Author: halo@bungie.org

Torrent stopped in to announce that a public demo for his Halo: Out With a Whimper sidescrolling game is available for download – swing by and grab a copy! Forum response is quite positive.(Louis Wu 22:40:25 UTC)

mrsmiley let us know that the Halo Babies Happy Halodays Contest had 50+ entries for round 3… and the winner has been announced. You can also check out the rest of the entries in the round’s gallery. (Louis Wu 22:39:45 UTC)

pete_the_duck decided to try and see if he could predict what Orbital would look like in its entirety, based on the screenshots released yesterday. Check out his sketches – and see if you agree!(Louis Wu 14:56:05 UTC)

Over at NeoGAF, Stormtrooper30 pointed out a rumor that popped up on the Europe-Nintendo forums (heh) suggesting that in the next few months, Microsoft would begin patching original Xbox titles to retroactively add achievements. First on the supposed list? Halo: Combat Evolved. Before you get your hopes up, Luke Smith immediately chimed in with a…

TTL Demag0gue told us that Reclaimer 128 begins to bring back sanity. I’d have to say he’s lying. (Louis Wu 14:51:34 UTC)

HSAR rewrote a famous Simon and Garfunkel song with some new Halo-related lyrics. Some of the word choices are a little awkward, but the meter’s great, and overall he did a great job. Go read!(Louis Wu 14:51:09 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy let us know that ODS Steve’s 7th Episode is now live – DeepCee’s hapless soldier has friends. Sort of.(Louis Wu 14:50:36 UTC)

As a holiday present to its fans, Bungie released a large group of screenshots of both Orbital and Assembly (12 shots of Orbital, 10 of Assembly), which might just hold you over a little longer. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 23:02:52 UTC)

anthraxgoon stopped in to let us know about Episode 8 of his Halo 3 webcomic, X36, generously hosted by TTL Demag0gue on his halo3webcomics.com website. Check it out!(Louis Wu 23:00:47 UTC)

Ouch! Bungie’s blog has a tidbit about some really bad luck experienced by a fan – who was working on a Halo 3 Christmas image. What got done so far is great – here’s hoping BWO Magoogam gets better quick!(Louis Wu 22:59:02 UTC)

StarNewsOnline put together a 2008 Game Awards article – and Halo 3 won Best Online Multiplayer, even though it wasn’t released in 2008. Nice!(Louis Wu 22:56:36 UTC)

JeSteR 343 got a very cool 10th anniversary present from his wife, a few weeks early. Check it out!(Louis Wu 21:54:20 UTC)

This weekend, a few of us got together for some Halo goodness and Philly cheesesteaks at the Casa de Chavez – a good time was had by all. (My high school journalism teacher can’t even give me a hard time for using that phrase, because I DID talk to everyone there, and they DID all…

Adam Susskind let us know that Chaos Theory Episode 5 is now up – another 20-page PDF is online. I know we just mentioned the series for the first time yesterday… but from here on out it’ll be on the regular week-between-episodes schedule.(Louis Wu 14:55:31 UTC)

Tyler, from Young Street Productions, let us know that Forecast Episode 8 is now online – Timmy’s back. Production values, as always, are quite high – good stuff. (There’s also a tiny short called ‘Entrapment: The Payback’ which should make you grin.)(Louis Wu 14:44:53 UTC)

Noticed a a Halo 3 rap on YouTube – skullkruncher13 and patfan8326 talk some smack, but do it in an entertaining manner. “If life was based on Halo then I know I’d have it made.” Go watch!(Louis Wu 13:33:20 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy wants pics of your Christmas tree, if you used your Halo 3 Legendary Helmet as decoration. Swing by and give her what she needs! (She’s expanded the request to include any video-game-related items – Companion Cubes definitely count.)(Louis Wu 13:20:06 UTC)

The XBL Marketplace Deal of the Week this week is Halo: Combat Evolved – according to Major Nelson, it’s half off, starting today. 600 MS Points… that’s just $7.50 for the game that started the Halo magic! Thanks, DiscipleN2k.(Louis Wu 13:15:28 UTC)

geekinabox was the first of many to point out to us a pretty amazing piece of machinima – swing by YouTube for Reilly311’s ‘UT3 vs Halo Dance Off’. You can probably figure out how it ends, given geekinabox’s post title, and the fact that the machinima was created in the UT3 engine (described as ‘the…

ZZoMBiE13 sent along some Christmas Wallpaper for you to enjoy (in a couple of resolutions – swing by and grab a copy!(Louis Wu 20:37:44 UTC)