Author: halo@bungie.org

Only a couple of days remain to vote for your favorite pumpkins in our Guilt O’ Lantern contest… if you haven’t voted yet, take this opportunity to do so! I’m going to close down the voting at Midnight, EST, Sunday night – you’ve got about 37 hours. Make sure your voice is heard!(Louis Wu 15:56:44…

Hawty McBloggy dug up a custom-painted pink Elite figure on eBay – proceeds go to the American Breast Cancer Foundation. Auction ends in just under a week… go see!(Louis Wu 15:54:49 UTC)

InnerRayg ntoiced that a new licensed product is now on the market – over at Gamernode, there’s word of a Microsoft-approved full-sized Master Chief helmet, selling for $115. No word on who makes these.(Louis Wu 15:49:21 UTC)

The Bungie Weekly Update is now live – and along with a TINY bit of information about Halo 3: Recon, there are also a bunch of user-asked questions, answered. Well, sort of answered. Go read! (As usual, you’re welcome to use our Weekly Update Archive.)(Louis Wu 01:13:57 UTC)

I saw new content on Bungie.net – and thought it might be the weekly update. Nope – just a really convoluted suicide. Go watch!(Louis Wu 00:35:46 UTC)

Bry stopped in with closer looks at the Covenant Assault Carrier and the UNSC Warthog. Awesome pics! (Louis Wu 18:40:56 UTC)

One more RvB: Reconstruction pic from ZZoMBiE13 – The Meta is tossing cars at Grif, and Grif doesn’t like it. Nice work!(Louis Wu 18:37:01 UTC)

The name ‘Jen Taylor’ should ring a bell with Halo fans – she’s been the voice of Cortana since there’s BEEN a Cortana. Over at Bungie.net, there’s a post that might be of interest to Taylor fans in the Seattle area… she’s part of a group that just started the New Century Theater Company, and…

It’s Friday, so it’s time for another round of Friday Caption Fun over at Hawty McBloggy’s. The last outing was 3 weeks ago – this one contains reader submissions for that screenshot, plus a new screenshot to play with. Seriously… that is one big gun.(Louis Wu 15:43:29 UTC)

NartFOpc pointed out an article at Cracked.com – ‘The 7 Deadly Sins of Online Gaming’ looks at some of the bad things you can do in today’s multiplayer games (and what should happen to you when you do). Teabagging makes the list. (Louis Wu 15:43:07 UTC)

Nick, from Halo 3 RPG, let us know that it’s a Team Pistol Double XP weekend over there. Also, Mast3r-117 started an official Halo 3 FanClub on Bungie.net.(Louis Wu 15:42:40 UTC)

Seventeen new pieces were added to the Fan Fiction section this week (though only 10 were submitted as part of Phædrus’ “You’re Doing It Write” challenge – and this was the final chance to get an entry in for that). Go read!(Louis Wu 13:58:05 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue let us know that Reclaimer 109 is live – sounds like escape isn’t exactly foiling Viper’s plans.(Louis Wu 13:47:28 UTC)

Should have mentioned this last night, when it went live… but the latest 7 on the 7th list is active now. If you haven’t gotten your 7 on the 7th Achievement (or if you just want to play 7 player FFA games on Blackout), this is your chance!(Louis Wu 13:34:04 UTC)

It became clear yesterday, after the Halo Wars Collectible Edition announcement, that the Mythic Map Pack would be available for download from Xbox LIVE soon after the release of Halo Wars. (Bungie says as much here.) We even learned that the inclusion of the Map Pack in the Collectible Edition would come as a downloadable…

Bungie’s put up another developer interview – this time, it’s Richard Lico, Animation Lead. Richard talks about how he got into animating, and how he got into Bungie – critical stuff if you want to follow in his footsteps! Check it out. (Louis Wu 13:18:47 UTC)

FyreWulff showed off a vehicle that looks awfully familiar – it was created in Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, but it’s got a Halo feel! Take a look. (Louis Wu 13:13:58 UTC)

Jobyn ran across a website promising gesture-based control – Mgestyk Technologies uses a camera to film your hand movements, and software to interpret them. One of the examples in the video partway down the main page is a guy playing Halo PC – he fires the rocket launcher on Battle Creek simply by making a…

It’s Thursday, so it’s time for another Double XP weekend to go live! This week it’s Team Flag – 5v5 CTF variants. Woohoo! Go play.(Louis Wu 20:35:28 UTC)

Over at the Bungie Blog, urk pointed out ‘Top 10 Series Episode 12: Splatters’. I wasn’t impressed for the first few… but they get WAY better. Go watch!(Louis Wu 20:33:23 UTC)