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The Gamer Limit decided to figure out what Halo 3 players COULD have done with all the time they used to play Halo 3. (They didn’t even do the math right; they guesstimated 5,000 total years of playing time, when Bungie pointed out that the real number was above 64,000.) While it’s true that that…

Five new stories up in the Fan Fiction section today – go read!(Louis Wu 13:04:00 UTC)

7heSuper’s back with a new message for you… Ever wonder what Dr. Seuss might sound like in 500 years?(Louis Wu 19:39:45 UTC)

Sean Bradley let us know that the March issue of the 405th e-zine is now online – it’s 45 pages long, and chock-full of goodness like a the inside story of the building of Sean’s Arbiter costume (fantastic photos!), an interview with SkullCandyGirl, a spotlight on 405th member Moz, a bunch of fan fiction, a…

Bryan Simon has posted Volume Five of his Voicemail Chronicles – this looks to be the last one! Go enjoy the messages this man gets. And be happy you’re not him.(Louis Wu 19:14:56 UTC)

Step out for lunch, come back to a mountain of new content on Bungie.net. Stuff that caught my eye:Random’s Halo 3 Funtage focuses on sticks and mongoose kills.M1STA WU1FY has a Brute Shot montage for you. (Soundtrack is starting to sound overused…)Elephants Never Forget To Kill expands the concept of the Elephant Cannon. Things go…

Awesome story over at Destructoid today – “How Killzone 2 is blatantly better than Halo 3” is full of the sort of sharp insights, logical conclusions, and serious reporting that has made game journalism what it is today. (In all seriousness, it’s very funny.)(Louis Wu 15:08:29 UTC)

If you’ve got a minimum of 60 posts already on the XboxGameZone forums (they’re a UK Xbox site), you should read this news post – qualified members have a shot at a Mythic Map Pack code to be given out in two weeks. (I suppose you don’t have to have 60 posts NOW – you…

Using a name that should have been obvious MONTHS ago, Bungie has morphed the ‘Humpday Challenge’ a little bit into a community ‘play with Bungie’ night. If they win, they write it up, in all its glorious detail. If they lose, they’ll ban the other team’s players and purge the stats. (Not really. Probably.) In…

1UP gave out 50 Mythic codes last week – and held a massive game night for the winners. The video of the evening is up now – it’s an hour-long discussion of the maps, interspersed with copious amounts of gameplay. minasodaboy (who won one of the random codes we gave out) participated, and stopped in…

The first screenshot in this post is epic.(Louis Wu 15:02:01 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy got her hands on a pair of very cool posters created by the wizards at the 405th – and she’s giving them away. Swing by to see how you can win them! (Louis Wu 15:00:52 UTC)

The Catfish came by to announce 2501 Episode 23 – with guest stars.(Louis Wu 14:56:43 UTC)

Bungie.net has word of a montage from Bagel, which has some nice gameplay synched (really well) to a really catchy tune. Worth the watch. In HD.(Louis Wu 14:55:47 UTC)

Fan-generated artwork today:NG put some of the Halo work he’s done in the past three years into a video – go watch it in HD.Cody Gordon created some interesting Mythic panos – they’re up for viewing on his Flickr stream. Not your typical pano fare…PsH Bling added a bunch of shots to his pano thread…

Halo Wars content today:Virulent Aesthetics put up a review (thanks, Scotty)The official site has released a Tech Tree (a 4-page PDF detailing all of the tech available in Halo Wars) – thanks, Psychophan7.LIVE is offering a premium theme for 250 points. No preview I can find. Thanks, Exanubisleader.CNET’S Crave blog has reviewed the game.411mania.com has…

Last night, I got word from Domino Theory that he’d made it through all of the entries for the Ask the Rookie contest, pared it down to his favorites, and picked a winner. Just to give you an idea of the work he faced: all of the entries, added sequentially to a Microsoft Word document…

Blast has a short Hands-on with the Mythic Maps – go see.(Louis Wu 21:00:53 UTC)

It’s Wednesday, so it’s time to update the Bungie Favorites – the second batch of Black Water Ops files have gone up, along with an interview with the group’s Commander-in-Chief, Ironskull. Go read, and look!(Louis Wu 21:00:35 UTC)

Eve-Films’ Nexus is Mental sent us word of Noobus Maximus 2, a ‘recent funtage with clips from FPS Glimmer & friends’. You can watch it on YouTube (in HD), or download it from the Eve-Films.com forum. There’s something awfully familiar about this – I feel like I’ve seen these clips before. (I can’t find any…