Author: halo@bungie.org

GeneticSpartan stopped by with news of The Prodigious Permutation, a new machinima project he’s released. Nice piece of work! Great cinematography, great effects, funny story. I’m loving this next generation of Halo machinima! The video, available at FileFront, is in WMP9 format, and weighs in at just under 150 mb.(Louis Wu 13:31:41 UTC)

DHalo noticed an article on Halo Wars over at the 360 Magazine – it contains a nice writeup, and a bunch of new screenshots. (Most of the new ones are concept art shots like this one – but there’s also this shot, which was just added (in a larger format) to the Halo Wars site…

Over at High Impact Halo, slYnki has released a video showing off what might be the first live launch of a Halo 1 grunt – 7 years down the road. It was originally part of a large montage of Halo 1 tricks – I told Ducain that it was cool, but a little long. He…

Gamespot has its own wild rumors about what’s going to be announced this week – their guess involves a squad-based tactical shooter without the Master Chief at all. Hmm… thanks, BlueNinja.(Louis Wu 21:15:32 UTC)

XboxOZ360, an Australian site, has 10 unconfirmed exclusives from E3 ’08 – Bungie’s mysterious Superintendent comes in at number 3, and Halo Chronicles, the Peter Jackson title, is at number 1. Let’s see how right they are!(Louis Wu 21:11:53 UTC)

TrueDarkFusion let us know that ForgeHub has a new edition of Musings of the Truth – he discusses the phenomenon of minigames (created in Forge) and looks at possible reasons for their recent decline. Check it out!(Louis Wu 16:42:17 UTC)

MLG asked their pro players a bunch of questions going into the Orlando competition, and posted the answers throughout Friday and Saturday. They’re not all grouped at this point – but you can read all 8 questions and their answers by following these links: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6…

Self Induced let us know that ScrewAttack has posted a Top 10 OMGWTF Moments in Video Games… and Halo 2’s ending came in at number 5. Ouch!(Louis Wu 20:16:19 UTC)

TheShadyGnome let us know that there’s a new ForgeHub Video Tutorial – this one covers Interlocking Objects and Advanced Floating. If you’re building a Forge creation and professionally smooth looks are important to you (they should be), you need to know how to do this! (Louis Wu 18:55:25 UTC)

Tony “ubald” Marcotte is back with a new Halo render – ‘Spartans’ shows off some new techniques he’s been working on. Nice angle! If you haven’t seen the rest of his Halo work, be sure to peruse his gallery here.(Louis Wu 13:09:02 UTC)

UNSC Trooper let us know that the HBOFF Fic Pick of the Week for July 11 has been posted – this time it was written by Azathoth. Swing by to see a summary of this week’s offerings – and why you should read (or not read) them! (Louis Wu 10:01:32 UTC)

BlackLightProductions stopped into our forum to point out Phil – Day One, the first offering from a new machinima series. I thought it was pretty funny! Give it a look. (BLP warns you in advance that this video contains strong language.)(Louis Wu 09:59:08 UTC)

Snave is pretty proud of the fact that the H.S.N. Photography Gallery has passed the 1000 image mark – swing by to see what’s there! (Be patient – access seems to be a little slow, at least as of this writing.)(Louis Wu 09:58:19 UTC)

Tonight’s Bungie Weekly Update contains a congratulatory mention of the fact that (although it didn’t happen exactly on Bungie Day) the 7 billion campaign kills goal has, indeed, been reached – it was hit earlier today. There’s also a summary of the past week, a short teaser of things to come… and a sizeable sampling…

You might have noticed the MLG live Halo 3 broadcast banner on the right side of this page – unfortunately, I didn’t get this newspost up in time to point out the Friday night pregame show that just ended… but check in tomorrow and Sunday for all the MLG Orlando action!(Louis Wu 01:11:39 UTC)

ZZoMBiE13 takes a look at an alternate reality in the latest episode of Another Halo Comic Strip. I’m thinking Arby might like this one better…(Louis Wu 19:46:07 UTC)

Speedhuntr noticed that Episode 6 of Pyrosmile’s Master Chief Theater 3000 is now out – our friends tear through the Ark. You probably won’t look at Slipspace the same again.(Louis Wu 18:35:20 UTC)

Bungie’s most recent podcast contains some veiled hints that SOMETHING might be announced next week at E3 – this was big enough news that even CNN is covering it. The world wants to know! Thanks to skell for noticing.(Louis Wu 17:44:57 UTC)

1UP.com has put up a Cliff Notes version of their Halo Wars designer interview from yesterday. If you don’t have time for the full 6 pager, check this out – all the key points in a single page. Thanks, LoneRanger 2.5.(Louis Wu 17:26:42 UTC)