their own coverage of the ODST panel from the first day of PAX – go give it a read!(Louis Wu 17:08:42 UTC)

Minime637 was the first to notice yesterday that the live-action ODST trailer is now up on Marketplace – go watch it in HD!(Louis Wu 17:07:19 UTC)

A couple more writeups of the ODST panel at PAX: Gamespot was there, and so was Co-Optimus. Until the video hits the web, these writeups are the best you’re gonna get!(Louis Wu 11:10:05 UTC)

IGN has an interesting tidbit about a secret story buried in Halo 3: ODST – swing by to read teasers, or skip it if you’re looking for that pristine experience. Clues dropped as long ago as last summer are beginning to make sense…(Louis Wu 11:00:35 UTC)

TDSpiral whipped up a cool bit of ODST artwork – go check it out!(Louis Wu 10:51:48 UTC)

Devin Olsen had his camera with him during the first day of PAX – and took a LOT of pics. Some of them (well, a lot of them) can be found in his forum post. He even included a video clip showing an answer from Bungie during the ODST panel, explaining why the Battle Rifle…

Blaidd Drwg was the first on our forum to notice an article over at TeamXbox containing some background information about the ODST live-action short released yesterday. If you’re curious about who was behind that work, go read it! It also contains a link to a fascinating page put together by AKQA and TAG (together with…

KP posted two new articles for the Xbox LIVE Community Team blog last night – the first (he told us about it Friday afternoon, Pacific) is an overview of the first day of PAX – only the last couple of pictures are Halo-related… but one of them is priceless. The second (posted a bit later)…

I guess urk wanted to get out of the office… the Bungie Weekly Update is up REALLY early this week. Don’t worry, though – it’s full of news. Go read it! (You can, as always, do so in our Weekly Update Archive.)(Louis Wu 20:11:24 UTC)

Halopedia is giving away a bunch of cool stuff (5 copies of Halo 3: ODST, 10 copies of the LE version of the game, 10 12-month LIVE cards) – all you have to do is sign up and leave a comment. The only real catch is that you have to be a US resident. If…

nam visited Fan Expo in Toronto last weekend, and did a lot of Halo-related stuff. Go read about it… and check out the visuals, too!(Louis Wu 18:23:25 UTC)