Author: halo@bungie.org

It’s Monday – so TTL Demag0gue tells us about Reclaimer 132 – wherein Ferial gets a surprise. (Louis Wu 13:24:05 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy ran across a video which gives you a nice (hmm… maybe the wrong word) snapshot of Halo 3 voice chat on Xbox LIVE – people are pretty random, aren’t they?(Louis Wu 13:23:45 UTC)

Yesterday, Major Nelson released a list of the Top 20 LIVE Games of 2008, based on unique users… and Halo 3 came out on top of the pack. Impressive feat, given the competition! Thanks to many – first seems to have been LostSpartan987. (Louis Wu 13:23:23 UTC)

Apologies – the normal Fan Fiction update for Friday never made it out; life here’s been a little topsy-turvy. It’s up now, though – four new stories for you to read. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 13:22:32 UTC)

deadly alive stopped in with word of ‘Friction’, a machinima about a soldier who discovers that not all is as he thought. It’s pretty long – almost 26 minutes, in two parts – but it’s well-done, and has a few twists to keep you interested. Swing by the post for download or streaming links! (Louis…

Molten Slowa was the first to let us know about the return of Spriggs… sort of. (It’s a Spriggs Short.) Good stuff! (Louis Wu 22:53:53 UTC)

FireDragon04 wore some Spartan armor today – and filmed it. Video is on YouTube, photos are on MySpace. (Louis Wu 22:53:33 UTC)

ODST Sarge let us know that Dispatch Films podcast Episode 1 has been released – you can listen to it at blip.tv. (Louis Wu 22:53:07 UTC)

Lord Dark Numchuck has a webcomic called ‘My Life as an Evil Genius’ – and today’s strip has a Halo reference. Give it a read! (Louis Wu 22:52:49 UTC)

The Sri Lanka Sunday Times put up a ’10 Hottest Games of 2009′ list… and two Halo titles are on it. Not too shabby!(Louis Wu 22:52:23 UTC)

Bungie.net’s blog has word of a short machinima created by Dispatch Films – ‘Explosive Ordinance Disposal’ looks at the job of the EOD soldiers… in a slightly different light. Great cinematography. (Louis Wu 22:52:08 UTC)

Mirel pointed out a Dutch website that claims that there’ll be a Halo Wars demo in February – not very specific, and no cited source, but…(Louis Wu 18:36:18 UTC)

Bry put together some Halo 3-themed planes for Microsoft Flight Simulator – nice work! (Louis Wu 18:35:51 UTC)

A surprisingly long thread blossomed from a prediction by Vid Boi that the ODST protagonist of Bungie’s upcoming Halo 3: ODST will be female. It even inspired some… odd art. What do you think?(Louis Wu 18:35:28 UTC)

A10M1C continues his ODST-themed wallpaper series with an image called ‘All at Once’ – gorgeous. Available in both Standard and Widescreen formats.(Louis Wu 18:35:03 UTC)

One of the changes mentioned in yesterday’s Weekly Update was that the ‘push-to-talk’ requirement was being bumped up from 4 players per team to 6 – but that the downside to this change was greater potential lag. Hawty McBloggy wants you to weigh in on this issue in a new feature on her blog called…

The Bungie Weekly Update went live last night, as usual – pretty impressive given the holiday status, and Washington State’s weather woes. Mostly, it’s a discussion of upcoming changes to the Matchmaking playlists – many of these look to be very helpful. Check it out! (As usual, you can read it in our Weekly Update…

Over at the Bungie log yesterday, urk posted a link to a video of some fan-made Hayabusa armor. If you swing by the creator’s YouTube channel, you can find lots and lots and LOTS of Halo stuff – including Halo Wars costumes. Good stuff! (The Halo Wars elite walking through a normal house/neighborhood is fun…

Dennis Powers sent along a year-end summary of the Halo Custom Edition game Archive – total assets are nearing 3800 items, with 828 of those added in 2008, and 59 added in December. Notable December additions: Dmt-Cairo Station by DMT Inferno (a model of the Cairo space station as seen in Halo 2), Wet Dunes…

Yesterday was Friday, so it was time for another episode of Friday Caption Fun over at Hawty McBloggy’s – some great submissions for last week’s pic, plus a new shot for you to play with. Go see! (Louis Wu 17:51:36 UTC)