Author: halo@bungie.org

blackouTT let us know that he’s posted his entry for GamingTV’s Laughs for Cash competition – you can download it and decide what you think about it. Par Avion is a spoof of many other machinima projects, and follows the travels of a player in Matchmaking after he picks up a mysterious object. Very nicely…

Darknesshasfallen noticed that Target has put the Limited Edition Halo controllers on clearance – you might want to check a local store to see if this is true for you, as well. (He found them for under $10 there.)(Louis Wu 12:26:19 UTC)

Hellhawk announced Floaty Silence 4 – Climax of Boredom a couple of days ago, I decided to wait until I could watch it to announce it. I’m glad I did; it’s a pretty funny reenactment of the Crow’s Nest opening cutscene. Go watch it!(Louis Wu 12:24:41 UTC)

The panorama craze continues – Crab has sent us another 6, including two from the new Legendary maps and 4 from older multiplayer locations (I LOVE the Avalanche cloud system!), and nomis78 stopped by with a pair from Avalanche and one from Construct. (Crab says he’s done for the time being, but there are still…

RVideo’s already put some time into Legendary panoramas – this post, and this one, both have gorgeous shots from outside Avalanche and Blackout. (The first one also has a bunch of wallpaper options of the first Blackout shot.) The Avalanche piece is simply amazing. And… that’s it for today. Away from the keyboard until tonight!(Louis…

Raulboy found a song that’s clearly Halo-inspired… but listening to it makes my ears bleed. What a tradeoff!(Louis Wu 12:18:56 UTC)

General Vagueness was the first to let us know about a new contest being run by G4TV’s Mr Sark – the Sarkathlon II will be unveiled tomorrow, and run for two weeks… and the top prize is Recon Armor from Bungie. Go watch the vid!(Louis Wu 12:16:39 UTC)

SPARTAN-1138 found a pretty odd film on YouTube – someone performing Sergeant Johnson’s speeches from Halo and Halo 2.(Louis Wu 12:10:25 UTC)

It’s amazing what’ll bring some people out of retirement. (Don’t get used to it – this won’t be a regular occurance.) Stuntmutt celebrates the release of the Legendary Map Pack with a pair of groanworthy puns – go see!(Louis Wu 20:18:00 UTC)

AytonHunter stopped by to announce that Halopen has released ‘Superheroes’, a 30-minute machinima project. (There’s no way I can watch a 30 minute film on this connection while out of town – so watch it yourself, and add your review to AytonHunter’s thread!)(Louis Wu 20:17:22 UTC)

RVideo stopped by with ‘Outside’, a pan-cam montage video showing a number of multiplayer maps from far, far outside the field of play. Very cool views!(Louis Wu 20:10:40 UTC)

Darknesshasfallen noticed that Circuit City is offering a free code for the Legendary Map Pack if you place a preorder on Ninja Gaiden II. (Hawty McBlogggy found this at Xbox360Fanboy, as well.) Not a bad deal if you were going to buy Ninja Gaiden anyway and you’re willing to wait a few days for the…

trigger119 let us know there’ll be two separate Someday-Night Grifball games tonight – swing by for more details!(Louis Wu 19:50:25 UTC)

Nice promotion: Xbox.com is giving away a ton of schwag to folks playing on the Legendary maps. Read this page for full details – basically, you register by downloading a gamerpic from Xbox LIVE Marketplace, then play online between April 25-27 on the new maps; winners will be chosen at random. Thanks, DiscipleN2k.(Louis Wu 19:13:35…

trigger119 let us know that the submission period for the Laughs for Cash contest is now over – GamingTV staff and friends will be narrowing entries down to 5 finalists, and public voting will begin on April 21. Read the news post for more details.(Louis Wu 18:50:58 UTC)

Kezins.com has put up a list of The 10 Most Annoying Types Of Halo 3 Players – seemed more like a list of people who pissed off the author last night, but maybe not.(Louis Wu 18:47:57 UTC)

Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked Episode 10 is online – how do YOU deal with world-shaking news?(Louis Wu 18:37:16 UTC)

Wow, bizarre. On this day when the Legendary Map Pack is released, Xbox.com has scheduled a DIFFERENT Halo 3-multiplayer activity – there’s a Game With Fame set up with the band Avenged Sevenfold. If you want to play, you need to send a Friend Request (assuming there’s still space) to one of two gamertags listed…

ZZoMBiE13 takes a look at Ghost Town in today’s episode of Another Halo Comic Strip – yes, you can groan now.(Louis Wu 12:50:49 UTC)

I’m out of town, so news might be slow for a couple of days – but it’s amazing how many movies were announced today. I can’t even watch most of them, so you’re on your own in terms of quality (you might be able to get some idea from the respective forum posts):Vash10 pointed out…