Author: halo@bungie.org

ikillbambis let us know that he’s got a Flame Warthog (from Halo Wars), a Mythic Map code, and a 48 hour LIVE code to give away today – he’ll be twittering them in random order beginning at 5 pm EST this afternoon. (That’s 2pm Pacific, or 9 PM GMT – or adjust to your own…

FireDragon04 sent word of ‘Relic’ – a Halo 3 short about a mysterious device found buried in the sand. Well-filmed! (Louis Wu 13:23:49 UTC)

fragclone noticed that Spawn.com has posted up a bunch of pictures of the upcoming Series 5 figures from McFarlane – nice stuff! (Louis Wu 13:22:59 UTC)

The Bungie Weekly Update is up, as usual, since it’s a Friday night – custom Mythic maps, questions from fans (and answers from Bungie), and a code for at least ONE fast typist. Was it you? As usual, the update is available in our Weekly Update Archive, for those who prefer white backgrounds to black.(Louis…

Jake108 let us know that the latest Teabag Prevention feature is up at Geekscape – this one gives you tips on Assembly. Go read ’em!(Louis Wu 17:49:30 UTC)

The 405th’s Adam Grumbo let us know that Adam’s Podcast 5 is now live. Master Chief tries to get a date, Adam gets a sculpting tip from Blue Realm’s Devin White, and a winner for the Assault Rifle contest is announced (though I can’t actually find it). Go watch! Update: this is the video that…

Biff let us know that a video showing off the Master Chief buying Halo Wars at the Midnight sales event in College Station, Texas is now online. Fun night!(Louis Wu 16:53:06 UTC)

Is it Friday again? I think that means there’s another round of Friday Caption Fun over at Hawty McBloggy’s. Check out last week’s top captions… and come up with something clever for this week’s truly bizarre pic.(Louis Wu 16:40:59 UTC)

This is totally random – but nice and short, and pretty funny. (An extra cookie for those who get the title reference.)(Louis Wu 16:37:21 UTC)

Zy1on submitted a three and a half minute montage to the Bungie Blog – it’s heavy on the editing, but has some nice gameplay. (I kept looking for synching between the music and the gameplay… but you’re gonna have to be happy with the play itself.)(Louis Wu 16:33:53 UTC)

Remember Bob? JeSteR 343 has made some Facebook flair for him. That’s actually a pretty cool button!(Louis Wu 16:27:09 UTC)

Edge Online listed what they considered to be The Top 100 Best Games to Play Today (it’s an abridged version of a full-length article in their 200th print issue) – and across all plaftorms, and all time, Halo 3 pulled in at the number 9 spot. Go check out the whole list! Thanks, LoneRanger 2.5.(Louis…

Loot Ninja wrote up a review of the Mythic Maps – go see what they thought!(Louis Wu 16:16:23 UTC)

Six new pieces are available in the Fan Fiction section this week – some monsters, even. Go read!(Louis Wu 16:14:25 UTC)

It’s Friday, so it’s time for another Comic update…The Catfish let us know about 2501 Episode 26 (Decisions)Chronicles of ODS Steve #17 (Onward to Bravo) was up on Wednesday, but we heard about it after the Wednesday updateBloogyo told us that there were updates for both Rat’s Nest and Vendetta (hopefully, one of these days…

There’s a brand-new ‘Broken In’ article (I guess that’s what you get when you talk to someone who isn’t BREAKING in at the moment) – this one focuses on Roger Wolfson, the Server Software Development Lead at Bungie. He’s the guy that makes stats (and such) work so well on Bungie.net. Go see what got…

It’s Thursday, so it’s time to start a new Double XP Weekend! This week is a return to Legendary Brawl – 12-player FFA on mostly-DLC maps. Go play!(Louis Wu 19:28:28 UTC)

The GrifballHub.com crew put up ‘Pup and Friends – March 2009 Double XP’, a video showing Grifball enthusiasts being enthusiastic. Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 17:08:46 UTC)

Wanna see how silly you can be and still earn achievements? Check out Rooster Teeth’s Geoff and Gav as they work on the Tank Dropper achievement. I think there must have been alcohol involved.(Louis Wu 17:04:55 UTC)

The Bungie Blog got word of ‘Alpha Zombie’, a machinima from Ze Royal Viking Productions. It’s a bit long (12 minutes, spread out over 2 segments – Part 1 | Part 2 – with about three minutes of credits between them), but it’s a coherent story. Give it a shot.(Louis Wu 16:50:31 UTC)