Author: halo@bungie.org

Bryan Ojeda attended a rehearsal for the Video Games Live performance that took place last Friday in Vienna, VA at the WolfTrap Filene Center with the National Symphony Orchestra. He brought a video camera. You can watch the 10 minutes of Halo footage on YouTube. (Louis Wu 13:43:01 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy is holding the drawing for her Fundfax Fairraiser in just a couple of hours – sorry for the short notice! She’ll be picking the winners live, and you can get into the chatroom if you’re interested. Swing by and read the details!(Louis Wu 23:06:10 UTC)

Brandon Krichick pointed out an article at IO9 – ‘The Most Badass Female Space Pilots Of All Time’ does a really good job of picking out some great female space pilots in science fiction. (You KNOW it’s a good list when it includes mentions of pilots from stories by Iain Banks, Vernor Vinge, and Alastair…

Halo 3 Mythbusters has released Episode 11 – you can watch it on their site (thanks, Minime637) or directly on YouTube. 7 minutes of glitches and little things you might never have known about! (Louis Wu 17:35:18 UTC)

ukilledkenny7 let us know about a video created for a gaming show called The Dashboard, airing this fall on GoodGameTV – he thought it would be appropriate to share it early, given recent events.(Louis Wu 17:34:41 UTC)

Bry pointed out on our forum yesterday that the ODST Limited Edition is now showing up for sale at some UK gamesellers – he even narrows down which ones to order from if you want the Johnson-in-Firefight bunus. Thanks to Van Helsing, who reminded me that this hadn’t been posted!(Louis Wu 17:33:19 UTC)

cbwilliams17 stopped in with word of ‘Trogdor – The Burninator’ – a tribute to the classic Strongbad tune.(Louis Wu 20:26:34 UTC)

Nabsuh has announced High Charity, the first of a four-part machinima miniseries called ‘Emerald’ from AVCOM Productions. A mix of in-game footage and generated CG, this looks to have great effects, solid voice acting and some nice camera work. Check it out!(Louis Wu 17:01:14 UTC)

John_117 put together a short video which does a good job of explaining why Elites should be banned from matchmaking. (No, it’s not what you think. Really.)(Louis Wu 13:50:59 UTC)

A couple of days ago, cEe let us know about Power Hour, a video blog from Super Baldilox HD – Episode 3 (where he’s joined with Doctor D) reviews Halo 3. It’s a pretty solid look back at this influential game – I probably could have done without the teabag montage, and maybe the Christian…

Escapist Magazine put up a short review of the HaloScreenshots printing service (because of a blog post they found at Offworld, who in turn found it on another blog – I guess word is getting around) – if you haven’t made up your mind about these pics, give this a read.(Louis Wu 13:48:41 UTC)

Tonight’s Bungie Weekly Update is devoted, for the most part, to a recap of the Bungie vs the World shenanigans that took place on Tuesday – Bungie Day 2009. The studio gave out over 1000 sets of Recon armor to lucky players – which really isn’t that much, considering that over 7 million player-games ticked…

DOH! I totally managed to miss the ‘Broken In’ article with Vic DeLeon posted on Thursday afternoon – it’s a great read with the Senior Environment Artist, a fantastic look back at a pretty long career and some inside information on a pretty funny incident during the creation of Halo 2. The man’s got a…

Mid7night created a gallery full of Halo craft in X-Plane – check out a sample (and a link to the gallery) in his forum post!(Louis Wu 20:18:29 UTC)

The Summer Mythic Recon Challenge rolls on – Tyrant issued the Vth installment (did u c wut I did thar?) today, over at Bungie.net. You’ve got a week to beat Halo 3’s 7th level, The Covenant, on Mythic (SLASO) difficulty, and do it better than anyone else; do so, and you win Recon. In addition…

A few new movies for your enjoyment, courtesy of the BungLog™:Community Funtage 6, from the Funtage Crew, shows off fun/cool/entertaining clips compiled from the community at largeThe Halo 3 Ban remixes Eminem’s ‘The Way I Am’ – pretty well done, and some very nice social gameplay.WaffleBrains whipped up Goose on the Loose, a Goosetage -…

If you haven’t pre-ordered Halo 3: ODST, but you’re still planning to (because who DOESN’T want the ability to play as Johnson in Firefight mode?), you might want to consider a new deal from Walmart – you get the game, the Johnson bonus… AND a $10 eGift card. (It’s only good for online purchases, at…

San Diego Comic-Con is coming up in a couple of weeks (July 23-26, to be precise), and there’s a panel on Thursday’s schedule that will probably be of interest to Halo fans:4:30-5:30 The Halo Franchise: What’s Next — Frank O’Connor (franchise development director for Halo) will be joined by a number of special guests to…

Gilver was the first to let us know about a new video from IGN – “Five Ways Natal Will Ruin Halo”. You might like it, you might hate it. It’s only a minute long, so what do you have to lose? (Besides a minute, of course.)(Louis Wu 15:10:13 UTC)

The latest installment of Hawty McBloggy’s Friday Caption Fun is now online – and along with captions from the community for last week’s pic, there’s a new – and potentially hilarious – pic up for you to caption this week. Get over there!(Louis Wu 15:08:10 UTC)