Bungie Day



Bungie Day, which occurs on July 7th, is a mock holiday created by Bungie Studios to celebrate their long standing infatuation with the number seven. The date, when shortened, is 7/7. Bungie Day was originally meant to happen on dates where the month, day, and year are all composed of ones and sevens, but has since opted to celebrate it every July 7th.

Celebration
Bungie celebrated the first Bungie Day on July 7, 2007. They celebrated in a number of different ways, mostly for the benefit of the public. Since the day fell on a Saturday, it is likely that most Bungie employees were not actually working in the office that day. However, coincidentally, many calendars show Saturday as the seventh day of the week, with Sunday as the first.

Bungie.net
The 2007 Bungie Day was celebrated on Bungie.net in the form of a post detailing newly announced material for the then upcoming Halo 3, including a new wallpaper featuring a multiplayer battle, 3-D movie/screenshots of the recently revealed CQB Armor, and the EVA Armor along with canon information about their background and development. Background information on the Brute Chopper vehicle was also included.

Xbox Live
2007: Xbox Live also saw some celebration from Bungie studios in the form of free downloadable content from the Xbox Live Marketplace. All new gamer pics and a new dashboard theme (titled Bungie Day 2007 Theme and Bungie Day 2007 Picture Pack) were available to download (free of charge) until 0900 (GSM) the following Sunday. In addition, the Halo 2 Blastacular Pack, originally a download that cost $4.00, became permanently free. It was also announced that the maps included in Blastacular Pack (Desolation and Tombstone) would be fully added to the Matchmaking system for Halo 2 in the coming weeks (at this time there were still a few matchmaking playlists that did not include these maps).

2008: Bungie released free gamerpics and a dashboard theme which were only available during Bungie Day, the free downloadable Halo 3 map Cold Storage was released and the price of the Legendary Map Pack was reduced from 800 Microsoft Points to 600 Microsoft Points. There was a special playlist added dubbed "Icy Treats", that was a seven player free for all only on Cold Storage with a variety of different game types.

2009 Bungie launched a version of the 7 on the 7th where players were able to get Recon. The playlist was a 4v4 game on community made maps. The playlist was called "Bungie vs World". Bungie was on for a full twenty-four hours and if you played with them and won, your team won Recon armor. If your team didn't play the Bungie team, but you did something random, for example, if you got 7 assassinations in one game you would be rewarded with Recon armor. This information was stated in the Bungie podcast released on 6/24/2009 and a post made hours before the playlist began (1 am PDT).