Author: halo@bungie.org

It’s been a long time coming – but a series of questions submitted to Bungie a few months ago, related to the Halo Story, has been returned with answers. Thanks to Frank O’Connor and Robt McLees for finding the time! You can find the writeup in the Halo Story Page resources.

Paul Mattson pointed out that BigBadToystore has posted preorders for Halo 3 Series 4 McFarlane figures, before the series has been officially unveiled. (Pics are up for most of ’em.)(Louis Wu 18:28:45 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy has posted another in her series of ‘Fan Art’ spotlights – this one is also Cortana… but a little darker. Okay, a lot darker. Go look!(Louis Wu 18:26:20 UTC)

Mariachi and Avateur and friends did some exploring outside Sierra 117 – they came back with some really cool pics. Go look!(Louis Wu 18:18:12 UTC)

RVideo told us about Fracture, a new video from Jump Vision, edited by FooFoo. It shows off a bunch of both aided and unaided jumps on a bunch of maps. Great camera angles, amazing jumping. It’s a 63 mb WMP9 download from FileFront – grab a copy, it’s absolutely worth watching!(Louis Wu 11:36:57 UTC)

Rooster Teeth posted RvB: Reconstruction Chapter 9 last night – a standard cut for the public, an extended cut for sponsors, as usual. Sarge is on a mission! Thanks to UnSilentSlayer for the first heads-up. (Louis Wu 11:27:44 UTC)

SpeedySurfer created an Achievables generator that lets you build your own Achievables (first seen in RvB’s recent Achievement-based PSA). Bizarre… but cute. (Louis Wu 11:27:25 UTC)

majorrudin found a Top 10 Video Game Armors movie, created by the same folks who looked at the Top 10 Video Game Chicks a week or so ago. Halo 3’s Recon Armor makes the list. (Louis Wu 11:27:04 UTC)

xMixMasterx stopped in to announce that Week 9 of Mix’s Picks is available now at The Social. Two masp, two gametypes, and a video of a game played on yet another. Everything’s Infection-related this week.(Louis Wu 11:26:43 UTC)

vlad3163 got his SDCC-exclusive McFarlane figures yesterday, and was kind enough to transcribe the notes on the back of the EVA “Hellspartan” packaging. Canon? Maybe. Some nice tidbits, though! Go look.(Louis Wu 11:26:20 UTC)

Whoa. El Mayimbe, who runs Latino Review, sent word that the spec script based on Fall of Reach, written by Stuart Beattie (we mentioned it back in April) is generating interest – enough interest that concept art has been created by Kasra Farahani, and the first of five weekly releases of this artwork is up…

TTL Demag0gue let us know that Reclaimer 73 is up now – the Master Chief is sounding decidedly masochistic. Will the Reclaimer accede?(Louis Wu 18:18:04 UTC)

This is most likely just a mistake, but… Voodoo Extreme has an advertisement one of their readers got from the Microsoft Download Service. It lists “Free Trials at Microsoft Game Studios” in an ad for “Games and DirectX” – and the picture includes logos from Halo 3, Zoo Tycoon, and Gears of War. (It also…

D Laz has kicked off a new series he calls ‘Halo: Live’ – basically, he takes a regular Team Doubles game, and adds interesting camera angles and epic-sounding music. Works pretty well! Thanks, SonofMacPhisto.(Louis Wu 10:44:17 UTC)

It seems like only yesterday that we saw our first Arby ‘n’ the Chief video (it’s actually been just under 7 months), but the series is now up to Season 3. Episode 1, “Cold”, was released yesterday – thanks, Coyote 2JZ (and majorrudin). When the Jon is out… the MC will play. On a new,…

Hawty McBloggy found a pretty cool clip showing off a rocket deflection with a frag grenade. Player one tosses a grenade, player two fires a rocket at player one. Rocket hits grenade, bounces to the ground… and kills the guy who fired it. Ouch!(Louis Wu 10:09:18 UTC)

tygron stopped by with a link to Silent Dragon11’s ‘Sound of Cold Storage’ – a percussion piece made with gun clips and shots from Cold Storage. I wasn’t expecting much – this sort of thing has been done before, and this one starts pretty slowly… but I stuck it out, and I liked it by…

BlueDingo5 told us a fun story. Tripod, an Australian comedy troupe, has put on a challenge for the last couple of years – they ask fans to submit videos set to a Tripod song, with a $2,500 (AUD) prize on the line for the winner. This year, BlueDingo5 and his buddy submitted a video for…

TheChrisD stopped by to remind everyone that the Rumble Pit World Series Season 2 kicks off tonight at 8pm ET – swing by their website for full details!(Louis Wu 16:14:49 UTC)

If you’re a follower of ZZoMBiE13’s Another Halo Comic Strip, you’ve probably noticed a couple of weeks of quiet – things are a little rough for him right now. He’ll be back, we hope – but for now, we’ve got a Guest Strip sent in by Jordz X that ZZoMBiE approved of. Go check it…