Author: halo@bungie.org

TTL Demag0gue announced that Reclaimer 79 has been posted – and the picture gets bigger.(Louis Wu 13:47:53 UTC)

The see-sawing has begun – according to Major Nelson’s LIVE activity list, Call of Duty 4 was the most-played game last week. Our forum denizens haven’t come up with a good explanation for why this came about. News? Not news? You got me – I’d say no, but a lot of people are discussing it.(Louis…

Sterfrye36 has been writing Fan Fiction for the HBOFF section for more than five years – and he attributes his acceptance at an Ivy League college to this pursuit. Go read the details!(Louis Wu 13:46:12 UTC)

GeneticSpartan stopped by yesterday with word of a Halo Music Video set to Coldplay’s Viva La Vida – I thought it was fantastic. He included a couple of streaming links, and we’ve added some extra download links. Watch this! (Louis Wu 13:28:26 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy continues her Fan Art Spotlight on Cortana – sort of. This week, it’s a series of pics, and Cortana plays only a small (though critical) role. Nice work!(Louis Wu 13:27:38 UTC)

OddGodHMK has updated Boring Comics with another Halo-related strip – in fact, this one’s an HBO-related strip. I laughed.(Louis Wu 13:26:57 UTC)

Tied the Leader is back – there’s a highlight reel of some of their finest moments in matchmaking for the month of July. It was a lot of fun to watch! Thanks, XerxdeeJ.(Louis Wu 15:13:57 UTC)

vociferous has a new piece up over at Ascendant Justice – Headstones Pushed Aside looks at one of the more interesting enemies you face in the Halo series. It ties together information from the games, the terminals within the games, and outside sources like the Iris campaign last summer to bring you what is likely…

Rooster Teeth has released Chapter 11 of Red vs Blue: Reconstruction – it’s getting harder and harder every week to point out how this series has fantastic production values and top-notch effects – but every week, it proves it’s still there at the top of the Halo machinima heap. The Reds and the Blues are…

Hawty McBloggy has a couple of fun collections for you. On her main blog, you’ll find “You’re Doing It Really, Really Wrong” – this is a set of screenshots that should make you smile, assuming you haven’t burned out on this internet meme. (Oddball and Intimidation were two I hadn’t seen before, and got chuckles…

IGN has posted a ‘Preview’ of the Halo 3 Steel Spartan variant of the Kotobukiya Bubble-shielded figure – mostly, it’s just a lot of screenshots… but it’s a great figure. And while we’re doing action figure reviews, Superheroes Base has a writeup of the McFarlane Brute Stalker.(Louis Wu 12:48:39 UTC)

Fyrewulff posted a design doc for a ‘game’ played with Halo 3, but with a pretty involved backend. It’s hard to explain – go read the details, and give him some feedback!(Louis Wu 12:47:57 UTC)

Last week, Kotaku posted an ‘unboxing’ of a set of Jasman Halo 3 Plasma Pistols – a series of photos showing off the goods. They followed it up yesterday with an ‘Impressions’ article, discussing the actual gameplay, and including a movie. If you’re a laser tag afficionado, this seems to be a nice way to…

Mid7night posted a video of his Longsword in X-Plane; he played with some Final Cut filters for added effect. If you want to play along, he’s challenged you to add a Halo-flavored soundtrack.(Louis Wu 12:44:59 UTC)

Morpheus noticed a Top 25 Enemies of All Time list at Game Daily. If I specified WHICH enemy from the Halo series made the list, I’d have to put a spoiler tag on this newspost. (Louis Wu 12:44:29 UTC)

El Mayimbe has posted the third piece of concept art by Kasra Farahani for the Fall of Reach Movie project written up by Stuart Beattie – I’m having trouble placing the scene that this image portrays… but it’s an interesting pic. Check it out!(Louis Wu 22:24:30 UTC)

CYBRFRK wrote up a review of the Halo Interactive Strategy Game – we didn’t think it would be out before September, but he found it in Wal-Mart this weekend. If you were on the fence about buying this, read his thoughts to see if they help you decide! Pictures should be coming soon. Update: The…

J23 pointed out Screw Attack’s Halo 1 and 2 in 60 Seconds – language is a little blue, but it’s a nice fast summary of the first two games. If you’re easily offended, don’t watch.(Louis Wu 18:50:22 UTC)

Machinima.com/UK had a music video contest – put one of two Jonathan Coulton songs (Bacteria, Todd the T1000) to music, using any game you want, win goodies. The winners were filmed with World of Warcraft and GTA: San Andreas – but Halo was used for fully half of the entries – and I really liked…

A week ago, we mentioned link4044’s Legendary Crest – it had been put up on eBay for a short time, but pulled because of a misunderstanding. He’s put another one up after clearing up the problem – you’ve got about four and a half days to make up your mind. Again – if I had…