Author: halo@bungie.org

TTL Demag0gue announced that Reclaimer Episode #43 is now up – some history, some teasers, all wrapped in very nice effects. (Louis Wu 14:14:55 UTC)

CGSociety has a short profile on Dana Boadway, a freelance animator who did some cinematics work on Halo 3. I guess I’d always thought the in-game cinematics were scripted, in-engine…apparently not (or not entirely). Interesting stuff!(Louis Wu 14:12:25 UTC)

Over at GlitchBlog.com, you’ll find an interview with High Impact Halo’s Grand Poobah, Ducain. He talks about how he got into the whole ‘running a trick site’ thing, and what warms his cockles. Go read!(Louis Wu 14:07:28 UTC)

Wow, weird. Looks like there were two totally separate advertising award ceremonies this week – and Halo 3 cleaned up at both. Last night, the Art Directors Club held their 87th Annual Awards Gala, and Halo 3 picked up 5 Gold Cubes (for ‘Broadcast/Product Service Promotion/Art Direction’, ‘Broadcast/Online Commercial Webisode’, ‘Broadcast/Online Commercial Webisode’, ‘Integrated Advertising’,…

Yesterday, Bungie.net put up a tribute to Marty O’Donnell, who’s celebrating his <insert really big number here> birthday – there are some fun photoshopped pics in honor of the event. (I have to say, that Herb Alpert album cover is gonna give me nightmares.)(Louis Wu 13:54:55 UTC)

Rokit let us know that there’s an art contest up and running over on the Bungie.net forums – we mentioned this monthly contest back in early March, and it seems like it’s been going strong since. Bungie Store gift certificates as prizes. Go look!(Louis Wu 13:49:29 UTC)

Bungie’s latest Double XP Weekend just started – since Cinco de Mayo is coming up, the theme is Fiesta gaming. Random weapons ftw!(Louis Wu 20:35:55 UTC)

Want to get better at Halo… fast? Go visit MLGPro.com. Thanks, trigger119.(Louis Wu 20:33:25 UTC)

Wow, coolness. Hawty McBloggy found some new Halo-related papercraft, and whipped up some weapons for her figures to use. Plenty of pics. (Louis Wu 20:31:57 UTC)

nomis78 got hold of some new editing software, whipped up some new panoramas. Gotta say, I thought I’d be tired of these by now… I’m not, yet. They continue to amaze.(Louis Wu 20:23:15 UTC)

Today’s installment of Another Halo Comic Strip will make you wonder a little bit about the Master Chief. (Or it might just explain a few things…)(Louis Wu 15:55:54 UTC)

Whoa. Remember when we mentioned a large area outside of Blackout that could be used by Forgers to build new open-field layouts? It’s been hard to get a sense of how big that area really is; you can’t see it, after all. pete_the_duck made things easier for us by outlining the edges with boxes… and…

Cocopjojo let us know that you can find The Thunder and the Surf, the third and final part of vociferous’ examination of the Halo 3 terminals, over at Ascendant Justice. (If you haven’t read the first two parts, they’re linked here.) It’s a fantastically in-depth look at Mendicant Bias, one if the primary players throughout…

On March 3, Stuntmutt reached a milestone for his One One Se7en comic – 777 main-category strips. He was torn – it was time to wrap up the strip, and he was two months shy of his fifth anniversary… but 777 was too good a number not to stop on. He did, however, plan a…

A million and one people are pointing out the TV show ‘Republican Space Rangers’, an egg of sorts in GTA4. (It’s one of the shows available on the TV in your room.) gunluva started a thread about it a couple of days ago, and opinions range from ‘it’s obviously a total parody of Halo’ to…

Thanks to Phil, who let us know that ModHalo.net is having a Halo 3 Forge contest this month, with $95 in prizes. Go read the details on their forum!(Louis Wu 11:17:14 UTC)

Digikid pointed out that Spriggs Episode 9 is available for download. It’s getting hard to keep some of these series apart… but there were some funny moments in this one. Go watch! (Louis Wu 22:41:43 UTC)

Sorahn’s Halo Screen Shots is a great place to store your Bungie.net screenshots – all the thumbs show up on a single page, there’s no rigamarole involved in viewing the large versions, and you can see many collections quickly. And now, Halo Screen Shots is part of the bungie.org family – we’re hosting them. (This…

Bzerker01 let us know that Outpost Isil: Episode 5 is now available at Treeskunk Productions, in about a gazillion formats. Almost 10 minutes long, there’s weird stuff going on in both bases. Go watch!(Louis Wu 17:54:50 UTC)

BlueNinja continues to put out new panoramas – I really like these views of The Ark. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 15:11:45 UTC)