Author: halo@bungie.org

BlueNinja posted another batch of panoramic shots – this one is dark and grey. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 10:37:09 UTC)

Your Halo playing has to take place this weekend without a double experience playlist (unless you want to count Ranked Big Team Battle) – and this is true for next weekend, too. Why? It has to do with the release of the September Matchmaking update, which is coming in late September, in time for Title…

OddGodHMK let us know that Chapter 1, Page 2 of The Biased is now online. Someone’s calling… and it doesn’t sound good.(Louis Wu 19:33:41 UTC)

He hasn’t left the house yet, but Fairfax (Marissa’s Bunny) has been getting his Halo 3 game on. First he tried on some helmets (he skipped the one that was OBVIOUSLY too big), then decided he’d just play some Halo 3. (Check out those slick A40s!) Follow his latest exploits in the gallery we set…

pete_the_duck posted a series of comics he made a while ago that never got released because he didn’t think they were funny. I think he was wrong.(Louis Wu 14:42:44 UTC)

R3y’s GameDay interviewed Matt Soell and Doug Zartman yesterday about Stubbs the Zombie, and its release on Xbox Live Arcade. There’s some interesting discussion of open-ended gameplay in Stubbs, and how some of this was inspired by the game’s Halo roots. Thanks to Matt himself for letting us know!(Louis Wu 14:36:55 UTC)

Mark25 has written up the Fan Fic Pick of the Week this week over at the HBO Fan Fiction forum – thanks to The 14th Wonder for pointing it out. (The fact that he won might have something to do with his excitement…)(Louis Wu 14:23:06 UTC)

Lots of Halo Wars discussion this morning – Avateur noticed a Kotaku article talking about the new structure of Ensemble (and how it’s reminiscent of Bungie’s situation), Narcogen did his own analysis of the situation over at Rampancy.net, and SteelersX07 pointed out that the Halo Wars site has some reassurances from Dave Pottinger, Halo Wars…

Hawty McBloggy continues her Cortana fan art exploration with a new piece today – I like it!(Louis Wu 14:02:26 UTC)

on our forum, kanbo is currently taking votes for the music to be used in an upcoming project he’s trying to put together – a montage made up of clips from HBO visitors. Go read about it, then toss in your two cents for the music!(Louis Wu 13:54:29 UTC)

Wow, very cool. So back in July, GamePro put up a huge Halo Wars spread, and offered a Halo 3 Special Edition Xbox as the grand prize in a promotional sweepstakes. Looks like an HBO reader, Michael Callicutt, won that contest! If you’ve ever seen those offers and thought “wow, I wonder if anybody ever…

If you were at PAX this year, or followed PAX coverage, you might know about Marissa’s Bunny; he RickRolled the crowd at the Jonathan Coulton concert, for example (5:41 in). Marissa is a baby girl who was diagnosed with infantile spasms last winter. Her father decided to raise awareness for the disease by sending Fairfax…

Dennis Powers sent word that the Halo Custom Edition Game Archive saw an increase of 136 new maps and assets in August – two you might want to take a closer look at are Midship by CLS_GRUNT and Seclusion by il Duce Primo, Massacre, Dano, and DSalimander. Lots and lots of cool stuff!(Louis Wu 19:45:28…

The artist behind the webcomic ‘Pixellated Pupils’ is currently hosting a 24 hour draw-a-thon to raise money for a move to LA. Swing by AngelicLionheart’s forum post for details – if there’s some Halo artwork you always wanted but didn’t know who to ask to get it… here’s your chance!(Louis Wu 19:38:57 UTC)

My7hos offered a wallpaper to pete_the_duck for winning the first Where’s The Chief contest – there should be another one soon.(Louis Wu 19:35:49 UTC)

Tobias Buckell, hard at work on the next Halo novel, took time out to post a shot of himself at last weekend’s DragonCon, bracketed by the Master Chief and an ODST. Very cool! (That’s Blue Realm and Adam Grumbo, from the 405th forum, in the UNSC duds.) Thanks to TTL Demag0gue for the heads-up.(Louis Wu…

ManKitten posted a week of clues for his Treasure Hunt (1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7), and nobody solved it. So he’s posted a bonus round, to help you out. He’s going to cry if nobody gets this… and trust me, you don’t want to see him cry.…

TTL Demag0gue posted the newest Reclaimer (85) last night just after midnight (eastern) – so you could get an early fix on the newest oddness. (He’s also put together a tutorial on how he makes the comic, for those who want to follow suit.)(Louis Wu 12:53:11 UTC)

dudes113 pointed out a list over at Maxim.com – They’re calling it ‘8 Fictional Doomsday Devices More Dangerous Than the Large Hadron Collider’, and mixed in among the Death Star from Star Wars and the Continuum Transfunctioner from Dude, Where’s My Car? is Halo’s ring. Here’s hoping this isn’t the last thing you read today!…

SnowJP 360 noticed a minifeature on CNN that looked at what life might be like in 2020… and the slide that discusses virtual gaming uses a Halo graphic for display purposes. Heh – CNN has a lot of faith in the Halo franchise! (Louis Wu 12:43:31 UTC)