Author: halo@bungie.org

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)

Maxim posted a list of the “13 Most Badass Video Game Power Suits” – they’re not all armored, some are literally power suits (pinstripes and all), but Master Chief’s Mjolnir armor made it to number 12. Thanks, NickLee808.(Louis Wu 13:56:41 UTC)

Cody Miller noticed a Master Chief costume in Hollywood yesterday. His speculation is clearly a joke, but it’s a nice shot! (Louis Wu 13:56:11 UTC)

TDG, over at NeoGAF, noticed a pretty high-quality film of Assembly on GameVideos – the gameplay’s nothing special, but the view of the map is the best I’ve seen on the web. (You can download a 720p version of it from that page.) (Louis Wu 13:55:24 UTC)

Al7eredBeasT posted a pattern for creating your own infection form plushie, along with a tutorial for building it. Swing by if you want one of these cuties!(Louis Wu 13:54:24 UTC)

This weekend, Z sent along a link to a tritage featuring MoNsTeR, vFoFo, and Tags II (Tags II did the editing); it’s more than 10 minutes long, but it’s got a lot of fun plays, and plenty of slick editing. Just under 200 mb – an enjoyable watch. Check it out! (Louis Wu 13:53:43 UTC)

Okay, I thought i could come home and clear out the mail queue – but I didn’t count on the plane trip from hell. I’m pretty lucky I made the drive from the airport in one piece – there’s no way I can get coherent news on the front page. More tomorrow, I guess…(Louis Wu…

Xbox 360 Fanboy’s Dustin Burg posted a hands-on impression article of Assembly over at Joystiq – swing by and read the details. There’s a short video clip, as well. (More news coming later today; I’m posting this from the DFW airport as I wait for my connecting flight.)(Louis Wu 12:16:24 UTC)