Author: halo@bungie.org

Only two stories submitted this week (both dropped off this morning) for the Fan Fiction section. Slow week for writers! Go read. (Louis Wu 14:03:11 UTC)

The latest Broken In is online at Bungie.net – Mat Noguchi, a tiny bundle of glowing rage and a damned good programmer to boot, talks about what he does for Bungie, why, and how you can join him. Just don’t get in his way.(Louis Wu 23:35:48 UTC)

We forgot to point it out 3 hours ago, when it went live… but the Double XP Playlist this weekend is Living Dead… swing by Bungie.net for full details on the gametypes and such. Zombies everywhere!(Louis Wu 21:23:23 UTC)

A pair of montages appeared on the Bungie Blog today: ClearlyMe has done some funky jumping (edited by KingHaloCinemas) in ‘Sky scraper’, and some impressive (and nicely-filmed) gameplay from MaStalee in his third montage for Halo3Forums. Go watch!(Louis Wu 17:09:45 UTC)

Scotty noticed that Xbox.com has a new page up for Halo 3: ODST… and while it’s sparse on info, it DOES contain a release date: September 30, 2009. Drops nicely into the ‘Fall 2009’ range we’ve had up until this point, and it’s coming from the game’s publisher, so it’s got a decent amount of…

Not long after we started hosting the Aesthetic Artist Interviews, which provide insight into the personality and trade secrets of Halo screenshot masters, we were contacted by RandomSauce, the man behind the ever-fascinating Halo 3 Mythbusters movies, wondering if we’d be interested in hosting a similar series that focused on Halo video specialists. We’re always…

Gravemind (who’s been known for writing monster articles (1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5) before) stopped in with a huge (35,000 words) article explaining how he’d make a Halo game if he had the chance. Agree, disagree… you have to admit, it’s pretty in-depth. There seems to be some sort of formatting…

Vociferous has penned another rich article at Ascendant Justice – weaving together tidbits from games and books to provide a cohesive picture of Thel ‘Vadam, the Elite soldier who eventually became the Arbiter we know in Halo 2 and 3. It does a great job of providing background for the motivations that would lead this…

Hawty McBloggy found a very cool picture that was created as a wedding present for a pair of Halo fans – check it out!(Louis Wu 13:07:08 UTC)

Pyrosmile Productions posted the next episode of Master Chief Theater 3000 – this one covers the cutscene from Assault on the Control Room. (There’s a post on their website that explains what happened to Silent Cartographer.)(Louis Wu 13:05:22 UTC)

Couple of late-posted movies at BUngie.net yesterday – another screenshot montage, this time from A Deaf Boy, containing shots grabbed in April… and a pretty crazy-looking puzzle map with lots of death traps (and a video showing you how to get through them). It looks pretty danged hard even WITH the tutorial… (Louis Wu 13:04:15…

It’s Wednesday, so it’s time to update Bungie Favorites – and there’s a Q&A with the The Spartan I Project group that populated it again. Check it!(Louis Wu 19:17:52 UTC)

Jimmy Jangles sent word that (as most of us had surmised, but didn’t know for sure) the ‘Halo Chronicles’ project from Peter Jackson, announced at X06 (almost three years ago!) is ‘on hold’, according to Weta Studios. Till when? Well… probably until the Halo movie comes out. (Or doesn’t.) (Louis Wu 19:08:10 UTC)

Cybrfrk sent us this link to ‘Halo Less Than 3’, a new song from YouTube phenom zendulo. (Never heard of her? Check out this profile piece at G4’s Attack of the Show.) A beautiful girl singing about Halo and boobs? What’s not to love?(Louis Wu 18:18:32 UTC)

TheDuoGroup has put out some of the most professional-looking Halo machinima… and they’re back with an ad for the Halo Warthog. The challenge? How good could they make it… in one day? Go see. (I give ’em 3 thumbs-up.) Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 18:03:48 UTC)

Back in February, we mentioned that the next short-run Halo-based comic series, Halo: Helljumpers, would be coming ‘this summer’ – according to 1UP.com, that’s now been narrowed down to ‘July’. Good deal!(Louis Wu 18:00:50 UTC)

Halo3Infinity.net interviewed Tobias Buckell about his Halo novel, ‘The Cole Protocol’. You can read it in English… or French! It’s a great read – contains lots of insight into what Buckell liked about the Halo universe (and what he thought was missing). Thanks to CaLL Me ZeNy for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 17:48:57 UTC)

urk highlighted a cool racetrack on Avalanche – swing by for a video and a downloadable map for Halo 3!(Louis Wu 17:24:02 UTC)

CMNeir created a video that celebrates Earth Day 2009 with some great footage from the Halo 3 Earth-based maps. Reminiscent of the ‘Oh So Beautiful’ series from Jamie98s – except it’s Earth-only. Great stuff! Thanks to the Bungie Blog for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 17:23:43 UTC)

thebest233 stopped in with word of Erwins Great Adventure… a very strange machinima. (Nice cinematography, though.)(Louis Wu 17:12:18 UTC)