Author: halo@bungie.org

Forge Union is hosting a series of contests during the month of August – prizes are all of the ‘fame’ variety, but if you enjoy creating cool things and sharing them with others, you should check this out! Full details on Bungie.net.(Louis Wu 18:05:21 UTC)

Three new movies for you at Bungie.net (what, surprised?): ExterminatorV1 and GamemasterAT whipped up ‘Daylight’, a Halo 3 dualtage; this went live yesterday, but I missed it. Minimal editing, great gameplay – worth the 3 minutes. Americanista123 is back with another Bungie Employee Bloopers vid – 6 minutes of Bungie mishaps, glitches, and wtf moments.In…

Hawty McBloggy has a new “Halo 3 by the numbers” feature for you – she calls it ‘The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth’. I call it a painful reminder.(Louis Wu 17:29:14 UTC)

On Thursday night (seems odd to write that, because where I am, it’s still Thursday morning), Microsoft held a promotional event to show off Halo 3: ODST in Sydney, Australia. One major benefit – it’s just across the water from New Zealand, where Weta’s got all those cool Halo props… Partygoers got to pose in…

Pete Cooper stopped by to say that fundraising is going swimmingly for the Operation Chastity project – they’re bringing in lots o’ cash! If you’d like to help, swing by the site!(Louis Wu 15:20:33 UTC)

Last Night, G4TV’s Gamer’s Choice awards, G-Phoria, announced winners for 2009 – Halo Wars took Best Strategy Game. (They were up for Best Soundtrack, as well, but lost out to Fallout 3.) Thanks, General Vagueness.(Louis Wu 15:18:43 UTC)

We got word from Woody Tondorf (a comedy writer for HBO – the broadcast network, not us – and a contributor to our Fan Fiction section for almost five years) that he’s been working on a fiction series set in the Halo universe known as ‘Minutemen’ – he’s been publishing chapters on his blog. (He…

Dennis Powers sent us a Halo Custom Edition update from Halomaps – more than 100 files were added during July, including the CMT SPv2 beta (mentioned earlier today), the Ring of Life videos (mentioned the last couple of Mondays), and some new maps – single-player maps like Rio Firefight and Salisp, and MP maps like…

The latest community to be spotlighted is Outcast Reborn, a group that’s been around since 2005, and is still going strong. Go read about ’em on Bungie.net, then check out some of their favorite files in the Bungie Favorites section.(Louis Wu 18:39:25 UTC)

Ouch! I managed to miss an article from the Katonian Press – sounds like 343 Industries might not be as benign as we thought! Swing by Hawty McBloggy’s to read.(Louis Wu 17:47:01 UTC)

New videos courtesy of the BungLog™BacKtoBasiKs created ‘Bocket Jumping’ – using bubble shields and rockets to make jumps you can’t make with just one or the other. Fun stuff! Honor Guard has created Halolympics Episode 2 – testing yourself (and being laughed at) is becoming an institution! Ghoster released a ‘minitage’ called “Create” – it’s…

Well, I waited until afternoon in the hopes of getting some extra entries… but it seems today’s comic roundup is going to be pretty light. Tied the O7AH has some new episodes up (thanks, Cozmo23)… and ODS Steve #36 (Upgrades) is now live (thanks, Hawty). Better late than never!(Louis Wu 17:40:43 UTC)

Interesting News Items has the scoop on NPC dialogue in ODST – go see what you’re in for! (Clearly, though, some of the information is suspect; for example, they list the name of the next game as “Halo 4: Tijuana R&R”, when everyone knows that it’s really “Halo 4: Dark Planetoid Rising”. So keep on…

MsValentine is the first person I know about who’s received one of Weta’s Cortana figures – and she created a pretty nice photostream to document it. Swing by and take a look!(Louis Wu 12:58:19 UTC)

Thanks again to Kibbles, who pointed out (also over at NeoGAF) Acme Archives Direct, a company creating gliclee reproductions of Halo artwork – there are some killer images in there!(Louis Wu 12:42:04 UTC)

Looks like Halo Destiny (a French site) interviewed Lars Bakken in Paris last week about ODST – the text is in French, but the video is in English (and Kibbles, who pointed this out on NeoGAF, kindly linked to a Google translation for those who feel like struggling through it). Selected tidbits: it’s possible that…

Dratt, on our forum, and TheGhost, via email, were nearly simultaneous about letting our community know about a new release of the Custom Mapping Team’s SPV2 mod. You can check out the public beta by downloading the first map, The Pillar of Autumn, at Modacity. (You will, of course, need Halo: Custom Edition, a free…

Jon CJG is back with Hard Justice Season 2: Episode 7 – Bernard and Eddie flee to Canada. They got some funny rules up there… but maybe the Canadian bacon has insulating properties, or something… Thanks to urk for the heads-up on the Bungie Blog.(Louis Wu 12:39:03 UTC)

Four new clay figures from Antithesis showed up over at Hawty McBloggy’s – the first couple look like they could stand to eat a little less… but that Huragok is adorable. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 21:22:03 UTC)

chris10023 let us know about Halo 3 Fails, Episode 24 – yeah, sure, there are a couple of ho-hum fails in there… but mostly, it’s full of really funny stuff. (I loved the condom-on-a-rock… and the disappearing flag was a perfect wtf moment.) Go watch! (Louis Wu 21:18:17 UTC)