Author: halo@bungie.org

In a surprise return to comic-making, ZZoMBiE13 sent me Another Halo Comic Strip #113 today – it’s a funny take on the RvB: Reconstruction machinima series. This doesn’t mean AHCS is coming back regularly – but it DOES sound like there’ll be one now and then – great to hear!(Louis Wu 19:24:19 UTC)

Woody Tondorf let us know about the HBOlab web series, ‘Hooking Up’ – a “college comedy series about relationships and communication.” Episode 3 is now online… and Halo plays a hefty role. Go watch!(Louis Wu 17:49:21 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy points out a pretty nice Top Kills video – she’s really harsh about the audio, but it’s worth watching either way; the kills are great.(Louis Wu 16:59:48 UTC)

Bryan Simon continues his musical outpouring of love for Halo 3 – his newest piece is called ‘My New Home in Halo’, and it looks at some of the multiplayer environments with a distinctly non-military eye. If you’d rather listen to the MP3, we have that, as well (2.9 mb).(Louis Wu 13:50:55 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue let us know that Reclaimer 97 is now online – looks like Ferial isn’t as on top of things as he thought!(Louis Wu 13:48:28 UTC)

Yesterday, TOR Books put out an official press release for The Cole Protocol, the new Halo novel due soon from Tobias Buckell, and S043 brought news of it to our forum. There was cover art in the release – but we’d mentioned the cover art back in July. There was a release date for the…

Chris Bryan was most recently in our news with new content more than three years ago – but his Master Chief suit has inspired many to build their own, and now he’s back with shots of a pistol he created. Take a look – great work!(Louis Wu 13:28:18 UTC)

Ouch. Joystiq points out a smear ad being used in the political fight for Maricopa County (AZ) District 1 Supervisor… incumbent Fulton Brock points out that while he is credited with “bringing new, high-quality jobs to the East Valley”, his opponent is a “[s]killed player of popular video game Halo” and that Hermes was quoted…

Norway’s S1l3nt V1p3r let us know that he’s been working on a wooden Battle Rifle – he posts his pictures over at the 405th forum. (That’s the whole thread – you can see a recent update here.) Looking pretty snazzy! Too bad his real name isn’t Roland…(Louis Wu 17:45:00 UTC)

The next installment of our Mythic Walkthrough – Crow’s Nest – is now online. Daniel ‘Tyrant’ Morris will provide tips and tricks to get you through what might just be the hardest level in the game (at least in this particular configuration). The video portion of this level is massive – all told, there are…

Clefton Twain posted a new Halo Funniez on our forum (cute, though I’ll tell any copycatters that that sort of joke only works once), and Raulboy continues his series, The White Space.(Louis Wu 13:45:39 UTC)

Yesterday was Monday, so the Rooster Teeth team posted a new Halo-based video. No, it wasn’t the next chapter of Reconstruction, allowing you out of the cliffhanging you’ve been doing since last week – it was a new PSA, this one aimed at explaining the current financial crisis America faces. These guys scare me -…

Don’t forget that today is your first chance at the 7 on 7 Achievement – you simply need to enter a matchmaking playlist with 7 EXP in that list. (If you have a list with exactly 7 NOW, you’ll unlock the achievement as soon as you load the playlist.) Don’t leave it too long; apparently…

The Five Long Years Part 2 trailer is now available for download (in several sizes, up to 720p HD) at the Halo Wars website. There’s also a description of the Arbiter we see in the vid:The Arbiter. A rank every Elite soldier will take with honor, but knows the task at hand will be his…

DigitalPh33r’s Hard Justice Episode 2 is now up – I think it can’t tell if it wants to be funny or serious. Thanks, AvatarAang.(Louis Wu 21:17:45 UTC)

Oooh… pretty. The Bungie.net Fileshare hawtness is live (no ‘render to video’ feature yet, but the rest of what’s been discussed is there). Heads-up: that link will work a lot better if you’re signed in. Go look! Thanks, Blinding.(Louis Wu 20:15:41 UTC)

Vox has an article about how terrible Halo 3’s first level is – some of the complaints made me think about how information is presented to gamers by the games they play, and the line developers walk between making things too frustrating for beginners, and too easy for veterans. I think one of the problems…

Hawty McBloggy has written yet another batch of Halo pick-up lines (I’m not sure how she can call it “Yet Another Top Ten Halo Pick-Up Lines” – it seems to me you can really only have ONE Top Ten… but then, she knows far more about this stuff than I do). She mentions that one…

rhubarb pointed out that a new article has gone live at Ascendant Justice – this one is written by va1or, and looks at the inspiration the movie Aliens provided to the Halo series. Interesting read!(Louis Wu 13:54:41 UTC)

Triggers Down pulled out an exiciting victory over favorite Str8 Rippin to become MLG champs in Dallas yesterday – you can see the full Hall of Champions here. You can watch the final game via Video-on-Demand. Congrats to TD!(Louis Wu 13:48:20 UTC)