Author: halo@bungie.org

Tony “ubald” Marcotte let us know that he’s created a new Halo render – this one is called ‘First Kill of the Day’, and it’s a pretty nice piece of work! The subject material is a little… disturbing, but maybe that’s just me. We’ve updated his local gallery here.(Louis Wu 13:58:37 UTC)

TrueDarkFusion pointed out that the third part of Forge Hub’s Forging Retrospective is now online. This one looks at Forge’s long-term popularity, in the face of not only other aspects of Halo 3, but other GAMES. Go read!(Louis Wu 13:45:28 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue let us know that Reclaimer 60 is now up – with word of a whole new cast of characters. Things are getting complicated!(Louis Wu 13:39:28 UTC)

Yeah, so if it had been anyone but ZZoMBiE13, I’d have said no… but hey, Another Halo Comic Strip is his baby, and the Guest strips that run on Sundays are his choices. I say this so that you don’t blame me for what you’re about to view.(Louis Wu 18:36:49 UTC)

If you want to keep track of how the 7 billion by 7/7 challenge is going, some folks over at WoW United (yes, a World of Warcraft website) have put together a nice tracking page – time, enemies left, day’s target, and more. (There’s a separate page that keeps track of the official Bungie.net total…

Demented Decoy sent word that he’s been working on a series of screenshot-based comics called ‘Demented Weekly’ – so far, there are 4 issues (well, 3, the first one is more of a preview of the series). They’re downloadable in PDF format, and they follow the antics of the Across the Waves crew in Matchmaking.…

kr-1426 let us know that Arthur Wellesly has posted this week’s Fan Fic Pick of the Week for June 27 – swing by and read it!(Louis Wu 14:54:01 UTC)

John_117 pointed out a thread he started on Bungie.net, with an interesting picture comparison. (While you should visit his thread here, or his thread there, in order to comment, I’ve archived a copy of the picture for posterity – so that when someone goes back and reads this news post down the road a ways,…

A few days ago, we mentioned a pretty fun goal the Halo community could shoot for – 7 billion campaign kills by Bungie Day (July 7). GhaleonEB, over at the NeoGAF forums, has been crunching the numbers each day since this challenge started… and it’s not looking good, at the current rate. Unless we pick…

Today’s edition of Another Halo Comic Strip shows what happens when people with odd minds play too many video games. Careful, ZZoMBiE13.(Louis Wu 19:08:55 UTC)

Obie let us know that a Halo 3 machinima series he started back in December has been updated with a second episode. Little Red Adventures: Episode 2 follows Little Red and Goosey as they continue their search for hacks for Halo 3 – and meet some new friends! Great cinematography, lots of fun. You can…

Hawty McBloggy found another Halo-themed 3D Steregraphic video – this one shows some cool action on High Ground, and if crossing your eyes is too much work, there’s a section of the video that let’s you see the action with standard 3D Glasses (Red and Blue lenses). Check it out1(Louis Wu 13:41:45 UTC)

Wil, from Mindquirk Software, let us know that there’s a new version of Xbox Live Friends, with new Halo 3 features (screenshots, recent games stuff) – if you’re running Mac OSX 10.5 (Leopard), grab this! It’s free, and it’s cool!(Louis Wu 13:39:12 UTC)

Bungie’s posted the June 27 Bungie Weekly Update quite a bit earlier than usual (it’s been up since before 4 pm, their time) – it contains more exhortations for anticipation of Good Things on both Bungie Day and PAX Weekend, a recap of the Content License Transfer Tool we mentioned yesterday, new overhead screens of…

mrsmiley let us know that he’s joined Pyroman in doing Master Chief Theater 3000 – he’s voicing the part of the Arbiter in Part 4, now up on YouTube. Go watch!(Louis Wu 23:27:08 UTC)

Costume City is selling Rubie’s Master Chief costumes – the Collector’s model is listed as in stock, shipping now. (The two cheaper models are ‘coming soon’.) These are the same costumes we mentioned back in February; that site is listing a July 31 ship date for these items. With the exception of the high-end model,…

ODSTAdrianFii noticed that Master Replicas has posted a preview of their upcoming Halo 3 material – good looking stuff!(Louis Wu 19:40:41 UTC)

Captain Spark was playing Campaign, and started hearing a bunch of new Grunt dialogue. He’s not coming out of retirement – but he sent along nearly 50 new snippets for our Halo 3 Dialogue Databank. Some of them are simply priceless. Go listen!(Louis Wu 14:37:08 UTC)

It’s Friday, so Hawty McBloggy has another edition of Friday Caption Fun for you – this week’s image is a great shot, and should lead to some interesting choices!(Louis Wu 14:02:20 UTC)