Author: Louis Wu

Normally, we let speculation run its course on our forum – trying to decipher what Bungie meant with some obscure tidbit is more than half the fun, after all. Sometimes, though, the little stuff really gets in the way; our forum has been swamped today, for example, with debates about one of Cortana’s dialogue snippets…

That Finn guy… looks like he dove right in, and pulled out some of the choicest morsels in the forum for the Story Page. Good stuff in there!

BARBARIC RAGE ran across a Flickr photo, shot last October (a Halloween costume?) of a really nice-looking Master Chief costume. Check it out!

Stuntmutt’s secrets, revealed, in today’s One One Se7en.

More news that has nothing to do with Halo 3: Broken Console, the team behind ‘The Squadron’, has released Conquest, Part 1. It’s a pretty massive piece of work; 21 minutes long, more than 120 mb in hi-res format – it tells the story of an attack on a pair of UESC ships, the Conquest…

So… if you like the screenshots over at Bungie.net, but feel like they’re not hi-res enough (they’re only 1280×720, after all), or you’re unhappy with the Bungie watermark… swing by the Xbox.com Press site, and grab the official press screenshots (70 mb, zipped). What do you get for those 70 megs? You get the 5…

There’s a bit of totally non-Halo-3-related news, as well, today – for example, Toynews International reports on an upcoming exclusive action figure – a Halo 2 White Multiplayer Elite; only 3000 will be made. You can only buy this, though, if you show up at the San Diego Comic-Con in July (though if there are…

There are a whole bunch of sites offering mirroring or re-encoding of the Halo 3 trailer; I really don’t see a need to list them all, because the official sites (Bungie.net and Xbox.com) are doing an admirable job of keeping up with demand. (Bungie.net has actually re-released the WMP9 versions, because the original ones had…

Predictably, the forum has exploded with speculation about yesterday’s released trailer. Much of the discussion could be considered spoiler-laden, for folks either avoiding the trailer or still in the dark about the first two games… but I’m of the opinion that there’s nothing here that Bungie doesn’t want you to see. A few intriguing threads…

For what it’s worth: The Halo 3 content at Bungie.net is available. (Up until now, clicking any of the links in the Top Story or on B.net’s home page simply redirected to the home page… but the section is now live.) The screenshots are all from the trailer (though they’re considerably clearer than screengrabs), and…

Swing by Bungie.net – now back up, and with a pretty amazing top story. The announcement trailer is available for all – in QT and WMP9 formats (with more options coming soon, looks like) – plus Screenshots, Storyboards, Wallpapers, a new FAQ, an About page, and a new forum. WONGA. Go take it all in.…

For the 360 owners out there, there are even MORE goodies for you – a new Halo 3 theme and gamerpics to match. Go look.

If you’ve got a 360, jump on to Marketplace right now. You can download a 104 mb trailer for Halo3 there. (To the best of my knowledge, this is not available outside of Xbox Live’s Marketplace.) Thanks to many – looks like Dan Chosich was first.

Lo, the Hype Machine Cometh. Kotaku’s got a story about a Halo 3 shirt sighting – no guarantee that the person WEARING the shirt is not a fan who made it himself, but hey – it is what it is. Only a couple more hours until the MS press conference; it’s likely we’ll know SOMETHING…

GT Juggler has just finished up his first year at WPI, and he and some friends have released a playable map of the campus, so that EVERYONE can enjoy fragging each other at his school. The download is 24.5 mb for HaloCE, or 25.7 mb for Xbox (you’ll need a modded Xbox to play this…

The Valley of the Forerunners Part 11, the Conclusion of season 3, has been posted over at the Halo CE Chronicles website. A heroic sacrifice and some philosophical musings bring closure to this epic tale. Dennis Powers has posted a list of links to all parts, for folks who were waiting for the series to…

A year ago, Archie Gates started creating Needler songs over at Gamespot. (Unfortunately, his profile is now private, so I can’t link you there.) He’s since created 4 (search our news) – and just recently, imSuck, of HollywoodHalo, submitted ‘Beautiful Needler’, a music video based on the first Needler song, to the MPRRS. The reviewers…

A couple of days ago, Ross Mills pointed out that there was an advertisement for the Halo Graphic Novel in a Marvel product he was looking at. It’s a pretty nice ad, with some heretofore unseen pics in it – so we’re putting up a copy (189K). I have trouble believing Marvel would have a…

Thanks to all who preordered the first official HBO shirt, and entered our E3 raffles – I wanted to let you all know that the shirt is still available, but it’s no longer at pre-order pricing. (It’s now $14.89, instead of $11.29, and at the moment, only mediums and larges are available.) That doesn’t mean…

A number of minor Halo mentions popped up in the news today (probably because it’s E3 week); I didn’t think any of them were worth news posts on their own, but there are enough of them to warrant a compilation. Dean Takahashi talks about Xbox 360 development at 1Up, with a few choice Halo 2…