Halo stats and file shares will be unavailable from Bungie.net for about an hour this morning for database maintenance.

Update:  This work is complete, everything should be working as normal.

No new features this time.  Just boring maintenance that will disable bungie.net stats and file services for about an hour this morning, beginning shortly.  This story will be updated upon completion of the work.

Update: This work is complete, everything should be working as normal.

Halo 3's unofficial achievement.


If you've already completed Halo 3's campaign on Legendary difficulty, you won't earn any additional gamerscore or achievements for slugging your way through a solo run with all skulls maniacally turned on, but you will earn mad street cred and a heightened sense of self worth.  If you just read that sentence and shuddered a bit at the prospect of such a daunting task, fear not, The Tyrant over at HBO is meticulously stitching together a level-by-level guide, offering his gentle words, and more recently, embedded videos to hold your hand throughout your attempt.  He's dubbed the run "Mythic" difficulty.

Halo 3 Mythic Walkthrough

We didn't pen the title.  Step inside to find out who did.


Peter Ryan over at Gamasutra takes and in-depth look at how game developers are utilizing their web content to enhance their titles.  And wouldn't you know it, Bungie Studios is prominently featured in the article.

Building Social Communities For Your Game: A Primer

Thanks once again to HBO for scouring the web in search of Bungie news.

Halo 2 stats are offline for quick maintenance

We're installing a brand new database server to host the Halo 2 stats database (and future stuff as well!) so please bear with us as we turn off stats for a while during this transition. It shouldn't take too long.