Author: halo@bungie.org

Empress Cortana painted a tea set at Busch Gardens with a familiar pattern… check it out!(Louis Wu 21:29:03 UTC)

Yesterday, Luke Smith kicked off a thread on Bungie.net asking for questions for tonight’s Weekly Update – it might be too late to get yours in, but the thread’s not locked, so give it a shot!(Louis Wu 16:47:07 UTC)

ZZoMBiE13 whipped up a scene from RvB: Reconstruction, showing the Red Team surviving boredom as they await the return of Church and Wash. He also put together a wallpaper version – great details!(Louis Wu 16:30:30 UTC)

It’s Friday, so it’s time for Friday Caption Fun at Hawty McBloggy’s – read last week’s submissions, check out this week’s pictures. Go play!(Louis Wu 16:30:03 UTC)

iPhonexe has created SlayerStats, a Halo 3 stats app that runs on your iPhone (or iPod Touch). Check it out!(Louis Wu 16:29:36 UTC)

Nick Ambrose let us know that The Biased, Chapter 1, Page 12 is online – the Reds aren’t taking chances.(Louis Wu 16:29:14 UTC)

Marty O’Donnell talked to Joystiq recently about the issue of used video game sales. (It’s not the first time he’s spoken out about this.) The thread on our forum kicked off by Ross Mills has drawn a lot of comments, from fans, from Bungie/Ex-Bungie employees, from Marty himself. Is the solution digital sales? Do you…

Sports Illustrated.com included a pic of a New Orlean Saints fan in an awesome suit. Hawty McBloggy found it on Geekologie, and put up her own comments. Don’t worry, HP – I’d have posted this even without a sexual innuendo.(Louis Wu 16:27:51 UTC)

Jillybean let us know that she’s updated the Halo Story Page with some canonical discussion. What’s canon? Go read, then decide for yourself.(Louis Wu 16:27:22 UTC)

It looks like for the first time since March 2006, retail sales of video game software (year over year – that is, for the current month compared to the same month last year) will decline in September. However, Wedbush Morgan analyst Morgan Pachter says don’t think this is a sign that Americans are abandoning video…

Thirteen new entries for the Fan Fiction section this week – none of them are entries in the You’re Doing It Write contest, but there’s still plenty of time for that. Go read!(Louis Wu 16:24:41 UTC)

The latest Double Experience Weekend is now live – you can play Grifball to your heart’s content, at least until early Monday morning. The Official Grifball website (affiliated with Rooster Teeth, not Bungie) has two fun programs going this weekend – Adopt-a-Noob and the XP Competition. If you introduce someone to the Grifball community, or…

GameDaily has an article entitled ‘Why Gears of War 2 Kicks Halo 3’s Butt’ – but anyone who calls Marty’s Halo music ‘wimpy piano nonsense’ can’t really be taken seriously. Go read the other 7 reasons; they’re equally silly. (Marcus Fenix is deeper than Master Chief? C’mon…)(Louis Wu 15:55:27 UTC)

The Zionsville (Indiana) Times Sentinel has a piece on Eric ‘Snipedown’ Wrona, a member of Str8 Rippin (currently the top-seeded team on MLGPro.com). Been a little while since we’ve seen one of these “local boy makes good” stories about a Halo pro… (interestingly enough, Snipedown was in the Zionsville news a couple of months ago,…

News from kilaMOMjaro, of the PraetoriaGuard and Gaming4Others – they’re running a HALOween Zombies Charity Tournament to benefit the Epilepsy Foundation. A promo pic with all the details can be found on the PG forum, and registration ($5) is now open at the G4O website (click through the pic). First prize is a copy of…

Pyroman put together a Halo Roll’d video (in the style of the Barak Roll’d vid that came out a couple months ago) – it’s probably the only time you’ll be happy you’ve been Roll’d.(Louis Wu 13:35:19 UTC)

ZZoMBiE13 continues his look at the RvB: Reconstruction crew – his latest picture shows a scene in which Grif is about to be executed. Nice work!(Louis Wu 13:23:16 UTC)

The interview we mentioned yesterday in which Xbox3Fanboy’s Dustin Burg collected questions from fans about Halo 3: Recon has gone live today on Joystiq – swing by and give it a read! Some of the info is stuff that’s been said before (though most of it bears repeating; rumors have a way of growing no…

DeepCee was inspired to create a new mascot for… well, I’m not sure, but I like him a lot.(Louis Wu 13:02:48 UTC)

1UP posted a Halo Wars preview based on what they saw at the Tokyo Game Show – we didn’t notice until BlueNinja brought it to our attention this morning. Give it a read for their take on the gameplay.(Louis Wu 13:00:51 UTC)