Author: halo@bungie.org

Dream053 announced an upcoming machinima project – that’s being preceded by a ‘prologue’, focusing on a story of bonds and brotherhood amongst the Elites. He’s released an audio clip that sounds promising! Go listen.(Louis Wu 14:37:02 UTC)

Needcoffee.com is giving away some Halo 3 vehicles from McFarlane – head on over to register! (Louis Wu 14:27:09 UTC)

RandomCTG has been doing some sculpting – if you swing by this forum post, you’ll find pictures of a Master Chief figurine, an Elite bust, a Master Chief helmet, and even a (very cool) Big Daddy from Bioshock! (He also added some Elite sketches farther down.)(Louis Wu 14:17:57 UTC)

2phast let us know that Larry the Marine 18 is now up – go see why the squad is scared.(Louis Wu 14:14:50 UTC)

Over at the Halo Wars website, the April Update has been posted – go see how development is going! Thanks, Psychophan7. (Louis Wu 13:34:05 UTC)

TheSquareCoin stopped by last night with a trailer for a new machinima project out of Chairleg Productions – it’s called The Console War, and it’ll kick off this weekend, so grab the trailer (in gorgeous HD) and get fired up! (Louis Wu 13:28:50 UTC)

AcidicReignUK and some friends created a mockumentary for a media studies class – it’s a look at the natural life of the blue elite. Nice work! (They all got A’s.) (Louis Wu 23:24:34 UTC)

ManKitten gets in on the screenshot craze – some pretty nice ones in there!(Louis Wu 22:20:36 UTC)

Injured Knee Productions is running a contest – find Special Ted, win a poster. Confused? Read the details on their site. Thanks, Haloplayer.(Louis Wu 20:32:42 UTC)

Don posted a panorama of a different sort. Go look.(Louis Wu 18:27:55 UTC)

Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked Episode 14 is now up. Johnston and Taylor have attracted attention…(Louis Wu 18:27:04 UTC)

Music4Games has a great interview with Ensemble Studios’ Audio Director and Lead Composer, Stephen Rippy, about the music in Halo Wars. Go read how they’ll incorporate the familiar, while staking out their own territory, in the new game! There are also details (including pictures) of the recording session in Prague, Czech Republic, with the FILMharmonic…

Z let us know that there are a couple of massive montages over at Halo3Forum.com – Calamity 2 from TM22, ST68, iDrako, and Kraynium – almost 18 minutes long, 327 mb, plus a blooper reel (which I didn’t get at all; they didn’t look like bloopers to me, for the most part) and Phurion and…

nomis78 posted links to another handful of panoramas – the Rat’s Nest one is particularly nice. Take a look!(Louis Wu 16:24:58 UTC)

Sigafoos let us know that The Riot 97 is now up (20 minutes, 8 mb) – there’s a slight drop in audio quality because his mic was misbehaving, but there’s still plenty of community news, challenge info, and (on their video show) an exclusive (until Wednesday) showing of Outpost: Operation Isil Episode 5, from Treeskunk.…

A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned a live-action Halo short being made by a third-party group, and using a fan with Nightmare Armor. Devastator (the fan with the armor) let us know that there is now a Flickr stream of images from the shoot, and some information about the film itself – it’s being…

TTL Demag0gue stopped in to let us know that Reclaimer is back with new content, after a three-week hiatus. Episode 41 gives you a taste of where the Reclaimer comes from (and makes nice use of the new Forge filters).(Louis Wu 15:02:33 UTC)

Davis Beutler created a Halo-themed Dock for OSX Leopard. You can see pictures of it in use, and find download links, in his forum post. (We’ve mirrored the actual content, as well.)(Louis Wu 14:59:53 UTC)

Maximum Fear let us know that they’ve announced the winner of their Forge Art Contest. They’ve also included some of the other entries. Great work in there!(Louis Wu 23:41:52 UTC)

Nabsuh pointed out a teaser showing off his combat animation (and sound design) techniques – it’s only a meg, go watch it!(Louis Wu 15:10:10 UTC)