Tied the Leader is back – there’s a highlight reel of some of their finest moments in matchmaking for the month of July. It was a lot of fun to watch! Thanks, XerxdeeJ.(Louis Wu 15:13:57 UTC)

vociferous has a new piece up over at Ascendant Justice – Headstones Pushed Aside looks at one of the more interesting enemies you face in the Halo series. It ties together information from the games, the terminals within the games, and outside sources like the Iris campaign last summer to bring you what is likely the most complete view of this facet of the Halo universe seen to date. As always, it’s well thought-out and full of details you may not have noticed for yourself. A must-read for any Halo story fanatic! Thanks, rhubarb. (Louis Wu 12:50:45 UTC)

Rooster Teeth has released Chapter 11 of Red vs Blue: Reconstruction – it’s getting harder and harder every week to point out how this series has fantastic production values and top-notch effects – but every week, it proves it’s still there at the top of the Halo machinima heap. The Reds and the Blues are faced with a devastating attack from the Meta – can they figure out how to stop the juggernaut? BlueNinja kicked off a discussion of the episode on our forum.(Louis Wu 12:49:58 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy has a couple of fun collections for you. On her main blog, you’ll find “You’re Doing It Really, Really Wrong” – this is a set of screenshots that should make you smile, assuming you haven’t burned out on this internet meme. (Oddball and Intimidation were two I hadn’t seen before, and got chuckles out of me, but there are lots of great shots.) Over at I <3 Halo 3 Screenshots is a new project – Halo Movie Scenes. Recreating classic movie posters, using the Halo 3 screenshot functionality and a LOT of creativity… this rocks. The examples up right now have all been created by Predator5791 – but there’s plenty of room for other players. Go see what you can add! (Louis Wu 12:49:06 UTC)

IGN has posted a ‘Preview’ of the Halo 3 Steel Spartan variant of the Kotobukiya Bubble-shielded figure – mostly, it’s just a lot of screenshots… but it’s a great figure. And while we’re doing action figure reviews, Superheroes Base has a writeup of the McFarlane Brute Stalker.(Louis Wu 12:48:39 UTC)

Fyrewulff posted a design doc for a ‘game’ played with Halo 3, but with a pretty involved backend. It’s hard to explain – go read the details, and give him some feedback!(Louis Wu 12:47:57 UTC)

Last week, Kotaku posted an ‘unboxing’ of a set of Jasman Halo 3 Plasma Pistols – a series of photos showing off the goods. They followed it up yesterday with an ‘Impressions’ article, discussing the actual gameplay, and including a movie. If you’re a laser tag afficionado, this seems to be a nice way to fold in your Halo interests, as well. Vash10 started a discussion thread on our forum, if you have comments. (Louis Wu 12:45:39 UTC)

Mid7night posted a video of his Longsword in X-Plane; he played with some Final Cut filters for added effect. If you want to play along, he’s challenged you to add a Halo-flavored soundtrack.(Louis Wu 12:44:59 UTC)

Morpheus noticed a Top 25 Enemies of All Time list at Game Daily. If I specified WHICH enemy from the Halo series made the list, I’d have to put a spoiler tag on this newspost. (Louis Wu 12:44:29 UTC)

El Mayimbe has posted the third piece of concept art by Kasra Farahani for the Fall of Reach Movie project written up by Stuart Beattie – I’m having trouble placing the scene that this image portrays… but it’s an interesting pic. Check it out!(Louis Wu 22:24:30 UTC)

CYBRFRK wrote up a review of the Halo Interactive Strategy Game – we didn’t think it would be out before September, but he found it in Wal-Mart this weekend. If you were on the fence about buying this, read his thoughts to see if they help you decide! Pictures should be coming soon. Update: The Thurmanator pointed out a bunch of pics at BoardGameGeek.(Louis Wu 20:46:06 UTC)

J23 pointed out Screw Attack’s Halo 1 and 2 in 60 Seconds – language is a little blue, but it’s a nice fast summary of the first two games. If you’re easily offended, don’t watch.(Louis Wu 18:50:22 UTC)

Machinima.com/UK had a music video contest – put one of two Jonathan Coulton songs (Bacteria, Todd the T1000) to music, using any game you want, win goodies. The winners were filmed with World of Warcraft and GTA: San Andreas – but Halo was used for fully half of the entries – and I really liked FireDragon04’s entry (he’s the one who told us about the contest). Go watch!(Louis Wu 17:40:33 UTC)

A week ago, we mentioned link4044’s Legendary Crest – it had been put up on eBay for a short time, but pulled because of a misunderstanding. He’s put another one up after clearing up the problem – you’ve got about four and a half days to make up your mind. Again – if I had the wall space, I’d find the cash, this is amazing.(Louis Wu 14:13:28 UTC)

OddGodHMK continues to use Halo in his Boring Comic series. I’m having trouble finding teh funni.(Louis Wu 14:12:03 UTC)