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New playlist going live today – MLG FFA. (Heck, it’s probably live by now; the B.net newspost is 4 hours old.) Go read all the details…(Louis Wu 22:41:33 UTC)

Serious video droppage on Bungie’s Comm Chatter today:The Trailer Park: Bob of the Dead warns you about Matchmaking dangers.ChrisOfTheDead’s Shenanigans 6 is just that – shenanigans.Lucid is a Halo 3 montage from KayEmX, FKIV, and Stevis.The West Virginia Community Montage is exactly that – a montage from West Virginia players. (Really rapid cuts.)WatchThis!Gaming has posted…

nobleactual.com, Bungie’s Dev Blog, has been updated again – the lack of timestamps is frustrating, but the content is pretty intriguing. Progress on the playtest is really positive – this is awesome! And a multiplayer “bomb” (Marcus’ word) will be dropped either today or tomorrow – so keep your eyes peeled. (There’s a thread started…

Davis ‘Blue Dingo’ Beutler let us know about an article on the Australian Halo Reach fansite in which various community leaders from down under offer up their opinions of Reach, so far. What they’re excited about, what they hope to see, what they hope they don’t see. Interesting read – go take a look! (Louis…

Well, it’s been more than a week since anyone even TRIED to locate one of the final three screens for the Hide, Seek, Snap contest – I think it’s time to retire this one. We do still have a few codes – I’m out all day today, but I’ll give them away on our forum…

IGN Australia interviewed Frank O’Connor yesterday – give it a read for a look at the future of the Halo franchise. Thanks, Tashi0106. (Louis Wu 12:41:05 UTC)

Halochief89 announced that Clairvoyance Chapter 4 is finished – art and text. Go read!(Louis Wu 12:40:39 UTC)

Forum regular GryphonOsiris wrote up his own review of Halo Legends – swing by and give it a read!(Louis Wu 12:38:45 UTC)

Gah – I read it, but completely forgot to post about it! Halo Action Figure Theater hit 200 issues on Sunday – swing by for a truly odd… vision.(Louis Wu 12:38:16 UTC)

Apparently, Fred Van Lente (the writer behind the Blood Line comics) went out drinking with ‘Team Halo’ last night. Bungie? 343i? Master Chief and Cortana? Thanks, Hedgemony.(Louis Wu 12:37:52 UTC)

Pyrosmile sent word that Master Chief Theater 3000 Episode 405 is now up – they’re looking at the cutscenes from ONI Alpha Site. I’m getting a hankering to play some ODST Campaign…(Louis Wu 21:25:25 UTC)

Man, those look yummy. DeviantARTists RubyQuinn and SolitaireLost whipped up some Red vs Blue cookies a couple of weeks ago – you can see more of the process (and LOTS more cookies) at Photobucket. Thanks to bs angel for the heads-up! (Louis Wu 21:04:40 UTC)

There’s a new Tag and Release feature up at Bungie.net – the term is ‘UFO’, and the screens are varied. Go see!(Louis Wu 21:04:21 UTC)

Black Water Ops is hosting ‘Fight for the UNSC Horizon’, a three-contest extravaganza where you can submit writing, a Forged map, or a picture contest (using pics taken from an online game to be played by the winners of the other two rounds, among others). Full details can be found at BWO’s website (see above…

Brighton rebuilt his ODST model (we mentioned it on Friday), incorporating feedback he received from viewers. It’s still a work in progress… but it looks FANTASTIC. Go see.(Louis Wu 19:30:01 UTC)

Just one montage today on Bungie’s Comm Chatter – ‘Scaling Death’ has some great gameplay, though if you’re not a screamo fan, you might want to use your computer’s volume controls before you start it up. The gameplay… wow.(Louis Wu 19:29:46 UTC)

karebearstare set word of an article at GamingBolt – 20 Games That Will Make Your Jaws Drop At E3. The number one title? We’ll let you guess.(Louis Wu 14:58:57 UTC)

ElzarTheBam stopped in with word of a Reach preview at Computer and Video Games. Not a huge amount of new info (on first glance, none, in fact), but a nice summary of what we know so far.(Louis Wu 13:05:07 UTC)

serpx pointed out some concept art by Gary Huang, showing off an in-game model for a human soldier. Awesome work! (Apparently, these came to light yesterday, when Split-Screen used them as evidence that Reach can’t even match Killzone 1’s head poly count, much less Killzone 2’s… there are a lot of reasons why that argument…

Cody Brigan is back with more progress shots of the cool trophies he’s creating for a Halo 3 tourney in April. (If you missed the first batch, check this post from last Thursday.) These are shaping up to be pretty awesome prizes – I hope the participants appreciate the work! Update: Cody posted another large…