Author: halo@bungie.org

Thanks to Gilver, who noticed that the Halo 3 episode of WCG Ultimate Gamer (we’ve mentioned the series a few times – 1 | 2 | 3 | 4) will air this coming Tuesday, April 7, at 10 E/P. Don’t forget to watch! (Louis Wu 14:19:40 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy wants to discuss glitching with you – it’s the subject of her latest ‘Debate This’ article. Swing by and let her know what you think! (Louis Wu 14:15:36 UTC)

Bryan Simon retired from Halo songwriting… but he felt like he couldn’t skip a Walshy song in his tributes to pro Halo players. Check this baby out (sung to the tune of ‘Hey There Delilah’ by the Plain White T’s) – or just grab the MP3 from us (2.3 mb).(Louis Wu 14:14:48 UTC)

Treeskunk’s Paul Shelley wants to wish you… a Merry Christmas? (I think this was for yesterday, but we didn’t get mail about it until today.)(Louis Wu 14:14:02 UTC)

In the parts of the world where time is described using UTC (like, say, HBO-land), it is now past midnight on April 2… and our April Fools joke can be retired. We hope you enjoyed it. If you missed any of Bungie’s B.U.N.G.L.E. stories, here are links: Introducing B.U.N.G.L.E. | B.U.N.G.L.E. Map Guide | 7…

naveeda let us know that Dirty Hairy (nee IamDank) put together ‘Dank Bloopers and Bags’, a collection of funny Halo moments mixed with a bunch of weird clips. 12 minutes long.(Louis Wu 22:03:25 UTC)

Hardcasual brings its journalistic cred to bear on a potentially explosive situation – the humiliation of a sitting Prophet. Will they get Earth glassed, or does Truth have a sense of humor? I guess we’ll have to wait and see. Thanks, Bongo.(Louis Wu 21:55:59 UTC)

Daniel ‘Tyrant’ Morris provided the Bungie Blog with full details about the next Mythic Challenge – the bare bones are these: you’ve got 24 hours, this Saturday, to run through Tsavo Highway in ‘Mythic’ difficulty. The fastest time submitted will win a Mythic Map code. Go read the full rules at Bungie.net!(Louis Wu 21:51:18 UTC)

Adam Susskind dropped by to announce that he’s made an official trailer for his weekly comic, ‘Chaos Theory’. It’s called ‘A Prologue to Disaster’, and it gives you a nice flavor of the story beginnings of Chaos Theory. Go watch! Voice work seems to have been done by Christian Bale. (No, not really.)(Louis Wu 21:46:45…

Over at Halopedia, CommanderTony sat down with Joe Staten to talk about the upcoming Halo 3: ODST. He’s coy (as always)… but there certainly are a few new details. (There’s a female baddie, for one thing…) Go give it a read! Thanks, UNSC_Trooper.(Louis Wu 21:42:24 UTC)

CaLL Me ZeNy stopped in to mention The Shocktage, a montage from Hemdall, who is French. Gameplay is by GuN Sh0K, and the content is Halo 2. This is old skool… I’d almost forgotten that Battle Rifle. Nice editing!(Louis Wu 21:27:06 UTC)

Bungie.net’s Average Joe series takes a look at Zagwire, a B.net denizen. Go see what he enjoys when it comes to Halo!(Louis Wu 18:44:13 UTC)

urk pointed out a montage from HelplesBunny, featuring a lot of MLG gameplay… you could call this an Extermination Montage, I think.(Louis Wu 17:03:07 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy ran across a pretty cool faceplate/schwag combo on eBay – have you ever thought about an active camo faceplate for your 360? It ain’t cheap… but it’s pretty unique!(Louis Wu 13:06:50 UTC)

Nexus is Mental grabbed some of Phurion’s practice clips, and tried his hand at fancy slow-mo editing. The end result is pretty nice! Check out Classic.(Louis Wu 13:05:36 UTC)

terminator182 stopped by with news of updates to the HBO News Widget he’s built for the Mac OSX Dashboard. It’s a convenient way to get your fix of our news!(Louis Wu 12:58:42 UTC)

A crowd of Rooster Teeth fans got together for a second round of multiplayer fun recently – and you can watch the fun from a couple of different sources, thanks to the Bungie Blog. Lots of cool custom Mythic fun!(Louis Wu 12:58:17 UTC)

Congratulations to McCronin29, who was picked by Domino Theory as the winner in the Needs Moar Legendary contest – he gets a nice LIVE code for buying those Legendary maps! Thanks, as always, to Domino for the amazing generosity that keeps these contests funded!(Louis Wu 19:09:33 UTC)

Just a quick update: The deadline for submissions to the Mythic Movie contest passed last night, and after cleaning up the uploads folder, we have several dozen valid submissions. Our judges are hard at work watching these as we speak – if all goes well, we’ll have winners announced in Friday’s Bungie Weekly Update. Stay…

Gamer720 created an interesting obstacle course he calls ‘Saw Extremity’; the video on YouTube shows off what you have to do to complete it (you should read the description for full details). Expect to die a lot. Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 18:48:17 UTC)