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Bryan Simon reminded us that tonight, at 7 pm ET (about 3.5 hours from now), his Halo 3 concert will be streaming live. (We first mentioned it last week.) Tune in!(Louis Wu 20:33:50 UTC)

It’s Thursday, so it’s time for another Double Experience Weekend – and this week, it’s Grifball again. They’re playing with some new team-maintenance code – go see if your group gets split!(Louis Wu 20:18:58 UTC)

naveeda pointed out a montage from IAmDank – nice synching between the audio and the video! You can watch it at GameVee, or on YouTube. Seven minutes.(Louis Wu 15:04:20 UTC)

The Penny Arcade Child’s Play Charity Dinner Auction took place Tuesday night, and by all reasonable measures, it was a great success. Over $200,000 was raised for the Child’s Play drive, and lots and lots of fancy clothing that never gets worn by its owners got to see the light of day. There were only…

Over at the Bungie blog, you can find a tidbit about a new series from the DuoGroup (we’ve mentioned them a few times) – ‘Sup Chief?’ looks at the sexier side of the Spartan. Full eps coming soon!(Louis Wu 14:43:09 UTC)

Microsoft’s Channel 8 has an hour-long talk for Student Technology Day, discussing the Microsoft True Ranking System, and how it works with Halo 3 (and other games). If you’re interested in the behind-the-scenes math that’s involved in how you get matched up in Xbox LIVE Matchmaking, go watch this!(Louis Wu 20:27:26 UTC)

This week’s Community Spotlight is focused on Forge Hub, and if you swing by Bungie.net you can read about why you might want to join them. Bungie Favorites is now populated with their goodies – so go see what they make!(Louis Wu 20:17:43 UTC)

mrsmiley let us know the winner and runners-up for the first round of the Happy Halodays contest are now up at HaloBabies.net – there’s still plenty of time to enter for the next three rounds. (Chances are pretty good – only 12 entries this round, and the prize for each round is 1600 MS points!)…

The Running Riot has put up new Favs – screenshots and film clips. The clips are viewable on the site (no need to download from B.net). Thanks again, urk.(Louis Wu 17:25:55 UTC)

Pyrosmile’s Master Chief Theater 3000 continues with Episode 210 – covering the Uprising and High Charity cutscenes from Halo 2. Go watch!(Louis Wu 17:18:53 UTC)

Anoj continues his Top 10 Halo 3 series with Episode 17, ‘MLG Kills’ – cool bits pulled from the MLG playlist on LIVE. Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 17:17:48 UTC)

New comics live today – Hawty McBloggy has the next installment of ODS Steve (he shows up on the surface), and TTL Demag0gue told us about Reclaimer 122, where tensions are short. Go check ’em out!(Louis Wu 17:17:02 UTC)

Wow. So remember how last week, the Legendary Map Pack was on sale for 400 MS Points? Turns out if you played any Matchmaking that used it (so, anyone who bought it last week, or anytime before that, and actually USED it last week), you made yourself eligible for some free Recon armor. Out of…

Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked 45 is now online – and there are new players on the field.(Louis Wu 23:07:46 UTC)

The ‘Average Joe’ series of community spotlights continues at Bungie.net – today’s entry looks at RandomSauce, one of the guys behind the Halo 3 MythBusters series. Go see how he got into gaming, and what he does outside of Halo!(Louis Wu 19:02:40 UTC)

Zandax is making a name for himself – he edited a nice montage last week, and today Bungie.net’s blog has a new minitage he’s put together, using footage supplied by Eve Films. Just two and a half minutes, nice composition!(Louis Wu 17:48:58 UTC)

XerxdeeJ stopped in to point out the latest updates at Tied the Leader – there’s an interview with My7hos, an HBO regular who donated the proceeds from the sale of a large collection of Halo memorabilia to the Tied the Leader Foundation recently, and Questions with Kiaeneto, a look at a clothing company started by…

Hawty McBloggy noticed a fun little article at Headplay – these guys make headmounted display gear, and they’ve mounted some of their hardware inside a Legendary helmet for the ultimate in Halo-playing goodness. Check it out! (Running around while using this equipment is not recommended.)(Louis Wu 14:00:01 UTC)

Impervium found a fun video on YouTube – someone took the Numa Numa song (English translation, one version) and added a ton of (hand-drawn) Halo references to it. Our forum seems to be split on its value.(Louis Wu 13:54:26 UTC)

We got word from Daniel ‘Tyrant’ Morris about the Monthly Mythic Challenge kicked off this month. There weren’t any winners this time around, so the rules are changing a little to make things more reasonable. First up – folks who have previously beaten the game on Mythic are now eligible (although they’ll need to earn…