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Another Halo Comic Strip shows that Chief’s got more than one talent up his sleeve…(Louis Wu 19:05:55 UTC)

Gah. I hate mornings that get split up. I nearly missed the Tied the Leader update – XerxdeeJ whined mightily about the SWAT playlist (c’mere, boy, I have some lead for your noggin), a TTL-based Xbox 360 theme for a contest has been highlighted, more cool panoramas have been posted, and there’s even some CoD4…

The third map in the Legendary DLC pack has been announced over on Bungie.net – Blackout is a straight-up remake of Lockout. (For all you people screaming that this was going to be Lockout – you were right. Doesn’t make the faked magazine cover any more real, however…) Paul Russell, Dan Miller, Blake Low and…

pooberry let us know about a bit of an old railroad tie that looks sort of familiar… (Louis Wu 18:39:29 UTC)

weephun noticed a UT3 mod that lets Halo 3 run on a PS3…(Louis Wu 18:36:04 UTC)

The Halo 2 Cutscene Library grows by three more HD scenes – Testament, One Way Ticket, and Sorry, Were You in the Middle of Something? are available for download. Clan Infectionist and Wraith-ops are, as usual, helping with the bandwidth. Go watch!(Louis Wu 18:17:40 UTC)

Z asked us to take a look at STA’s Athanasia – a Halo 3 montage with some nice editing. Five and a half minutes long, 126 mb in WMP9 format – give it a look!(Louis Wu 17:55:18 UTC)

Bungie reminds you that the Heroic DLC is now free – there was an issue this morning making them available, but they’re up now. Swing by Xbox LIVE Marketplace and grab ’em if you don’t already have ’em!(Louis Wu 17:00:23 UTC)

The Rooster Teeth crew has released Recovery One, Part IV, with Director’s Commentary (for sponsors) and without (for the masses). It’s the finale of a great mini-series… go watch! (If you’re a sponsor, there are some intriguing hints about what might be coming next…)(Louis Wu 05:05:36 UTC)

Omega continues his compilation of a Brute driftwood arsenal – he found a Mauler in the swamp. Strange swamp…(Louis Wu 22:33:56 UTC)

It’s Adam Grumbo Day, I guess. One of his suits of Master Chief armor is back up on eBay (the original buyer has decided to resell). Buy it Now price is $7500 (what he originally paid for it), but it’s up for best offer, as well. Thanks to Mid7night, who found this on the 405th…

If you’re playing in the Grifball Spring League, you might want to swing by Grifball.com and check out the schedule – first week games through Thursday are scheduled now (first games are tonight!), and the entire first week should be up by tomorrow. Get Hammered!(Louis Wu 20:13:51 UTC)

Computer and Video Games has a short preview of Halo Wars up right now – thanks to P1 Groupe Italia, who found it at the Halo Wars website.(Louis Wu 20:10:25 UTC)

So last Friday, Bungie mentioned, at the very end of their Weekly Update, that the latest podcast (with Chris Butcher) was available for download. They’re reminding you again today, which suggests that maybe a few of you missed it. Go listen – it’s a good interview! (There’s also a clip with Major Nelson.)(Louis Wu 18:17:15…

If you watched the Contamination trailer last week, and wished you could see it in higher resolution… swing by GamingTV. There are WMP9 and QT download links with 640×480 versions. Thanks, trigger119.(Louis Wu 17:10:07 UTC)

Rock Opera Jr pointed out that Halo got a mention in today’s Angry Robot webcomic.(Louis Wu 17:02:57 UTC)

Podtacular is shutting down its podcast in April; they’ll still be represented by Pod TV, but JVB and foomojive are moving on. Read the details, and the rationale, at Podtacular.com. We’re gonna miss you guys! Thanks, Kia.(Louis Wu 16:30:56 UTC)

Deimos Fawkes noticed that the Big Bad Toy Store will be selling an exclusive Violet CQB Spartan from McFarlane, as part of the Series 3 batch coming this fall. No pics yet… but you can preorder. (You can buy the entire regular series 3 set (8 figures) plus their exclusive for $94, saving a few…

Last week, we mentioned a Dell computer commercial that showcased Adam Grumbo’s custom Master Chief armor (among other things) – but the link we provided had no sound. Adam posted a new version soon after – but we didn’t hear about it until this morning, when Crisis Panda dropped us a line. Go watch with…

Larry The Marine has discovered one of the problems with snagging vehicles designed for other races… thanks, 2phast.(Louis Wu 13:40:35 UTC)