Author: halo@bungie.org

Jamie98s just let us know about ‘Knocking on Heaven’s Door’, a music video set to an Eric Clapton version of the song. It tells a sad story. You can stream it from Jamie’s website, or you can download it from us (WMP9 format, 54.3 mb, or QuickTime format, 52.3 mb). Nice cinematography!(Louis Wu 14:41:07 UTC)

smiley let us know that Master Chief Theater 3000: Episode 203 is up now – it covers Halo 2’s Outskirts and Metropolis. If you’re a member of the site, the extras for the episode are up, as well.(Louis Wu 14:02:22 UTC)

Mingadolin ran across a Halo-themed t-shirt at J!NX – some of our forum members are unimpressed. I’d have to agree that the weapons are rather stylized.(Louis Wu 13:54:37 UTC)

dreamwhispering stopped by with a video of himself playing One Final Effort on piano. Good stuff!(Louis Wu 13:51:56 UTC)

Important news about the ‘Take Our Stuff’ contest… please read! Apologies for any inconvenience – but due to the overwhelming flood of submissions, we need an extra day to process entries; we’re moving the ending deadline back 24 hours. Entries must be received by 9 pm PST TONIGHT, SUNDAY, or they will not be accepted.…

Lord Osiris noticed that DigitalPh33r has a new series coming next week – a promo is up now on YouTube. A tad over-the-top for me, but check it out for yourself! (Louis Wu 13:58:28 UTC)

D&R Lineups is offering a Pink EVA exclusive McFarlane figure – you can see what it looks like here. Shipment arrives next week – get your preorder in now!(Louis Wu 13:58:05 UTC)

Grunts R Us has posted Halo 3 WTF & Funny Moments 4, a collection of unexpected outcomes. Some clips are simply too fast to really appreciate, but overall it’s a pretty funny watch! Thanks, oriol.(Louis Wu 13:57:47 UTC)

So the big news last night was the return of the Superintendent. (I suppose he’s never really left; he pops up on Bungie.net’s logo to this day. But we haven’t HEARD a lot from him since the aborted attempt to reveal a new project at E3 this year.) There’s a lot of speculation on our…

Elnea’s posted a new Halo Action Figure Theater – and in honor of it being International Talk Like a Pirate Day, it’s all in Pirate-ese. I mostly don’t like this holiday… but I have to say, the third panel made me laugh. The fourth one, too.(Louis Wu 19:38:15 UTC)

FreeeK ShoW noticed that TechRadar included Halo in its list of ’48 things we hate about tech’. (Number 21 is technically ‘Online Gaming’ – but the picture on the first page of the article references Halo directly.) Overall, a pretty funny article!(Louis Wu 16:32:55 UTC)

Gamasutra is speculating that the Internal Halo team at Microsoft Game Studios might be called ‘Spawnpoint Studios’ – go read their rationale! (Louis Wu 15:30:57 UTC)

Seven new pieces for you this week in the Fan Fiction section – go read!(Louis Wu 13:53:14 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy has posted the results of last week’s gamer survey (are you left-brained or right-brained, and how does that affect your Halo playing?), and has put up a NEW one – how fast is your reaction time? Go test yourself. You’ll finally know why those other guys keep getting the drop on you. (Louis…

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…