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The Angry Pixel has comiled their list of the Top Ten Best Weapons in an FPS. I look askance at any top 10 list that contains two Turok references in it… but hey, to each his own. Halo 3’s Gravity Hammer comes in at #8. Thanks, mjolnir15.(Louis Wu 18:06:34 UTC)

Rockslider has taken a bit of time to write up a tutorial explaining how to create multiple Halo 3 saves without having to play through for each one. Given that it seems to exploit a set of circumstances that might or might not be closed to exploits in the future, this might not work forever……

Over at The Hushed Casket, D15AV0W3D has taken a look at all three Halo games, and tried to figure out which one is ‘best’. Go read his rationale, and see if you agree! Thanks to Narcogen, at Rampancy.net, for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 16:24:57 UTC)

Time Glitch asked Frankie about the Weapon Lowering feature in Halo 3, and why it only works offline. Frankie told him that they just weren’t able to justify the testing resources needed to ensure this glitch wasn’t exploitable in online play. (This didn’t go over very well with the respondents – either on our forum,…

McFarlane is offering an exclusive Active Camouflage Spartan, in EVA armor; if you’re interested, you MUST preorder it from the Spawn Store. The figure will be released in March 2008, and will sell for $12.99. The preorder period began yesterday, and ends on December 12. GamesBond007 was the first to let us know, though if…

Fanportal-World has interviewed Zukan, a Halo machinima maker who’s been off the scene for a bit (he got sick). Great read. Thanks, Lordstemplar1.(Louis Wu 14:06:27 UTC)

MLG has posted their MLG Gametypes v2 – tweaked maps, tweaked gametypes, lots of testing. Thanks to synide for stopping by to tell us about it – and check out the feedback so far; some people are happy, some are unhappy. I suppose that’s the way of the world…(Louis Wu 14:04:41 UTC)

Wow. Somehow we totally missed the fact that Wired Magazine was running a Halo 3 Supergeek contest, looking to give away cool schwag to the biggest Halo 3 geek out there. I found out about it today, when they posted the winners. I’m guessing we’ve got readers that could have cleaned up…(Louis Wu 20:22:54 UTC)

937 sent in over a hundred dialogue snippets for our Halo 3 Dialogue Databank; great stuff from Elites, Brutes, and Humans. Go listen!(Louis Wu 18:10:09 UTC)

Angry Robot has posted their Top Ten Disappointing Things About Halo 3 – while some of them seem sort of gratuitous, I gotta agree with the Achievement thing. See what you think. Thanks, Rock Opera Jr.(Louis Wu 16:56:20 UTC)

Last week, Achronos made it clear you wouldn’t be able to interact with the huge satellite dishes on Standoff – Stuntmutt suggests he’s wrong, in today’s One One Se7en. Oh, Stunt…(Louis Wu 14:34:07 UTC)

Nice – Hawty McBloggy found a pretty cool rendition of the Halo 3 menu music… along with a tuturial on playing the Halo 3 Announcement trailer piano solo without sheet music. Go watch!(Louis Wu 13:11:25 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue let us know that the next episode of Reclaimer (Chapter Two, Part Four) is now up. Hendricks? Who’s Hendricks? Update: DOH!(Louis Wu 12:38:20 UTC)

Treeskunk Productions has posted Episode 1 of Outpost Isil: Rekindle the Flames. We get a chance to meet three of the characters of the series, and the storyline has begun to be unveiled. It’s available in a bunch of different formats; you can pick the one you want from Treeskunk’s page (thanks, Bzerker), or Twilkey…

I haven’t posted too many Halo reviews recently; there were so many, coming so fast, that trying to process them all was pointless. They’ve slowed down, though, so new ones, usually written by people who’ve taken some time to digest the offerings of the game, are probably worth pointing out. Xbox Solution just put one…

This weekend, BobFlop pointed out a video on LiveLeak which showed off a new exoskeleton being tested by the US Army. It’s similar to other vids (and other human assistive tools) discussed in the past; I thought it was fun, but not really Halo-related. Well, that video made it to CNN yesterday, and our mailbox…

IGN points out that Details magazine has rated the top 50 men under 45… and Jason Jones comes in at #43. I guess heading the studio that released Halo 3 is worth something… thanks, Wolverine Monkey.(Louis Wu 23:26:22 UTC)

ViralSyris found a bunch of new stuff at the Bungie Store – swing by his post for direct links. Just in time for Christmas!(Louis Wu 19:06:15 UTC)

Eep, almost missed this. Hawty McBloggy has put together a list of the Top 10 Romantic Halo 3 Lines Useful for Forge Proposals. Some of them actually seem like they’d work better as pickup lines (if they worked at all)… but hey, whatever. Go check ’em out! (She takes no responsibility if using them gets…

Today’s Tied the Leader update from XerxdeeJ mentions some, but not all, of their new content. In addition to a genteel challenge issued to anyone who hasn’t faced the TTL Gunslingers, there’s a piece describing an AP article on gaming as social networking; deeJ was interviewed for it, and has quotes in it. (It’s definitely…