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General Vagueness was the first to let us know about a new contest being run by G4TV’s Mr Sark – the Sarkathlon II will be unveiled tomorrow, and run for two weeks… and the top prize is Recon Armor from Bungie. Go watch the vid!(Louis Wu 12:16:39 UTC)

SPARTAN-1138 found a pretty odd film on YouTube – someone performing Sergeant Johnson’s speeches from Halo and Halo 2.(Louis Wu 12:10:25 UTC)

It’s amazing what’ll bring some people out of retirement. (Don’t get used to it – this won’t be a regular occurance.) Stuntmutt celebrates the release of the Legendary Map Pack with a pair of groanworthy puns – go see!(Louis Wu 20:18:00 UTC)

AytonHunter stopped by to announce that Halopen has released ‘Superheroes’, a 30-minute machinima project. (There’s no way I can watch a 30 minute film on this connection while out of town – so watch it yourself, and add your review to AytonHunter’s thread!)(Louis Wu 20:17:22 UTC)

RVideo stopped by with ‘Outside’, a pan-cam montage video showing a number of multiplayer maps from far, far outside the field of play. Very cool views!(Louis Wu 20:10:40 UTC)

Darknesshasfallen noticed that Circuit City is offering a free code for the Legendary Map Pack if you place a preorder on Ninja Gaiden II. (Hawty McBlogggy found this at Xbox360Fanboy, as well.) Not a bad deal if you were going to buy Ninja Gaiden anyway and you’re willing to wait a few days for the…

trigger119 let us know there’ll be two separate Someday-Night Grifball games tonight – swing by for more details!(Louis Wu 19:50:25 UTC)

Nice promotion: Xbox.com is giving away a ton of schwag to folks playing on the Legendary maps. Read this page for full details – basically, you register by downloading a gamerpic from Xbox LIVE Marketplace, then play online between April 25-27 on the new maps; winners will be chosen at random. Thanks, DiscipleN2k.(Louis Wu 19:13:35…

trigger119 let us know that the submission period for the Laughs for Cash contest is now over – GamingTV staff and friends will be narrowing entries down to 5 finalists, and public voting will begin on April 21. Read the news post for more details.(Louis Wu 18:50:58 UTC)

Kezins.com has put up a list of The 10 Most Annoying Types Of Halo 3 Players – seemed more like a list of people who pissed off the author last night, but maybe not.(Louis Wu 18:47:57 UTC)

Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked Episode 10 is online – how do YOU deal with world-shaking news?(Louis Wu 18:37:16 UTC)

Wow, bizarre. On this day when the Legendary Map Pack is released, Xbox.com has scheduled a DIFFERENT Halo 3-multiplayer activity – there’s a Game With Fame set up with the band Avenged Sevenfold. If you want to play, you need to send a Friend Request (assuming there’s still space) to one of two gamertags listed…

ZZoMBiE13 takes a look at Ghost Town in today’s episode of Another Halo Comic Strip – yes, you can groan now.(Louis Wu 12:50:49 UTC)

I’m out of town, so news might be slow for a couple of days – but it’s amazing how many movies were announced today. I can’t even watch most of them, so you’re on your own in terms of quality (you might be able to get some idea from the respective forum posts):Vash10 pointed out…

Jared Rea is one of the people who’s gotten his hands on a Legendary code early – and he’s spent the advance time building a Mongoose racetrack on Avalanche. Check out the pictures and writeup for Overdriftactular – a final version should be available by the time the maps are up.(Louis Wu 04:24:33 UTC)

Delta noticed an article about future weapons/armor systems for Canadian soldiers, in the Toronto Star – the gear is compared to Halo’s Spartans more than once.(Louis Wu 04:22:39 UTC)

SpartanX announced the release of a study of the Firebomb, over at DeviantART. Great work!(Louis Wu 04:19:56 UTC)

Morpheus pointed out that there’s a video up on Inside Xbox (an Xbox LIVE feature accessible from the LIVE tab of your 360 dashboard) – looks like it went up Friday, in fact – that has an interview with Frankie, and covers the Legendary Map Pack. Game footage looks to have been taken from the…

Master Kim noticed an old article about game design (specifically, “Fully Interactive Surfaces”) which focuses on Doom 3 and Half-Life 2, but also mentions Halo a couple of times. Might be worth a read, if you’re interested in that sort of thing! (It was written in 2005 – keep that in mind.)(Louis Wu 13:55:24 UTC)

Next Generation has put together their list of the Top 10 Games Industry Taglines – Halo 3’s ‘Finish the Fight’ comes in at #5.(Louis Wu 09:52:04 UTC)