Author: halo@bungie.org

The US Army MWR (Morale, Welfare, and Recreation) is hosting a series of tournaments open to single soldiers in selected locations – see the promotion page for a list of locations and prizes!(Louis Wu 15:36:43 UTC)

There’s a new Bungie Publication over on Bungie.net, Halo 3 Flood Alien Level Autopsy by Environment Artist Vic DeLeon. Take a look, it’s a massive (150mb) amount of information spread over PDFs, PowerPoint presentations and a couple of videos. Very interesting and in-depth stuff, with plenty of humor interspersed throughout to keep you interested. Jordan117…

Marc Swint wrote this morning to let us know that Gray Team Transmission 2 is complete. Too complete, in fact, so much so that they’ve decided split it into two episodes. You can watch it and read about it on their blog, and if you missed the first one you can catch it here.(KP 17:57:19…

pete_the_duck dropped by the forum earlier to show off some beautiful panoramics he made. Nice!(mnemesis 14:42:27 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue stopped by to announce Reclaimer #48 – back to the Reclaimer. Check it out!(mnemesis 14:37:26 UTC)

Digikid dropped us a note to let us know that Spriggs Episode 10 is available (in both Divx and YouTube varieties). Go check it out!(mnemesis 14:33:04 UTC)

Today’s episode of Another Halo Comic Strip is again from Keith Jones – and not only is it clever, but the art is spectacular. Go check it out!(Louis Wu 21:44:17 UTC)

Just a quick note – if you have Halo news you want us to post in the next few days, you should either post it in our forum, or mail it to halo@bungie.org; if you send it anywhere else, it’ll likely be missed until next week. You’ve been warned!(Louis Wu 17:51:12 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy noticed a Halo 3 ModTage on YouTube – a collection of Halo 3 mods, from a variety of sources. The soundtrack is entirely dumpable; play the movie silent, and you’ll be happier. Mod work’s pretty impressive, though!(Louis Wu 16:25:56 UTC)

Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked 23 is up – folks aren’t always what they seem…(Louis Wu 16:22:21 UTC)

Sigafoos sent word that The Riot 101 is now up – 21 minutes, 8.5 mb of Halo, Pokemon (yes, Pokemon), and Halo. Go listen!(Louis Wu 12:19:25 UTC)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer blogger 8bitjoystick has an interview with Marty O’Donnell, recorded last week (also available at 8BitJoystick.com) – lots of discussion about intellectual property, why the split with MS happened, and what they’re thinking about going forward. Halo (not surprisingly) is mentioned a few times.(Louis Wu 11:56:00 UTC)

mrsmiley wrote to say that the Halo Babies comics are back online (apparently, they’d disappeared for a bit), and if you chose, you can download all the strips in a single archive. Go read more details at halobabies.net!(Louis Wu 09:04:12 UTC)

Ma1agate was the first attendee to speak up, but a recent LAN party hosted by pooberry saw a number of HBO regulars partaking in activities as diverse as playing Halo, eating Tijuana Mamas, and drinking Dave’s Ultimate Insanity (or not, in Mintz’s case). sorahn took some pictures, and pooberry himself will be adding a writeup…

A few months ago, we mentioned a plan by Universal music to find some monks to record an album, after Halo’s theme song revved up the public demand for chanting. Apparently, they succeeded – and the album is climbing the European charts as we speak. Thanks, Anton P. Nym.(Louis Wu 08:58:22 UTC)

Rockslider found a way to double your Arbiter fun on Covenant – go read about it at Bad Cyborg if you want to battle your way through with two sidekicks.(Louis Wu 08:51:49 UTC)

nomis78 stopped by to point out that all of his panoramas have been organized on a Wordpress site, for easy browsing – check it out!(Louis Wu 08:46:09 UTC)

Scotty let us know that The Social has recreated the classic Flash project ‘Tankmen’ (see Newgrounds for the original) as a Halo machinima. If you’ve never seen this before, be aware that dialogue is probably NSFW (but then, it’s the evening of a holiday, so you’re probably not working…).(Louis Wu 21:56:53 UTC)

Larry The Marine has been updated with a Memorial Day message – go see.(Louis Wu 21:55:48 UTC)

Rooster Teeth has kicked off Red vs Blue: Reconstruction – the extended version of the first episode is available on the Sponsors forum, but the final version should be available on the front page (for everyone, sponsors or not) soon. This is NOTHING like their last RvB series… but quality is amazingly high. Go download…