Author: halo@bungie.org

Speaking of home-made costumes, Nola pointed out this one, at a site called ‘Coolest Homemade Costumes’. Bulky… but definitely cool!(Louis Wu 12:54:58 UTC)

Instructables has an article up on how to build a cardboard Master Chief helmet. Just in time for Halloween! Go read it.(Louis Wu 12:52:30 UTC)

By now, many people have noticed that Bungie.net is offline, replaced with the aborted countdown we last saw during E3. This time, the countdown ends at 7:07 am PT tomorrow – what will we get when it reaches zero? Stay tuned to find out!(Louis Wu 02:18:25 UTC)

A lot of questions have popped up about the Title Update 2, released yesterday – over at Bungie.net, SketchFactor has posted the TU2 FAQ. Check it out for from-the-source answers to things that might be puzzling you!(Louis Wu 23:31:35 UTC)

There’s been quite a bit of confusion about the new ‘7 on 7’ achievement, and what you need to do to earn it. SketchFactor stopped by our forum today with a clarification:The real scoop now is that you just need to hit the #7 in EXP in ANY playlist on the 7th of the month.So……

GU Comics takes a shot at the recently-unearthed Halo MMO today – thanks, Ross.(Louis Wu 15:33:43 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue pointed out that Reclaimer 91 is online – the Reclaimer gets to work on his plan to learn about Ferial and Viper.(Louis Wu 15:30:34 UTC)

Halo has won yet ANOTHER advertising award – this time, though, it’s not the Believe campaign. IAB’s MIXX Awards were given out last night – and the Bronze award in the ‘Brand Awareness and Positioning’ category went to Universal McCann for the U.S. Army Halo 3 Experience campaign. Thanks, MarketWatch. (Louis Wu 14:57:16 UTC)

Yesterday, we mentioned that folks who didn’t have the Security helmet or the Katana were finding that these armor permutations unlocked with gamerscore increases from NEW achievements. Upon closer examination, there are actually two requirements, not just one: you need to have 1000 gamerscore from Halo 3 achievements (as we said yesterday), but you ALSO…

Kotaku posted a huge collection of concept art, ostensibly from the scrapped Halo MMO we mentioned yesterday. These range from interesting to downright silly. gunluva was the first to notice, but the thread I started (I hadn’t seen his post) got a lot of heated responses. Join in and add your own comments!(Louis Wu 14:39:42…

Fyrewulff confirmed that the added achievements available as of today have a side benefit – if you are below 1000 gamerscore, you can use the new options to get hold of that Security helmet. (There’s no guarantee it’ll work for everyone – but it worked for him; he got two achievements that pushed him over…

Gamasutra has posted a short piece that investigates a cancelled Ensemble Studios project… and concludes that it was a Halo MMO. Go check out the details!(Louis Wu 13:44:16 UTC)

Tied the Leader, quiet on the blogging front for a bit, is back with a sizeable update. There’s a reminder about the Tied The Leader Foundation, and the latest fan-driven efforts to aid its mission. There’s a huge, picture-filled recap of ChicagoLANd 3.0, a TTL lanfest that took place over Labor Day weekend in (um……

Red vs Blue: Reconstruction Episode 15 has been posted – and in between stupid Caboose games and deep Grif philosophy, some intriguing discoveries are made by Church and Wash. The scene at the first checkpoint was classic. Go watch! (Louis Wu 12:58:52 UTC)

Bungie isn’t just focusing on the title update, or the upcoming Mythic maps – they’ve been revealing tidbits of the Superintendent story for a while now. And yesterday, the latest piece came along – check out PARDON OUR DUST, a transcript posted last night that suggests that command might be disintegrating… geekinabox was first on…

The big news today, of course, is TU2 – the second Title Update for Halo 3. It went live this morning at 2 am PST (about 3 hours ago), and there’s already quite a bit of info around the net about it.Bungie.net has a story about it, explaining the 10 new achievements that go live…

BSG Surgeon stopped by to point out a couple of blog posts at Buddy System Gaming – there’s a writeup of a clan night with The Panic Attacks, and a discussion of how tomorrow’s changes will affect us. Check it out!(Louis Wu 21:10:35 UTC)

Aang Avatar sent word that Spriggs Episode 12 Part C went live yesterday on YouTube. After watching, I’m wondering if there were hallucinogens in my coffee.(Louis Wu 21:10:14 UTC)

OddGodHMK let us know that The Biased Chapter 1 Page 5 is now online. Blue’s nervous… (Louis Wu 16:48:09 UTC)

Necromas noticed a new service offering film clip recording (a la GameVee) – films are uploaded to YouTube, and $0.99 gets you an HD file of the clip. Interesting…(Louis Wu 15:57:55 UTC)