Author: halo@bungie.org

smiley let us know that Master Chief’s Cutoffs (outtakes for the Master Chief Theater 3000 series) has been updated with Episode 204. You must be a member of pyrosmile.org to watch.(Louis Wu 17:12:58 UTC)

It’s time for another round of Friday Caption Fun, from Hawty McBloggy – she’s got some good answers for last week’s shot, as well as a pretty nice perspective trick for this week’s shot. Go see what you can come up with!(Louis Wu 14:32:09 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue pointed out that Reclaimer 95 is online – the pieces are starting to fall into place. Well, for the Reclaimer, anyway, if not for us.(Louis Wu 14:30:15 UTC)

Light addition to the Fan Fiction section this week – just six pieces. Go read!(Louis Wu 14:28:41 UTC)

KP has a way with words – but it’s not always the way you want to go. A nice example is his intro to the Cavegirls’ Fight Like a Girl tournament, coming up in 3 weeks – it will benefit breast and cervical cancer research, and it promises to be a blast, if the last…

Devin Olsen, jealous of the press Hawty McBloggy gets by turning up unique Halo action figures on eBay, has found his own truly bizarre creation – a Custom Halo 3 Hayabusa Spartan… with wrist blades. Yep, you read that right – this guy could take on Wolverine. (Given that his blades are 2-3x as long…

Adam Grumbo sent us a link to a series of photos taken at a recent shoot at the Austin Airport. All I can say is… dang. Nice work! He hastens to point out that these have not been digitally edited at all.(Louis Wu 19:31:40 UTC)

DigitalPh33r’s Hard Justice: Episode 1 is now up on YouTube. I’m a little confused – it looks like he just added 4 new minutes to the 4-minute ‘promo’ released a couple of weeks ago. (I guess I always thought a ‘promo’ was suppose to give you a taste of what the full version would be…

The MLG Pro Circuit continues with MLG Dallas, opening tomorrow night. You can read the full preview here, on MLGPro.com. There’s plenty of other Dallas content up now or coming soon – pro players put in their own predictions for which team will garner the 8th National Championship spot by winning this weekend, and there’ll…

xen eldridge let us know that Halo3RPG.com is also running a Double XP weekend this weekend – Team Incineration. (Louis Wu 18:45:51 UTC)

This morning, Bungie posted a final update in their ongoing saga about the Experience problems folks have been having on LIVE. Looks like everything is finally worked out – but Experience not gained in the last couple of days will NOT be retroactively assigned. On the plus side, the Double XP weekend has just gone…

OddGodHMK let us know that The Biased, Chapter 1, Page 8 is up – things are getting weird.(Louis Wu 17:58:25 UTC)

Captain Spark dropped off another batch of dialogue snippets harvested from Halo 3 – check ’em out in our Dialogue Databank. Good stuff in there!(Louis Wu 16:27:20 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy is trying to get better with a Spartan Laser – looks like she might still need a little work. In the meantime, though, she’s found a video with some pretty impressive laser kills… go watch!(Louis Wu 14:30:47 UTC)

GameDaily has interviewed Stuart Beattie, the guy behind the spec Halo script that recently inspired concept art – he talks about why he wrote it, what it’s about, and why you’ll love it. Go read. Thanks, Psychophan7. (Louis Wu 14:28:22 UTC)

Siliconmaster482 has revisited his idea of showcasing the Halo Custom Edition maps created by the community (we mentioned his first attempt about 3 years ago) – he’s created a five-minute, high-quality video that shows off a huge number of maps (though really only the middle two and a half minutes contain actual footage). You’ll find…

More Game with Fame stuff coming up – on October 7, four bands will be online to play Halo 3 with you. Swing by Xbox.com for details, and info on how to get involved. (Louis Wu 14:12:49 UTC)

nomis78 whipped out another pair of Ark panoramas – they’re images we’ve seen before, but the composition on both is pretty nice. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 14:12:25 UTC)

According to this GameTrailers TV promo, Halo Wars will be shown this Friday night at 1 am on GameTrailers TV (and after that on GameTrailers.com) – ‘exclusive Campaign coverage’ and more. Thanks, LoneRanger 2.5.(Louis Wu 14:12:00 UTC)

What the… Ross Mills pointed out an article at Kotaku that details the contents of the Fable II Limited Collector’s Edition – and among the stuff you’d EXPECT in a fantasy game, there’s a listing for “Spartan armor and energy sword”. Now, we already knew about the Spartan armor – but there’s an energy sword,…