Author: halo@bungie.org

Bah. Hyokin sent along this screengrab from the ‘Five Long Years’ cinematic that Ensemble released to hype Halo Wars – it shows the Legendary emblem painted on the nose of some Pelicans. I don’t have high hopes for the whole ‘sticking to canon’ thing when UNSC aircraft, meeting Covenant forces for the very first time…

Kotaku talked to Phil Spencer and Shane Kim about Halo – seems to be a bit of spin about the botched announcement last week, but nothing was really said. The interviewer asked about Bungie’s new project, the Halo movie, Halo “Blue”, Peter Jackson’s project – and got positive but vague answers about all of them.…

Last night, we got a message from a pretty trustworthy Halo 3 player, discussing an incident that occurred in a game played a few minutes earlier. Before the veto countdown had finished, the opposite team sent messages to all players, and one of the recipients opened the image file included in the message – that…

Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked 37 is up – not all reactions are induced by external forces.(Louis Wu 17:00:54 UTC)

Longtime forum member Gryphonosiris recently published a review of Halo 3 – apparently, it was written right after the game came out, but never went up. Give it a read!(Louis Wu 16:36:59 UTC)

ForgeHub’s TrueDarkFusion let us know that the nomination round for their Best of Forge event has ended, and Round 2 of voting has begun. You’ve got 10 days to vote – you have to be registered, but once you are, the voting stuff is here.(Louis Wu 14:18:09 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue has posted the latest Reclaimer (Episode 67) – it gives us an idea of what happened to the Chief…(Louis Wu 14:15:11 UTC)

New sheet music available at Rampancy.net – Donkk has transcribed Unforgotten and Never Forget. Get to playing!(Louis Wu 14:14:54 UTC)

mrtitan, over at Planet Halo, has summarized a roundup of Halo Wars articles in the wake of E3 that were listed on the Halo Wars website – there are a bunch I hadn’t seen. Go read! (Louis Wu 14:14:37 UTC)

Slith has used GameVee to record a few clips that might be able to teach you some cool Banshee-flying techniques. Go see what he’s got! (Louis Wu 14:14:20 UTC)

kr-1426 let us know last night that the HBO Fan Fic Pick of the Week was posted over at the HBOFF forum. Go get some advice in your reading material! (Louis Wu 14:13:47 UTC)

Dragoncoals let us know about a version of the “I love the whole world” Discovery commercial song, done (by him) in Halo 3. There’ve been others before (we mentioned this one, back in June), but I liked Dragoncoals’ choice of footage a lot. (The head-bobbing… not so much.) Go watch!(Louis Wu 16:43:58 UTC)

It’s too bad Jack Thompson’s been disbarred – he’d love this story of a 38 year old man in New Hampshire who was arrested for punching two young boys each time they killed him in a game of Halo 3. (Me? I think cases like this show the rest of us how twisted we actually…

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen this weekend. Thanks, neoism.(Louis Wu 16:25:08 UTC)

Vrogy.net has a short YouTube vid of a pepakura Halo 3 marine helmet, in progress. Looks pretty cool!(Louis Wu 14:03:25 UTC)

Eep, almost forgot – Sain7 noticed that yesterday’s Penny Arcade pays homage to the Cardboard Weapons Halo Kid (dunno what to call him, we first mentioned him on Bungie Day). Good stuff!(Louis Wu 10:13:10 UTC)

UNSC Trooper announced the winner of the Halo Canon Contest (we pointed it out a few weeks ago) – go read! And congrats to all who entered.(Louis Wu 10:06:28 UTC)

Ever since McFarlane began releasing action figures, folks have noticed ‘Halo Points’ on the packaging material – but nobody knew what they were for. The information has finally been released on the Spawn.com website – and it actually looks pretty cool! You can upgrade your action figures – with a Hayabusa katana, with Recon armor…

DHalo noticed that the UNSC database at the Halo Wars site has been updated with information about the Vehicle Depot (and the Scorpion Tank). Go check it out!(Louis Wu 09:53:07 UTC)

The guys at Rock, Paper, Shotgun have put together what they consider to be clues pointing to a massively multiplayer online first person shooter based in the Halo universe being developed by Microsoft. I’d have to say “tenuous at best” – but it was enough for a writeup in Kotaku. Thanks, Eddy 071.(Louis Wu 09:52:43…