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This week’s Top Ten Halo 3 Screenshots list is call ‘Animals’ – and there are some seriously creative shots in there! Check ’em. (Louis Wu 14:53:02 UTC)

We totally missed Friday Caption Fun, Round 85, posted at Hawty McBloggy’s yesterday. Luckily, she went on vacation, and didn’t notice! Bonus days to post… she’s got last week’s caption winners, plus a new (well, old, but classic) shot up for your captioning pleasure – so go pleasure yourself! (While you’re there, check out a…

The Bungie Weekly Update is live (either on Bungie.net, or in our Weekly Update Archive), and it’s full of clarifications about the Player Investment System Reach will have. You need to go read it for answers to your burning questions. (Louis Wu 00:22:20 UTC)

FyreWulff is back with another Firefight Friday – this one is called ‘New Dawn’, and it’s available at every difficulty level. And the new site design is live! Go check it out – and kill some Covenant!(Louis Wu 18:17:54 UTC)

Jaime Griesemer’s talk at the Game Developers Conference this year discussed why Bungie changed the time between shots with the Sniper Rifle from 0.5 seconds to 0.7 seconds in Halo 3 – and now you can download a PDF containing all 130+ slides of his presentation, along with notes. Great read!(Louis Wu 18:12:15 UTC)

Couple of new montages for you, courtesy of Bungie’s Comm Chatter: Glory and Fitzy provided the gameplay for Second Chance – very nice editing by Dudeman27. And Kravedwhipped up a short montage called Welcome to Bangkok with some slick gameplay. Go watch!(Louis Wu 18:11:47 UTC)

Arm the Flag has a new podcast online – discussion topics include how their site got deleted, how cool urk is, and Reach. Go listen! Thanks, urk. You’re cool.(Louis Wu 18:11:24 UTC)

Sean Bradley (you might remember the name; he’s created some amazing Halo universe armor and weapons) has released a ten-minute live-action film with his brother called ‘After the Game’. It’ll give you a bit of an idea of what happens after you turn off your Xbox… (Seems like Master Chief thinks cats are in the…

Just two new pieces in the Fan Fiction section – today – go read ’em!(Louis Wu 16:04:00 UTC)

Brian Gilmore let us know that the Teabag Prevention Team is back with more Halo 3 tips – this time, they’re focusing on Heretic. Swing by to learn how to not suck!(Louis Wu 16:03:23 UTC)

Stuntmutt made good (good? wrong word) use of the One One Se7en Stripmaker to whip up a new forum comic – things you can worry about with respect to the new Player Investment system! (Louis Wu 16:03:02 UTC)

Cody Brigan is setting to work on a Flash-based movie of The Fall of Reach (the book) – a few days ago, he was looking for voice actors, and today, he’s shown off a tiny snippet of footage, so you can see the overall style of the project. Looks promising!(Louis Wu 16:02:24 UTC)

Hedgemony noticed that Halo Bloodlines #4 is now on store shelves – go grab a copy! (Louis Wu 16:02:07 UTC)

ElusiveEagle found a link for a potential source for early Reach Beta access. You have to be a member to get in… but apparently members will be getting access to the beta in April. Hmm…(Louis Wu 16:01:05 UTC)

seraph xxvii stopped in with word of the charity auction he hosted recently (original details are here) – once again, I’m floored by the generosity. (A little saddened that not all the figures sold – but floored by the generosity.)(Louis Wu 16:00:21 UTC)

Pete Cooper dropped in last night with a pic of the MA5C for Operation Chastity… completed. Looks gorgeous! (Louis Wu 15:59:48 UTC)

The Double XP Weekend Playlist this week is Living Dead – get online and kill yourself some zombies! Update: the full playlist breakdown is up on Bungie.net now.(Louis Wu 21:05:03 UTC)

dCon V found a superb deal on a Halo 3 Steel Spartan ArtFX 12″ Statue – use the link and code, and you can have one of these puppies for $47, shipped. This is less than half of what they used to cost.(Louis Wu 20:55:16 UTC)

This weekend will see two separate podcasts broadcasting live – The Running Riot will be at PAX East, with a show kicking off at 10 am EST, while Zoxin It Up! LIVE will be taking place 12 hours later, at 10pm EST. Thanks to Bungie’s Comm Chatter for the reminder on both of these! (Louis…

Back a bit earlier than expected – time to summarize the cool news of the day. The reveal (as expected) was Halo: Reach’s Player Investment System – it’s the way Bungie’s going to keep you playing Reach… a LOT. Info, as it showed up for me:The initial reveal happened at G4TV – an article, coupled…