Pointless Lists has posted a series of stereoscopic Halo 3 screenshots, using the technique put forth by Kato a few months ago. If you’ve got 3D glasses, take a look! Update: whoa. Guess I should have checked our forum, first – Mike Carson (the guy behind Pointless Lists) mentioned this there about an hour ago.(Louis Wu 23:32:44 UTC)

The Riot 86, with Community Awards results (though not the actual awards ceremony itself), is now available for your listening pleasure, at Second-Foundation.net. 30 minutes, 12 mb, with lots of community news on top of the awards stuff. Go listen!(Louis Wu 22:11:01 UTC)

Last month, Hawty McBloggy kicked off a ‘Caption This’ contest, asking for submissions regarding a shot of Joe Staten holding an enormous spike grenade. Today, she’s posted the results of that contest – she got nearly 500 submissions, and narrowing it down was tough. You can read the winner, along with a number of honorable mentions. Good stuff!(Louis Wu 20:55:40 UTC)

GamingTV is running a ‘Laughs for Cash’ contest; you can read their front-page newspost about it, or just jump right to the announcement post on their forum for full details. Over $200 in prizes; submit a funny machinima, win cash. Check it out!(Louis Wu 20:03:46 UTC)

Darkspire Films wondered what Halo 3 would be like with extreme content enabled. Looks to be inspired by Quentin Tarantino. Pretty short (1:20 long), so go take a look!(Louis Wu 16:13:13 UTC)

This was supposed to go up yesterday – but… well, yesterday was something else. So it’s up today. Another Halo Comic Strip looks at what COULD have been… and says ‘thankya’.(Louis Wu 15:41:30 UTC)

Rockslider has found an interesting way to play the end of Tsavo Highway – it’s the acrobatic approach! Check it out.(Louis Wu 15:38:00 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy has posted some of the most impressive shots that have gone up in the past two weeks at i <3 halo screenshots – check ’em out, and then browse through the rest of the amazing collection. She’s adding several every day – and there are more features coming soon.(Louis Wu 23:12:07 UTC)

Narcogen let us know that HaloMusic.com – erm, sorry, I mean Rampancy.net – has a whole bunch of new music and music musings for you today. MJCrascal21 has submitted ‘Follow our Brothers’, ‘To Kill a Demon’, and ‘Covenant Dance’ to the Sheet Music database (some audio coming soon), and Narcogen has added part three of his Halo 3 Soundtrack Review, which finishes the project. (This last part tries to be a little less wordy than parts One and Two – but Narc explains in the comments that he’s planning to revisit some of the themes in later works, so he didn’t feel like he was shorting anything.) Good stuff!(Louis Wu 14:09:59 UTC)

In 2001, Halo was a finalist for 8 awards from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences – it won 4 of those. In 2005, Halo 2 was up for 6 awards – and again, won 4. This year, Halo 3 picked up a paltry two nominations (Outstanding Achievement in Online Game Play and Action Game of the Year) – and it lost both of those to Call of Duty 4 (which cleaned up, actually). Full results are here.(Louis Wu 13:39:05 UTC)

Spartan Jag was the first to notice that DigitalPh33r’s Arby ‘n’ Chief Episode 4 was up at Machinima.com (you can also find it on YouTube – thanks, Vincent). Topical – it focuses on melee attacks, and how they work (or don’t). Arby’ll probably take less verbal abuse by the end of the month…(Louis Wu 13:38:07 UTC)

The Bungie Weekly Update is up – there is in-depth info about the fixes to the Melee system in Halo 3 (coming later this month to an AutoUpdate near you!), with some fascinating behind-the-scenes numbers that should really help people looking for ways to maximize damage to others (and minimize their own death). There’s also info about dealing with cheaters, a confirmation that the Commando shoulders will be unlocked for everyone when the AU hits, some awesome news about an upcoming community-generated playlist, tidbits about the next DLC maps, news of a special Valentines Day hopper (yeah, because playing Halo 3 all night is DEFINITELY the way to score points with your SO), some TTL-generated artwork. Oh, yeah, and a little something something about an auction. What? Read it there, read it here. Your call.(Louis Wu 01:50:56 UTC)

Frank O’Connor, in a fit of charity, decided to create an honest-to-goodness real-media-on-canvas rendition of Mister Chief… and give you a chance to buy it. Not only that, but the money that you spend on this masterpiece will be going to the Brian Morden Foundation, which fights Ewing’s Sarcoma and other childhood cancers. (If you’d like to read more about how Brian Morden has affected the Halo community, swing by Bungie Sightings, and pick from the links on the right.) This piece is titled

“Here Lies the Last Sip of the Bourgeoisie Malaise Consommé.”

After you study it for a while, I’m sure you’ll understand where that came from. Go bid; you’ve got a week. (Louis Wu 01:33:49 UTC)

Another ‘you have to laugh, even though it’s mean’ Sarge-related, spoiler-laden One One Se7en today. Go read.(Louis Wu 20:12:13 UTC)

More cool concept art, and an interview with Ensemble’s Thunder, can be found over at the Halo Wars website. (Man, I wish they had permalinks on their news stories.) Good stuff! Thanks, Mike Hector.(Louis Wu 20:04:12 UTC)