Author: halo@bungie.org

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,…

Edge has posted a worrying piece on Halo Wars – they wonder if Ensemble has dumbed down (well… de-complicated) the RTS genre in an attempt to appeal to the FPS crowd that is Halo’s main audience at the moment… and in doing so has managed to create a game that appeals to neither Halo’s base…

I wasn’t going to post this, because much of the information (Payton, Yu, etc) had already been circulated… but then we got a tidbit I hadn’t seen before. So: Edge Online (thanks, Michael Smith), along with ShackNews and Joystiq (thanks, bentllama) are reporting that Microsoft is confirming some of the new, big hires of the…

Adam Grumbo, from the 405th Infantry Division, let us know that the first issue of the 405th Ezine is now available for download, in PDF format. It’s hefty – weighs in at 21 mb – but it’s chock-full of interesting stuff, and well worth the download for any Halo fan. There are spotlights on costume…

If you were wondering what sort of experience was needed for each playlist advancement (as opposed to the TrueSkill rank advancement), Grunts R Us is here to help. Check out their Playlist Progression Ranking page. Next stop – a dee-luxe apartment.(Louis Wu 14:59:45 UTC)

ZZoMBiE13 continues to bring life to moments and characters from the RvB: Reconstruction series – his latest work is called ‘Ghost Church’. Take a look! (Louis Wu 14:38:08 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue has posted the latest Reclaimer – #94 gets Reclaimer a little closer to understanding the relationship between Ferial and Viper. And Raulboy stopped by with a new pair of The White Space comics.(Louis Wu 14:30:46 UTC)