Author: halo@bungie.org

Wow. XBmaster has become the first person to complete Halo 3 in a single run, without dying. It’s on easy, and it took him 77 minutes (well, and 3 seconds, but we’ll forgive him those three). You can watch it over at High Speed Halo. (It’s also available as Fileshare-hosted film clips, so you can…

ZDSvideos let us know that Zombie Death Squad is a new thriller/action machinima; they’ve already posted a teaser. Go watch! (They’re always looking for help, so if you like what you see, join ’em.) (Louis Wu 15:10:11 UTC)

McNealy let us know that he’s put together a “ripoff of the Bungie Humpday” – it’s called Beat the Yeti, and the first week’s competition was exactly that (his gamertag is heavenlyyeti). If you’d like to participate, there’s contact info at the end of the post.(Louis Wu 15:08:23 UTC)

Rockslider’s back, this time showing how you can get 10 marines together on the beach on The Covenant… and then do nasty things to them. Bad Cyborg!(Louis Wu 15:03:52 UTC)

ZZoMBiE13 was very nice about it – but I screwed up, and forgot to post yesterday’s Another Halo Comic Strip. Which is too bad, because it’s pretty darned insightful. Well, I guess it’s okay, because you can read it now! So go read it now, and become aware of one of the lesser-known dangers of…

Gravemind has written what he calls ‘The World’s Longest Halo 3 Review’. The short version: “not bad, could have been better.” Go read why.(Louis Wu 18:03:55 UTC)

UNSC Trooper has updated the Halo Story timeline with info from the Halo 3 game (and some ancillary sources). Check it out!(Louis Wu 17:50:05 UTC)

bigroot posted a short clip of a fun triple-kill he had with a trip mine – if he hadn’t thrown the grenade that put the fully-loaded hog on top of that mine, it would have just been a randomly lucky set of kills… but his own grenade made it justice. Swing by YouTube to watch.(Louis…

DigitalPh33r has posted Arby ‘n’ the Chief Episode 8, over at Machinima.com – it’s a look at the Legendary Map Pack, and it’s got some funny moments. (Thanks, SPARTAN 294.) If you swing by his blog, you’ll see other news – he’s done with It’s a Wonderful Live, and the series finale for Deus Ex…

RVideo noticed another Blackout Jumping video over at Halo3Forum – put together by JalapenoZ and friends, it includes a few jumps not seen in Sain7’s entry yesterday. Take a look!(Louis Wu 17:34:04 UTC)

Interesting – Xbox360Fanboy has a sighting of the Halo Wars Alpha being played on Xbox LIVE. Thanks to Spenser for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 16:56:41 UTC)

MLGPro.com has posted the winners (and runners-up) for the US Army Halo 3 Film Festival – some great movies in there! Go watch.(Louis Wu 16:24:10 UTC)

Aaron ‘Bigsauce’ Martin let us know that Spawn.com has pics of a pair of exclusive Halo 3 McFarlane Action Figures at the San Diego Comic Con this summer – an Active-Camo CQB and a very cool-looking EVA Spartan labeled ‘Hellspartan’. Go look! (Louis Wu 16:08:36 UTC)

GameTap looked at some of the fun stuff you can do with Forge and the new Legendary maps – go download!(Louis Wu 16:04:58 UTC)

GhettoMole sent along another pair of pictures of his in-progress Scout helmet – it now has resin on it. Next up – paint, and a visor!(Louis Wu 16:03:45 UTC)

Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked, Episode 11 is now online. If I had to be alone with these two guys, I don’t know what I’d do.(Louis Wu 16:02:25 UTC)

Last night was Friday night – so Bungie, as is their custom, wrote up a Weekly Update (which, of course, is also available in our Weekly Update Archive). It contains information about a couple of glitches related to the Legendary Map Pack release, some very vague news about what’s going on in the Bungie headquarters,…

Sain7 whipped up a little Blackout Jumps tutorial recently – it’s available in his Fileshare. However, if you don’t want to fire up Halo 3 just to watch this, there are 720p renders of the video in this post. Some nice jumps in there!(Louis Wu 16:17:27 UTC)

Mr Sark dropped us a note with details about X-Play’s Sarkathlon 2: Recon Challenge (it was on last night’s show). It takes place on Avalanche, and the object is to get through the course as quickly as possible and be holding eight grenades when you cross the finish line. The winning time will earn its…

Games Radar postd a DLC showdown between Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4 – it’s pretty hostile (as in, neither side will concede that the other actually has something of value) and doesn’t provide much more insight than that conversation you had with your roommate at 3 am about this very subject – but…