Author: halo@bungie.org

Slim30 stopped by with word of Lost Levels episode 7 – some pretty odd flashbacks! (This will make very little sense if you haven’t watched previous episodes.)(Louis Wu 17:52:36 UTC)

Marty O’Donnell wants to know how good your voice recognition skills are. Swing by this post from ElusiveEagle519 for all the details… there ain’t nothin’ to win but Marty’s respect, but for some of us, that’s worth more than… well, tapioca pudding.(Louis Wu 17:41:33 UTC)

Leviathan continues his graphic novel, ‘A Sangheili’s War Is Never Over’ – Part 6 was posted on our forum this morning. If you missed any of the previous parts, he’s kindly linked them all.(Louis Wu 17:35:08 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy found a stop-motion Halo 3: ODST trailer… made with LEGOs. Given the timeframe involved, I’d have to say this is great work!(Louis Wu 17:32:29 UTC)

Whoa – check out the Cortana costume created by {Cortana, a member of the 405th – fantastic work! Thanks, Hawty.(Louis Wu 17:32:10 UTC)

CaptainTony stopped in to point out that Marvel’s offering a preview of Halo: Helljumper #1 – a bit about the plot, plus five pages of artwork. (No dialogue, though.) Check it out!(Louis Wu 17:31:45 UTC)

If you missed the Microsoft E3 Press Briefing last week (or if you watched it unhappily on a crappy stream), they’ve made the Halo 3 ODST footage available in high-quality 720p – 345 mb for nearly 8 minutes of footage. You’ve seen it a few times, if you’re a big Halo fan – but you…

A couple of new machinima pieces, courtesy of your friends at Bungie.net: ‘Forever War’, from Dispatch Films, is a short and pessimistic piece about the human race, while ‘Budget Cuts’, from Amateur Entertainment, shows what happens when governments run out of money. And while you’re there, check out Obi Wan Stevobi’s ‘The Road to Recon’,…

The latest Community Spotlight at Bungie.net is focused on Real 7alk – swing by and see where they came from, and what sort of files they like! (Louis Wu 17:30:34 UTC)

Bungie is once again teaming up with The American Red Cross to give you a shot at some ultracool schwag, while doing good. They’ve donated an autographed copy of The Art of Halo 3 and an embossed and signed limited-release poster to the local Seattle branch – and you can bid on both of them…

Halocharts continue to challenge you with their Mythic Campaign trial – swing by Bungie.net for full details on the latest chapter, this time focused on Halo (the final level).(Louis Wu 17:29:47 UTC)

pete_the_duck has turned the concept of Zombie games on its head – check out this variant for some distinctly different gameplay.(Louis Wu 17:29:24 UTC)

According to the Bungie Blog, The Running Riot Podcast we mentioned yesterday has been moved up a day – it will now record on June 15 at 9:30 EST rather than June 16. This is to avoid potential problems with a planned Xbox LIVE service maintenance. (Louis Wu 17:29:05 UTC)

Stephen Loftus thought that given all the recent activity surrounding the Halo universe and fan attempts to pinpoint Halo-relevant celestial bodies, he’d release a small portion of his personal research document with his version of the Earth Survey Catalogue. To give you an idea of how this fits into the whole, the portion he’s excised…

puptastrophe at GrifballHUB.com let us know that a new version of Pup and Friends Double XP Highlights is now live at their website – go watch beatdowns and explosions in profusion. (Some of the moves are unbelievable…) (Louis Wu 17:23:12 UTC)

Jackson Davis let us know that Halo 3 Panoramas, a site he’s involved with has a whole passel of (whoa, surprise) Halo 3 panoramas – swing by to see ’em. (Louis Wu 17:22:53 UTC)

Neoseeker had a closed demo of Halo 3: ODST with Paul Bertone and Lars Bakken – swing by to read the details. (Louis Wu 17:22:38 UTC)

There weren’t that many comics we’d heard about – but at least one has more depth than just a funni, so here you go.Bloogyo sez Rat’s Nest has a new villain…The standard Wednesday ODS Steve went live – Episode 28 is called ‘Promotion’, but you’ll have to be up on the story to make sense…

We’re not at 100% yet, but the news is piling up – I need to get some of it out the door. Here’s a warning, ahead of time, that things might go wonky later today. Don’t panic. All will be well in the long run. (Louis Wu 17:21:43 UTC)

Gamereactor (a scandinavian gamer site) has a video interview with Curtis Creamer, filmed at E3, discussing Firefight and why it’s cool. (I was almost distracted from what Curtis was saying by the player behind him who was trying to kill a Hunter with normal shots from a plasma pistol…) Tons of info in here -…