Author: halo@bungie.org

Pyrosmile has uploaded Master Chief Theater 3000: Episode 302 – the rest of the Pillar of Autumn cutscenes are covered in this one. If you’re a Pyrosmile member, you can watch outtakes on their website.(Louis Wu 14:41:55 UTC)

It’s Wednesday, so it’s time for a comic update. Here’s what we’ve got. The Catfish let us know about 2501 Episode 25 (Communication) – not so good for all involved.Elnea updated Halo Action Figure Theater with Episode 158 (Admiral’s Choice) – and some entertaining speculation about council members.Adam Susskind stopped by with word of Chaos…

It’s Tuesday, so it’s time for another Average Joe interview on Bungie.net. Today’s victim is LouieBlack, a driver with H3Wheelmen.com. Go see what makes him go!(Louis Wu 18:14:35 UTC)

Firestorm12 let us know that the Halopen Pencast 06 is now online – including impressions of the Mythic Maps. Discussion and comments always welcome on their forum…(Louis Wu 18:06:43 UTC)

One of my favorite new series is ‘Applied to Life’ – and they’ve got a new short up. This one is called ‘Capture the Flag’, and it proves you can find excitement in the most mundane of activities. I found it on Bungie.net.(Louis Wu 16:06:13 UTC)

Greenskull and SMG90 spent who knows how long setting up a golf course on Sandbox – just so they could score a ridiculous hole-in-one from the Sky Bubble to the Crypt… with a LOT of stuff in the middle. Stick with the Bungie Blog – it’ll post these for you so you don’t have to…

There’s a whole community of folks that have fun building Forged maps as quickly as possible. Check out this video that showed up on the Bungie Blog for an example. (Forget the Forging… that DRIVING is amazing!) Then check out their YouTube channel for more.(Louis Wu 16:02:38 UTC)

ForgeHub has posted their ‘Best of Fall/Winter 2008/09’ competition – the best of the best, in 16 categories (plus a pair of runners-up in each category) means lots and lots of cool maps to try out! Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 15:49:47 UTC)

Back in January, we mentioned ‘Ultimate Gamer’, a reality show focused on gamers competing in a variety of games. According to USA Today, the first episode (with Rock Band 2 being the game of choice) airs tonight at 10 PM on Sci-Fi. We’ll mention it again when the Halo episode shows.(Louis Wu 15:44:49 UTC)

Paul Shelley, of Treeskunk Productions, sent us a link to his first Side Note – it’s pretty crude, but in the spirit of Dirty Harry, it’s not offensive to one particular group – they hate everyone equally. It’s as close to an apology for any delay in content from Treeskunk as you’re likely to get.(Louis…

Rooster Teeth has posted RvB: Relocated Part 4 – an old friend returns, and a slow one becomes creepy (well, creepier). Shooting Grifs never gets old… and they’re nicely set up for the next series. Thanks, PsycoJoe.(Louis Wu 13:03:46 UTC)

sbear stopped in with some pics of a pepakura rifle he’s building, from a source file he got from the 405th. Great start! (Louis Wu 13:03:14 UTC)

A company called ‘PalTalk’ is suing Microsoft for patent infringement on a pair of patents it bought from MPath Interacive; it says that the technology it now has the rights to was infringed upon by the Halo games. According to the article,Microsoft said it did review the inventions and chose a different path in developing…

Lando Griff1n sent word of his second Halo 3 montage – it’s called ‘Lando – First Blood Part II’, and you can read about it (and download it) at Halo3Montage.com. Heavy on the effects, available in both a massive 470+ mb HD version, and a smaller (80 mb) version formatted for iPods – take a…

Hawty McBloggy ran across a Microsoft job listing for a software development engineer to help build what sounds like a successor to Bungie.net. An “immersive Halo world that follows the dedicated Halo fan wherever they go”? Hmm…(Louis Wu 12:32:12 UTC)

Domino Theory, undaunted by the insane amount of reading he needed to do to pick a winner in the Ask a Rookie contest last weekend, has kicked off ANOTHER contest – this one is for a Legendary map code. All you have to do is enter. Do it only once, and do it before Friday…

Bryan Simon is hosting a contest – cover one of his Halo 3 songs, and you’ve got a shot at a bag of sunflower seeds, a year of Xbox LIVE, and a spot on his Friends List. What more could you want? Thanks to urk for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 22:38:33 UTC)

urk highlighted a very cool speed painting of a Halo 3 ODST, done by Sean McCoy – I love watching these things, especially when they’re done by great artists!(Louis Wu 18:56:40 UTC)

sniper2477 pointed out a video by Sp00nerism which takes those ‘Message to all Friends’ messages on LIVE to task. If you’re tired of hearing them… well, don’t watch this video, because there are a bunch of them here. (Wait, I’m pretty sure that’s not the right way to promote this vid…)(Louis Wu 18:34:29 UTC)

Jamie98s is back to Machinima-making, and this one’s a little… different. He’s got a full explanation for it – but you’re better off watching it, and seeing what you get out of it on your own. It’s called ‘2’, and it’s available on his site either streaming (via YouTube), or downloadable (from RapidShare). Because we…