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  • Cheapest Legendary in a While

    Forrest let us know that the Halo 3: Legendary Edition is on sale (for the next 15 hours, anyway) at 1saleaday – for under $30. Doesn’t your cat need a helmet?(Louis Wu 13:28:49 UTC)

  • Master Chief Theater 3000: Episode 403

    Pyrosmile has released Master Chief Theater 3000 Season 4 Episode 3 – they take a look (and a few shots at) the Uplift Reserve scenes. There are also releasing content that was originally ‘member-only’ on their YouTube channel – outtakes and such.(Louis Wu 13:28:17 UTC)

  • Making of The Life

    fxguide has an interview with Rob Moggach, visual effects supervisor and lead compositor on the Halo 3: ODST live-action trailer, about the work his team did to make that piece come alive for us. Fascinating read!(Louis Wu 22:31:05 UTC)

  • Cortanalicious

    Is Fergie a Cortana fan? Hawty McBloggy thinks so. Go see why!(Louis Wu 22:26:30 UTC)

  • Tag and Release: Cool

    Bungie posted a new ‘Tag and Release’ collection – the word of the week is ‘Cool’. Fun shots!(Louis Wu 22:25:08 UTC)

  • Monday Comic Roundup (sort of)

    Grin + Bear It continues its edgy storyline – not my taste, but the readers seem to love it. That’s your only Halo comic update of the day… Update: eep – what am I saying? Halo Action Figure Theater just updated, as well! (I have to say, I have no idea at all what’s going…

  • Halo Legends Poster/DVD Contest from 360Junkies

    360Junkies’ Jonathan Heier let us know that you can win a Halo Legends poster – and maybe even a copy of Legends. Their contest starts today, and runs through February 15th at Midnight (PST). Go sign up – free is good!(Louis Wu 22:07:52 UTC)

  • Monday Monday Movie Movie

    We missed the afternoon’s video dump on Bungie.net – but never fear, we’re catching up now!SpitFIReKyD ‘friends’ decided to mess with him. He gets the better of them – I guess he’s not someone you should mess with.Twisted Metal made a solo trickjumping vid. Some pretty cool ones!Eamonn made a Halo 3 montage – HD…

  • OMG

    pete_the_duck dropped by with some heart-stopping pics – go look!(Louis Wu 14:49:03 UTC)

  • Keep it Frosted!

    NeoGAF member jergrah pointed out a page on Assortmentofgeeks.com showing off some very cool cupcakes created by the crew at Wink cupcakes in Seattle. Mmmm…(Louis Wu 14:48:39 UTC)

  • Grand Valley

    TDSpiral also whipped up a gorgeous piece of artwork – this one’s concept art rather than promotional, but it’s just as nice to look at. (He started a thread about it on our forum, as well.) (Louis Wu 14:47:58 UTC)

  • Halo: Reach poster by Halcylon

    Halcylon has whipped up a very poster for Halo: Reach – it’s not quite big enough for large-format printing, but it IS quite nice to look at. Thanks to ElusiveEagle519 for bringing it to our attention.(Louis Wu 14:47:08 UTC)

  • IGN for Haiti – Oonsk Sells Big

    Gah. I missed the IGN for Haiti auction endings yesterday, and they don’t seem to have put up any way to look at already-finished auctions, so it’s unclear how they did. I DO have a link for the Oonsk and Mister Chief painting by Frank O’Connor, though; I can’t tell you who won, but I…

  • Hide, Seek, Snap: Round 9 over, Round 10 live

    The two Halo 3: ODST screens for Round 9 of our Hide, Seek, Snap contest were successfully reproduced (congrats, Mushroomy and bhwrice – you both have new Sgt Johnson codes!) – and two new screens (from Halo 3 again) are available for Round 10. Still missing a Johnson code for ODST Firefight? Here’s another pair…

  • EV Warthog – now night-capable

    Chlazza stopped in yesterday with word of an update to his EV Warthog (we mentioned it a week ago) – it now has lights (head and tail)! Scroll down to the ‘2010-01-29’ update. Looks fantastic!(Louis Wu 17:32:03 UTC)

  • TXB readers ask – Frankie answers

    Frankie took a little time to answer some TeamXbox reader questions – the Q&A is online now at TXB. Some silly questions, but some good ones, too. And as usual, Frank does a pretty good job of answering. Check it out! Thanks, ElzarTheBam.(Louis Wu 16:37:31 UTC)

  • Top Ten Halo 3 Screenshots: Getting Hammered

    I guess it’s in honor of the Double XP list this week (Grifball) – The Top Ten list over at Halo3Screenshots.com is called ‘Getting Hammered’, and man, are those pictures cool. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 15:11:13 UTC)

  • Fan-made Reach Wallpapers

    newguy2445 decided to see what HE could do with the Halo: Reach assets – I’d have to say, he’s a pretty talented guy! Check out his new wallpapers! (Louis Wu 15:10:49 UTC)

  • Halo 3: Help Haiti Shenanigans

    a flyin hobo whipped up a montage of some of the fun and craziness that happened last week during the Help Haiti stretch – watch lots of heart-festooned players act like nuts!(Louis Wu 15:09:55 UTC)

  • Lockheed’s HULC – a step towards MJOLNIR

    We’ve talked about exoskeletons in the past – modern-day companies are working on systems that assist humans to enable feats of strength that would not be possible without the skeleton. Enda noticed a new one – this one is called the HULC (Human Universal Load Carrier), which just got a new power source that will…