Author: halo@bungie.org

Mid7night went back to work on his X-Plane version of In Amber Clad – you can see a video from this forum post. I think that would give me a little bit of a start if it flew over me… (There’s a bridge walkthrough in this post, as well.)(Louis Wu 12:13:47 UTC)

TeamXbox has a Halo Wars media feast – screenshots, gameplay movies, and a pair of cutscenes. (One of them actually contains the transition from cutscene to gameplay at the end… and for folks who were disappointed by the color forcings in Halo Wars multiplayer… you’re going to be disappointed that those same forcings seem to…

Spriggs is back… after a pretty long break (if you don’t count a short a few weeks ago). I think this one makes more sense if you eat those mushrooms the guy with the ponytail sold you. (And someone needs to tell me if those Pinks are German, or Indian, or French – the accents…

We passed over yesterday’s Tag and Release post at Bungie.net – mostly because it contained a pun so bad we thought we were doing the world a favor by not spreading it. But the screenshots, this time found with a “master Chief’ tag, are pretty cool – so cover your eyes and visit. (Okay, that’s…

urk noted an older Betrayal Montage, put together by the Daisy Squad almost a year ago. Some of these are definitely accidents… but others are definitely not. Good thing they’re all friends!(Louis Wu 11:38:58 UTC)

MLGPro.com has posted the 14th ‘MLG/ESPN Top Ten’ – this time taking all of its clips from the Dallas and Las Vegas tournament dates. Some really sick sniping! Heads-up kudos to the Bungie Blog.(Louis Wu 11:38:00 UTC)

The Halo wedding that’s been in the news a bit recently (since it took place on the 17th, just a week ago) has been summarized, with video, at MTV.com. Check it out! (Love the plasma grenade favors!) (Louis Wu 11:31:00 UTC)

urk has highlighted a really fun-to-watch mongoose dualtage, entitled ‘Roadkill’ – H3WM WakkaWakka and iCantHaveFun show off their splatter skillz in this fast-moving romp. One thing I learned by watching it – folks really, really, REALLY underestimate single riders on a mongoose. (The Rats Nest tidbit about a minute in is amazing. Just amazing.)(Louis Wu…

It’s the Final Round of TheFinalFight’s Clip of the Week contest – submit a clip, win a shot at a 2-month Gold membership. You can also check out the submissions for Round 2, and vote for your favorite. Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 19:46:42 UTC)

The Halo 3 Fails series released Episode 7 over the weekend… I think my favorite is the ‘Gravity Fails’ clip on Guardian. Funny stuff! Thanks, DeathhawK7 (via Bungie.net).(Louis Wu 17:33:19 UTC)

DigitalPh33r’s Hard Justice series continues with Episode 9 – Bernard is starting to come off as unbelievably naive. Smart… but naive. Also some other weird stuff. Go watch! Thanks to urk, and the Bungie Blog, for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 17:26:47 UTC)

Pete Cooper dropped in to announce that the blog devoted to Operation Chastity (the live-action fan film project that’s building its own Warthog) has been updated with lots of pics and a writeup of the progress to date. Great stuff – give it a read!(Louis Wu 16:46:46 UTC)

Last week, we mentioned that some new Halo Wars screens had been released. You can find these at most gaming sites around the net by now… but always in a screen-sized version, and almost always with a watermark. We don’t believe you should have to be limited by watermarks, or by arbitrarily-resized shots – so…

Paula (you might remember her cardboard Spark) created a cardboard Master Chief with a rocket launcher for Halloween last year. (Yes, she’s a little late getting the word to us. She knows.) She took him to the local mall – and was kicked out because of the ‘no toy weapons’ rule. Bummer! She also went…

It’s Monday, so TTL Demag0gue let us know about Reclaimer 141 – and it’s a good thing the Mercyhoard’s protector doesn’t stand on ceremony. (So to speak.)(Louis Wu 14:13:13 UTC)

rapture, over at the Hushed Casket, sent word that a friend had found a modded Left 4 Dead map based on Hang ’em High (okay, as far as I can tell, a near-perfect replica, not just ‘based on’), and rap recorded some video. It’s much, much longer than it needs to be – but it’s…

Relativiox was also at Saturday’s VGL performance in Seattle – and managed to capture the entire ODST segment (a world premiere, remember) on video. Great seats, great recording!(Louis Wu 04:42:26 UTC)

2900d4u and his brother, 2900d4u2, recreated Neil Blomkamp’s ‘Landfall’ series… as a Halo 3 machinima. There’s something surreal watching a Halo 3 machinima-based remake of a live-action movie based on the Halo 3 video game… but man, they pulled it off well. Awesome piece – all the more so because it’s just two of them!…

oriol003 stopped in to announce the launch of iPhront, a community machinima site. The Halo content (so far) is a bunch of high-quality stuff culled from recent announcements – I’d assume that as time went on, they’ll start to see new stuff there. Check it out! (Louis Wu 02:45:18 UTC)

RogDarkJedi stopped in to announce a new series of shorts called ‘Mindless Intentions’. The first one, ‘Hotline’, is online now. Personal opinion: the series has potential… but hasn’t grown into it yet. Give ’em time! (Louis Wu 02:43:59 UTC)