Author: halo@bungie.org

Ragnarok pointed out an article at Kotaku about a video worth watching. A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned a fantastic Red Hot Chili Peppers parody by the guys at Palette-Swap Ninja. A fan, usethefork, created a video to go along with that song – and he did an amazing job of matching up the…

ODST Sarge stopped in to announce the Machinima Voice Acting Association forums, a site to find voice actors for your machinimas (or to find projects that want to use you). Not a bad idea!(Louis Wu 20:37:30 UTC)

Jdars whipped up a pair of montages, visible at DeviantART – check out Garage and Thus I Refute Thee.(Louis Wu 20:37:12 UTC)

OMGIts Renegade sent word that Halopen’s Reclaimer52 has released a Halo 3 Clantage in two parts – you can find Part 1 and Part 2 on Vimeo.com. (Louis Wu 20:36:47 UTC)

CROSSFIRE let us know that he’s put together a new teaser to test out his HD capture card… go see what you think.(Louis Wu 16:18:59 UTC)

Just a reminder – the HBO Mythic Movie Contest is accepting entries only until midnight tonight (GMT) – that’s less than 8 hours from when this post is being written. If you want to get your content in… now’s the time!(Louis Wu 14:39:47 UTC)

chris10023 was the first to let us know that Halo 3 Fails Episode 15 is online. Definitely some failin’ in there. (Louis Wu 14:32:17 UTC)

Fyrewulff announced the winner of his contest based on pete_the_duck’s Flaming Ninja Challenge 3 – congrats, NartFOpc!(Louis Wu 14:31:58 UTC)

I’m having trouble imagining how I’d explain this tattoo to, say, my grandkids. Thanks, Hawty. (Louis Wu 14:31:37 UTC)

Hikaru-119 and a buddy grabbed a Halo Wars figure and made some pretty nice modifications for Warhammer 40k. Check out their work!(Louis Wu 14:31:13 UTC)

tor desax let us know that he’s kicked off a website devoted to comparing your Halo 3 headshots to those of other players. Pretty specific! (Louis Wu 14:30:41 UTC)

Grimlock decided to show off some of his Banjo Kazooie vehicles, as well – Pelican, Sparrowhawk, Elephant. (Louis Wu 14:30:20 UTC)

Red vs Blue made a list of X vs Y classics over at Entertainment Weekly – thanks, Burnie.(Louis Wu 20:08:27 UTC)

AvatarAang pointed out that Hard Justice Season 2, Episode 1 is now online – you gotta wonder why Bernard even bothers… but he IS making progress.(Louis Wu 17:15:56 UTC)

The weather outside here in New England today is a balmy 65 degrees… but it wasn’t that long ago that we had snow on the ground. Hawty McBloggy found a couple of shots of a Master Chief snowman from February… nice! (Louis Wu 17:09:41 UTC)

Dustbunny27 continues to work on Halo vehicles in Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts – take a look at his output!(Louis Wu 17:09:22 UTC)

Doc Shaftoe has been creating Halo-related pixel art avatars for Gaia Online users, and decided to show ’em off to a different audience. Nice work!(Louis Wu 17:08:57 UTC)

Looks like McFarlane is getting into the ‘cute’ market with their Halo toys – check out this announcement for Halo OddPods. (Farther down the page, there’s also a gallery of winning entries to their ‘show off your Halo helmets’ contest – cool shots!) Thanks, InnerRayg.(Louis Wu 17:08:18 UTC)

Firestorm12 let us know that the Halopen Pencast 07 is up – in honor of its Bungie-relevant number, it focuses on Halo exclusively. You can listen (or grab a copy) at podbean. (Louis Wu 17:07:22 UTC)

John Hopson, an engineer with Microsoft Game Studios’ Games User Research Group, talked at the Game Developers Conference about the testing that helped shape some of the gameplay in Halo 3. Thirty five separate lab tests, with a thousand game testers, were used to fine-tune how some of the gameplay was presented to consumers. Interesting…