Author: halo@bungie.org

VideoGamer.com focused on a couple of answers from Lars Bakken and Ryan Crosby last week in London to speculate about what might (or might not) be in the upcoming Halo 3: ODST. No details, so that I can leave spoiler tags off this newspost. Swing by and read, if you’re interested. (Louis Wu 14:28:36 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy has pics of new clay figures from Antithesis – four new super-cool and adorable Halo creatures. MAN he’s good at those! (Louis Wu 14:27:28 UTC)

There’s been quite a bit of discussion over the past week or so about Peter Jackson, Neill Blomkamp, and the Halo projects that seem to have withered without really becoming publicly dead. There’s a new article up on Kotaku right now in which Jackson talks specifically about how the death of the Halo movie was,…

Dennis Powers let us know that the first episode of a 6-part series, The Ring of Life, is now available – it tells the story of Commander Harrington, Andrea the AI, and the company of marines stationed on the ring that has played a primary role in previous seasons of the Halo CE Chronicles. You…

There’s a new Average Joe up on Bungie.net – SniperStealth is a guy who’s just like you, except that he’s been written up on Bungie.net and you haven’t. Go read.(Louis Wu 19:53:05 UTC)

The Sec0nd E remade an old montage with HD clips, and re-released it – thanks to a mention on the Bungie Blog, you can go watch it today!(Louis Wu 16:35:00 UTC)

Koko98s (aka kokobear aka Jamie98s) is back with a new music video – it’s set to Blue October’s Blue Skies, and it’s… very sad. But with some very cool cinematography. You can watch it on YouTube, or you can download a higher-res version from his website. (It’s a Rapidshare link, so in the interest of…

Alien Emperor sent along a set of cursors – 10 animated, 5 static – for Windows. You can download the collection here (45k), and you can see a preview here (11k).(Louis Wu 16:04:38 UTC)

London’s Guardian has another interview with Lars Bakken and Ryan Crosby – there’s not a lot that hasn’t come up in other interviews (one of the pitfalls of giving a dozen or two interviews in a very short period), but there ARE some nice tidbits – give it a read!(Louis Wu 12:37:03 UTC)

mrbilly93 noticed a Steel Spartan Bobblehead (we mentioned some last year) – it’s a Newbury Comics exclusive. $10 each… go grab one!(Louis Wu 12:36:17 UTC)

CyReN stopped in with word of a Pre-Dallas (MLG) LAN on August 22nd at Unleashed Gaming in Canton, MI. $20 buys you access to 18 hours of gaming. More details in his post.(Louis Wu 12:35:10 UTC)

Red vs Blue Recreation Chapter 6 is up for Sponsors right now – it’ll be up for everyone else in about two and a half hours. If you haven’t been paying attention to the various Red vs Blue series up until now, this episode will be really, really confusing. (Usually, that’s not a problem, it’s…

Still more info from Peter Jackson’s camp – his manager, Ken Kamis, told the LA Times today that the Halo Chronicles project (announced at X06 almost three years ago) was killed back in January, as part of a series of Microsoft budget cuts. Ah, well. Thanks, LoneRanger 2.5.(Louis Wu 21:52:58 UTC)

AfroRyan noticed a new remix of Nick Singer’s third Marathon Halo mix (we mentioned previous versions of this mix in February 2008 and August 2007). I like it quite a lot. Downloads (currently) available from 4 sources; if they dry up, we’ll host it ourselves.(Louis Wu 21:39:40 UTC)

A couple of days ago, we mentioned a conversation Peter Jackson had with Joystiq – looks like he also talked to IGN. They filmed theirs – and got some footage with Neill Blomkamp, too. Interesting tidbits about the Halo movie – did you know that Blomkamp actually worked for five months on the project before…

Nabsuh has released Reach, Episode 2 of 4 of his Emerald machinima miniseries – lots of CGI space fighting. More info is on the AVCOM website – powerful stuff! Definitely worth watching.(Louis Wu 21:20:09 UTC)

Tyrant’s Summer Mythic Recon Challenge continues – this week (which is half over, sorry) the level to complete is Sierra 117. His Bungie.net post contains lots of info to help you compete – go read! (When the Sierra 117 page of his Mythic Walkthrough v2.0 is ready, we’ll post again.)(Louis Wu 21:13:22 UTC)

PlanetXbox360 is giving away three Mythic Map Pack codes – if you still need one, swing by and register on their forums, so you can post in the right thread! Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 21:10:29 UTC)

This week’s Tag and Release feature on Bungie.net is called ‘Light’ – and it shows what you can do with (um…) light. As OboeCrazy says, it can make you want to play.(Louis Wu 21:03:47 UTC)

If you’re not sure about the whole Anime idea with respect to Halo, check out this monster post by Jordan117. He’s gone to the trouble of finding decent examples of the work from each of the studios involved in the Halo Legends project – you can judge for yourself whether you think they can tell…