Author: halo@bungie.org

Rock Opera Jr stopped in to let everyone know that Angry Robot has a lot of Halo content this week – they’ve put up a review of the Legendary Map Pack, a Halo-themed podcast, and a comic that features a pet flood spore. Go check it out!(Louis Wu 14:54:55 UTC)

GhettoMole put together a Halo Jackal from bits and pieces of Warhammer models – great job! (Check back in a bit for more from him.)(Louis Wu 12:59:22 UTC)

Haloplayer stopped by to point out Lost Shorts 1, “New Armor” – an extended gay joke set in their Lost Cause universe.(Louis Wu 12:50:10 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy found what might be the most expensive Halo 3 Hot Wheels customs ever. $700 for a pair of vehicles, with a total of four hand-painted figures. I guess if you’re really, really rich and having trouble figuring out what to do with all that cash…(Louis Wu 12:42:57 UTC)

bigazn13 let us know there’s going to be a 3v3 Halo tourney in Bonney Lake, WA this coming Saturday, April 19 – $35/team to enter, $30 of each entry will go into the payment pool, split 70/30 between first and second place. More info (including timing) can be found on the Gamebreakerz website (about halfway…

Delta’s making a Halo machinima as a physics project (“A study of Dynamic Physics in Action Movies”) – the trailer’s up now. Go watch, and give him some feedback!(Louis Wu 12:35:48 UTC)

A fun little Forge experiment on Avalanche showed up in my Google Alerts box this morning – a few gravity lifts + Avalanche’s mancannons + lots and lots of plasma grenades = pretty patterns!(Louis Wu 12:30:28 UTC)

blackouTT let us know that he’s posted his entry for GamingTV’s Laughs for Cash competition – you can download it and decide what you think about it. Par Avion is a spoof of many other machinima projects, and follows the travels of a player in Matchmaking after he picks up a mysterious object. Very nicely…

Darknesshasfallen noticed that Target has put the Limited Edition Halo controllers on clearance – you might want to check a local store to see if this is true for you, as well. (He found them for under $10 there.)(Louis Wu 12:26:19 UTC)

Hellhawk announced Floaty Silence 4 – Climax of Boredom a couple of days ago, I decided to wait until I could watch it to announce it. I’m glad I did; it’s a pretty funny reenactment of the Crow’s Nest opening cutscene. Go watch it!(Louis Wu 12:24:41 UTC)

The panorama craze continues – Crab has sent us another 6, including two from the new Legendary maps and 4 from older multiplayer locations (I LOVE the Avalanche cloud system!), and nomis78 stopped by with a pair from Avalanche and one from Construct. (Crab says he’s done for the time being, but there are still…

RVideo’s already put some time into Legendary panoramas – this post, and this one, both have gorgeous shots from outside Avalanche and Blackout. (The first one also has a bunch of wallpaper options of the first Blackout shot.) The Avalanche piece is simply amazing. And… that’s it for today. Away from the keyboard until tonight!(Louis…

Raulboy found a song that’s clearly Halo-inspired… but listening to it makes my ears bleed. What a tradeoff!(Louis Wu 12:18:56 UTC)

General Vagueness was the first to let us know about a new contest being run by G4TV’s Mr Sark – the Sarkathlon II will be unveiled tomorrow, and run for two weeks… and the top prize is Recon Armor from Bungie. Go watch the vid!(Louis Wu 12:16:39 UTC)

SPARTAN-1138 found a pretty odd film on YouTube – someone performing Sergeant Johnson’s speeches from Halo and Halo 2.(Louis Wu 12:10:25 UTC)

It’s amazing what’ll bring some people out of retirement. (Don’t get used to it – this won’t be a regular occurance.) Stuntmutt celebrates the release of the Legendary Map Pack with a pair of groanworthy puns – go see!(Louis Wu 20:18:00 UTC)

AytonHunter stopped by to announce that Halopen has released ‘Superheroes’, a 30-minute machinima project. (There’s no way I can watch a 30 minute film on this connection while out of town – so watch it yourself, and add your review to AytonHunter’s thread!)(Louis Wu 20:17:22 UTC)

RVideo stopped by with ‘Outside’, a pan-cam montage video showing a number of multiplayer maps from far, far outside the field of play. Very cool views!(Louis Wu 20:10:40 UTC)

Darknesshasfallen noticed that Circuit City is offering a free code for the Legendary Map Pack if you place a preorder on Ninja Gaiden II. (Hawty McBlogggy found this at Xbox360Fanboy, as well.) Not a bad deal if you were going to buy Ninja Gaiden anyway and you’re willing to wait a few days for the…

trigger119 let us know there’ll be two separate Someday-Night Grifball games tonight – swing by for more details!(Louis Wu 19:50:25 UTC)