Author: halo@bungie.org

Comic Book Resources has posted a review of Halo: Uprising #3 – it’s a bit kinder than most of the opinions we mentioned yesterday. (Louis Wu 09:30:38 UTC)

Just four new pieces this week in the Fan Fiction section – but there are some familiar names there…(Louis Wu 09:26:03 UTC)

It’s Thursday, so it’s time for Double XP Weekend to begin – this week, it’s Grifball. From now until Monday morning at 2 am PT, you can get your fill of hammers and bombs!(Louis Wu 18:18:51 UTC)

So, I’ve never heard of “Mighty Muggs” before, but apparently, they’re a style of action figure – and someone at Etsy is painting custom versions, including a Master Chief. Thanks to GadgetHeat for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 16:59:56 UTC)

If you live in Vancouver, BC, you’ve got a chance to play Halo on the big screen, whenever you want. Apparently, Cineplex Entertainment is going to be offering two-hour blocks of time in their theaters, outside of normal movie viewing showtimes, when a full surround-sound theater can be rented for $179. Get 16 friends together,…

Not really Halo-related, but a boon for Bungie fans – HaLo2FrEeEk has put together a Bungie Webcam image archiver and will be offering the images at some point in the future. If you have suggestions for new functionality, let him know!(Louis Wu 13:28:24 UTC)

Dragoncoals pointed out a video on YouTube promoting a Bungie.net Group that wants weapon-lowering to be enabled in Halo 3 on Xbox LIVE (currently, you can only do it offline). While I believe that the goal is not one that can be accomplished by this sort of lobbying, the demonstration in this video (the same…

IGN wrote up a short review of Halo: Uprising #3, released nationwide yesterday. They weren’t impressed. (You can get some other reviews right on our own forum – Neloms was the first, but there are comments throughout the thread.) (Louis Wu 13:20:21 UTC)

Bungie has released REAL versions of both the G-Phoria acceptance speech vid and the Edge acceptance speech vid – up to 720p versions. What are you waiting for?(Louis Wu 23:59:06 UTC)

mendicantbias00 has put up a collection of screenshots and panoramas – swing by Breaking Boundaries to see the goods!(Louis Wu 19:08:22 UTC)

Another Game with Fame in Halo 3 coming up – this time it’s the band Jet Black Stare, and they’ll be online looking for competition on August 16. Read about it at Xbox.com!(Louis Wu 19:05:31 UTC)

Last night, Weta posted the third of five one-of-a-kind silverplated statues – Master Chief and Flood is up to $810, with nine and a half days left. You can keep track of all the Weta statues on their eBay Store page – 4 days left on the Master Chief and Grunts, a week on Master…

TTL Demag0gue announced that Reclaimer 76 is live – the explanation of how Reticent Mystery works continues.(Louis Wu 11:57:07 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy continues her study of Cortana Fan Art – this week’s entry comes from a favorite around here, ZZoMBiE13 – good stuff!(Louis Wu 11:56:17 UTC)

K8lunch let us know that the most recent Larry the Marine comic has been up for a few days now – which made me realize we haven’t posted news of Larry since July 4. Episodes 29 (Missing Steps), 30 (Compromised), 31 (Fall Back), and 32 (Here comes trouble…) are all up if you get your…

Halo Action Figure Theater is back, with episode 150 – and Brad discovers he might not be talking to who he thinks he’s talking to. Life can be rough when you’re dead.(Louis Wu 23:41:43 UTC)

It’s been a long wait… but it was worth it. Over at Ascendant Justice, you can read Hindsight: Halo 3 – The Ark, a blow-by-blow discussion of one of the largest levels in Halo 3. As with all previous episodes of Hindsight, you’ll almost certainly run across tidbits you missed when you played through the…

We got word from TruthPastor SBG that the August Overlord Challenge has been won by the Overlords – this time they beat Cirque D’Geezers in a well-fought match. Go read all the details at the SBG website. September’s challenge is against SBG themselves… (Louis Wu 20:30:18 UTC)

A pair of pretty cool articles over at Hawty McBloggy’s place – there’s a Stick Figure Forge Fight (stop-motion animation, inside Forge – THAT’S work), and a pretty nice looking custom Heretic Grunt action figure gleaned from the eBay ocean. Go read about ’em!(Louis Wu 16:48:01 UTC)

kr-1426 stopped in to announce that the latest HBO Fan Fic Pick of the Week article is up (along with last week’s, which never got announced, mostly because it was posted so late). Go read!(Louis Wu 16:44:03 UTC)