Sep7imus alerted us to a note on the website of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, a Hollywood comedy theater. On Thursday, March 20, at 9:30 pm, they’re hosting ‘Halo 3: The Show’, based on (well, duh) Halo 3. A panel of celebrities (including Halo 3 voice actors Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk) will discuss the game, show video clips, and more. Check out the web page for full details. Hey – it’s only $5! Reserve your tickets today.(Louis Wu 15:34:52 UTC)

spu7n1k has been working (for a while) on a ‘Master Chief vs Spiderman’ comic – he’s decided to start posting these to spur himself to faster progress. I’m not sure if you should ask why these two guys are fighting… but if you wanted to see them do it, swing by his post!(Louis Wu 15:20:35 UTC)

DHalo let us know that he’s created an app that works with the HaloAPI to save your stats to a file on your drive. It requires Windows (and .NET) to run. A download link is in his post on the HaloAPI forum.(Louis Wu 15:06:16 UTC)

Brian Jarrard sat down with IGN Australia to talk about Forge, user-created content, and where Bungie wants to go with all this stuff in the future. Nice read! Thanks to cheapLEY for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 15:03:16 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy picked out some kickass Halo 3 Wallpaper designs from around the net – she got a bunch from here, but she also got a bunch from other places. Go see! Thanks, discopete019.(Louis Wu 23:15:54 UTC)

Bungie’s posted info about the March Playlist update over at Bungie.net – they’re introducing DoubleXP weekend playlists, with the first one featuring Grifball. They’re also adding some tweaks to the Heroic DLC hopper, and some random changes to other playlists. Go read for full details! Thanks, Pkmnrulz240.(Louis Wu 23:13:03 UTC)

Cody Miller posted highlights from the recent High Speed Halo tournament – check out the videos in his forum post. Looks like it was a lot of fun!(Louis Wu 21:40:03 UTC)

Bungie Lead Mission Designer Chris Opdahl has a sister at the Magnolia Intermediate School in Grass Valley, CA – and he’s managed to get her a Bungie-signed Legendary Helmet to auction on eBay as a fundraiser for the school. If you’re interested in the helmet, or in helping out the school… swing by the auction page!(Louis Wu 14:28:02 UTC)

Schedonnardus went to an Election Coverage party at his school last night (he lives in Texas)… and snapped some pictures of a blue Master Chief pulling for Ron Paul. Check out his forum post for pics, and a vid.(Louis Wu 12:45:21 UTC)

QuickTactical showed off a YouTube vid of 4 school bands playing a Halo piece together – apparently, this was only the second time they’d played it as a group. Not bad!(Louis Wu 12:41:30 UTC)

Blinding stopped by to announce a ‘Forging Contest’ – he’s looking for a Forged map he can use to make machinima, and (for now, at least), the winner will get to have their map used in a Halo 3 machinima. (Eventually, if he makes enough money from Google’s AdSense, he’ll offer other goodies – but for now, it’s the pride of winning.) Read all the details, including what he needs, in his forum post.(Louis Wu 12:39:15 UTC)

The Spawn.com website is giving away two complete sets of the McFarlane Halo 3 Series 1 figures – just fill in the form here, and you might win! (Hurry; contest ends next Thursday.)(Louis Wu 12:36:02 UTC)

oriol003 wanted us to know about a news post at Grunts R Us – apparently, a significant number of the Recon winners from the Valentines Day playlist have been ‘hacked’, and had their accounts stolen. (I have no way of verifying this information – but for the purposes of this newspost, we’ll assume it’s true.) I don’t work for Microsoft, and I’m not privy to huge amounts of backroom information – but the info I DO have (not about these cases specifically, but about older ones) suggests that most of the time, ‘hacking’ entails guessing a simple password. If you don’t want your Xbox Live account stolen… make sure your password is secure. (That doesn’t only mean not telling anybody. That means following basic password safety rules – don’t use real words, don’t use facts about your life (like your birthday), mix lower/uppercase letters, add numbers, make sure it’s long enough, and so on.) It is very, very, VERY unlikely that these accounts are being taken over by tricking representatives at the Xbox Live service center – and it’s even MORE unlikely that someone is actually ‘hacking’ into the LIVE database and accessing the accounts directly. Be safe, and your chances of being on this list are about the same as your chances of being hit by lightning… twice.(Louis Wu 12:31:05 UTC)