Author: halo@bungie.org

AnTi PRO let us know that Arm The Flag is running a new contest – build a specialized de-motivational poster with the theme “You’re Doing It Wrong” (wow, twice in one day!), top 3 submissions will get 1600 MS Points. (You can only submit two posters to the contest, so choose carefully!) Read the contest…

When the Spore Character Editor was first released, we pointed out some early community efforts to introduce Halo content into the Spore universe (here, and here) – yesterday, over at the NeoGAF forum, Botolf noticed that there’s actually a pretty extensive collection of Halo creatures now catalogued (including some awesome vehicles). Go check ’em out!(Louis…

Edge has a fascinating discussion with Damian Isla about Halo’s AI, and where its weaknesses are. Go read! Thanks to Narcogen, at Rampancy.net, for the (pirate-flavored) heads-up. (Louis Wu 12:59:45 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue came by to announce that Reclaimer 89 is now up – I think the Reclaimer is getting tired of being controlled. (He also added some goodies to the prize pack that will go to the winner of the Reclaimer Contest…)(Louis Wu 12:59:10 UTC)

The Halo Wars website has added new info to their UNSC Field Manual – clicking on ‘Barracks’ will get you info on Marines (and their domiciles), and clicking on ‘AirPad’ will get you info on the Hornet Launching Structure, and the Hornets themselves. (That gun seems to work a LOT better than the one in…

Dave Kramer let us know that BusyGamerNews.com is giving away a Bonus Box of 42 Halo trading cards; all you need to do to be eligible to win is swing by and leave a (clean) comment on the page. (There are a few rules – a link to them is provided.) Post only once, and…

We pointed out a rendition of The Meta, a character from RvB: Reconstruction, posted by ZZoMBiE13 yesterday – he’s followed up with another one. I like this one even better! (As before, you can add your comments here if you’ve got an RvB account.)(Louis Wu 12:39:13 UTC)

After a long period of dormancy, it seems that Inside Halo is making up for lost time – Hydrosis noticed that Episode 21 is already up. Community News, Top Plays, and some entertaining funny stuff – go watch!(Louis Wu 12:38:04 UTC)

ZZoMBiE13 created a gorgeous rendition of RvB: Reconstruction’s ‘Meta’ character – feel the power! (If you have an RvB account, you can let him know what you think.)(Louis Wu 20:01:45 UTC)

Bungie has posted the Weekly Update quite a bit early this week – a whole day early, in fact. Why? Because… there’s a lot of stuff they want to tell you about. A LOT. Title Update 2 is going live on Tuesday, and Bungie.net is upgrading to be ready. Go read how! (You can, of…

Self Induced, a regular over at NeoGAF, has set up a new blog to chronicle the bad things that happen to his poor Spartan during XBL Halo 3 play. Lots and lots of fun pics!(Louis Wu 18:32:06 UTC)

OddGodHMK let us know that The Biased, Chapter 1, Page 4 has been posted. Blue’s still in trouble.(Louis Wu 18:17:15 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy noticed a new Jumping video from Anoj Tactics – “The Squesters” Episode 2 looks at more hiding places on Halo maps. Check it out!(Louis Wu 18:12:46 UTC)

A quick clarification about the ‘Take Our Stuff’ contest; we made it really easy to enter, and a LOT of you have taken advantage of that. That’s cool. We’ve received over 3000 entries so far (and the contest has only been live for 12 hours). That huge volume of entries, though, means the tolerance level…

It’s taken longer than expected to get this running… but we’d like to give away a bunch of stuff. Some of it we collected at PAX, some we’re helping Bungie clear out of their stockpile. All of it is stuff Halo fans can use. Swing by the contest page for full details, rules, and more.(Louis…

The Royal Society for Chemistry in London was unhappy with the name ‘Large Hadron Collider’ for the newly-operational construct in France and Switzerland, so they launched a competition for a new name… and the most popular choice (and winner of the competition) was ‘Halo’.”Halo conjures visions of radiant beauty, power and wisdom. The circle of…

Heh – gunluva noticed (via Kotaku) a feature on The -Minus World that’s funny, and has Halo content to boot; what more could you want? (Me, I wanna play that version of Bioshock.)(Louis Wu 20:35:27 UTC)

The Running Riot let us know that they’ve sorted through a large number of submitted screenshots and video clips to pick their TRR Favs – swing by to see the top three screens and top 3 clips. I loved ‘Lucky Mine’!(Louis Wu 16:41:43 UTC)

OddGodHMK has combined his Boring Comics series with his ‘The Biased’ comic series to create Boring Comics #23 – where’s that fourth wall when you need it?(Louis Wu 16:41:28 UTC)

Pynion was a contributor to our forum long before he was hired by Bungie to work on Halo 3. Yesterday, he sent along some artwork he’d created for the game that hadn’t made it into the final build – go take a look at these tidbits!(Louis Wu 15:08:32 UTC)