Author: halo@bungie.org

Gamepro put together a roster of the 8 Most Powerful Video Game Studios. Bungie made the list, on the strength of its Halo products. Thanks to Black Six for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 14:33:59 UTC)

Insabul pointed out Alliance: Episode 1, kicking off a new machinima series. Goals seem to be pretty ambitious – it remains to be seen if they’ll achieve these goals.(Louis Wu 14:30:31 UTC)

H3Press and Injured Knee Productions have gotten together for a contest – prizes go to the best music video using only footage from IKProductions.net. Go read the full rules, and check out the prizes, at H3Press! Thanks, Mike Reiss.(Louis Wu 13:49:38 UTC)

Back in November 2006, There’s Something about Halo 2 was released on Newgrounds – a flash parody of the Halo 2 storyline. Apparently, the Halo 3 version was cancelled – but one part, The Covenant, was released recently by its creator. Too bad we can’t see the whole thing! Thanks, Psychophan7.(Louis Wu 13:25:30 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue announced the availability of Reclaimer 74 – the Reclaimer decides to take a more aggressive role in dealing with the Master Chief.(Louis Wu 12:38:45 UTC)

Wow, fun. vshields ash managed to get a pair of Gold Elites at the end of Assault on the Control Room, in the original Halo. That’s a lot of work! Post at HBO | post at High Impact Halo | vid at FileFront(Louis Wu 12:33:33 UTC)

Roger Wilco ran across a website for Broken Line Studios – a group putting together a Homeworld mod based on Halo. Some really awesome models! Here’s hoping they don’t get a C&D.(Louis Wu 12:27:51 UTC)

Injunfett pointed out that G4TV has announced their G-Phoria 2008 Game of the Year… and Halo 3 came away with the title. (It was really, really close.)(Louis Wu 12:24:17 UTC)

The first of the Weta 1-of-a-kind silver statues (we discussed ’em here, with high-res versions of the silver images here) went on sale on eBay late last night – you’ve still got nine and a half days to decide what it’s worth to you, but the Master Chief and Grunts statue is already up to…

Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked 39 is up – fishing needs… fish.(Louis Wu 16:23:39 UTC)

This should have been up yesterday – totally my fault it wasn’t. ZZoMBiE13 sent along Another Halo Comic Strip – where could this strip branch out? The possibilities are endless!(Louis Wu 16:19:37 UTC)

bubba28871 recorded the Halo set from the Video Games Live concert in San Diego last week – it includes on-stage time with MsValentine, a cosplayer we’ve featured many times, who performed the Cortana bits. Go watch!(Louis Wu 15:48:23 UTC)

Morpheus stopped by to let us know that Real Custom Games has posted ‘A Man and His Probe’ – raising a Probe can be difficult! (I’m actually curious to know how many people will stumble across this news post while looking for porn…)(Louis Wu 15:02:41 UTC)

If you didn’t get enough of Damian Isla in the GamesIndustry interview we just told you about, swing by Gamasutra this morning – they have a writeup of a keynote Isla gave at the recent Develop conference. (We mentioned this talk back in June.) It’s a pretty interesting look at how the AI in the…

GamesIndustry.biz posted an interview with Bungie’s Damian Isla – it’s a really interesting piece. Isla holds forth on Bungie’s post-independence enthusiasm, on the state of first-person shooters today, on the differences in design philosophy between games like Halo, CoD4, and Bioshock. There are subtle hints that Bungie might be working on a game that has…

Hawty McBloggy has posted her Top 10 Forge Art Halo 3 Screenshots – go check out the creativity of Forgers everywhere!(Louis Wu 14:28:51 UTC)

Major Nelson confirmed that Halo 3 is on top of the Xbox LIVE leaderboard, for the third straight week – this is starting to not be news any more. MyGEN has a piece looking at WHY Halo 3 is back on top – and that’s more newsworthy. (This is actually the first of a two-part…

Bungie’s Blog (and Halo 3 Academy’s ryu9921) both let us know that the Bungie Favorites collection is currently being populated by some of the Halo 3 Academy’s goodies. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 14:26:50 UTC)

I saw this a while ago, but somehow forgot to post it. Ohio band Hawthorne Heights is participating in the Game With Fame series on Xbox LIVE – find them tomorrow, playing Halo 3, and then send your experience in to Xbox.com!(Louis Wu 14:26:28 UTC)

NAMLOCO SBG, of SBG Gaming, let us know that the next Good Gaming Network Overlord Challenge is coming up on August 10. If you’re eligible, sign up! He also wanted to point out a community Big Team Battle clan cash payout tourney. Check the post for full details, but the overview is that eight established…