Heh – Kotaku has a story about Matt ‘mothergoat’ Cox, who has produced a rather large body of work in the Halo fan community and is now a lead designer at 5TH Cell. Apparently, he went on vacation recently, and while he was gone, his coworkers pranked him by wrapping his entire desk in brown paper (which they then lovingly labeled). Even the Master Chief Legendary helmet on the shelf got wrapped! Fun stuff. Thanks, ArteenEsben.(Louis Wu 15:02:42 UTC)

XerxdeeJ stopped by because it’s TTL Tuesday – he comes bearing news of a pretty cool little egg in the Halo 3: Recon trailer (maybe), and a great highlight reel put together by TTL Hoovaloov, showing off some of the dumbest (and funnest) stuff that can happen with vehicles in Halo 3. (Mostly. There’s an awesome example of spawn FAIL on Foundry tucked in there, too.)(Louis Wu 15:01:22 UTC)

Heh – prescient, or just lucky? NiTrOuS 343 ran across an article at Yahoo News that discusses the Epsilon Eridanus system… and how scientists think they’ve found evidence of a planetary system there. Reach just got more feasible!(Louis Wu 14:59:52 UTC)

The Fight Like a Girl tourney that dominated our front page’s sidebar for a few weeks went off this weekend without a hitch (that I know of) – they raised almost $4000 for worthy causes, and a lot of people got the chance to play against Bungie employees in 2v2 competitions. One of these was written up by mendicantbias00 in his ‘The Thunder And The Surf’ blog. Check it out – pretty pictures, fileshare links, final results! (Louis Wu 14:58:57 UTC)

We got word of ‘Indestructible’, a Halo music vid set to music from Disturbed done by Luck0, of HaloGrid. You can watch it on YouTube, or discuss it on the HaloGrid forum. Really nice camerawork, and great attention to detail – this one really works! Thanks, Jordan Pimentel.(Louis Wu 23:51:46 UTC)

A Bungie artist, who shall remain nameless (beyond his rather vague gamertag), replied to a whole series of questions over at Bungie.net (none of which really had anything to do with art). His answers are pretty interesting… but it’s possible that the information he provided was presented in a way that might make things hard for Bungie down the road. (He posted something a bit later that basically reads “okay, I’m going to shut up now” and very soon after that, the thread was locked.) It’s interesting stuff – but please try not to throw tidbits back in Bungie’s face out of context (“Campane contint cut from Halo Threa says Bungle employ!”), rather read it as interesting backstory you normally don’t get a chance to see. Thanks to The J3ster for pointing this thread out! Update: wow, that was fast. The entire thread was deleted. Guess it’s just easier not to have that info out there!(Louis Wu 23:30:40 UTC)

We mentioned a few weeks ago that Bungie’s sound team won the Creative Achievement in Interactive Entertainment Sound Production from the Mix Foundation – what we didn’t notice (until Marty pointed it out) was that they’d posted the awards acceptances online. Here’s the clip of Marty and company accepting this TEC Award – check out Noguchi’s picture-taking! (Louis Wu 18:00:35 UTC)