Author: halo@bungie.org

OddGodHMK continues to use Halo in his Boring Comic series. I’m having trouble finding teh funni.(Louis Wu 14:12:03 UTC)

Wow. The Master Chief and Grunts Silver Statue auction ended last night – and the final price jumped $1300 in the last 40 seconds, leading to a final sales price of $3,050. The other three auctions are still going – Master Chief and Arbiter ends Wednesday night (it’s at $1669.69), Master Chief and Flood ends…

It’s Monday, so it’s time for another episode of Reclaimer – TTL Demag0gue has released Reclaimer 78, which might confuse you unless you’ve been following very closely. (Louis Wu 13:33:22 UTC)

DigitalPh33r has released Part 3 of his Guide to Making Halo 3 Machinima – it covers scriptwriting, building sets, and creating character models, and runs a bit over 8 minutes. Thanks to Exanubisleader for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 13:30:08 UTC)

Not sure how long this deal is going to last, but Darknesshasfallen let us know that Spawn.com is selling the ComicCon Exclusive action figures (the Hellspartan and the CQB Active Camo) as a pair, for as long as supplies last. These were only available at the San Diego ComicCon last month – so folks assumed…

A Halo Fan…natic pointed out that this week’s HBO Fan Fic Pick of the Week has been posted over on the HBOFF forums – give it a read!(Louis Wu 13:23:59 UTC)

MasterChief2829 noticed that Halo Wars is on the cover of the next issue of X360 (a UK mag), and Urban Reflex mentioned that Xbox World 360 (another UK mag) has a cover story on Halo 4. (Louis Wu 13:22:33 UTC)

Gryphonosiris found a preorder page for 18″ articulated Master Chief Replicas (no word on the manufacturer) at Urban Collector. Pretty nice-looking, from the single preview shot – these should be available in a couple of months. (Louis Wu 13:18:13 UTC)

Rare released a new parody of the Believe Campaign, using Viva Piñata (the last one was mentioned a couple of weeks ago) – really nice work! Thanks to RotaJota for the heads-up – he found it at Joystiq. (Louis Wu 13:14:54 UTC)

newguy2445 sent us a note that the Halo Wars website has updated with new information about one of the buildings available to UNSC players – the Reactor. Swing by for pics! (Louis Wu 13:12:01 UTC)

Okay, I’m back from a really pleasant weekend away from the internet – thanks to mnemesis for keeping the front page from going blank while I was gone! Time to catch up on backlogged news… first up is an update on the Forge Hub Halo 3 2v2 tourney we last mentioned on August 1 -…

The Master Chief and Grunts statue we mentioned a while ago is wrapping up today. $1675 so far, so if you’ve got that kind of money burning a hole in your pocket and you’d like to have something completely unique in the Halo collectibles world, get to it!(mnemesis 15:33:37 UTC)

The Bungie Weekly Update is up (and has been since last night). A bit of info on PAX, and a bunch of tidbits from various people at the studio, giving some tasty yet cryptic hints as to what they’re working on. Go read!(mnemesis 16:31:05 UTC)

Crispy Gamer’s James Fudge pointed us to this news bit about a Bollywood movie that apparently revolves around a fictional designer of Halo 3. As CG says, the trailer mentioned in the article has no Halo content at all… so we’ll have to take their word for it. (A Google search turns up a bunch…

Earlier this week, Bungie’s Hao Chen was at SIGGRAPH, the technical computer graphics conference, as an instructor in the ‘Advances in Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games’ class. ATI has posted the proceedings of the conference course notes for his work, ‘Lighting and Material of Halo 3’, on their Technical Publications page. (It’s currently…

Hawty McBloggy has posted What If, Halo Style: Round 3 over on her site. There are results from last week’s question (a ridiculous number of people want Blood Gulch back), plus a new question, asking you about armor permutations. Go read and comment!(Louis Wu 10:15:16 UTC)

Weta has put the final silver Halo statue on eBay – the gorgeous Halo 3 Cortana jumped to $1,275 in the first six hours of its listing. (Reserve has not been met yet.) As with previous auctions, you can get a high-res look at the workmanship on our gallery page – and if you check…

SonofMacPhisto beat TTL Demag0gue in announcing Reclaimer 77 – Reticent Mystery and the Reclaimer have begun to become one. Things are gettin’ funky!(Louis Wu 09:46:43 UTC)

There’s a fascinating inside view at the development of the Halo 3 Believe diorama, as told by the ad agency that put it all together, over at Shoot Online. They couldn’t get art assets from Bungie, so they got them from McFarlane. They were able to repurpose scale models from Aliens to save some time…