Author: halo@bungie.org

Halo.fr’s Johnny be good let us know about the first Halo 3 montage from Shinato, a top Dutch player. It’s REALLY heavy on the effects and cuts; so much so that it’s hard to see the action a lot of the time. That said, the gameplay is pretty sick. 9 minutes long, in MLG’s Gameroom.(Louis…

Sean Bradley sent word that a rather large contingent of the 405th Infantry Division (the armor guys) showed up at DragonCon in Atlanta last weekend; there’s a thread on their forum with pictures and discussion, but Sean also passed along some specific photo collections from members:SKG’s DragonCon AlbumScaryMonkey75’s DragonCon Parade CollectionScaryMonkey75’s DragonCon Saturday CollectionScaryMonkey75’s Arbiter…

Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked Episode 40 is up – bovines and reptiles, oh my! (Louis Wu 19:25:20 UTC)

You might remember a post about a reality show that will focus on finding the ‘ultimate gamer’ – tryouts are coming up this weekend in four cities (NYC, LA, Austin, and Chicago), and they’re hoping that you come prepared. We got email from Sha-hid Ealy, the Casting Producer, who sent along a flyer for the…

Hawty McBloggy continues to add fun content from PAX – today she told us about PAX 08: Red vs. Blue Edition, a look at the goings-on in the RvB booth over the course of the weekend, but there’s also this little tidbit that might be of interest to some of you. That’s Ken Taya’s handiwork……

KBC let us know that Podtacular has reopened its doors – the first podcast will be coming later this month, so if there’s something you want to tell them or ask them, now’s your chance.(Louis Wu 16:19:24 UTC)

Looks like Play N Trade is having a national Halo 3 tournament (well, international, actually); local rounds are this weekend (September 6), with winners from local stores going on to play in the regional tourneys on the 13th, and the finals (in Chandler, AZ) on the 14th. (Hi, Cybrfrk!) Grand prize is $2000, local tourneys…

OddGodHMK has kicked off a new comic series, called The Biased – swing by his forum post for links and an explanation. It goes live on Monday, but he’s giving you a preview glimpse!(Louis Wu 16:01:59 UTC)

For the last few years, ManKitten has run an annual treasure hunt – he’s back, with new clues. Go see what he’s offering! If you’re confused about how it all works (and how he sort of expects his clues to be interpreted), check out previous hunts: 2005 | 2006 | 2007.(Louis Wu 15:59:20 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue stopped by to mention Reclaimer 82 – what is Viper up to, anyway?(Louis Wu 15:50:27 UTC)

Rooster Teeth put their latest series, Reconstruction, on hold this week, in order to release a pair of Public Service Announcements. These were finished and ready to go before they left for PAX last week, but they needed to wait until the HD versions were up and available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace before releasing them…

nomis78 let us know that he’s posted another batch of Halo panoramas – some of these have been color-tweaked a bit. Check ’em out! (He’s also offering to redo a couple of older ones – if there’s something he’s done that you’d like to see adjusted, color-wise, let him know!)(Louis Wu 15:30:37 UTC)

There’s a bunch of new content over at the Halo Wars website; SOLUS blogged about days 2 and 3 of the Leipzig Games Conference, the three recent screenshots have been added to the official gallery, and Dave Pottinger, HW’s Lead Designer, discusses the effect and role of Spartans on and in the game. Go read!(Louis…

The second Weta statue preorder went live yesterday – you can plunk down $225 US on the Master Chief and Arbiter statue, and get yourself entered into that sweepstakes we mentioned last week; statue will be out next year. I wish I had more money!(Louis Wu 15:21:14 UTC)

El Mayimbe let us know about the fifth (and final) piece of Kasra Farahani’s concept art from the project being put together by Stuart Beattie – this one shows off the destruction of the Pillar of Autumn, which blends in to the beginning of the first Halo game. Go take a look!(Louis Wu 22:49:38 UTC)

Elnea’s back – Halo Action Figure Theater #151 is now online. I’m not sure the Canadians are going to be happy. I laughed, though.(Louis Wu 20:04:16 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy has been busy – she’s got three new Halo-related things for you to check out. The biggest is her writeup of the Bungie experience at PAX (great pics – and you should page back through her blog for lots more in the last few days), but there are also some gorgeous pictures of…

Last week, we mentioned an ode to Bungie from Bryan Simon – he’s back, with another piece. This time, he’s offering Bungie the chance to burn out their frustrations with fan anger on him… go listen. Thanks, Stacey. (Louis Wu 14:37:00 UTC)

At 5:30 on Sunday afternoon, Bungie got rid of a huge number of boxes of schwag that had been taking up room in storage somewhere; they did it by tossing stuff out to a large crowd in front of their booth. It’s sort of amazing nobody got hurt – some of those boxes have really…

NeoGAF’s Kibbles was amused by ScrewAttack’s “Hard News” segment in which Assembly was described this way: “It looks like a remake of Midship, the popular Halo 2 map that a lot of people love” (2:05 in). Before you go insane, it looks nothing like Midship, except for the color scheme. (Louis Wu 13:57:00 UTC)