Author: halo@bungie.org

Cortana4ever has put together a Portal/Halo mashup, with Cortana singing ‘Still Alive’. Check it out!(Louis Wu 18:18:31 UTC)

Dracc went to the Seattle Video Games Live show last night (the one that debuted the ODST music)… and wrote up a massive piece discussing the evening. Give it a read!(Louis Wu 18:17:26 UTC)

SonofMacPhisto and CrazedOne1988 put together a montage dedicated to betrayals. Some are accidents, some are not. Some are sad, some are hilarious. The ending is spectacular. (Louis Wu 18:16:26 UTC)

FyreWulff has been building some pretty charts based on Matchmaking playlists – not all of his data is perfect, but overall, these can help you more clearly understand where people are in Matchmaking, and what they’re doing. Visit the site and check it all out! (Louis Wu 18:15:44 UTC)

The Halo Story page hasn’t kicked the bucket yet – and with the new infusion of story material from Friday’s Weekly Update, Jillybean has some great new speculation for you! Swing by for the goodies.(Louis Wu 18:13:55 UTC)

FriggenFragger noticed this airsoft rifle – if you’re looking for a decent start for a rifle you can mod to look like Halo material, this isn’t a bad choice!(Louis Wu 18:11:45 UTC)

Spartacus280 created a short video of a Covenant/Human meetup – great effects! Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 18:10:29 UTC)

Juesoni stopped in with a link to David, a new machinima series he’s starting. A bit strange, but it works. Apparently, the next one will be shown live, today. In fact, it’s set to go down in about 2 hours. Read the post for more details.(Louis Wu 17:43:04 UTC)

Darknesshasfallen was inspired by the fanart in last night’s Weekly Update… and whipped up his own offering. I was amused.(Louis Wu 17:40:06 UTC)

Ross Mills ran across some Halo artwork for sale on Amazon (UK-only) – he found a Halo 3 piece, and a Halo Wars piece. There doesn’t seem to be any search that narrows down ONLY to Halo pieces – but this search will show you 33 images, 15 of which are Halo-related. It’s unclear whether…

A number of comics were announced on our forum in the past 12 hours or so:Juesoni told us about Reconnaissance Omega Special Chapter, now on its 9th page (out of 10)The Catfish announced that 2501 Episode 6 was out – with a cliffhangerAdam Susskind is back, with word of Chaos Theory Episode 8: Fear (Part…

I’m not really sure what happened, but it looks like someone broke in and used urk’s computer to write up a fake Bungie Weekly Update. That’s the only explanation I can come up with for an update so chock-full of actual information, straight talk and undisguised answers. Highlights:A Mythic-specific playlist will go live the day…

subtheorist, from MLGPro.com, wrote to let us know about a giveaway for Halo Wars Beta codes – with one of these, you’ll be able to download the demo about a week before the general public. They’ve got 25 codes to give away, and all you need to do is post in a particular thread. Read…

The Bungie Blog highlighted a montage dominated by MLG play – it’s in HD, but bring the dramamine, the camera cuts are really jumpy.(Louis Wu 20:31:36 UTC)

HDR has some new screens from Halo Wars, snapped from the demo, due out in less than two weeks.(Louis Wu 19:21:15 UTC)

According to VoodooExtreme, Halo Wars went gold today – and the studio doors will close soon. Swing by for the full MS press release.(Louis Wu 17:47:43 UTC)

urk got word that The Running Riot podcast is moving to a live recording format, with the next episode (14) being broadcast at 9:30 pm EST on January 27th. Predator5791 will be a guest. Check out their website for full details.(Louis Wu 17:31:56 UTC)

S1kkZ, over at NeoGAF, noticed a new Halo Wars vidoc on the Marketplace – it’s 204 mb, HD, four and a half minutes long, and loaded with new gameplay and cutscene footage. If it doesn’t find its way to the web in the near future, we’ll put up a copy of our own.(Louis Wu 14:38:26…

It’s Friday, so it’s time for another round of Caption Fun at Hawty McBloggy’s. Last week’s screenshot doesn’t disappoint for entertaining responses, and this week’s promises some politically-incorrect choices. Go play!(Louis Wu 14:17:35 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue told us that Reclaimer 140 is up – and it didn’t even work out the way HE planned. Sometimes comics write themselves. (Louis Wu 14:11:44 UTC)