Author: halo@bungie.org

PC Magazine put up a review of the Mythic maps today… and while they loved Sandbox, they found Orbital and Assembly to be disappointing and tiresome. I guess it takes all kinds!(Louis Wu 17:08:26 UTC)

Schedonnardus went to his local Gamestop last night in College Station, Texas, and ran into a Spartan-clad fan with a Brute Spiker. I dunno… the salesguy looks a little intimidated… (Louis Wu 14:51:42 UTC)

Arm The Flag has posted the second in their ‘MicroMachinima’ series – this one is called HeadGON. It’s only a minute and a half… go watch it! (Louis Wu 14:50:28 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy has a couple of goodies for you today – she’s put together a set of eight Halo-themed 360 mods (some are great, some are awful, some are just plain funny), and she’s uncovered a true Halo transformer on eBay – it’s a Warthog that transforms to a Spartan (well… sort of a Spartan).…

The Catfish stopped in with word of 2501 Episode 22.(Louis Wu 14:49:44 UTC)

Halo Wars news this morning:oriol003 stopped by with a list of new guides Grunts R Us have postedUSA Today is giving away five copies of the Limited Edition – register to winThe Poughkeepsie Journal has a review of the gameOkay, back to BUNGIE-related stories… (Louis Wu 14:49:19 UTC)

Impervium was the first on our forum to notice that IGN has posted Part 3 of the Universe Expanded series of Halo Wars documentaries – this one is called ‘Ascension’. It’s a nice closeout of the series. A quote from Frankie: “Every time we add, we embrace.” The Halo Story canon is definitely expanding… (Louis…

DarkSky Forever noticed it Sunday morning… but Bungie got around to posting fun stats on Monday afternoon. Sometime this weekend, the one billionth online match of Halo 3 was played, and recorded by the tireless databases living under the bedrock of Redmond. (Okay, I know they’re not really in Redmond. Shut up.) RocketMoose did some…

The latest episode of Red vs Blue: Relocated is now online – Part Three shows what the Rooster Teeth boys can do with the Mythic maps. (Caboose is starting to worry me, too.) I’m wondering if Lopez’s Spanish isn’t getting WORSE, over time…(Louis Wu 23:24:21 UTC)

More Mythic Overviews – GameZone has taken a quick look at the maps (very quick), but a fan blog, Virulent Aesthetics (a blog offshoot of Halo Social) is going a bit more in-depth. Their Orbital and Sandbox reviews are up now, with Assembly coming tomorrow. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 22:49:01 UTC)

It’s Monday, so it’s time for another flexing of the Bungie.net tag system’s muscle – this time, urk’s picked ‘Sunset’ as the key. Great shots! (Louis Wu 22:48:16 UTC)

More Halo Wars stuff – Maybe Luke’s right, maybe we should change our domain to Halo.ensemble.org…mendicantbias00 found an official Halo Wars flash site on Xbox.com – high on glitz, pretty low on actual information. Fun to browse, though. A pair of Wallpapers (one UNSC, one Covenant) are available for download, once you’re past the region/faction…

Last week, we got word from Sk1ll4x3D of a rather bizarre glitch he experienced in The Storm – it was a case of multiplying marines. He’d kicked off a thread on Bungie.net… but there were no videos, and I was in no shape at the time to go watching in-game videos. I set it aside……

Over at the Bungie Blog, a really interesting film is highlighted – it shows off a jump style that takes advantage of kinetic transfer of energy. These guys got to some great places in the Halo campaign!(Louis Wu 19:34:23 UTC)

sorahn had a friend who worked for a street sign company last year… it’s always good to take advantage of your friends.(Louis Wu 19:09:31 UTC)

Hard Justice, Episode 13 (Resignation Act Three) is now online – it closes out the series. This series began as a light-hearted farce (almost too MUCH of a farce)… but it was pretty serious by the time it wrapped up. If you’ve been following, go watch the end! Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 19:01:54 UTC)

pete_the_duck looked into the issue of building towers that start on Sandbox’s ground level… and climb into the skybox. What he found was pretty interesting. Check out the post!(Louis Wu 14:56:50 UTC)

Fangoria has reviewed the Halo Wars soundtrack – they gave it a 2.5/4 (I think). Read the full review (and listen to sample tracks) on their site.(Louis Wu 14:52:51 UTC)

Bunch of art news this morning: PsH Bling tried his hand at the whole tilt photography thing – you’ll find the results over at High Impact Halo, or in his DeviantART gallery. Tony ‘ubald’ Marcotte sent word of another new render, which we’ve added to his gallery here – this one looks a little scary…

TTL Demag0gue stopped in with word of Reclaimer 160 – it’s Part Nine (and hte last part) of Reclaimer: Mythic Edition, and it’s one last look at Viper’s no-so-happy origins.(Louis Wu 14:31:09 UTC)