Author: halo@bungie.org

So, remember that US Army Halo 3 Championship that had its own playlist last month? Seems there’s some controversy over the winners… check out Geekpulp for more details. The rules clearly state that the top-ranked eligible player in NZ would be chosen for the regional tournament – but this didn’t happen. Somewhat unfortunate, in terms…

Davis Beutler performed ‘Finishing the Fight’ at his school’s talent quest, and put together a video montage of the event. Go watch!(Louis Wu 11:59:13 UTC)

JeSteR 343 recreated Simpsons Rule’s trick with the civilian and the hammer… and got some funny moments out if him. Check it out!(Louis Wu 20:59:26 UTC)

Adam Grumbo and his buddy Spase did a tour of downtown Austin this weekend… wearing some amazing stuff. You’ve seen Adam’s Halo 3 Spartan armor before – but I don’t think most of you have seen the Marine armor Spase is wearing. They’ve been working on this for some months now – and it looks……

Halo Action Figure Theater got an update today – Episode 146 has Col. O’Hara and Brad waking up in a strange place. With a strange… person. Hmm…(Louis Wu 15:44:38 UTC)

Ascendant Justice has gone back to look at the visuals present in the Halo 3 terminals, and tried to offer some suggestions as to what they might mean. Some are obvious, some are obscure, but the discussion tries to stick with facts as often as possible, and is a very interesting read. (They’ve used yet…

Geekscape Games is running a series of articles called ‘Teabag Prevention’ – they’re there to teach you how to ‘suck less at Halo’. Week 1 was published back on April 22, and focused on the Legendary maps. Week 2, published a day later (heh), contains Sniper Rifle tips. Week 3, from May 2, helps you…

Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked Episode 19 is up – this one ties in the comic series more strongly to the Machinima series that spawned it.(Louis Wu 15:04:40 UTC)

The Halo Wars RTS group over at Bungie.net interviewed Kevin McMullan and JD Smith, the Audio Lead and Senior Audio Designer, respectively, for Halo Wars. It’s a two-parter; Part 1 and Part 2 are both open to the public. (There doesn’t seem to be a ‘theme’ to either part, so I’d guess this was split…

Sigafoos reminded us that it’s Monday, so it’s time for another Riot podcast. Number 99 is 14 mb for 34 minutes, covering Halo news, contests, and stuff… and has Sigafoos actually playing Halo during the recording. Funny… or failure? You decide.(Louis Wu 14:48:15 UTC)

The 49th Annual Clio Awards (advertising Oscars, essentially) will be broadcast this coming Saturday, and Adweek wonders if the Halo 3 Believe campaign will continue its winning streak. The Clio judges aren’t revealing their choices yet, but they did talk about the process. If this stuff interests you, swing by and read. Otherwise, we’ll let…

kr-1426 stopped by to announce that the Fan Fiction Pick of the Week feature (now in its second week) is up over at the HBO Fan Fiction forum. Anyone can read, though you’ll need to register to contribute to the discussion. If you’ve found the huge collection of work daunting, you can use these discussions…

TheMaker420 and D ROCK898 have been working a new podcast for a bit – it’s called HaloCast, and it covers… well, Halo. They’ve just posted Episode 3, almost 50 mb for 26 minutes, and they discuss different websites across the net, along with videos available on them and the like. (They also spend the first…

Ross Mills found a shirt at Shirt.Woot that provides a video game for each letter of the alphabet – and guess which game got used for ‘H’?(Louis Wu 14:37:29 UTC)

We here at HBO would like to wish everyone a Happy Mother’s Day! If there’s a mother in your life – yours, your kids’, your significant other’s, whoever – let her know how important she is! We’ll be back updating tomorrow.(Louis Wu 11:33:52 UTC)

Wow. I missed it, because I was out all afternoon… but Someday-Night Grifball was broadcast this afternoon, and the game was XTR3M3 vs L.I.E. (the winner to play Team HBO in Round 3 of the Sword League Playoffs). Looks like L.I.E. took the match – but I’m having trouble actually seeing it (the JustinTV feed…

Rockslider has set up some pretty entertaining-sounding battles between unarmed (but unkillable) Brutes and a bunch of marines – go read about it at Bad Cyborg!(Louis Wu 20:58:39 UTC)

Today’s installment of Another Halo Comic Strip might give you nightmares, if you’re old enough. ZZoMBiE13 predicted that someone would ask for a wallpaper version… so he made one.(Louis Wu 15:18:03 UTC)

AusQB has kicked off the Ar7is7s of Halo blog – a collection of cool screens. Nice initial work! Go look.(Louis Wu 14:28:18 UTC)

Spartan Jag let us know that Arby ‘n’ the Chief 11 is now up on YouTube – and you have a chance to vote on the continuation of the new characters… or not. Details in the vid (and on (Louis Wu 14:26:33 UTC)