Author: halo@bungie.org

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…

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…