Author: halo@bungie.org

TheGhost sent word about rec0’s server administration app – it was originally built specifically for the HIV Clan server, but has now been released to the general public, and will work on any Halo CE 1.08 server. If you run a dedicated server, you want this.(Louis Wu 19:10:12 UTC)

Bryan Simon has written one last Halo 3 song… all about Recon armor. We’re gonna miss these, Bryan!(Louis Wu 19:03:48 UTC)

A Bungie.net regular put together a guide to playing Grifball – use it this weekend, in good health!(Louis Wu 19:02:09 UTC)

A pair of fun montages culled from the Bungie Blog – Mini Waz put together some nicely timed gameplay on the Mythic Maps, and B1gM4cB1gPimp1n and GOT NO chAncE do some nasty vehicle-based killing in a seven-minute splatter montage.(Louis Wu 19:00:03 UTC)

WhtButterflyLiz went to the trouble of building Sandbox in SketchUp (Google’s free 3D modeling program) – so you can plan out your masterpiece before you actually build it. Very nice!(Louis Wu 18:54:07 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue dropped in to announce Reclaimer 162 – a little late, but none the worse for wear. Ferial continues to be an enigma…(Louis Wu 18:05:03 UTC)

Tommy92L created a PSA to encourage legit gaming… don’t boost, kids. (Louis Wu 13:07:28 UTC)

jake108 wrote in to say that Geekscape’s Teabag Prevention series is back, with Volume 2 – and the first map up is Orbital. Give it a read to see how you can best avoid that unpleasant gesture! (Louis Wu 13:06:57 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy continues her Friday Caption Fun series – Round 38 has a Spartan and an unusual pose. The captions from last week’s Arbiter/Sarge matchup panned out as expected, for the most part. (Louis Wu 13:06:37 UTC)

This week’s Breaking In article at Bungie.net focuses on Chad ‘Shishka’ Armstrong, a fan who lived the dream and went to work for the company he followed. Go learn more about him!(Louis Wu 13:06:14 UTC)

TheGameReviews.com has posted their Mythic Map Pack impressions – go see what they thought. (Not sure why the screenshots that go with the article are of Halo Wars…)(Louis Wu 13:05:24 UTC)

The Gamer Limit decided to figure out what Halo 3 players COULD have done with all the time they used to play Halo 3. (They didn’t even do the math right; they guesstimated 5,000 total years of playing time, when Bungie pointed out that the real number was above 64,000.) While it’s true that that…

Five new stories up in the Fan Fiction section today – go read!(Louis Wu 13:04:00 UTC)

7heSuper’s back with a new message for you… Ever wonder what Dr. Seuss might sound like in 500 years?(Louis Wu 19:39:45 UTC)

Sean Bradley let us know that the March issue of the 405th e-zine is now online – it’s 45 pages long, and chock-full of goodness like a the inside story of the building of Sean’s Arbiter costume (fantastic photos!), an interview with SkullCandyGirl, a spotlight on 405th member Moz, a bunch of fan fiction, a…

Bryan Simon has posted Volume Five of his Voicemail Chronicles – this looks to be the last one! Go enjoy the messages this man gets. And be happy you’re not him.(Louis Wu 19:14:56 UTC)

Step out for lunch, come back to a mountain of new content on Bungie.net. Stuff that caught my eye:Random’s Halo 3 Funtage focuses on sticks and mongoose kills.M1STA WU1FY has a Brute Shot montage for you. (Soundtrack is starting to sound overused…)Elephants Never Forget To Kill expands the concept of the Elephant Cannon. Things go…

Awesome story over at Destructoid today – “How Killzone 2 is blatantly better than Halo 3” is full of the sort of sharp insights, logical conclusions, and serious reporting that has made game journalism what it is today. (In all seriousness, it’s very funny.)(Louis Wu 15:08:29 UTC)

If you’ve got a minimum of 60 posts already on the XboxGameZone forums (they’re a UK Xbox site), you should read this news post – qualified members have a shot at a Mythic Map Pack code to be given out in two weeks. (I suppose you don’t have to have 60 posts NOW – you…

Using a name that should have been obvious MONTHS ago, Bungie has morphed the ‘Humpday Challenge’ a little bit into a community ‘play with Bungie’ night. If they win, they write it up, in all its glorious detail. If they lose, they’ll ban the other team’s players and purge the stats. (Not really. Probably.) In…