Category: Bungie.net

QsKGlobal.Com, a machinima and montage hosting site, has relaunched with a brand new look and design. With the new site, comes QsK’s Second Montage contest sponsored by Xbox-Media.Com. With the total prize pot being at least $250 USD, there is guaranteed to be some good competition in this one…

Nothing much to see this week, so move along if you’re expecting a huge revelation. Some good news about multiplayer matchmaking and a couple of interesting images. We’ll have more exciting stuff next week, but for now, on with the show.

Bungie preys upon new Alpha testers yet again this week. We stuck it to them in the Team Skirmish playlist, playing CTF, Team Slayer and even a new variant which we vaguely describe for you. That’ll teach ’em to help us test our game.

Robt. McLees again contributes to our latest preview of a new Halo 3 weapon. Read on for the UNSC’s latest intel on the Brute’s grenade of choice: The Type-2 Antipersonnel Fragmentation Grenade  – or spike grenade, for short.

You may have seen the news story a few weeks back about this contest over at Games in Action. Well, the competition closed recently and the results of the winners have just been released. You can check out all of the art work by going to this post.

Another update to Bungie.net’s Fan Art collection today. Inside you’ll find all sorts of cool artwork of varying styles, methods and subjects. Suckle at the metaphorical teat of the Bungie Community’s mad art skillz.

HollywoodNHouse has be a growing part of the Halo 2 Machinima community for nearly 2 years. We have just started expanding our horizons and opening up to all games, not just Halo. The website has just received a major face lift and is now up and running.

Halo3.com has updated to explain the three ways in which you can enlist for the Halo 3 beta. They also note that if you signed up for the beta after seeing the Halo 3 commercial last month, you can expect to hear between January 22nd to 26th.

The Halo:CE mod team, CMT, has done it again. They have released the first map pack of a series. This map pack includes 4 new Halo:CE maps, Coagulation, Icy Swamps, Dissolution, and Fragment. All of these come with a custom HUD, custom weapons, and more.

A fireside chat about graphics, gives way to more talk about combat dialog, which in turn gets to the process of checking out constantly updated versions of the game. Come on in to read about the progress of Halo 3. And some tidbits about Legendary mode.

This week the Bungie crew went online in the Halo 3 Alpha to dish out some good old-fashioned drubbings as new players took to the newly revised matchmaking test playlists for the first time last night.

Another delve into the world of Halo 3 vehicles and weapons – this time Robt. McLees assists us in a tour of what’s soon to be everyone’s favorite spawning weapon - the MA5C Individual Combat Weapon System, otherwise known as the Assault Rifle.

The Community Spotlight returns with a vengeance this week as we talk to Nosferatu_Soldie, one of the Master Moderators on Bungie.net. Herein we learn a bunch of generic facts, but with the added bonus of cute puppy pix.

The prizes page for HaloEverywhere.com is up and running! With only 2 1/2 weeks left, now is the time to grab your submissions and get them in the running…

Shishka, aka Chad Armstong, recently took some time to answer some questions put to him by Games in Action. You can read the full story here.

snowysnowcones, in The Maw forum, has rounded up a bunch of links to H2V content coming out of CES from the past week. The post is a good source of hands-on reports as well as several gameplay videos, shakeycam though they may be.

The Riot, a weekly Halo Community podcast, is hosting its first ever 2006 Halo Community Awards.  Go there and vote on your favorite gametype, your favorite machinima, or even the biggest Halo community contributor!

A short update this week, where we talk about the progress of the graphics. Specifically, the decorators, those little items that make big liefeless worlds into big life-filled worlds. There’s also the first ever combat dialog outtake. Good luck to Chicago and Seattle this Sunday. GO SEAHAWKS!

This weekend the Bungie Store will be going down for a short period of time, four to five hours, while Sunrise Identity performs maintenance on their servers. During that time you will not be able to use the store.

This week the Bungie Community Team took on the Halo 3 Multiplayer team in a Humpday Challenge. We played a recent build which the multiplayer team itself compiled earlier in the day. Potential for hax and chetz? Astronomical.