Author: halo@bungie.org

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…

Sun-Tzu noticed a post at GameRush Entertainment that suggests that was Bungie was planning to show at E3 was “a sixty second “knock’em down” teaser trailer” – with more reveals later in the week on their own site. No attribution is supplied for this information. Your guess is as good as mine!(Louis Wu 09:52:12 UTC)

pete_the_duck has issued the Flaming Ninja Challenge – an obstacle course built in Forge, designed to test your ninja skills (and provide you with some fun map-running). Check out the screenshots in his post, download the variant, read the rules… and get to practicing!(Louis Wu 09:51:48 UTC)

RotaJota ran across an article in Engadget touting a 360 mod chip that lets you use a keyboard and mouse as input devices – you won’t be able to play online, because of that chip, but you SHOULD be able to move a little more precisely than your controller-wielding compatriots in a LAN game. (Maybe.)…

There’s a very subdued Bungie Weekly Update posted tonight over at Bungie.net (or, as usual, in our Weekly Update Archive) – mostly, its an apology for you not seeing whatever it is you didn’t see this week. And a nice poster. Go read!(Louis Wu 00:39:57 UTC)

Well, demand looks controllable, so we talked it over – and decided what the heck, we’d just turn on ALL the Halo 1 cutscene HD downloads. Swing by the Halo Cutscene Library and grab the ones you love! (And with that, the entire trilogy’s cutscenes are available in HD.) Thanks once again to HaLo2FrEeEk, of…

TTL Demag0gue stopped by with word of Reclaimer 66 – and things get weird.(Louis Wu 11:37:29 UTC)

Looks like the rebirth of GeeVeeGrab has inspired people to render clips sitting in their fileshares for months; our forum contains a number of examples. (Thread 1 | thread 2 | thread 3) I don’t think there’s any way, after this, to post a full roundup of submitted clips without overwhelming the front page -…