Author: halo@bungie.org

RandomCTG stopped by again yesterday with some new sculptures. (We saw a few items back in April – the Brute stuff is new here, along with the Elite figurine, and the Bioshock Big Daddy has been finished.) Check ’em out – pretty nice work!(Louis Wu 14:22:31 UTC)

Scruss let us know that the Septagon, a Bungie.net group, has created the Septagon Gazette, a biweekly Bungie/Halo paper. Scruss and Just Another Fan report on happenings in the Bungie community, in the style of the Onion. There are currently two episodes available for download, from MediaFire – the June 9 issue is 3.6 mb,…

If you’re looking for a noise-cancelling PC gaming headset, you could do much worse than the Plantronics .Audio 350 Halo 2 unit – right now, Buy.com is selling it for $10, with free shipping. (If you, for some reason, have a problem with the Halo 2 branding, you could, I suppose, buy the NON-branded version…

It’s almost like a Fan Fiction renaissance – fifteen new pieces this week, and many of the submitters are old-timers! Check it out.(Louis Wu 13:53:47 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy was the first (that I know of) to notice that the Bungie Store is no longer online. Be patient, and a replacement location for buying your favorite Bungie schwag will be forthcoming!(Louis Wu 23:22:27 UTC)

Not listed on Bungie.net, yet, but this week’s Double XP playlist is Team Snipers – and it’s live. Go shoot someone in the head!(Louis Wu 20:25:14 UTC)

Heh – ZZoMBiE13 takes a shot at something he knows pretty intimately in today’s edition of Another Halo Comic Strip. I gotta get playing with him…(Louis Wu 16:31:01 UTC)

Chris Sauer has just finished creating a Halo 3 version of the Beastie Boys music video Sabotage. If you’ve never seen the vid before (I hadn’t), he also put up a side-by-side vid showing the original and the Halo 3 version running together – I must say, he did a pretty good job! Check it…

MLGPro.com has put up a wrap-up article discussing MLG San Diego – now that the dust has settled, go see what they thought!(Louis Wu 14:27:41 UTC)

Sam152 let us know that Halo Wars Addict has started up a podcast – first episode is just over half an hour, 32 mb, and discusses all the new Halo Wars info coming out now. Check it out!(Louis Wu 14:27:12 UTC)

Ray Greaves creates Chronicles of Something, a webcomic about… well, mostly about creating a webcomic, it seems. The latest issue is Halo-related – go see Ray’s take on how Halo 3’s ending came about. (Louis Wu 14:26:39 UTC)

The Golden Joystick Awards website is now open for voting – Halo 3 is up for ‘Nuts All Nighter’, ‘BBC 1Xtra Soundtrack of the Year’, ‘Ultimate Game of the Year’, and ‘Xbox Game of the Year’. (There are plenty of other categories to keep you busy, too.) Go vote! Thanks, Kotaku.(Louis Wu 18:34:50 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy found an instructional video that, if followed religiously, will make you a better Halo player. Because we could all use a little help, right?(Louis Wu 13:16:16 UTC)

Bzerker01 wrote to say that Outpost: Isil Episode 6 is now available for download. Mysteries unraveled, jokes told, genitalia protected. Go watch! (You’ve got the choice of about a million different formats from a gazillion different sites.)(Louis Wu 12:41:50 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue let us know that Reclaimer Episode 56 is now up – Viper is beginning to realize just how much trouble they’re in…(Louis Wu 12:40:28 UTC)

halosavior sent word that Abyss Studios is working on a new machinima series – it’s still a ways off, but there’s a teaser up now. Read about it in the top news post on their website, then follow the links for the video itself!(Louis Wu 12:38:49 UTC)

Josh Brookes let us know he’s working on a machinima series called ‘Veracity’ – it’s the story of a man fighting to protect his city from demonic forces. It’s got three episodes so far (though each is broken into pieces, because they’re too long for YouTube); you can watch them all starting at this playlist…

We mentioned the Spore creation of KraZi Chief yesterday – a thread on our forum has exploded with new content from other creators. Browse through (starting here) for a Halo Wars concept critter, some grunts, some elites, and a jackal! In many cases, the creature file is included, if you want to play with it…

Sgt. Hartsock was proud of the fact that his portrait of the ‘This Spartan Life’ crew was used in a Kotaku Australia story about the Machinima Film Festival that took place a couple of days ago in Melbourne. Lots of Halo content discussed there! (Rooster Teeth’s Burnie Burns and TSL’s Chris Burke, both of whom…

MrSprout was the first to point out a new batch of about 40 Halo Wars screenshots (really new, this time, not snagged from a released trailer or scrounged up from some obscure past), over at GamePro.com. This game is looking pretty good!(Louis Wu 12:03:31 UTC)