Author: halo@bungie.org

Weta, the New Zealand studio that created all those cool props for the Neil Blomkamp Halo shorts (along with other little tidbits like, say, the Lord of the Rings movies), has announced a new line of Halo collectible statues. These will be on display this week in San Diego (during the Comic Convention) – you…

Pretty interesting article over at Gamasutra – Bungie’s Steve Scott gave a talk at Microsoft’s GameFest 2008 on the importance of effects artists for today’s videogames. Lots of cool Halo 3 details. Give it a read! (Louis Wu 15:25:37 UTC)

Google Alerts brought me news of a Halo 3 Campaign review from Captain Spark – but before I could post it, Rockslider pointed it out in our forum. Go read the musings of a longtime HBO contributor! (Louis Wu 15:23:20 UTC)

Eurogamer’s posted their full post-E3 interview with Don Mattrick, and Halo comes up quite a bit. Very little new information, really, but the wording is interesting.(Louis Wu 15:22:58 UTC)

TheGuardian let us know he’s been working on some new Halo 3 Panoramas – you can see them over at DeviantART. I really like ‘The Gap’! (Louis Wu 15:20:50 UTC)

HeavenlyYeti wants to build your next Forge project. Swing by NinjaCritic for the details.(Louis Wu 15:20:33 UTC)

G4’s Awards show, G-Phoria 2008 is open for voting – Halo is up for a few categories. Best Downloadable Content, Best Online Multiplayer, Best Shooter, Stride Longest Lasting Game, and Game of the Year. Vote now – winners announced on August 7th at 8 pm! Thanks to General Vagueness for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 15:11:48…

BlackLightProductions let us know that Phil – Day Three has been posted. Phil learns about the Juggernaut gametype, America’s Top Model, and hand lotion. And other stuff. Pretty funny – go watch!(Louis Wu 23:43:11 UTC)

wwm0nkey1 wrote to let us know about an in-game glitch that can create some pretty bizarre Halo armor variants; start with two turrets, placed one on top of each other, and then two players, one on each turret, and you get some wild results! Lots and lots of examples, plus a map variant already built…

tg sneak stopped in to point out that PreGame Lobby Episode 6, ‘dDrunmk!’, is now up on YouTube. Drinking and Zombies… mmm. (Louis Wu 20:30:47 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy found a video where someone picked up an astoundingly lucky snipe – three bounces, and then the head of an unsuspecting (and totally unseen) target. Should sniper bullets bounce this much? Tell Hawty what you think!(Louis Wu 19:35:23 UTC)

EazyB recreated Valhalla using the Wii’s Boom Blox. Amazing! (Even more so when he blows it up!)(Louis Wu 18:19:10 UTC)

Geez, this is a little twisted… Creative Coffins will let you be buried in a casket that reflects your life loves… including Halo 3. LackOfKnowledge found this at Gizmodo. (It’s unclear whether these are real, actually; the Creative Coffins website contains no mention of the video game choices, and the coffin SHAPES shown there are…

Wow, here’s an out-there rumor… allaboutiPhone.net is reporting that Bungie has given out iPhones to all its employees, and they speculate that Bungie might be developing apps for the unit. Pocket Gamer goes one step further – they’re discussing a Halo-related iPhone app. The bare facts – that Bungie has supplied iPhones to their employees,…

OddGodHMK wrote to say that the first comic in his news series ‘Boring Comics’ is Halo-related. I can totally relate – any playlist with more than 4 on a team, and I say a LOT of stuff my teammates never hear!(Louis Wu 13:19:03 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue stopped in with word of Reclaimer 68 – he says there’s a promise of answers, but it looks more confusing than ever to me!(Louis Wu 13:08:26 UTC)

Bryan Young noticed a job listing at Microsoft (via Gamasutra, posted last week) for a “Creative Director – building a new Halo universe”. The listing links to a job description that’s several months old, and doesn’t specify Halo explicitly – recycled description, or just an unfilled position?(Louis Wu 13:06:25 UTC)

Couple of news stories about E3 wrapups of interest to the Halo community – Eurogamer will have an interview with Don Mattrick tomorrow, but today they’ve got a teaser in which Harold Ryan (Bungie President) is quoted as laughing off the cancelled project announcement (thanks, Peter Brown). And TechRadar UK talked to Brian Jarrard of…

PlanetXbox360 gave Halo Wars the nod as the Best Strategy Game in its Best of E3 2008 Awards. Nice! (“No New Halo Game” was also a contender in the “Biggest Surprise” category.)(Louis Wu 12:40:14 UTC)

Major Nelson posted his standard LIVE activity list last night, for the week of July 14… and Halo 3 tops the list for the first time since the week of January 21. Folks have been discussing this (on our forum, among other places), and nobody has a really good explanation as to why (well, why…