Author: halo@bungie.org

In a weekend of surprising finishes, Final Boss battled back from the Losers Bracket to win the Meadowlands yesterday – and take home the $20,000 top prize. MLGPro.com is chock-full of articles about the various matchups – swing by to read all the details. JawReich was first on our forum with the news.(Louis Wu 08:49:14…

radiant penguin stopped by with new panoramas – some very, very nice work. The subject material is different than most panoramas coming out these days – the end result is pretty powerful. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 22:14:54 UTC)

Sigafoos reported that The Riot 95 (and 94, since he forgot to post last week’s show) can be heard over at Second-Foundation.net. 28 minutes, 11.5 mb, better sound quality, discussion of new maps, and totally random video assets. Go listen (and watch)!(Louis Wu 22:12:01 UTC)

Littlebigman ran across some new pics of McFarlane Series 3 figures – both Campaign and Multiplayer. (These can also be seen at Spawn.com – thanks, Boxer.)(Louis Wu 22:08:30 UTC)

Dragoncoals let us know that Forging 101 Tutorial 8, covering Placing Objects in Water, is now available from Flem Productions. These guys have a really disturbing affinity for dancing elites, but their Forge tips are great. Go watch!(Louis Wu 16:01:05 UTC)

JAY132 found a pair of videos from UnMaskChief – Austin Pruett and Jack Francis McTigue put together an interview (and some nice documentary footage) of Steve Downes, the voice of the Master Chief. (It’s in two parts – start with Part 1, then watch Part 2). It’s a pretty interesting look at the man behind…

So, we sort of wanted to give people a taste for how the new maps played – there are already a few films around the net showing them off, but gameplay on the ones I’ve seen leaves something to be desired. I figured, we had fun during the Humpday challenge – I could just convert…

naveeda found a video created by puddin, over at the 2old2play forums, showing off a very nicely composed flag capture – great music, great angles. The footage was captured off a TV, which makes it less crisp than some would like – but it’s absolutely watchable. Nice job! Go watch.(Louis Wu 13:23:10 UTC)

The last couple of attendees to Bungie’s Legendary map press event posted their stories late Friday – I never got around to recognizing them. Check out Mr Sark’s interview with Brian Jarrard at G4TV, and IGN’s Hands-On. If you missed the first two batches, they’re here and here. (Louis Wu 13:17:07 UTC)

Hellhawk created a small vid for entertainment during intermission at a movie contest – it should make you smile. Go watch! (Louis Wu 13:06:29 UTC)

RVideo dropped off a single panorama yesterday – it’s pretty cool. Check out the Artifact… moments before the jump.(Louis Wu 13:05:03 UTC)

Renovatio Music has a video tutorial to help you play Unforgotten on a piano. (The link goes to Part 2 – I couldn’t find a direct link anywhere to Part 1, but if you scroll down to the bottom of the page, it’s the last video on the right.) Looks pretty useful, if you’re trying…

ZZoMBiE13, upon request, has sent us a panel from yesterday’s installment of Another Halo Comic Strip sized for widescreen wallpaper. Go spruce up! (Louis Wu 12:59:00 UTC)

Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked Episode 9 is up – things just got quite a bit more serious. (Louis Wu 12:58:23 UTC)

Today’s episode of Another Halo Comic Strip shows why the Covenant have an edge when it’s time to go fishing.(Louis Wu 20:29:10 UTC)

Jordan117 bought the Audio Book version of Contact Harvest – and realized after the fact that he’d missed the post-epilogue section of the book – which was sad, because it’s a powerful ending to the story itself. He decided to transcribe the ending, for others in his situation. (If you haven’t read the book yet,…

Hawty McBloggy noticed that McFarlane Toys will be providing a cool gamer picture pack, and a dashboard theme, for your LIVE decor – and both are free. Nice-looking stuff!(Louis Wu 20:16:29 UTC)

A few days ago, Flinet posted some renders of a Halo pistol he’s been working on – we managed to miss the forum post. He followed up today with an email – so go look!(Louis Wu 20:12:45 UTC)

Over at Ascendant Justice, vociferous takes a look at multiplayer. Typically in-depth and thorough. Thanks, Jironimo.(Louis Wu 15:37:56 UTC)

Sniper2477 stopped by to announce Marathon Man – “A New Beginning”, the latest episode of his ongoing machinima. I had a little trouble with the story, and one gratuitously silly scene, but otherwise a fine effort.(Louis Wu 15:37:36 UTC)