Author: halo@bungie.org

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…

1UP gave out 50 Mythic codes last week – and held a massive game night for the winners. The video of the evening is up now – it’s an hour-long discussion of the maps, interspersed with copious amounts of gameplay. minasodaboy (who won one of the random codes we gave out) participated, and stopped in…

The first screenshot in this post is epic.(Louis Wu 15:02:01 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy got her hands on a pair of very cool posters created by the wizards at the 405th – and she’s giving them away. Swing by to see how you can win them! (Louis Wu 15:00:52 UTC)

The Catfish came by to announce 2501 Episode 23 – with guest stars.(Louis Wu 14:56:43 UTC)

Bungie.net has word of a montage from Bagel, which has some nice gameplay synched (really well) to a really catchy tune. Worth the watch. In HD.(Louis Wu 14:55:47 UTC)

Fan-generated artwork today:NG put some of the Halo work he’s done in the past three years into a video – go watch it in HD.Cody Gordon created some interesting Mythic panos – they’re up for viewing on his Flickr stream. Not your typical pano fare…PsH Bling added a bunch of shots to his pano thread…

Halo Wars content today:Virulent Aesthetics put up a review (thanks, Scotty)The official site has released a Tech Tree (a 4-page PDF detailing all of the tech available in Halo Wars) – thanks, Psychophan7.LIVE is offering a premium theme for 250 points. No preview I can find. Thanks, Exanubisleader.CNET’S Crave blog has reviewed the game.411mania.com has…

Last night, I got word from Domino Theory that he’d made it through all of the entries for the Ask the Rookie contest, pared it down to his favorites, and picked a winner. Just to give you an idea of the work he faced: all of the entries, added sequentially to a Microsoft Word document…

Blast has a short Hands-on with the Mythic Maps – go see.(Louis Wu 21:00:53 UTC)

It’s Wednesday, so it’s time to update the Bungie Favorites – the second batch of Black Water Ops files have gone up, along with an interview with the group’s Commander-in-Chief, Ironskull. Go read, and look!(Louis Wu 21:00:35 UTC)

Eve-Films’ Nexus is Mental sent us word of Noobus Maximus 2, a ‘recent funtage with clips from FPS Glimmer & friends’. You can watch it on YouTube (in HD), or download it from the Eve-Films.com forum. There’s something awfully familiar about this – I feel like I’ve seen these clips before. (I can’t find any…

Hawty McBloggy found the recent 1 billionth Halo 3 game stat to be interesting – because it means that 20% more Halo 3 games have been played than Halo 2 games, in half the time. And when she looks at her own stats (8500 Halo 2 games, 3500 Halo 3 games), she realizes that she’s…

Comic Roundup for the morning:Adam Susskind stopped in yesterday afternoon with word of Chaos Theory 14 – Truths from a Saint. His description sounds complicated!Hawty McBloggy reminded us that it’s Wednesday, so it’s time for another episode of ODS Steve – Episode 16 is called ‘A Shade of Earl Grey’, and it provides one possible…

GamePro’s giving away a bunch of Halo Wars action figures – you just have to tell them what your favorite weapon is. Swing by for full details.(Louis Wu 13:50:36 UTC)

jdars1804 let us know that his Halo 3 Images blog has a Panoramas section with some pretty nice shots in it – go browsing!(Louis Wu 13:50:18 UTC)

Slim30 stopped by to point out that Lost Levels Episode 5 is up on YouTube. According to the description in Episode 1, “John, Anthony, and Danny have become trapped in the game known as halo 3. Watch their adventures as they try to find a way out while evading a mysterious organization who has taken…

I read this story in USA Today this morning, and came away with one thing – the Halo Wars giveaway (mentioned in the Halo Wars news roundup a few hours ago). Ars Technica read it, and did a better job – they noticed the quote from Frank O’Connor:”I doubt we have seen the last of…

Goodies this morning on the Bungie Blog:Stop-Motion Snake: I thought this was pretty darned cool. scott14755 recreated a game of ‘Snake’ in Forge, via stop-motion photography. (Well, screenshotography.) I loved it.Halotech.org is streaming gameplay on Mythic Maps for folks who don’t have their own to play on.Skillz Like AI whipped up an artistic and restive…

anthraxgoon stopped in with word of X36 Chapter 2 Issue 6 – nice shots of Orbital…(Louis Wu 18:31:42 UTC)