Author: halo@bungie.org

It’s Thursday, so RandomSauce has whipped up another Director Dialogue – this discussion is with Anoj, the guy behind the nearly 3-dozen-strong Top 10 Halo 3 series. Go see what drives him, and how he does what he does!(Louis Wu 11:49:44 UTC)

BlackLightProductions stopped in with word of Phil – Day Eight. Phil and company do their best to ascertain whether the legend of the Ghost of Blackout is real… or something else. I dunno… it made me laugh. Go watch.(Louis Wu 11:44:19 UTC)

If you’re anywhere near College Park, Maryland this weekend, you might want to swing by the Spring Concert of the UMD Gamer Symphony Orchestra – the 90 instrumentalists and singers will be performing selections from many games, Halo among them. Admission is free. There’s a downloadable flier on that main page, and the Recordings page…

Hawty McBloggy brought a new video by KillPie to our attention – Top 10 Halo 3 Ricochets, in HD. Go watch sniper bullets (and a rocket) fly in directions that have nothing to do with the way their guns were pointing.(Louis Wu 11:36:17 UTC)

The overseers of the Bungie Favorites for this two-week span, The PraetoriaGuard, have rolled over the contents to their second batch. Swing by and see what they’ve posted! While you’re there, read about the map ‘Access’.(Louis Wu 18:46:45 UTC)

The BungLog™ is full of new montages today: Fiesta Madness, filmed by Tomas Panoramic Screenshots from the Haloramics team Brute Shot Mania, from M1STA WU1FY Go montage yourself!(Louis Wu 17:46:24 UTC)

Odd, but cool – there’s an article written by Jack Shulze, discussing his influences for the Here & There project, over at his firm’s website. The project presents urban spaces in a combination of third-person overhead and first-person plan views – and the end result, a horizonless projection, looks a lot like a ringworld. It…

A goodly collection for you today: Dennis Powers told us about Shipwrecked Episode 66 – Paradise Lost. The S&R team is getting closer… urk posted word from The Catfish about two new episodes of 2501: 48 – Is Falling Apart was out Monday night, and 49 – Invaders was out yesterday. Bloogyo mentioned that not…

Anthony Hanses was at Bungie Studios yesterday, applying for a job. He brought a cake. It nicely matches the Legendary Helmet, and word has it that it tasted really good, too. Thanks to BlueBlur for the heads-up, and Ken Taya and Andrew G Davis for the pics. (Louis Wu 11:10:45 UTC)

A couple of days ago, we mentioned some work the Custom Mapping Team had been doing to their SPV2 mod for Halo Custom Edition – AvatarAang stopped by again with word of two new animation vids, and I gotta say, they look fantastic! This is a project to keep an eye on!(Louis Wu 10:45:32 UTC)

Reluctant Chaos1212 ran across a really, really nice Halo Wars Spartan render, created by Alessandro Baldasseroni, a member of CGSociety.org. Check it out!(Louis Wu 10:31:00 UTC)

Arithmomaniac has updated some Halo playing cards he created – check the post for a preview and download links! (He’s looking for better images – can you help?)(Louis Wu 10:30:38 UTC)

Stuff from the Bungie Blog this afternoon: a new Sandbox Sky Bubble-based racetrack – Typhoon’ A Forging contest from Mjolnir Battle Tactics A screenshot montage from TheMoleN1 and the crew of Aberrant DesignsExplore!(Louis Wu 23:52:28 UTC)

A new Know Your Ninja has gone live at Bungie.net. This one isn’t Halo-related at all… but The Slayer DOES work at keeping the Bungie.net forums clean, so you can swing by and read about him. (I think we’ll institute a new policy, from here on out; Average Joes and Ninjas profiled on B.net will…

Sirkan let us know that Halo.fr has posted the fourth episode of “What the French” – a new collection of mishaps, bloopers, and wtf moments from French players. Just under 6 minutes. Check it out!(Louis Wu 16:49:54 UTC)

What do you do if you’re a Spartan without a job? Well, you put together a resume, of course! Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 16:46:06 UTC)

The Bungie Blog has highlighted another trick jumping montage – this one from Jump Theory’s KillerxJake. Lots of fun flying on Last Resort, Guardian, and Blackout.(Louis Wu 16:41:53 UTC)

Most Fridays, Hawty McBloggy, Hawty McBloggy puts up a Halo-related picture and asks fans to caption it. It looks like for the month of May, the website LameOrGame.com is doing this every day. (They’ve got a tool that lets you add your caption right to the pic, a la lolcats.) As Dennis Powers mentions, most…

If you’re into social networking, there are plenty of choices these days – the Facebook Nation has more citizens than Brazil, Twitter lets you describe your activity in real time. These aren’t really aimed at gamers, though. Even a site like Rooster Teeth (where I spend most of my social networking time), while oriented towards…

Kotaku’s got news of a Halo CE map that recreates Hyrule, from the Zelda series. If you’re jonesin’ for a bit of nostalgia, check it out! Thanks to GrimBrother One for noticing.(Louis Wu 12:31:51 UTC)