Author: halo@bungie.org

You think Halo is old? Get a hacksaw and count the rings in the meaty part of Mr. Wu’s upper thigh. OK, don’t. But wish the old bloke a happy b-day anyway, willya?(Ding 14:55:30 UTC)

The ‘Breaking In’ series continues at Bungie.net – urk talks to Pat Jandro, a Cinematic Animator for Bungie, about how he got into the field, and what’s good about the job. (Louis Wu 23:43:39 UTC)

pete_the_duck put together his own batch of panoramas today – most are fun incidents from matchmaking. I love ‘Double Snipe’!(Louis Wu 21:09:25 UTC)

It’s Thursday, so it’s time for another Double XP Weekend on Xbox LIVE – and this week, the playlist is Legendary Brawl. Ranked 12-player FFA – are there still achievements you need?(Louis Wu 20:51:23 UTC)

broony announced that he’d just received email from Amazon.co.uk confirming that The Cole Protocol had been dispatched, and Jillybean mentioned it had been in a local Scotland store for several days. The US Amazon, however, has the book on target to be shipped by mid-week next week. Oh, well… (Louis Wu 14:23:30 UTC)

Dave ‘Evil Otto’ Candland stopped by to point out a local (Seattle) news story involving Bungie – looks like lawmakers are trying to figure out how to keep video game dollars in the state, and Bungie’s a company worth talking to! (Louis Wu 14:22:56 UTC)

TruthPastor GBG let us know that the in-game Bible study he was doing (we mentioned it here back in August) has moved – if you’re interested in joining, here’s a page with all the info.(Louis Wu 14:22:22 UTC)

AvatarAang mentioned a couple of machinima links you might be interested in – if you’re a Rooster Teeth subscriber, you’ve got access to a pair of clips that were cut from the Reconstruction DVD, and the Running Gun crew has whipped up a project called ‘Paint the Line’, as part of a 48 Hour Machinima…

Bungie’s posted another Community Spotlight, with corresponding new goodies in the Bungie Favorites section – this time, they’re talking to Mjolnir Battle Tactics, a Bungie.net group. Go read about ’em, and check out their favorite maps/files! Thanks, Avateur.(Louis Wu 21:29:53 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy pointed out a new theme for your Blackberry 9000, courtesy of Halcylon. Nice work!(Louis Wu 19:17:21 UTC)

Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked Episode 42 is live – it looks like storylines are coming together.(Louis Wu 19:15:29 UTC)

Over on the Bungie blog, there’s an interview with Mat Noguchi about how Halo 3 uses the Xbox 360 cache features, and how this affects you with respect to the new ‘copy to disk’ feature of LIVE’s NXE (which is now available to all LIVE subscribers). We’ve discussed this recently – but this interview provides…

Taco Power is looking for help with ideas for his Green and Red stop-motion Halo Kubrick videos – you can watch the first three (they’re each just a few seconds long, and they’re just him playing around with the technique), and then suggest plotlines for him!(Louis Wu 14:56:25 UTC)

Over at the Rooster Teeth website, Burnie’s posted a video that shows off one of the weird glitches in Halo 3 that they (and really MOST) machinima creators need to work around – and some ways of doing exactly that. Education can be entertaining!(Louis Wu 14:44:22 UTC)

zukan pointed out a video on YouTube – ‘Le Zapatabadou’ is a French machinima version of Adult Swim’s ‘Robot Chicken’. As he says, even though the dialogue is in French, it’s not hard to figure out what’s going on most of the time – and some of the sketches are quite funny. Take a look!(Louis…

TTL Demag0gue let us know that Reclaimer 113 is live – the Reclaimer meets two more members of the Cavalcade.(Louis Wu 14:06:24 UTC)

According to the New York Times, Tom ‘TSquared’ Taylor’s mug will appear on 175 million Dr. Pepper labels starting in January – the MLG Pro’s deal is the label’s first sports promotion with national distribution. He’s bigger than the Dallas Cowboys! (They only got regional distribution on Dr. Pepper labels.)(Louis Wu 13:35:01 UTC)

Episode 2 of ODS Steve is now live at Hawty McBloggy’s – DeepCee’s hapless Helljumper proves he has trouble reading (or at least processing).(Louis Wu 13:34:32 UTC)

Metalingus627 pointed out a thread at Bungie.net that contains a series of artist renditions of new armor perms (fan-made) – some interesting stuff in there!(Louis Wu 13:34:12 UTC)

Linken91 posted a series of ‘Heroes vs Nemesis’ wallpapers, to commemorate a machinima series – if you like your wallpaper with lots of words, check these out. (Louis Wu 13:33:53 UTC)