Author: halo@bungie.org

zofinda told us (sort of) that Arby ‘n’ the Chief S3E12 is up – I had a little trouble finding it at YouTube, but here’s a link. Chief and Arby play some Resident Evil 5. I guess it’s fun, but not scary. Or maybe racist and insensitive. I’m not sure.(Louis Wu 23:03:32 UTC)

GameTrailer’s Bonus Round Episode 304 contains some discussion about the showing of Halo 3: ODST at E3’s Microsoft Press Conference from three big industry insiders – worth a look if you want some informed speculation about what’s going to show up this year! Thanks, The More Deluded.(Louis Wu 21:33:52 UTC)

Phatcorns and The Lintendo are back with a new montage – Take the Offensive has a much wider overview than your average montage. Nice camerawork! Thanks, Insaniac. (Louis Wu 13:56:24 UTC)

RageGummy and PMS Legend have banded together to form the core of Team Sleepers, a group that plans to play Halo 3 for 24 hours straight on Bungie Day to raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. You can read more about this project (and donate) over at JustGiving.com. Halo for charity – help out!(Louis…

Hawty McBloggy pointed out a series of themes from Halo 3, performed by the WACO (Wayland/Crawfordsville/Olds, Iowa) Junior/Senior High Orchestra… and wonders how many more kids would have played instruments if video game themes had been common in past years.(Louis Wu 20:13:41 UTC)

Spartanx5 has finished up his render of a Recon helmet – the end result is strangely moving. Check it out!(Louis Wu 19:29:45 UTC)

Bungie wants to help you get Recon armor now, rather than waiting for the release of Halo 3: ODST. You need to complete the Vidmaster Annual Achievement tomorrow, May 17 (even if you’ve completed it before) – and take a picture of something cool. One screenshot per person, winning shots get Recon for the entire…

CE United is closing its doors soon – but before it goes, it’s hosting one last contest. Swing by the site to read why, and the details on the contest. Thanks, Willy.(Louis Wu 18:36:50 UTC)

It was Friday night last night, so Bungie posted another Weekly Update – heavy focus on this week’s big news, the Render to Video service. Tips, FAQs, a demo video… lots of good info. Plus a few other tidbits – fun stuff. As always, you can read it in our Weekly Update Archive if you’d…

Goodies at the BungLog™ this afternoon… challenges and montages: The Forge Cafe, a group on Bungie.net, wants you to build a cool Sandbox Crypt map – prizes will be served. HaloTracks wants you to drive their Mongoose course as fast as you can – prizes will be served. I like pie 727 put together a…

This is probably well-known among the machinima community – but it was news to me, and pretty darned useful info, so I’m front-paging it. Bungie’s JonnyOThan stopped in with some helpful tips about camera control in Halo 3’s Theater. As more people use BuTube to share their clips, teaching people to make cooler movies becomes…

What else happens on Fridays? Yep, it’s Friday Caption Fun, over at Hawty McBloggy’s. Highlights from last week’s submissions, plus a new image that’s ripe for comic shenanigans… go play!(Louis Wu 13:45:05 UTC)

Mandlbaum is back, baby! Halo0001 X let us know that another reel of early Halo 3 cheese turned up in his attic – Mandlbaum has to face a robot horde bent on the destruction of the human race! Can he manage it? Can he save Skippy? Tune in and find out!(Louis Wu 13:29:44 UTC)

Lots of comics today, since we posted early on Wednesday: Reclaimer put up Episode 185 (Anesidora) on Wednesday, and Episode 186 (Bodhi) today – Indigenous Adjuvant is doing his best to let that Viper soldier know how badly he screwed up.Dennis Powers let us know about Shipwrecked Episode 67 (Meet the Kids) – even when…

G4TV’s X-Play announced winners of the Sarkathlon 3 obstacle course (we mentioned it a couple of weeks ago) – congrats to both contestants, who’ll pull in Recon armor, on top of the 1st place finisher’s new Xbox 360. The video shows off the winning runs, and discusses some of the cool tricks folks came up…

Just five new stories this week in the Fan Fiction section… check ’em out!(Louis Wu 12:40:08 UTC)

We missed a new Breaking In article yesterday afternoon – Steve Lopez is in charge of the crew that keeps Bungie’s technology humming. He’s not DIRECTLY involved in making games… but without him and his crew, there’d be no games, because there’d be nothing to make them on. If you’re looking to get in to…

Didn’t get enough montages at the BungLog™ today? Never fear, naveeda stopped in with word of a new one from 2old2play’s Jonny12gauge. That guy’s a lot better with a sniper rifle than I’ll ever be…(Louis Wu 20:19:40 UTC)

The Bungie MontageBlog has highlighted three new vids for you today: A Deaf Boy has put together a montage of screenshots grabbed during the Mythic Brawl Double XP weekend Halo 3 In The Work Place has posted their latest collection of clips, ‘Inertia’. There’s also a challenge that will likely never be met.ganit appleby has…

RandomSauce has written up the latest Director Dialogue – in this one, he sits down with TM22. Go read what drives this montage creator!(Louis Wu 14:29:06 UTC)