Author: halo@bungie.org

neoxdonut117 sent word of ‘Shimmer’, a music video using Fuel’s song and Bungie’s cutscenes to portray a sad love story.(Louis Wu 14:58:26 UTC)

There is only one new story for you in the Fan Fiction section this week – but the community DID update the images that advertise their ‘Feet First into Hell’ contest. Go check it out!(Louis Wu 14:57:00 UTC)

Three new comics to mention today:Dennis Powers wrote to say that Shipwrecked Episode 78 – Reflection is online. There’s something out there…Bloogyo linked us to Rat’s Nest 20-6 and 20-7 – he’s right, 20-7 is nearly impossible to read.TTL Demag0gue stopped in with word of Reclaimer 202 – Rivers of Information. Ferial’s sharper than first…

A new Community Cartographer feature is live on Bungie.net – urk has talked to Blackprinze about his map, ‘The Kingdom’. Go give it a read, look at the pics, download the map!(Louis Wu 21:40:42 UTC)

Whoa, cool. We haven’t heard from Dan Baker since late March, 2008 – he was recreating the story of Alpha Halo, with all new artwork – but he’s back now, with a new page (thanks, UNSC_Trooper), and apparently is ready to pick up the pace again!(Louis Wu 19:02:47 UTC)

Captain Spark sent in another batch of dialogue snippets for our Dialogue Databank – some great stuff from marines, plus a really funny Grunt quote! Check ’em all out.(Louis Wu 18:55:09 UTC)

New artwork from Luke McKay – a couple of days ago, he welcomed back an old friend, and this morning, he summed up the Bungie vs the World experience most of us either had, or would have had. Nice work!(Louis Wu 18:16:42 UTC)

Bunch o’ videos (and other fan stuff) on the BungLog™ today:The ‘Zoxin It Up’ podcast will be recording Episode 3 live on July 24 – guest is Puptastrophe, from Grifball Hub. Yet another Racetrack has been highlighted – Extremity has more ‘indoors’ sections than I’m used to seeing. Ready Up Live put together a Summer…

Minime637 whipped up a set of panoramas from the gameplay that resulted when fans met Bungie on the field of battle in the Bungie vs the World playlist on Tuesday. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 17:49:42 UTC)

Gamasutra has a blog post that takes a look back at Halo 3, in an attempt to see how it fit into the progression of Halo games. Mostly, though, it’s a tirade against a particular facet of Halo campaign play. Go read.(Louis Wu 17:45:19 UTC)

Motherstooth sent along a video – the opening might hold some flashback potential for old-time Halo fans, but the majority is a tribute to a game his son and some friends played against Bungie during Bungie Day. Congrats, guys, for winning Recon! (Louis Wu 17:18:10 UTC)

Getting a late start… sometimes, you’re just not near a computer. Hawty McBloggy sent word of a video that should make you giggle… as long as your boss isn’t watching your shoulder. (Mildly inappropriate behavior – obviously fully clothed, since it IS a Halo vid, after all – is contained herein.)(Louis Wu 17:15:19 UTC)

razzimous stopped in with word of a new machinima series known as ‘ONI BIAS’ – the first episode is online now. This is looking pretty well-done… check it out! Next episode is out in a month.(Louis Wu 20:49:26 UTC)

This Spartan Life was a machinima series that featured largely in the Halo community scene a few years ago, but we haven’t heard a lot from them recently. Its community has decided to put together a podcast – and the first episode is online now. Thanks, Eaite Randjam.(Louis Wu 19:48:26 UTC)

Ross Mills found an article at Gamasutra discussing game design, and how choices made by developers can affect how players interact with the game. There’s an example that seems to be based on Halo. It’s an interesting read!(Louis Wu 19:45:07 UTC)

Bungie.net is full of goodness this afternoon – let’s see if we can recap:The Running Riot Podcast is broadcasting live again next Tuesday – Kete’s guest will be Firestream, from HaloCharts.com. Get ready!The Community Spotlight this week shines on the Forge Cafe, a Bungie.net group devoted to mapmaking. Go read a mini-interview… and then check…

These showed up in our forum as well – but they’re so nicely formatted over at Hawty McBloggy’s… looks like some of the Bungie guys dressed up a bit during the Bungie vs the World gameplay – and agdtinman was on hand with a camera to document it all. Whee!(Louis Wu 11:27:19 UTC)

FyreWulff completed his 7777 on the 7th challenge (we mentioned it a couple of weeks ago) – congrats to him, and to the people who won the contest!(Louis Wu 11:26:42 UTC)

This likely won’t be up for all that long, but it WILL be the talk of the interwebs until it’s down, so we might as well mention it. A contract animator working for Bungie posted a demo reel on his website that included some bare-bones animation of a UNSC marine beating up on a Jackal.…

Comic goodies so far:Dennis Powers let us know about Shipwrecked Episode 77 – Back on the Path. Funky stuff going on… (nice touch releasing episode 77 on Bungie Day, Dennis.)Hawty McBloggy wrote about ODS Steve #32 – Firefight – I’m not sure it’s a good idea to give that guy big guns.TTL Demag0gue is back…