Author: halo@bungie.org

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…

ReleasetheMonk added Halo visuals to audio from a trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End – works pretty well!(Louis Wu 17:06:10 UTC)

Kusho posted an announcement for ‘TTHL: The Fake Trailer’ in our forum. Feedback is pretty positive; it didn’t do much for me, but apparently others liked it. Give it a shot!(Louis Wu 15:43:22 UTC)

lostguru585 let us know that we missed two Community Mishap montages yesterday (we mentioned a bunch of work by MiniWaz) – there’s a Part 3 and a Part 4. Go watch MORE people screw up! (Louis Wu 14:23:03 UTC)

Dennis Powers sent along an update for the Halo Maps website – the Halo Custom Edition Archive now has nearly 3,400 maps assets and files for the game, with 128 files added in July. He highlighted two new maps deserving of special recognition: Da_Pimp_Pope’s Ancient Sanctuary (beta) and adumbass’ Hydro Generator. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu…

Cham wanted us to know about a ‘laid-back montage’ – he says the editing doesn’t interfere with your seeing what’s going on. He’s mostly right. It’s also nice to see some Halo 2 footage again, after quite some time without any. It’s at YouTube, the MLG Game Room, and downloadable at FileFront.(Louis Wu 14:21:34 UTC)

The latest Bungie Weekly Update is online at Bungie.net (or in our Weekly Update Archive) – Luke explains how and why the recent spate of bannings happened, and then discusses upcoming changes in Matchmaking. Go read!(Louis Wu 00:41:45 UTC)

Lloyd Foley was the first to point us to this page at AddictGaming – it suggests that a Bungie employee (oh, who are we kidding, that’s recognizably Luke Smith) was playing “Robins Perch: Chronicles Alpha – Exploring Onyx”. The writers claim that this is evidence that Peter Jackson’s “Halo Chronicles” project is now in Alpha…