Author: halo@bungie.org

Bungie.net contains a list of changes that will go live in roughly 5 hours to the Halo 3 Matchmaking playlist – 1v1 is back! (And 3Ball is coming in a few weeks…) Go read all the details.(Louis Wu 11:58:45 UTC)

RvB’s Reconstruction Chapter 2 is now online for the public (and in a larger format for Sponsors). We’re back to the humor! And the music. And stuff. Go watch!(Louis Wu 23:35:48 UTC)

You may or may not have known that Tied the Leader held another of their huge clanwide LANs earlier this month – it was a full vacation for many of the attendees. My guess is tomorrow’s Tied the Leader update will have a full writeup of the event – but to whet your appetite, Stuicide…

Pez is pretty excited that halowiki.net is the top choice for Google if you search for ‘Halo 3 Tips’ – and he thinks it’s because they finally realized how bad their Tips page was, and reorganized it to be… well, good. Go check it out! (Louis Wu 22:56:36 UTC)

Xbox360Fanboy has shots of the packaging for the McFarlane Halo 3 Series 2 figures – things are a little less bulky this time around.(Louis Wu 22:51:27 UTC)

Once again, Luke Smith was the first to let us know about the latest episode of the Stride Championship Series at MLGPro.com – Week 3 is Final Boss vs Triggers Down, Team Slayer on Narrows. It’s a blowout – but maybe not the way you’d expect. We mentioned Week One back on May 24 -…

More Halo comic stuff for you around the web today – Shipwrecked Episode 25 (“Out of the Frying Pan”) and Larry the Marine Episode 24 (“How it all began, Part 9”) were both put up. Thanks, Dennis Powers and 2Phast!(Louis Wu 18:37:17 UTC)

Ascendant Justice has posted ‘Shield World’, an article that looks at the third element of the Forerunner equation – the Shield Worlds, as exemplified by the structure that dominates the book ‘Ghosts of Onyx’. Go read vociferous’ thoughts on where Bungie (or another development entity) might go next with the Halo story! Thanks, mendicantbias00.(Louis Wu…

Back in early May, we mentioned an interview with Mike Zak in Game Developer magazine – the full version of that interview (apparently the GD version was an excerpt), including Brian Jarrard, is now available on Gamasutra. They’ve also got an interview with Chris Butcher, unpublished before now. Combined, the interviews take up 11 pages……

Hawty McBloggy let us know that she’s interviewed ZZoMBiE13, of Another Halo Comic Strip – it’s a great piece. Go read how ZZoMBiE13 got into this stuff in the first place… and what keeps him going!(Louis Wu 14:29:40 UTC)

ForgeHub’s TrueDarkFusion let us know that he’s working on a Forging Retrospective – the first of three parts is up now. Come see how far they’ve come!(Louis Wu 14:27:10 UTC)

Nicodemus-07 announced the first trailer to his Halo 3 machinima series ‘Believer’ – a team of Spartans hunts for Cortana between Halo 2 and Halo 3. Go watch it on YouTube.(Louis Wu 14:23:11 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue reminded us that new Reclaimers are released on Mondays – Number 50 is now online. The Reclaimer’s mission objectives have changed a bit…(Louis Wu 14:21:23 UTC)

Haloplayer let us know that Lost Cause 18 is now out – if you’ve forgotten what’s going on (after all, Lost Cause 17 was released in mid-February), you might want to grab that one as a recap. 18 is available as streaming media, , plus multiple download flavors. The map used for the filming has…

Time Glitch let us know put together The Hacker – I’m mentioning it because the Xbox LIVE message should be real.(Louis Wu 19:54:21 UTC)

bndud announced a new trailer for Backlash, a machinima series that follows the Robbers Unite machinima series ‘Cops and Robbers’. Looks to be a mixture of Halo 2 and Halo 3 footage… first episode should be out on Friday. Keep your eyes peeled!(Louis Wu 15:29:26 UTC)

A video series called ‘Confirmed Kills’ has released Episode 10 – it’s a multikill special. Most of the kills seem relatively attainable by your average player – I’m front-paging this because this kind of series gets better with better clips, and they only get what’s submitted to them. If you’ve got some cool kills, send…

Over at Brightcove, there’s a clip from a WGC 2008 US Open Halo 3 match between Final Boss and Carbon; you can’t tell who wins it (it’s just a random 2 minute clip, with gameplay mixed with shots of the players), but it’s sort of fun. Maybe full games will come later. Looks like this…

So I’m ashamed to say, I haven’t kept up on the RvB Sponsors forum as closely as I should have – which means I’ve missed some great content. Now, this content is only available to RvB sponsors, which (for most sites) would mean I’d pass over it in front-page news (we’re all about open-source material,…

shisno34 was the first to point out Arby ‘n’ the Chief Episode 12 – Conflict, Part 2 of 2. Will the Chief succeed in killing Todd and Travis? You’ll have to watch to find out!(Louis Wu 12:54:56 UTC)