Author: halo@bungie.org

Ran across a website called ‘The Ten Word Review’ – it collects just that; ten-word reviews of stuff. There are five entries for Halo 3. (They range from insightful to… well, stupid.)(Louis Wu 15:20:32 UTC)

FriendlyFire noticed a new interview with Stuart Beattie over at Tom’s Games – Beattie is the screenwriter who’s trying to drum up interest for his Halo spec script. He talks about why he jumped on this project, and why he thinks someone should take him up on his offer. Go read!(Louis Wu 15:17:43 UTC)

Wow, this is one of the most useless glitches I’ve seen – but the fact that someone stumbled on it makes it newsworthy. ADD for the win! Apparently, if you jump back and forth between the main Halo 3 menu and a lobby menu, quickly and for a really long time, eventually the background that…

I’d post the permalink for this, but it doesn’t include any useful information – because the link is in the summary. Bungie has put up a new presentation – this one was done by Effects Art Lead Steve Scott, and it talks about effects and how they evolved in Halo 3. Interesting stuff! The download…

The Orange Hayabusa Spartan auction ended yesterday – final bid was $255, proceeds going to the Fight Like a Girl tourney. Awesome! If you’re sorry you missed out, though, it looks like there’s a SECOND one! This one ends in a little less than three days, and current bid is just over $180. What are…

It’s been a few months – but Hawty McBloggy’s Rorschach Inkblot Test is back, this time looking at the global heatmap of Cold Storage. (The last one was from Avalanche – the article contains a summary of results from there, as well.) What do you see? (Louis Wu 14:00:48 UTC)

With all the strides we’ve made recently in terms of accepting women into the ranks of hardcore Halo lovers, it’s disappointing when an example of blatant chauvinism rears its ugly head. It’s our duty, however, to shine light on these things, because awareness is the first step towards enlightenment. Thanks to Matt Soell for the…

ZZoMBiE13 continues his study of RvB: Reconstruction – he recently posted a closeup of the Meta. Love the chin horns!(Louis Wu 13:57:26 UTC)

Ten new submissions for the Fan Fiction section this week – and a number of them are flagged for the ‘You’re Doing It Write’ contest, as well. Go read!(Louis Wu 13:55:18 UTC)

The Reclaimer 103 is now online (thanks, SonofMacPhisto) – Viper’s danger is becoming apparent, and it looks like things are about to heat up. (Louis Wu 13:47:30 UTC)

xen eldridge let us know that HaloRPG.com has a plasma-pistol-only Double XP weekend. Hmm… (Louis Wu 13:46:45 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy continues her Fan Art spotlight series with a work from Halcylon – it was inspired by a Star Wars image, but it’s all Halo. check it out!(Louis Wu 13:41:02 UTC)

KP stopped in to remind people that today is the last day to register for the Fight Like a Girl charity tourney – and there’s been a last-minute addition of a 2v2 challenge against Bungie employees! Go register, if you haven’t already.(Louis Wu 23:33:05 UTC)

Love From the Game is hosting a charity tournament – $30/team to get in, the ladder is open now, and runs through the end of November. The winner goes home with $1000, the runner-up gets $500. Proceeds benefit the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute. Awesome! Gather up a team, and sign up! Thanks to urk,…

Been frustrated by the Alas, Poor Yorick achievement, and the scarcity of oddball games on appropriate maps? Be frustrated no more – the latest Double Experience weekend has just kicked off… and it’s 3 Ball. An entire playlist devoted to gametypes involving 4 teams and 3 balls… yummy. Go read about it at B.net, or…

Remember when Fairfax the Bunny showed up here? Fairfax is Marissa’s Bunny – he travels around the world, making people happy and building awareness for Marissa’s infantile spasms. (He’s got a whole website – you should visit it, if you hadn’t before.) When Fairfax left here, he headed north, to Boston. Where he hung for…

You might or might not have noticed an upgrade just applied to Tyrant’s Mythic Walkthrough here on HBO – yesterday, we added streaming embedded versions of all vids to all existing pages. The download versions are still there, for anyone who wants them (say, if you want to watch them offline, or because you don’t…

Bryan Ojeda found a very funny video on YouTube – LigerKG got stuck at the same moment that the host of his game quit… and the result was a blue spider that stayed with him until he died (well, even longer than that). (Louis Wu 13:34:49 UTC)

Wow… this thread made me very, very sad. A denizen of the Bungie.net forums was served divorce papers this week… because he spends more time with video games than with his wife. (I think what REALLY threw me for a loop, though, was the response – when faced with the loss of his wife and…

Mid7night posted a 41 mb, 2.5 minute video showing off his X-Plane Pelican flying around the ‘Lost Isles of the Pacific’ – I’m sure glad I wasn’t in the back! (Louis Wu 13:20:46 UTC)