Author: halo@bungie.org

The Fan Fiction queue was light this week – just three new pieces. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 14:05:54 UTC)

As a number of people noticed last night, HBO played Bungie in this week’s Halo Humpday Challenge – on the Legendary Map Pack maps. The end result was a draw; we each won one, lost one, and tied one. The overall fun? Win-win. The new maps have had a simply ginormous amount of love and…

The latest Bungie Podcast is also up – one hour, 54 mb of Lars Bakken and Shiska. (More than you can take? Maybe.) Thanks to Psychophan7 for the first heads-up on this, and the Double XP post, as well.(Louis Wu 00:50:26 UTC)

The Living Dead Double XP Weekend has kicked off – though it’s not actually Double XP yet, due to a technical glitch. (It should be by tomorrow, though.) Go shoot some zombies!(Louis Wu 00:45:48 UTC)

Inside Halo 11 is now up at YouTube (and probably soon on Machinima.com) – Dead Pixel answers your questions about machinima and lets you hear some bad, bad singing. Thanks, Adam Kovic.(Louis Wu 21:15:34 UTC)

According to GameDaily, the Halo 3 marketing campaign was honored last night at the MI6 Conference – full results aren’t posted yet, but when they are, we’ll tell you what the honor was.(Louis Wu 18:54:40 UTC)

akqa let us know that both the Halo 3 website and the IRIS ARG are up for Webby awards – you can swing by and vote in the Peoples Voice balloting!(Louis Wu 18:52:43 UTC)

ZZoMBiE13 explores the dangers of Grifball… for fans. Check today’s entry of Another Halo Comic Strip.(Louis Wu 18:37:19 UTC)

Miles Dude sent in a funny dialogue clip he captured between a couple of marines – go listen to it in our Dialogue Databank!(Louis Wu 18:25:35 UTC)

Anti Enemy is selling (bartering?) the website, ‘spartan117.com’. He’s looking for best offer – doesn’t have to be money, I guess. Go check.(Louis Wu 18:23:01 UTC)

Herr Zrbo, among others, let us know that the Legendary Map Pack maps now have representative Heat Maps (showing kills and deaths) posted on Bungie.net. There’s no actual data yet – but the overhead views are nice…(Louis Wu 13:15:31 UTC)

Maximum Fear noticed that Fyreball is running a Halo tournament – 4v4, all team members must be signed up on Fyreball, all teams must be signed up by the end of today. Prizes!(Louis Wu 13:12:28 UTC)

Wow, this is very cool. pete_the_duck decided to see if he could use the camera coordinates (shown when in pan-cam mode, and visible in cutscenes) to revisit cutscene locations while in Theater mode. He was successful in a number of locations on the Ark. Check out his pics!(Louis Wu 12:56:38 UTC)

SirTopEmHat stopped by to point out a new montage preview he’s putting together, using gameplay from Str8 Rippin’s Tsquared. Short but sweet!(Louis Wu 12:45:32 UTC)

AngelicLionheart noticed a rendering of Master Chief doing the CaramellDansen. It’s much longer than it needs to be – but funny nonetheless.(Louis Wu 12:31:41 UTC)

John_117 put together a ‘War Memorial’ vid, which he posted on YouTube – it’s surprisingly evocative. Go watch!(Louis Wu 12:08:55 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy ran across another life-size, made-of-steel energy sword for sale on eBay. It ain’t cheap – but it’s pretty nicely finished! You’ve still got three and a half days to decide – current bid is just under $175.(Louis Wu 12:07:08 UTC)

Well, yesterday’s news was frozen at midday in order to keep the Vidoc story at the top; I thought it was a worthwhile sacrifice. However, it means there’s a bit of built-up queued news at this point… let’s start with some very cool panoramas posted yesterday by RVideo. (There’s also one extra one in this…

Bungie has posted ‘Mapmaker, mapmaker make me a map!’ – a brand-new Vidoc that looks at the three new maps coming next week in the Legendary Map Pack. This one is fun – it’s along the lines of the old ‘Evolution’ video, where a bunch of Bungie guys get together and discuss the content, and…

Morpheus noticed that G4TV recently posted a ‘Top 7 Toughest Boss Battles of 07’ – and Halo 3’s Scarabs came in at Number 3. Fun watch!(Louis Wu 17:21:07 UTC)