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Spartanx5 has finished up his render of a Recon helmet – the end result is strangely moving. Check it out!(Louis Wu 19:29:45 UTC)

Bungie wants to help you get Recon armor now, rather than waiting for the release of Halo 3: ODST. You need to complete the Vidmaster Annual Achievement tomorrow, May 17 (even if you’ve completed it before) – and take a picture of something cool. One screenshot per person, winning shots get Recon for the entire…

CE United is closing its doors soon – but before it goes, it’s hosting one last contest. Swing by the site to read why, and the details on the contest. Thanks, Willy.(Louis Wu 18:36:50 UTC)

It was Friday night last night, so Bungie posted another Weekly Update – heavy focus on this week’s big news, the Render to Video service. Tips, FAQs, a demo video… lots of good info. Plus a few other tidbits – fun stuff. As always, you can read it in our Weekly Update Archive if you’d…

Goodies at the BungLog™ this afternoon… challenges and montages: The Forge Cafe, a group on Bungie.net, wants you to build a cool Sandbox Crypt map – prizes will be served. HaloTracks wants you to drive their Mongoose course as fast as you can – prizes will be served. I like pie 727 put together a…

This is probably well-known among the machinima community – but it was news to me, and pretty darned useful info, so I’m front-paging it. Bungie’s JonnyOThan stopped in with some helpful tips about camera control in Halo 3’s Theater. As more people use BuTube to share their clips, teaching people to make cooler movies becomes…

What else happens on Fridays? Yep, it’s Friday Caption Fun, over at Hawty McBloggy’s. Highlights from last week’s submissions, plus a new image that’s ripe for comic shenanigans… go play!(Louis Wu 13:45:05 UTC)

Mandlbaum is back, baby! Halo0001 X let us know that another reel of early Halo 3 cheese turned up in his attic – Mandlbaum has to face a robot horde bent on the destruction of the human race! Can he manage it? Can he save Skippy? Tune in and find out!(Louis Wu 13:29:44 UTC)

Lots of comics today, since we posted early on Wednesday: Reclaimer put up Episode 185 (Anesidora) on Wednesday, and Episode 186 (Bodhi) today – Indigenous Adjuvant is doing his best to let that Viper soldier know how badly he screwed up.Dennis Powers let us know about Shipwrecked Episode 67 (Meet the Kids) – even when…

G4TV’s X-Play announced winners of the Sarkathlon 3 obstacle course (we mentioned it a couple of weeks ago) – congrats to both contestants, who’ll pull in Recon armor, on top of the 1st place finisher’s new Xbox 360. The video shows off the winning runs, and discusses some of the cool tricks folks came up…

Just five new stories this week in the Fan Fiction section… check ’em out!(Louis Wu 12:40:08 UTC)

We missed a new Breaking In article yesterday afternoon – Steve Lopez is in charge of the crew that keeps Bungie’s technology humming. He’s not DIRECTLY involved in making games… but without him and his crew, there’d be no games, because there’d be nothing to make them on. If you’re looking to get in to…

Didn’t get enough montages at the BungLog™ today? Never fear, naveeda stopped in with word of a new one from 2old2play’s Jonny12gauge. That guy’s a lot better with a sniper rifle than I’ll ever be…(Louis Wu 20:19:40 UTC)

The Bungie MontageBlog has highlighted three new vids for you today: A Deaf Boy has put together a montage of screenshots grabbed during the Mythic Brawl Double XP weekend Halo 3 In The Work Place has posted their latest collection of clips, ‘Inertia’. There’s also a challenge that will likely never be met.ganit appleby has…

RandomSauce has written up the latest Director Dialogue – in this one, he sits down with TM22. Go read what drives this montage creator!(Louis Wu 14:29:06 UTC)

Pwn or Die has a short clip from Aisha Tyler’s Comedy Central special in which she explains how having a baby might interfere with her Halo playing. Funny stuff!(Louis Wu 14:25:32 UTC)

Longtime forum regular Pynion has been working for Blur for a little while, and was involved in creating assets for Halo Wars. He sent along his Covenant Spirit dropship – front (1620×920, 204k) and back (1615×915, 201k) – very slick! (Pynion points out that the Banshees, the Ghosts, or Forge – just the dropship.) Check…

Pete Cooper stopped in with new progress shots of the Warthog they’re building for Operation Chastity. Looking great!(Louis Wu 13:59:13 UTC)

InnerRayg noticed a scan of a page of GamePro’s table of contents from the June 2009 issue over at the Spawn.com forums – it shows off a shot from Halo 3: ODST with what looks like a new pistol. You can visit the original post for the full image – or (to save yourself a…

FPSBuddy has posted a series of images showing some common Halo 3 multiplayer map callouts; if you’ve found yourself wondering how to tell your teammates where that guy who just killed you might be (or you’re having trouble figuring out THEIR callouts), you might want to check these. They’re limited – but it’s a a…