In Halo Reach‘s multiplayer, a blue flaming helmet is an indication that a player is a Bungie employee and not some jerk liar who just claims to be one with the power to ban you. That distinction is no longer applicable, as Bungie has decided to give fans a parting gift as it moves away from the Halo franchise.
By registering on Bungie.net or using the new Bungie Mobile iOS app, players can land themselves both the flaming helmet and a Bungie nameplate for use in Reach. It’s also giving four-player teams a chance to earn themselves a real life steak by beating a team of Bungie staffers by 20 kills or more.
One of Bungie’s earliest games, first-person shooter Marathon, is in the process of being ported by a fan to iPad, something that Bungie considers “totally sweet.” To honor its development, the final Marathon title, Infinity, is being made open source, a move that it says it “should have done a long time ago (but didn’t because our legal counsel ‘forgot’).”
