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If you didn’t get enough of Damian Isla in the GamesIndustry interview we just told you about, swing by Gamasutra this morning – they have a writeup of a keynote Isla gave at the recent Develop conference. (We mentioned this talk back in June.) It’s a pretty interesting look at how the AI in the…

GamesIndustry.biz posted an interview with Bungie’s Damian Isla – it’s a really interesting piece. Isla holds forth on Bungie’s post-independence enthusiasm, on the state of first-person shooters today, on the differences in design philosophy between games like Halo, CoD4, and Bioshock. There are subtle hints that Bungie might be working on a game that has…

Hawty McBloggy has posted her Top 10 Forge Art Halo 3 Screenshots – go check out the creativity of Forgers everywhere!(Louis Wu 14:28:51 UTC)

Major Nelson confirmed that Halo 3 is on top of the Xbox LIVE leaderboard, for the third straight week – this is starting to not be news any more. MyGEN has a piece looking at WHY Halo 3 is back on top – and that’s more newsworthy. (This is actually the first of a two-part…

Bungie’s Blog (and Halo 3 Academy’s ryu9921) both let us know that the Bungie Favorites collection is currently being populated by some of the Halo 3 Academy’s goodies. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 14:26:50 UTC)

I saw this a while ago, but somehow forgot to post it. Ohio band Hawthorne Heights is participating in the Game With Fame series on Xbox LIVE – find them tomorrow, playing Halo 3, and then send your experience in to Xbox.com!(Louis Wu 14:26:28 UTC)

NAMLOCO SBG, of SBG Gaming, let us know that the next Good Gaming Network Overlord Challenge is coming up on August 10. If you’re eligible, sign up! He also wanted to point out a community Big Team Battle clan cash payout tourney. Check the post for full details, but the overview is that eight established…

It’s been a long time coming – but a series of questions submitted to Bungie a few months ago, related to the Halo Story, has been returned with answers. Thanks to Frank O’Connor and Robt McLees for finding the time! You can find the writeup in the Halo Story Page resources.

Paul Mattson pointed out that BigBadToystore has posted preorders for Halo 3 Series 4 McFarlane figures, before the series has been officially unveiled. (Pics are up for most of ’em.)(Louis Wu 18:28:45 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy has posted another in her series of ‘Fan Art’ spotlights – this one is also Cortana… but a little darker. Okay, a lot darker. Go look!(Louis Wu 18:26:20 UTC)

Mariachi and Avateur and friends did some exploring outside Sierra 117 – they came back with some really cool pics. Go look!(Louis Wu 18:18:12 UTC)

RVideo told us about Fracture, a new video from Jump Vision, edited by FooFoo. It shows off a bunch of both aided and unaided jumps on a bunch of maps. Great camera angles, amazing jumping. It’s a 63 mb WMP9 download from FileFront – grab a copy, it’s absolutely worth watching!(Louis Wu 11:36:57 UTC)

Rooster Teeth posted RvB: Reconstruction Chapter 9 last night – a standard cut for the public, an extended cut for sponsors, as usual. Sarge is on a mission! Thanks to UnSilentSlayer for the first heads-up. (Louis Wu 11:27:44 UTC)

SpeedySurfer created an Achievables generator that lets you build your own Achievables (first seen in RvB’s recent Achievement-based PSA). Bizarre… but cute. (Louis Wu 11:27:25 UTC)

majorrudin found a Top 10 Video Game Armors movie, created by the same folks who looked at the Top 10 Video Game Chicks a week or so ago. Halo 3’s Recon Armor makes the list. (Louis Wu 11:27:04 UTC)

xMixMasterx stopped in to announce that Week 9 of Mix’s Picks is available now at The Social. Two masp, two gametypes, and a video of a game played on yet another. Everything’s Infection-related this week.(Louis Wu 11:26:43 UTC)

vlad3163 got his SDCC-exclusive McFarlane figures yesterday, and was kind enough to transcribe the notes on the back of the EVA “Hellspartan” packaging. Canon? Maybe. Some nice tidbits, though! Go look.(Louis Wu 11:26:20 UTC)

Whoa. El Mayimbe, who runs Latino Review, sent word that the spec script based on Fall of Reach, written by Stuart Beattie (we mentioned it back in April) is generating interest – enough interest that concept art has been created by Kasra Farahani, and the first of five weekly releases of this artwork is up…

TTL Demag0gue let us know that Reclaimer 73 is up now – the Master Chief is sounding decidedly masochistic. Will the Reclaimer accede?(Louis Wu 18:18:04 UTC)

This is most likely just a mistake, but… Voodoo Extreme has an advertisement one of their readers got from the Microsoft Download Service. It lists “Free Trials at Microsoft Game Studios” in an ad for “Games and DirectX” – and the picture includes logos from Halo 3, Zoo Tycoon, and Gears of War. (It also…