Author: halo@bungie.org

Steve Moore let us know that his clan, CE United, participated in a LAN event with 8-Bit Brigade over Halloween – check out the recap! (Louis Wu 17:01:03 UTC)

The Halo Wars news is pouring in fast and furiously. IGN has a hands-on preview of the campaign, GameSpot has updated their hands-on article, D+PAD has an interview with Graeme Devine (four pages long, lots of info). We’d updated our earlier screenshots post – but if you missed the update, swing by and read it…

Still not taking full advantage of the tags on B.net’s user-generated content? urk gives you another example of why they’re cool. Today’s pics are SPNKR-related. (Louis Wu 19:24:48 UTC)

DigitalPh33r’s story of Esoteria and its police force continues with Bernard’s driving test, and the governor’s unhappiness with a cop that asks questions. I’m liking the series more than I used to! Thanks to urk for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 18:29:23 UTC)

A new batch of Halo Wars screenshots and a few cutscene stills were released this morning – we’ve posted them here, because it’s a good bet that the full-sized images (5120×2880 for the screenshots, 1920×1280 for the stills) won’t make it to the web on most sites – and almost EVERY other site will slap…

VideoGamer.com has posted a series of Halo Wars news bits this morning – there’s one that has quotes from Ensemble’s Graeme Devine stating that Halo Wars will never show up on a PC, another that discusses the lack of a Covenant option in the Campaign (it came down to time), and yet another that gives…

AnTi PRO let us know that another Bryan Simon song, ‘Snipers are Wussies’, has been turned into a Halo music video – great song, great clips!(Louis Wu 16:08:50 UTC)

Bryan Simon sent word this morning that, inspired by this weekend’s Grifball list, he’s written a new song, “Grifball FTW”. You can watch it on YouTube, or you can download the MP3 from us. Your call! (Louis Wu 16:08:21 UTC)

A couple of interesting bits today at Hawty McBloggy’s – she ran across a legitimate Killionaire in ranked matchmaking (it’s SWAT, but it’s still pretty amazing – how many of these do YOU have?)… and a guest writer, Halcylon, wrote up his experience at Video Games Live in Chicago (the Halo portion continues to impress).…

TTL Demag0gue announced that Reclaimer 112 is online – things are getting squirrely… (Louis Wu 16:06:33 UTC)

NeoGAF’s EazyB has recreated Valhalla using Far Cry 2’s Level Editor – you can check out a pretty long movie showing the features on YouTube. Nice work! (Louis Wu 16:05:52 UTC)

B mc gann put together his Top 10 MLG Exterminations – some great play, some funny mistakes by the opposition. Go watch! (Louis Wu 16:05:32 UTC)

sniper2477 stopped in yesterday with word of a new Marathon Man episode teaser. It’s a fun little street race romp – dialogue could use some work, but the camera angles are great. (Louis Wu 16:05:06 UTC)

lostguru suggested we take a look at this montage from CM-XWing Films – lots of noscopes, lots of sticks, decent timing of gameplay to music. 4:22 long.(Louis Wu 17:58:30 UTC)

The thread we started yesterday, asking people to reminisce about how Halo has affected their lives, is pretty amazing. Lots of stories, lots of love. Bring a pretty big cup of coffee – people have been writing a LOT. I’m seeing names that have been quiet for years, alongside names of relative newcomers, and everything…

The latest Top10Series vid is ‘Top 10 Halo 3 Lucky Kills’ – synchronized sticks, amazing bounces, and a really amazing beatdown. Go watch!(Louis Wu 14:54:05 UTC)

NeoGAF’s Psychotext did some extended tests with the NXE and Halo 3. Now, it’s been known for a while that Halo 3 is already optimized to efficiently use the 360’s cache, so that loading times from the hard drive using NXE’s new ‘copy to HD’ feature are actually LONGER than standard loading – but Psychotext…

Firestorm12 let us know that Halopen Films released their first podcast a few days ago – you can listen to it here. They discuss Halopen, Halo, and machinima news. MP3 format, 45 minutes long. Go listen. (Comments and suggestions can go on their forum.)(Louis Wu 14:40:29 UTC)

On November 15, 2001, the original Xbox was released… and fans all over the US got their hands on what turned out to be a turning point in console gaming – Halo: Combat Evolved. (The rest of the world had to wait a little longer for the joy.) Today is the seventh anniversary of that…

Hawty McBloggy sent a Halo-themed love note to her husband yesterday – oh, so tremendously sweet!(Louis Wu 15:15:15 UTC)