Author: halo@bungie.org

GrimBrother One noticed a new piece at IGN on the Halo Wars storyline – videos seem to be mostly cutscenes (both from Halo Wars and Halo), text gives you a bit more info. Take a look!(Louis Wu 19:52:16 UTC)

Podtacular Episode 180 is up – this one is called ‘Halo Wars Demo-lition’, and focuses on (can you guess?) the Halo Wars Demo. 39 mb, xx mins. Thanks, Samus 117.(Louis Wu 19:51:40 UTC)

More goodies at Bungie.net – a link to a trick-jumping video from Resix the one (“Intrepid”), and another montage from Halo 3 In the Work Place (“Screams and Splats Montage”). Lots of stuff to watch!(Louis Wu 19:51:15 UTC)

Another vid, courtesy of the Bungie Blog – this one is week two of Major League Driving’s Top 10 series. THis one focuses on vehicle-based mishaps. Things with engines weigh a lot… stay out of the way!(Louis Wu 18:17:40 UTC)

Bungie’s got word of a Dualtage put together by sTaTic HAZARD, using gameplay from FrosTyy ShoTz and Eyce Pickk. (Thank goodness for cut-and-paste; I’d get carpal tunnel syndrome trying to keep up with the capitalization there.) Great gameplay!(Louis Wu 18:11:21 UTC)

The newest MLG/ESPN Top Ten (#15) is live now (thanks, backflip10019) – some amazing gameplay shown here. Go watch!(Louis Wu 14:08:23 UTC)

The Catfish let us know that 2501 Episode 17 is live – check it out for some backstory!(Louis Wu 14:07:05 UTC)

DHalo noticed that the Sumthing Digital website has a promo for two free bonus songs off the Halo Wars Original Soundtrack – unfortunately, the code they’ve used seems to only work in Internet Explorer. Never fear – DHalo has provided you with a link that will work in most (all?) browsers. You’ll have to download…

Lando Griff1n sent us a few links you might be interested in. First was a music comedy video recreating Andy Samberg’s SNL short ‘I’m on a Boat’ – it has the same naughty words as the original. Then there’s a trailer for an upcoming montage by Hazmat v2, featuring NeoFlux jp. Matrix style pulled off…

Yesterday, Bungie updated the Favorites collection with the second batch of files from Facility B5D – and talked to Mini Waz about one of those files. Check it out!(Louis Wu 13:47:30 UTC)

Two more tidbits of press about the Mythic Map Pack surfaced yesterday – MSNBC did an in-game interview with Lars Bakken and Dan Miller (thanks, urk), and Gamespot posted a video preview of the three maps, using footage they’d recorded themselves (thanks, Kibbles). Check out both films – they’ve got some great footage and info!…

Richard Windsor, of Aeropause.com, wrote to say they’re running a Halo 3 tourney this weekend – 60 spots total, simple elimination tourney with the bottom player after each round eliminated. The top 12 competitors will duke it out on a custom map, multiple rounds, with a sniper round, a rockets round, and then a mystery…

Interesting – a journalist who had a dim view of videogames (and the effect they had on her sons) had her opinion changed a bit after playing Halo with the boys; she concluded that “maybe [she] should be a little less hysterical about them.” Go Halo! Thanks, Anton P. Nym.(Louis Wu 20:16:17 UTC)

According to Bungie.net, the Running Riot Podcast Episode 15 will be recorded live on February 24, at 9:30 pm EST, and the Special Guest will be bs ‘Hawty McBloggy’ angel. Check out the post for more details!(Louis Wu 19:17:02 UTC)

WorthPlaying has another writeup of the Mythic Map Pack press event last week, as does TeamXbox – I think that’s everyone who was there, so to summarize:Tied the LeaderHBOIGN1UPG4TVWorthPlayingTeamXboxWhew! (Louis Wu 16:52:58 UTC)

Yet another Halo 3 Fails episode – this one is an ‘All-Stars’ episode showing off clips from people already featured in the last 10 episodes. (The clips are new, the submitters are not.) I love these vids! Four minutes of play that reminds me that there are others who do dumb things like I do.…

Penguin Ninjoid found a promo at Wal-Mart for Halo Wars that advertises a free Halo Wars ringtone – if you’re interested, check out his pics!(Louis Wu 16:52:17 UTC)

2900d4 noticed that the fourth Halo Wars ViDoc is now up for watching on Xbox LIVE Marketplace. For the first time, this one is exclusive for Gold account holders for a few days – Silver accounts will have to wait. Unless, of course, you swing by Halo3Infinity.net – where CaLL Me ZeNy has posted a…

Nathan Moeller let us know that Competitive Video Games is hosting a 4v4 Objective Tournament on February 21. Swing by the site for more details!(Louis Wu 16:51:20 UTC)

Halo 3 Webcomics has another informational article – this one was written by Adam Susskind, and it covers custom fonts you can have created for you at YourFonts.com. (Louis Wu 16:50:56 UTC)