Author: halo@bungie.org

NOKYARD let us know about a cool new feature of this year’s Grifball Winter League – your team can build a customized Home Court! The official map has been designed to allow teams to customize the large wall so that ‘home’ games are more comfy – and you’ve got permission to get started on the…

Hawty McBloggy has taken a solid look at the whole “you can get Recon armor with Halo 3: Recon” revelation, and tried to pin down what this means to various types of Halo players. Go see what category you’re in!(Louis Wu 17:22:16 UTC)

LostRock11 was the first to let us know about a new article at Wired.com – “The Best Fictional Doomsday Devices” covers eight pretty nasty pieces of equipment… and everbody’s favorite ring-shaped galaxy cleaner is on the list.(Louis Wu 17:17:38 UTC)

AnTi PRO let us know that Arm The Flag and Bryan Simon have gotten together to create a music video using Bryan’s ‘One Shot on my X’ – funny stuff! Go watch. (Louis Wu 17:16:29 UTC)

uber_chaos sent along an audio clip (617k, mp3 format) from the Hellboy II director’s commentary, during which Guillermo Del Toro discusses the helmet he designed for the character Johann Krauss (you can see it here) – and how this evolved from a design for the Master Chief’s helmet when he was thinking about the Halo…

The December 2008 issue of Game Informer has a cover story on Halo 3: Recon – and it’s a doozy. It doesn’t contain any new screenshots, but there’s quite a bit of concept art, and there’s a lot of description of how the game is going to work. There are some very interesting tidbits included:Paul…

Thanks to urk, who put up a note about a new collection of community favorites at The Running Riot. Screenshots and film clips, this time out.(Louis Wu 22:30:35 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy ran across a pretty cool little YouTube clip – you couldn’t make that jump in a million years if you tried.(Louis Wu 21:36:44 UTC)

The Community Spotlight Second Week has just begun for Halo3.junk.ws – new files, a new interview. Well, a discussion of a joke map. It actually sounds like fun – go grab a copy!(Louis Wu 20:47:59 UTC)

It’s time for another Grifball season – and the Winter 2009 court has been posted at Grifball.com. Go download it! Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 20:46:31 UTC)

LoneRanger 2.5 noticed the Halo Trilogy Soundtrack – and mendicantbias00 found a listing for it at Amazon. A five-disc box set… so it’s just the original Halo OST, the 2-disc Halo 2 OST, and the 2-disc Halo 3 OST (I’d guess).(Louis Wu 18:09:35 UTC)

Paul Wedgwood, founder of Splash Damage (the developer of the Enemy Territory franchise for id Software), spoke to Edge magazine recently… and had some unhappy things to say about the state of console development today. (He wants to raise the bar, actually.)”Arguably, and this is not to dismiss what people have achieved in the past,…

A new comic series has kicked off over at Hawty McBloggy’s – DeepCee is publishing the Chronicles of ODS Steve every Wednesday. Episode 1 is up now. (Louis Wu 17:46:44 UTC)

VelocityTino put together a video that shows what happens if you mix Halo and Little Shop of Horrors. (Yes, it’s what you’d expect – but he did a pretty good job with the composition.)(Louis Wu 17:46:11 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue let us know that Reclaimer 111 is now live – and suddenly, everything you thought you knew about Ferial is tossed into doubt. Things are getting real.(Louis Wu 17:45:14 UTC)

zofinda noticed that the Holiday 08 issue of the Official Xbox Magazine has an excerpt from the upcoming novel from Tobias Buckell, The Cole Protocol. (There’s also a short interview with the author.) If you’re interested in what the excerpt holds, zofinda wrote up an overview later on in the thread.(Louis Wu 17:42:59 UTC)

Nick, from Halo3RPG.com, let us know that they’re running a puzzle map contest. It’s unclear what that really means, and without an account over there you can’t even read the news items – but if you’re interested, sign up, sign in, and read about it. Contest ends on November 28, and the prize is Recon…

Nick Singer has been in our news in the past, for creating cool Marathon/Halo music mixes – he’s back, with a new piece he put together for use on the Bungie podcast. Bungie hasn’t said if they’re going to use it or not – but you can listen to it for yourself, it’s quite short,…

The spotlights on community members continue to shine over at Bungie.net – today’s entry looks at SonicJohn, a Bungie.net member who was doing SLASO runs when most people thought SLASO was something you put on hot dogs. Swing by and read what makes him tick… and why.(Louis Wu 20:04:13 UTC)

XerxdeeJ stopped in with word of new content at Tied the Leader (Tuesday is Tuesday, after all, holiday or not). Check out an interesting article on the different types of warthog gunners you might encounter if you fancy yourself a wheelman. (There’s also a new article on Gears of War 2 – but that might…