Author: halo@bungie.org

Wow, sort of an odd set of creations… but it works pretty well! Over at Bungie.net, I khriz I posted a series of films that can help you test a 5.1 surround sound system – shots from different sides, sounds from various distances, ambient sounds… download ’em and give ’em a try!(Louis Wu 15:32:40 UTC)

MLGPro.com’s released another MLG/ESPN Top Ten video – #12 has 3 minutes of some pretty amazing gameplay. Check ’em out. Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 21:23:48 UTC)

Bungie Favorites, the ever-changing fan-created collection of maps, gametypes, films and screenshots highlighted by Bungie, has been updated with a second batch of material from the NeoGAF community. If you want to learn a little more about the community and how they use Forge, urk has talked TJ Captain Blood about his map, Arabella (and…

Treeskunk Productions has released Outpost: Isil Episode 10 – it’s all about the evil clowns. And stuff. Available in about a million formats, from a million different places. Thanks, shiruken.(Louis Wu 16:33:53 UTC)

Dragoncoals told us about Forge Like a Pro, a new contest from ForgeHub. Make a map, win 1600 MS points (there are three categories, three separate prizes). Runners-up get honorable mentions. You’ve got a couple of months – get Forging! (Louis Wu 14:16:46 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy sat down with Predator5791, a Forge artist who’s created some amazing work. Swing by and read about what drives him! (Louis Wu 14:16:19 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue told us that he’s posted Reclaimer 105 (things are getting dicey), along with a wallpaper in a lot of resolutions. (Louis Wu 14:15:54 UTC)

kr-1426 stopped in last night to let folks know that the most recent HBO Fan Fic Pick of the week (written by fallschirmjager) was posted a few days ago – go see what was good last week!(Louis Wu 14:14:19 UTC)

RandomSauce let us know that the first Real7alk.com community montage has been posted – it’s 6 minutes of fun clips, nicely put together. Go watch! (If you’re interested in submitting to future montages, swing by the Real7alk forums and get involved!(Louis Wu 14:13:46 UTC)

Bungie’s looking for cool Halloween-related Forge content to put into this week’s update – swing by to see a few examples (and be sure to laugh at Stosh for even THINKING that last one has anything at all to do with Halloween – it’s a demon eating a fish, fergoshsakes!).(Louis Wu 22:54:45 UTC)

Over at Bungie.net, a new community spotlight has gone up – this one is focused on Bryan Simon, who recently wrote 10 odes to Halo 3’s awesomosity. It’s pretty long, but the key point to take home is that Bryan loves his mom. Good on ya, Bryan.(Louis Wu 22:51:21 UTC)

Back in mid-September, Hawty McBloggy mentioned a Halo-themed cross-stitch pattern she was planning on making. Looks like it’s done. I can’t say I agree with the sentiment… but hey, everybody has their own way of showing affection.(Louis Wu 19:58:30 UTC)

Last week, we mentioned an article at TheGameReviews.com looking at features they wanted to see in Halo 3: Recon – they’re back this week with an article containing five problems H3: R should NOT have. Some make sense – some don’t. Go decide which is which.(Louis Wu 19:44:40 UTC)

Johnny Be Good, of Halo.fr, sent along a link to his Flickr-based Panorama collection. Awesome shots!(Louis Wu 19:15:35 UTC)

Daniel ‘Tyrant’ Morris’ Solo Legendary All Skulls On tutorial continues with Floodgate, probably the easiest level in the game at this difficulty. That said, there are still nuances that will get you killed if you don’t pay attention – so watch his vids, and read his text, for the most secure path through!(Louis Wu 15:09:16…

Wow. urk, over at Bungie, found a ‘Splasertage’ from a guy who’s got more than 18,000 spartan laser kills under his belt. According to Halo3.junk.ws, I’ve only got a few thousand kills more than that… with EVERY weapon, combined. (This one really benefits from the higher-quality YouTube version… and the writeup there says 21,000 kills,…

Heh – Kotaku has a story about Matt ‘mothergoat’ Cox, who has produced a rather large body of work in the Halo fan community and is now a lead designer at 5TH Cell. Apparently, he went on vacation recently, and while he was gone, his coworkers pranked him by wrapping his entire desk in brown…

XerxdeeJ stopped by because it’s TTL Tuesday – he comes bearing news of a pretty cool little egg in the Halo 3: Recon trailer (maybe), and a great highlight reel put together by TTL Hoovaloov, showing off some of the dumbest (and funnest) stuff that can happen with vehicles in Halo 3. (Mostly. There’s an…

Heh – prescient, or just lucky? NiTrOuS 343 ran across an article at Yahoo News that discusses the Epsilon Eridanus system… and how scientists think they’ve found evidence of a planetary system there. Reach just got more feasible!(Louis Wu 14:59:52 UTC)

The Fight Like a Girl tourney that dominated our front page’s sidebar for a few weeks went off this weekend without a hitch (that I know of) – they raised almost $4000 for worthy causes, and a lot of people got the chance to play against Bungie employees in 2v2 competitions. One of these was…