Author: halo@bungie.org

Jared Rea is one of the people who’s gotten his hands on a Legendary code early – and he’s spent the advance time building a Mongoose racetrack on Avalanche. Check out the pictures and writeup for Overdriftactular – a final version should be available by the time the maps are up.(Louis Wu 04:24:33 UTC)

Delta noticed an article about future weapons/armor systems for Canadian soldiers, in the Toronto Star – the gear is compared to Halo’s Spartans more than once.(Louis Wu 04:22:39 UTC)

SpartanX announced the release of a study of the Firebomb, over at DeviantART. Great work!(Louis Wu 04:19:56 UTC)

Morpheus pointed out that there’s a video up on Inside Xbox (an Xbox LIVE feature accessible from the LIVE tab of your 360 dashboard) – looks like it went up Friday, in fact – that has an interview with Frankie, and covers the Legendary Map Pack. Game footage looks to have been taken from the…

Master Kim noticed an old article about game design (specifically, “Fully Interactive Surfaces”) which focuses on Doom 3 and Half-Life 2, but also mentions Halo a couple of times. Might be worth a read, if you’re interested in that sort of thing! (It was written in 2005 – keep that in mind.)(Louis Wu 13:55:24 UTC)

Next Generation has put together their list of the Top 10 Games Industry Taglines – Halo 3’s ‘Finish the Fight’ comes in at #5.(Louis Wu 09:52:04 UTC)

More transcribed music at Rampancy.net – Mike Poe gives you ‘This is the Hour’, and Spencer Anunsen and Devin Eastman bring you Ghosts of Reach. Go play!(Louis Wu 09:31:26 UTC)

Unique Name pointed out a LEGO grunt – there are photos at both Flickr and Brickshelf.(Louis Wu 09:27:59 UTC)

Back in mid-March, we mentioned a video found by Hawty McBloggy; Kroden35 had created a stereo 3D version of a mongoose jump, on High Ground. It required that you cross your eyes to see the 3D action, but it was worth the effort. He’s been hard at work creating more, since then – there’s a…

The first real episode of Someday-Night Grifball took place at 10pm ET last night – you can swing by and watch the archived action between American Dream and Team STFU. (Well, as of this writing, you can’t, yet – but soon.) They also broadcast the third episode of the Grifball Explosion podcast – that’s up…

The ‘How it all began’ series continues with T.J. over at Larry the Marine. Thanks, 2phast.(Louis Wu 09:00:58 UTC)

Be careful where you park your car – remember, you’re still responsible for the damage it does, even when you’re not in it. Thanks, Raulboy.(Louis Wu 08:56:23 UTC)

Halo Action Figure Theater sees another update, with more surprises – Episode 143 takes Lois and Steve to a new level.(Louis Wu 08:50:39 UTC)

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…