Author: halo@bungie.org

MCV has an article about the marketing plans for Halo 3: ODST (at least in the UK). They’re planning on promoting this title heavily past the Christmas season (which probably means no DLC versions of the last three Mythic maps for a long time – a serious downer, if it turns out to be true).…

Hawty McBloggy is back with another cool tattoo – illocon shows his love for the stickydoom by using his entire left arm. Nice ink! (Side bonus: this tattoo is instantly recognizable by anyone who’s played more than a few minutes of Halo 3 – but it’s abstract enough that non-Halo players won’t be baffled.)(Louis Wu…

XerxdeeJ stopped in with word of Tied the Leader member TTL Dren’s experience with the ODST traveling roadshow as he dropped in Hillsboro, OR. Go read his impressions!(Louis Wu 13:22:24 UTC)

Ars Technica has an interview with Joe Staten – he discusses ODST voice acting (Nolan North, the voice of Halo Wars’ Sgt Forge, is acknowledged for the first time that I’ve seen, though it’s been speculated for weeks), the scope of the project, and canon. Nice read!(Louis Wu 13:04:48 UTC)

While you slept, Bungie posted ‘Bip. Bap. Bam!’, a brand-new ViDoc. Sargeant Avery Johnson walks you through Firefight, with his own inimitable style – an makes a case for the preorder. The camera work is gorgeous – watch this ViDoc in one of its HD formats, because it’s droolworthy. Then watch it again. Bungie’s got…

Red vs Blue Recreation Chapter 10: Lay of the Land is now live for sponsors on the Rooster Teeth site. (It’ll be live for everyone else in a couple of hours.) Simmons tries to be useful… but Lopez is the shining light of this one. The search team, on the other hand, is about to…

A tad later than expected – but Bungie has posted an in-depth look at the third and final new Mythic map coming out with Halo 3: ODST next month. recruited Designer Dan Miller, environment artist Jason Keith, and art director Justin Hayward chewed the fat with urk about Heretic, née Midship, and how it came…

CyReN has word of ANOTHER LAN event happening in Canton Michigan – swing by Unleashed Gaming on August 29 for 12 hours of Halo. More details in his post!(Louis Wu 23:02:08 UTC)

DPSG Community Manager Scott Santos let us know that Jon Robinson was the winner of the second Dr Pepper MLG/HBO giveaway – he picked up a $20 Best Buy giftcard and two 12-packs of Dr Pepper. Thanks, MLG and Dr Pepper! (Louis Wu 23:00:04 UTC)

Mid7night has upgraded his X-Plane Hornet model – check out the vid!(Louis Wu 18:00:51 UTC)

The tagged term in today’s Tag and Release feature at Bungie.net is ‘sneaky’ – there are some great pictures there! Go check ’em out.(Louis Wu 17:15:34 UTC)

Azrael has released another chapter of his Minuteman: The Crucible series – Chapter 9 is now up on his website. Go catch up!(Louis Wu 17:13:16 UTC)

Lots of Halo vids up for your watching pleasure today, courtesy of the BungLog™:Halo 3 in the Work Place held another Fustoms Friday last week – and they’ve released the recap vid. Seems like they went heavy on the teabagging… but maybe they just spilled the jar or something. (I did that with the vanilla…

Couple of comics to mention today:Bloogyo told us about a new ODZT poster to hold you over until the new Rat’s Nest site is upTTL Demag0gue stopped in with word of Reclaimer 209 (Discordance) – seems like command might not be paying full attention…Go read the funnies!(Louis Wu 15:16:12 UTC)

Seraphim let us know that the Metroid Online Map Team is back with a new map – this one’s called Maridia, based on the area from Super Metroid. Check out how they did converting a 2d area to 3d!(Louis Wu 13:47:04 UTC)

Pete Cooper stopped by with a bunch of new pics of the Operation Chastity Warthog – that thing’s coming along beautifully!(Louis Wu 12:05:35 UTC)

kabu pointed out a new Fan Fic Pick of the Week, put together by J.D. – check it out!(Louis Wu 11:39:24 UTC)

Jason Broussard sent word that Mindless Distortion, the creators of the Gray Team machinima series, is back with SOLILOQUY. This new mini-series features the voice talent of Kyle Hebert (following that link will show you quite a selection of anime and videogame voice work in the past couple of decades), among others, along with original…

Joystiq posted a tidbit about a discounted package available only in Canada – an Xbox 360 Elite, bundled with a network adaptor (normally about $100 CAD) and Halo 3 ($40 CAD) – all for $330 CAD. Swing by The Source (a Circuit CIty affiliate) to grab this.(Louis Wu 11:20:57 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy has highlighted another Halo cross-stitch creation – this one started life as a bad callout, and ended up as a pretty cool wall-hanging. Go check it out!(Louis Wu 11:07:50 UTC)