Author: halo@bungie.org

nomis78 stopped in with six new panoramas – gorgeous work. Take the time to look at these. Update: looks like radiant penguin has posted his own, today (reminded by nomis78). Some great ones here, too!(Louis Wu 13:31:45 UTC)

Ross Mills noticed an article at Maxim entitled ‘The 7 Greatest Faceless Announcers in Video Games’ – Halo’s Voice of God renderer makes the list. Some of the ‘memorable lines’ attributed to him, though, might make you wonder. (Louis Wu 13:30:39 UTC)

Anoj108 has posted Episode 14 of his Top 10 Halo 3 Moments series – this one is just a highlights reel from ‘Season 2 (Episodes 8-13). Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 13:30:16 UTC)

More Halo Wars coverage – The Halo Wars website mentions writeups at Joystiq and Xbox360Achievements.com, in addition to the stuff we mentioned a couple of days ago (post 1 | post 2). Planet Halo points out one at TeamXbox, too. And Wired has put up its own piece. On top of this news, the Halo…

Bungie.net’s ‘Average Joe’ series of interviews grew yesterday when a discussion with Tied the Leader’s XerxdeeJ hit the front page (thanks, Bryan Simon). deeJ isn’t your average ‘Average Joe’, as far as Halo community members go – but he’s modest enough that you’d almost think he wasn’t really responsible for the success of TTL if…

Aaron Spuler was the first to point out a blog post over at Tobias Buckell’s website – the author of the soon-to-be-released ‘Cole Protocol’ novel was admitted to the hospital recently with heart trouble. Here’s hoping this all turns out well! (Louis Wu 13:27:44 UTC)

RandomSauce let us know about a video from CO0L Beans – the man risks life and limb to promote the cause of Halo 3 MythBusters on Xbox Live. Funny stuff – but I’m telling you now, if I met him in Matchmaking, I’d still shoot him. (Louis Wu 13:26:59 UTC)

It’s Tuesday, so it’s time for another installment of Daniel ‘Tyrant’ Morris’ Solo Legendary All Skulls On Walkthrough of Halo 3 – this week’s info considers Cortana, and the pus-covered ship it takes place on. Lots and lots of movies, lots and lots of tips. When you get through reading this, you might think that…

urk posted a note about Psychoneurosis, a Halo 3 tricking video put together by DWT Productions – some pretty bizarre stuff! (If you swing by High Impact Halo, you can find a high-res download link, as well – it’s a beefy 225 mb, though.)(Louis Wu 17:48:47 UTC)

DrDoctor pointed out an article at CNET about some new ‘Halo-esque’ armor for Korea’s troops… we’re getting closer to ODSTs!(Louis Wu 17:17:49 UTC)

Ensemble’s Dave Pottinger talked to Shacknews about the closure of Ensemble Studios – and some information about the cancelled Halo MMO (there was a flurry of info about this project back in September). Sounds like they’re pretty unhappy about the closure – and the MMO project had gotten a lot further along than anyone thought!…

XerxdeeJ stopped in to complain about Mondays, and to point out new content at Tied the Leader. Wait… it’s Tuesday again? There’s a full writeup of the honorable profession of Wheelmanning, complementing the Tail-gunner article from last week. And OboeCrazy has put together an October Highlight Reel for the Gunslingers (you cannot see it in…

LostRock11 pointed out a rather bizarre, but pretty funny, video put together by Balloon Shop last year just after Halo 3 was released. It made me laugh!(Louis Wu 17:13:01 UTC)

Raulboy noticed some cool Custom Lego Spartans for sale on eBay – and Dustbunny27 showed him how to get them even cheaper. Build your own Halo Lego army! (Louis Wu 17:11:29 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy uncovered a really cool Elite costume… but even better, she found the perfect soundtrack for it. Check it out! (Louis Wu 17:01:52 UTC)

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…