Author: halo@bungie.org

The Bungie Weekly Update is now live over at Bungie.net (thanks, Vandle Valsher) – there’s some awesome info about Forge, as it’ll work with the Legendary maps, along with an interview with David Aldridge, a new Bungie Network Engineer hire, and a picture of Shishka that NOBODY should be subjected to. (Thanks, Frankie. You jerk.)…

DigitalPh33r’s Arby ‘n’ the Chief Episode 7 is now up on Machinima.com and YouTube – Chief goes after girls. (You might think the whole Tag thing is over the top… but I’ve got 14-year-olds in the house, and I can say that’s totally real.) The rest of it… man. Thanks, discopete019.(Louis Wu 19:18:50 UTC)

Heh – SarcasticGamer.com has its own take on the whole concept of DoubleXP Weekends. (Bungie spells better than they do, though.)(Louis Wu 19:03:11 UTC)

Over at Teen Ink, there’s a story written by someone who went to their first MLG tournament last summer, in Chicago. Check out how it goes for the non-pros!(Louis Wu 18:03:10 UTC)

Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked Episode 7 is up – I gotta say, if I were Corporal Johnston, I’d think about ways to go solo.(Louis Wu 18:01:56 UTC)

Smurfa noticed that Inside Halo: Episode 10 has been posted to Machinima.com. (It’s also available on YouTube.) SodaGod covers Halo Wars, HaloTube, the top 5 Halo clips of the week, and a summary of the week’s Halo Machinima offerings… with a healthy dose of his bizarre humor. Go watch!(Louis Wu 16:46:55 UTC)

Australian PC World has posted their ’47 Most Diabolical Video-Game Villains of All Time’ (where on EARTH did they get that number from?) – and an old favorite from the Halo series comes in at number 31. Go read! Thanks, Black Six.(Louis Wu 14:40:30 UTC)

UNSC Trooper has jumped into the updating game with a vengeance – the Halo Story Page has seen more activity in the past 4 days than it saw in the prior 6 months. (Jillybean, not to be outdone, has popped her own post up on top – but I’d have to say the driving force…

TTL Demag0gue has posted Reclaimer #40 over at the Reclaimer website. Looks like there’s a bit of bad blood between Ferial and the AI…(Louis Wu 14:32:28 UTC)

Z pointed out a Halo 2 montage from Phurion called ‘Progression’. Encoded in Perian, it seems to need the VLC player to display properly. (The windows version is actually included with the download – but Mac/*nix users can grab it from the VLC homepage.) It’s a monster (almost 300 mb), but it’s fun to see…

FireDragon04 has released a Halo 3 short, set in his ‘Consequences’ universe – there’s a short FAQ on the download page if you are confused after watching. (I was.) Two minutes long, available in divx, wmv, or streaming from YouTube.(Louis Wu 14:26:55 UTC)

zukan stopped by to announce that his ‘be Human’ machinima (it won a special award in our Zune contest last year) will be featured in the upcoming Hull Short Film Festival in mid-April. If you live nearby, go watch! (Random Hull quote: “There’s music on every corner, even if it’s just coming out of the…

Gunluva created ‘Guardian Beat’ – it’s another of his sound effect vids (the first was mentioned a few days ago), this time on Sandtrap. This time around, he’s added an external drum track.(Louis Wu 13:54:22 UTC)

scarab noticed an interview with Certain Affinity’s Max Hoberman over at Gamasutra – for the most part, he discusses their upcoming game Plunder. scarab made this Halo-related by suggesting that Max’s experience building a useful multiplayer system for Halo 2 and 3 would help him out in his quest to build one for Plunder… always…

Hawty McBloggy is kicking off a new feature – ‘Do You Play Too Much Halo?’ Looks a lot like ‘You might be a redneck…’ with a different focus. Go add your own examples!(Louis Wu 13:29:44 UTC)

Bungie decided to play this week’s Halo Humpday Challenge against randoms in the MLG playlist, and they brought along a ringer – MLG Commissioner John Nelson. The writeup shows why MLG team play is a different world than your standard matchmaking fare. (Thanks to the coordination efforts of Nelson, Bungie won two of the three…

The Fan Fiction section has eight new pieces this week – go read!(Louis Wu 12:44:04 UTC)

I didn’t back-date this newspost – nope. It was posted during Thursday’s news cycle at HBO – thank goodness for daylight savings time. I would never screw up and forget to post an episode of Another Halo Comic Strip, because they’re very funny. (This one’s pretty cute, and was worked over a couple of times,…

Do you like Grifball? You’ve got another chance to play it for double experience points – the playlist is live now, and will disappear Monday morning at 2 am PT. w00t! Update: Just noticed that the Grifball Intergalactic World Championship will be taking place in Seattle in August! Thanks, KP.(Louis Wu 22:38:59 UTC)

Ducain, over at High Impact Halo, made the mistake of asking the two biggest blowhards he could find about the Halo community, and how it’s changed over the years. (Yes, one of those blowhards is me.) He did a very nice job formatting our walls of text. If you’ve got time to read a book…