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Hawty McBloggy found the recent 1 billionth Halo 3 game stat to be interesting – because it means that 20% more Halo 3 games have been played than Halo 2 games, in half the time. And when she looks at her own stats (8500 Halo 2 games, 3500 Halo 3 games), she realizes that she’s…

Comic Roundup for the morning:Adam Susskind stopped in yesterday afternoon with word of Chaos Theory 14 – Truths from a Saint. His description sounds complicated!Hawty McBloggy reminded us that it’s Wednesday, so it’s time for another episode of ODS Steve – Episode 16 is called ‘A Shade of Earl Grey’, and it provides one possible…

GamePro’s giving away a bunch of Halo Wars action figures – you just have to tell them what your favorite weapon is. Swing by for full details.(Louis Wu 13:50:36 UTC)

jdars1804 let us know that his Halo 3 Images blog has a Panoramas section with some pretty nice shots in it – go browsing!(Louis Wu 13:50:18 UTC)

Slim30 stopped by to point out that Lost Levels Episode 5 is up on YouTube. According to the description in Episode 1, “John, Anthony, and Danny have become trapped in the game known as halo 3. Watch their adventures as they try to find a way out while evading a mysterious organization who has taken…

I read this story in USA Today this morning, and came away with one thing – the Halo Wars giveaway (mentioned in the Halo Wars news roundup a few hours ago). Ars Technica read it, and did a better job – they noticed the quote from Frank O’Connor:”I doubt we have seen the last of…

Goodies this morning on the Bungie Blog:Stop-Motion Snake: I thought this was pretty darned cool. scott14755 recreated a game of ‘Snake’ in Forge, via stop-motion photography. (Well, screenshotography.) I loved it.Halotech.org is streaming gameplay on Mythic Maps for folks who don’t have their own to play on.Skillz Like AI whipped up an artistic and restive…

anthraxgoon stopped in with word of X36 Chapter 2 Issue 6 – nice shots of Orbital…(Louis Wu 18:31:42 UTC)

If you want a sneak peek at the Halo Wars Official Strategy Guide, grab it from us – here are 12 pages of PDF goodness, straight from Prima. Enjoy!(Louis Wu 18:11:50 UTC)

PC Magazine put up a review of the Mythic maps today… and while they loved Sandbox, they found Orbital and Assembly to be disappointing and tiresome. I guess it takes all kinds!(Louis Wu 17:08:26 UTC)

Schedonnardus went to his local Gamestop last night in College Station, Texas, and ran into a Spartan-clad fan with a Brute Spiker. I dunno… the salesguy looks a little intimidated… (Louis Wu 14:51:42 UTC)

Arm The Flag has posted the second in their ‘MicroMachinima’ series – this one is called HeadGON. It’s only a minute and a half… go watch it! (Louis Wu 14:50:28 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy has a couple of goodies for you today – she’s put together a set of eight Halo-themed 360 mods (some are great, some are awful, some are just plain funny), and she’s uncovered a true Halo transformer on eBay – it’s a Warthog that transforms to a Spartan (well… sort of a Spartan).…

The Catfish stopped in with word of 2501 Episode 22.(Louis Wu 14:49:44 UTC)

Halo Wars news this morning:oriol003 stopped by with a list of new guides Grunts R Us have postedUSA Today is giving away five copies of the Limited Edition – register to winThe Poughkeepsie Journal has a review of the gameOkay, back to BUNGIE-related stories… (Louis Wu 14:49:19 UTC)

Impervium was the first on our forum to notice that IGN has posted Part 3 of the Universe Expanded series of Halo Wars documentaries – this one is called ‘Ascension’. It’s a nice closeout of the series. A quote from Frankie: “Every time we add, we embrace.” The Halo Story canon is definitely expanding… (Louis…

DarkSky Forever noticed it Sunday morning… but Bungie got around to posting fun stats on Monday afternoon. Sometime this weekend, the one billionth online match of Halo 3 was played, and recorded by the tireless databases living under the bedrock of Redmond. (Okay, I know they’re not really in Redmond. Shut up.) RocketMoose did some…

The latest episode of Red vs Blue: Relocated is now online – Part Three shows what the Rooster Teeth boys can do with the Mythic maps. (Caboose is starting to worry me, too.) I’m wondering if Lopez’s Spanish isn’t getting WORSE, over time…(Louis Wu 23:24:21 UTC)

More Mythic Overviews – GameZone has taken a quick look at the maps (very quick), but a fan blog, Virulent Aesthetics (a blog offshoot of Halo Social) is going a bit more in-depth. Their Orbital and Sandbox reviews are up now, with Assembly coming tomorrow. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 22:49:01 UTC)

It’s Monday, so it’s time for another flexing of the Bungie.net tag system’s muscle – this time, urk’s picked ‘Sunset’ as the key. Great shots! (Louis Wu 22:48:16 UTC)