Author: halo@bungie.org

pete_the_duck wrote up another night of exploits on Xbox LIVE – and added a fun highlights video. Both are worth your time. Comments can go in his forum thread. Update: Whoa, another one – it’s a trend! This one was put together by Avateur. Lots of pics. Check it out!(Louis Wu 15:09:10 UTC)

Aside from the new issue of Chaos Theory mentioned in the last news post, there are a bunch of OTHER webcomics going live today:anthraxgoon let us know about X36 Chapter 1 Issue 9Andrew Kleiner pointed us to Outbreak, a comic he’s been hosting on a forum for a while now; there are a lot of…

Lots of tidbits in the Bungie Blog yesterday afternoon – here’s a summary.A video showing a team of HaloBabies regulars taking on the Bungie Annual ChallengeA video of funky clips from Halo 3 – old, but coolThe webcomic Chaos Theory, Episode 6 was announced (this was also announced on our own forum – thanks, Adam)A…

We got word from Daniel ‘Tyrant’ Morris, the Mythic Master, that his January Challenge was (almost) met – B0ANERGES managed to complete 8 of the missions in the time allotted (and the final mission since then), thereby becoming the 10th Mythic Conqueror on record… and winning the 1600 Microsoft Point pot Tyrant put up for…

Our friendly neighborhood punmeister was inspired (possibly by a fragment of an underdone potato) to poke fun at one of the most common denizens of Halo 3 matchmaking – check out the latest One One Se7en for full details. (We may have to start numbering these for real again at some point…)(Louis Wu 15:19:14 UTC)

It’s Tuesday, and it’s a new year, so XerxdeeJ is back with word of updates on the Tied the Leader blog – TTL Venus sat down with TTL Demag0gue for a pretty in-depth interview about Halo, comics, horses, and Chicago cops… and OboeCrazy whipped up another volume of Gunslinger highlights – highlights for me were…

Rune Of Red has been reading the Halo novels, and has decided to elaborate on what, for him, makes the Master Chief special. See if you agree!(Louis Wu 15:13:26 UTC)

Heh – Mid7night found a cool video showing Johnson getting an Overkill on the last level of the campaign… unfortunately, all four deaths were players.(Louis Wu 14:53:19 UTC)

nomis78 posted links to three new panoramas he’s created – the first couple have some funky effects! Check ’em out.(Louis Wu 21:48:45 UTC)

Customers Rock!, a website devoted to pointing out customer service and its results, has issued its Top 3 Customer Rock Stars for 2008… and Bungie pulls in the number one spot for their handling of Ragingterror’s ‘wiped’ Xbox. Tell us something we didn’t know, Customers Rock! (Just kidding – that’s pretty cool.) Thanks to Hawty…

Schedonnardus let us know about a short clip on the Xbox LIVE Dashboard, viewable by visiting the ‘Spotlight’ section. For those without access to that particular fount of goodness, we’ve put up 720p versions for download – both QuickTime (90 mb) and WMP9 (106 mb) formats. It’s under 3 minutes, and consists of stock footage…

Bored? Feel like playing with Bungie.net’s tagging system to find cool FileShare content? The latest example of urk’s tutorial series shows off some pretty sweet hammer pics.(Louis Wu 20:56:15 UTC)

Another fun highlight – Rast07’s Equipment Emporium, where you can buy anything you need to augment your battle fun, at discounted prices! (Louis Wu 20:51:07 UTC)

Bungie’s blog pointed out Real7alk’s Podcast #6 – a farewell to a site founder, and interview with a montage master, and a discussion with the moderators of halotech.org – 92 mb, 110 minutes. Go listen. (urk warns that you might need a bathroom break. Or something.)(Louis Wu 20:49:20 UTC)

Over at HaloGAF, Kibbles pointed out a pretty interesting YouTube vid… I’d love to know how this happened. (Minor spoilers, I suppose, for those who haven’t played Halo or Halo 2.)(Louis Wu 20:31:20 UTC)

ManKitten is working on an assault rifle – he’s even started up a facebook profile to keep track of progress. Check out his forum post for a link, and a pic of the progress so far.(Louis Wu 16:26:58 UTC)

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)