Author: halo@bungie.org

Next-Gen has an interview with CJ Cowan, Halo 3’s cinematics director – read it for a glimpse inside the studio, a look at how the work pipeline has changed over the years, and a positive spin on Seattle’s weather! Thanks, LordGideon.(Louis Wu 17:46:44 UTC)

RVideo ran across a pretty impressive artist over at Renderosity.com – Ubald has been creating Halo-related images for a couple of years now. I’ve sent off a request to him to be allowed to mirror the Halo content here, for ease of viewing – but you should look through the links RVideo has supplied, and…

A couple of years ago, Cody Miller announced that he’d finished Halo 2 on Legendary difficulty, with no deaths – if you wanted to watch it in a reasonably viewable form, you had to download a two-gigabyte file. A couple of days ago, we were contacted by SPDN p0iz3n0us, who’s now done the same thing…

This has been discussed before, but the inclusion of our planet for scale is a nice touch. Stephen Loftus has used a screenshot from Halo 3 along with some previous reference info to estimate the size of the Ark. That’s one big structure!(Louis Wu 13:15:16 UTC)

I’d like to apologize for a post I made yesterday, tying a UFO sighting to the IRIS ARG. While those images did surface during the ARG, they were shown to be unconnected to the game itself (the only thread I could find on a superficial search was this one). Thanks to DHalo for the heads-up.…

TTL Demag0gue has let us know that Reclaimer Part 38 is now online – Ferial becomes less, rather than more, clear. (The comic has also moved to its own domain. While the old links still work – they’re being redirected to the new site – I’ve updated the links in our news database just for…

Cocopjojo let us know that the second part in an analysis of Halo 3’s Terminals by vociferous is now online at Ascendant Justice. It’s a very extensive and well-researched look at the story of Didact and the Librarian – if you didn’t pay very close attention to the terminals as you ran through the game,…

EternalDarkWing let us know that a friend created a custom Halo 3 Grunt Birthday Party skull – pics and details can be found at Destructoid. It’s even got the input plug!(Louis Wu 12:44:31 UTC)

Dan Baker has stepped up the pace on his Halo comic – Page 3 has been finished, Page 4 has a gorgeous panel on it, and the whole thing, to date, has been made available in PDF format, if you want to print it out yourself. Go see!(Louis Wu 21:56:26 UTC)

Maximum Fear has an update on his Forge Art contest posted on his site – entries are still welcome until April 25, but you can see a few of the best things he’s gotten so far by swinging by his site.(Louis Wu 21:53:46 UTC)

AoD Deadite stopped by to report that the Dispatch Community Game Night #1 went well – you can read a Bungie Humpday-style writeup of the games, as well as see a short trailer showing off some of the gameplay, on their website. (I can’t find a way to link to the post directly, but as…

Not surprisingly, when Wired Magazine took a look at powered suits in honor of the upcoming release of Iron Man, your favorite Mjolnir outfit made the list.(Louis Wu 18:57:30 UTC)

Rockslider’s expanded the fun you can have with the AA gun megabattle he mentioned last week – now intercept them on their way to the gun. Looks like a blast!(Louis Wu 17:14:10 UTC)

Over on NeoGAF, someone posted pictures of Valhalla… under a heavy layer of snow. Looks great! Thanks, DHalo.(Louis Wu 17:07:08 UTC)

Sigafoos sent word of The Riot 93 – 30 minutes, 12 mb, with the requisite community news and challenges, along with discussion of the upcoming maps. Good luck to Night Rider 7!(Louis Wu 17:05:37 UTC)

Wow. An image that surfaced during the IRIS ARG last year is back in the news – AOL wonders if it’s a real UFO sighting. (Hint: no.) Thanks, DKTH3puma.(Louis Wu 16:42:59 UTC)

QuikThnkr let us know that there are two grifball-related goodies for you to listen to or watch: Week 1 Episode of the Grifball Explosion podcast is up and ready for download – guests included trigger119, who announced that GamingTV would be broadcasting some matches live, with commentary, in the upcoming season… and American Dream has…

Last week, I asked for stories from couples that game together, or that met while gaming. (It seems that submissions to that thread have dwindled; I guess it’s time to start thinking about compiling the info into a story…) On the other side of that issue is this kind of thing. People have always groused…

Zafar Iqbal found a site that’s offering to record Halo 3 clips in any resolution up to 1080i for you. Eventually it’ll be a paid service, but right now they’re offering a 7-day free trial. Swing by for details!(Louis Wu 13:29:09 UTC)

Speaking of children, Elnea’s posted Halo Action Figure Theater 140 – and even as the pretty blue lady is expounding on the mystical properties of the hammer, John is… oh, never mind. Go read it if you want to stoop to her level.(Louis Wu 19:17:01 UTC)