Author: halo@bungie.org

radiant penguin stopped in with a new set of panoramas – these are all (well, most) from Sierra 117, and they’re gorgeous. Check ’em out.(Louis Wu 14:06:44 UTC)

Only three new pieces in the Fan Fiction section today… but one of them is a novelization of the game. Wonga!(Louis Wu 14:05:28 UTC)

Laird stopped by to show off an unfinished trailer for Unyielding 3 – effects aren’t done yet, but you can get a sense for how this puppy will be laid out. Swing by his post for direct download and YouTube links.(Louis Wu 00:33:55 UTC)

Bungie’s posted a new pair of Halo 3: ODST Trailer stills on the ODST Project Page – or you can go directly to the images in question: Red Eye | Alert Zone. They’re pretty massive – they’re not just grabs from the published trailer. At 2133×1200, they’re almost too big for wallpaper, even!(Louis Wu 00:30:48…

The Bungie Breaking In series continues, today focusing on Andrew Davis, Graphic Design/User Interface. If you want to see what got Andrew into Bungie, go read this article!(Louis Wu 00:27:19 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue announced that there’s a new tutorial over at Halo3Webcomics – this one focuses on publishing a webcomic using Wordpress and ComicPress. The software is free – and thanks to Halo3Webcomics, the hosting is free… so what are you waiting for?(Louis Wu 20:09:37 UTC)

If you’ve got the Legendary and Heroic map packs, you can participate in the latest Double-XP weekend, which kicked off about 45 minutes ago – this week, it’s 3-Ball. (Louis Wu 19:44:39 UTC)

Bryan Simon put together a video highlighting some of the messages he gets on Xbox LIVE, due to his wearing of Recon armor in Matchmaking. Listen to these… and then think pretty hard about whether you actually want this armor yourself. (Definitely PG-rated language – don’t play this at work… or in front of your…

Weird Al + Halo 3 = WIN. (Especially when the actual movie is so well-thought-out.) Thanks muchly to urk for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 17:33:27 UTC)

I vowed yesterday to stop highlighting silly top 10 lists at GameDaily… but today 2900d4u brings us word of an article with some new (and interesting?) content – character studies of Halo Wars’ characters Professer Anders and the Prophet of Regret, spread out over 10 pages. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 16:05:06 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy found an interesting vid devoted to the study of spawns, and how that information can be used to spawn-kill the enemy before they even have a chance to fire back. Swing by to add your voice to the discussion… is spawn killing ‘fair play’, or should you avoid it in the interests of…

The Catfish stopped in to point out that 2501 Episode 5 is online… what will the soldiers do? (Louis Wu 16:00:44 UTC)

Wraith7n sighted some Halo 3 playing on the TV show ‘Knight Rider’ – why do directors have to play so fast and loose with reality when dealing with technology?(Louis Wu 16:00:01 UTC)

Bryan Newman asked us to take a look at his Halo 3 machinima series, ‘The Aegis Fate’. Episode 1 is out now, and there’s also a trailer which might give you a better idea of where it’s going. There are a few problems with this… but in general, it’s a nice piece of machinima, and…

Nabsuh stopped in with some footage of visuals he’s adding to his upcoming CGI project – check it out! (Louis Wu 21:06:32 UTC)

If you’re up for a lot of sniping, swing by the Bungie Blog for a link to ‘Last Chance’, with gameplay from Intimant and editing by sTaTic HAZARD. Eight minutes.(Louis Wu 21:03:39 UTC)

Heh – Bryan Simon has a new song out right now – Gold Bars Make You Rich. He’s trying to start a revolution – listen to hear how! If you’d rather just have the MP3, you can download it from us (3.4 mb).(Louis Wu 20:29:16 UTC)

Daniel ‘Tyrant’ Morris let us know that the rules for Round Three of the Mythic Challenge have been posted – there are new ‘medals’ added for folks who have already beaten Mythic mode but want to compete, and for groups competing, each member of the winning team will receive a 1500 point card, rather than…

urk posted a link to a long montage made by the Bungie.net group “Halo 3 in the Workplace”. Fun fighting!(Louis Wu 18:59:51 UTC)

anthraxgoon let us know that X36 Chapter 1 Episode 13 is up – go give him some feedback!(Louis Wu 18:05:26 UTC)