Author: halo@bungie.org

Lots of comics this Monday – lessee what we got. vlad3163 found a Gun Show Comic that combines Seinfeld and Halo 3. (The forum wasn’t impressed.) TTL Demag0gue told us about Reclaimer 121 – Tool of the Forerunners throws yet another twist into the story. And OddGodHMK let us know that after an extended downtime,…

mendicantbias00 received a ThinkGeek catalog in the mail… and was amused by the way they set up some action figures. Here’s hoping the Master Chief doesn’t find the trigger on that Laser… he’ll lose an arm if he does.(Louis Wu 17:08:26 UTC)

kr-1426 let us know that the HBO Fan Fic Pick of the Week was posted yesterday. Go see what was good, and why!(Louis Wu 17:03:54 UTC)

JRCB sent word of ‘Breakaway: A Rock Opera Machinima’, over at YouTube. It’s pretty cool – these guys wrote their own rock opera… and then acted it out in Halo 3. Great music! Definitely a one-of-a-kind… Go watch it!(Louis Wu 16:05:16 UTC)

ZZoMBiE13 couldn’t stay away from the RvB: Reconstruction Fan Art field – he whipped up a new scene from one of the first episodes. (Maybe the first?) Memories!(Louis Wu 15:54:41 UTC)

DigitalPh33r’s Hard Justice series continues with Episode 6, out now on YouTube. Bernard gets closer to the truth – maybe to his detriment. Thanks, vlad3163.(Louis Wu 15:51:15 UTC)

This came in a couple of days ago, but I somehow missed it. Halo Base’s Legend let us know that they’ve kicked off an Advent Calendar, documenting the history of Halo: Combat Evolved, with new magazine scans appearing every new day until Christmas. It’s all in German, but if you read German, there’s a lot…

I stumbled across a blog entry from someone named Ryan Fitzgibbon, who highlighted a short video created by Nicholas Werner called ‘Break: Halo 3’. It’s a short Halo machinima, no voice acting at all… but he’s done a fantastic job of tying together the multiplayer maps in a way that feels right. I enjoyed the…

ReleasetheMonk created a cutscene montage tied to the St. Crispin’s Day speech from Shakespeare’s Henry V. It works surprisingly well. Check it out!(Louis Wu 13:46:11 UTC)

The Winter Pentathlon finished in spectacular style, apparently – complete with the presence of a live goat. (No word on whether the goat was eaten after the festivities.) Pictures and results are now in the updated Bungie.net article. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 13:45:42 UTC)

The Winter Pentathlon is now in full swing at Bungie Studios – Newbies take on Grizzled Ancients for glory and the power of the Bungie Fist. Go read about it! (Because of this competition, there won’t be a Weekly Update tonight – this is the last you’ll hear from the crew until next week… at…

Looks like The Cole Protocol is a hit – Tobias Buckell points out a few sites with bestseller lists. It’s #4 on the New York Times Trade Paperback list, #6 on the Publishers Weekly Trade Paperback fiction list, among others. Nice! Thanks to TTL Demag0gue for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 19:14:59 UTC)

Computerworld’s Dan Tynan found a site hosted by a conservative Christian investment group which rated recently-released videogames on their child-unfriendly content. Dan was offended by what he saw as a narrow-minded attempt to apply morality to video games – but I think I have to agree with the first commenter, who saw the Timothy Plan’s…

Hawty McBloggy hijacked a bungie.net thread for her community feature today – go see what she wants you to think about!(Louis Wu 14:45:41 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue stopped in to let us know about Reclaimer 120 – we’re getting more of the big picture.(Louis Wu 14:45:22 UTC)

Bungie.net continues their ramp-up to the 2008 Winter Pentathlon – there’s a short preview of the events in this year’s competition up now. Halo (the first one) is one of the games. Check out the nice poster!(Louis Wu 14:44:59 UTC)

Seven new pieces for you this week in the Fan Fiction section – go read!(Louis Wu 14:44:19 UTC)

RandomSauce sent word that the fifth Real7alk.com podcast is out – it’s a monster, nearly 2 hours long. You can grab it from their podcast feed – it’s 135 mb, and contains an interview with Hawty McBloggy, a new song from Bryan Simon, and an interview with the Halo 3 Mythbusters! (I’m only a few…

There’s a new ‘Breaking In’ article up at Bungie.net – Tam Armstrong, one of Bungie’s Animation Engineers, talks about what he does and how he got there. It’s not really Halo-related, but it’s an interesting read – so go read it! (If you’re looking to follow in his footsteps… I’m pretty sure the bike crash…

The latest Double Experience Weekend is now live – Rocket Race, Legendary Maps required. (Ladies can play too. I just couldn’t come up with a gender-neutral version of that title that didn’t sound stupid.)(Louis Wu 19:33:50 UTC)