mendicantbias00 pointed out a note on Ascendant Justice, apologizing for a lack of updates, and offering a gallery of gorgeous ‘Campaign Moment’ screenshots to fill the waiting time. There are new thought-provoking articles from them coming soon – but in the meantime, check out the pretty pictures! (Louis Wu 12:54:16 UTC)

Remember that calendar we mentioned yesterday? agdtinman (who worked on some of the images used) pointed out an eBay link with a lot of them for sale, and thumbnails of all pages. He also included a little inside info about the images themselves.(Louis Wu 12:53:46 UTC)

Firestorm12 stopped by yesterday with links to ‘Reality’ Parts 1 and 2 – it’s a new Halo 2-based machinima project from Halopen Films. His forum post contains links to the Halopen website and a site for the series itself, as well, if you’d like more information about what you watched. (Spoilers on the Reality site, so watch the segments first.) (Louis Wu 12:53:03 UTC)

eddie m found a 2009 Halo 16 month calendar – and Stephen Loftus added a bit of info. Nice!(Louis Wu 20:52:31 UTC)

TruthPastor SBG let us know that the first two rounds of the SBG Gaming BTB Clan Support Tournament (we mentioned it last week) are finished, and it’s down to the final four teams – Tied the Leader, Outcast Reborn, Swat Krue Marines, and Saved by Grace Gaming. Good luck to all four! Full details on the first two round are here.(Louis Wu 15:14:03 UTC)

xMixMasterX has posted Week Ten of Mix’s Picks over at The Social – new maps, plus the winner of a Story Board contest. Check it out!(Louis Wu 14:59:59 UTC)

Heh – Ash continues his Assault on the Control Room antics. Way back in July 2002, someone discovered that you could alter the ending cutscene (but not the final outcome, actually) to this classic Halo level by bringing a baddie with you as the scene ended. Lennox did it with a Hunter, Warbow did it with a Banshee… but nobody (until now) has managed to do it with a Gold Elite. Why? Because the Gold Elite you USUALLY fight near the end will die spontaneously as you enter the doorway, if he’s still alive. That’s not true if you bring one from somewhere else, though… and unlike Warbow’s banshee case, if the Gold Elite kills you in the Control Room, it DOES break the rest of the scripted cutscene. Check out Ash’s movie at FileFront. This trick is 6 years old – and it’s STILL not tapped out! That’s amazing.(Louis Wu 14:49:46 UTC)

Dennis Powers sent us an update of new stuff posted over at the Halo CE Map Archive in the past week – there are 43 new maps, but the ones he wanted to highlight were Seclusion (a small winter map) and Highlands (a small impenetrable valley). Browse – check ’em all out!(Louis Wu 14:15:23 UTC)

Gamesradar listed 10 Industry-Shattering Stolen Exclusives – and Halo makes the list, for its yanking from the Mac platform back in 2000. Thanks, elessar787.(Louis Wu 14:12:33 UTC)

kuroni13 stopped by our forum to announce a 3v3 objective tournament at GAMEBREAKERZ in Bonney Lake, WA on August 16. The full details are not up on their website yet – but they should be soon.(Louis Wu 14:10:37 UTC)

Urban Reflex found a pretty nice fan-made Halo suit on eBay yesterday – it’s in the UK, and the auction ends in just under 2 days, with the current bid at £670 (a bit under $1300 US). If you’re in the market – take a look! (While at eBay, I swung by the Weta MC and Grunts statue auction, still a week from closing – current bid is $1625, reserve HAS been met. Wowzers!)(Louis Wu 14:08:10 UTC)

What if you had a website with a regular Friday update, but you forgot it was Friday? Hawty McBloggy has posted her latest ‘What If’ scenario (which has nothing to do with the day of the week, really) – she wants to know about map remakes. Go check out the post (which has some great answers from LAST week’s question, along with the new query), and then add your two cents!(Louis Wu 09:56:56 UTC)

mrsmiley let us know that Part 1 of the Master Chief Theater 3000 season finale is now available on YouTube – info is up on Pyrosmile.org. (They’ve also added an Extras section, containing outtakes from production – you have to register to get a link.)(Louis Wu 09:38:28 UTC)