Author: halo@bungie.org

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…

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)