someone_new posted an arrangement of Halo 2’s ‘Unforgotten’ for string orchestra over at Rampancy.net – go download it! (Remember, you must be logged in to see the download link.)(Louis Wu 13:18:20 UTC)

SirTopEmHat stopped by yesterday to announce The Dead Serious Tage 2 Trailer – production values are quite high, and this one looks like it’s gonna be great! Check out the trailer. (It’s not a typical montage.)(Louis Wu 13:16:53 UTC)

Gamespot’s Best of 2007 section is up, and they’re looking for your votes. Swing by and tell ’em what you think! Thanks, JeSteR 343.(Louis Wu 13:15:11 UTC)

Wired’s Game|Life put up their Ten Biggest Disappointments Of 2007, and Halo 3 pulled down two of ’em – the cheesy packaging that caused a bunch of Limited Edition buyers to unwrap scratched discs, and the huge sales of Halo 3 (because of what that says about the REST of the industry). Interesting. Go read the whole list.(Louis Wu 13:12:52 UTC)

Gamescore Blog has a video interview that Chris Paladino did with Frankie during the Spike TV awards show – they talk about the awards, about the Heroic Maps (which at that point hadn’t been released yet), about Recon armor. Go watch!(Louis Wu 02:08:33 UTC)

The last Bungie Weekly Update of 2007 is now available at Bungie.net (and, of course, also in our Weekly Update Archive – with WAY better html, I might add). Most of it is devoted to explaining the changes to the Halo 3 playlist that went live in the last couple of days, but there are also a few other fun tidbits. Go read!(Louis Wu 02:03:13 UTC)

A few days ago, we mentioned some fiberglass-based Halo armor, being created by MLC. We’ve been sent some higher-res pictures to start a collection here, and will add to it as the armor takes shape. For now, check out the helmet, along with notes on how it was created! Thanks, Xavier.(Louis Wu 19:34:45 UTC)

You might remember a custom female Spartan figure for sale on eBay back around the time Halo 3 launched; the artist is back, with two new versions. One’s pink and one’s green; they’ve got different weapons this time out, and they’re missing the fishnet tops… but beyond that, they look pretty similar. Bidding starts at $159, you’ve got a few days. Thanks, bs angel!(Louis Wu 19:13:34 UTC)

Stuntmutt’s Advent Calendar is nearly full; today’s entry mixes a holiday joke with a bad pun. …wait, that’s every entry.(Louis Wu 17:55:28 UTC)

J C let us know that Master Replicas has posted their 2008 Product Line Announcement… and there are a number of new Halo items on the list. Go see what you’ll be spending your money on next year!(Louis Wu 17:52:47 UTC)

GameDaily posted a list fo the ‘20 Biggest Stories that Rocked Our World in ’07‘ – 10 was Bungie leaving Microsoft, and 7 was Halo 3’s amazing first-week numbers. Not bad!(Louis Wu 17:51:02 UTC)

Ultimate Dragon has created another Rube Goldberg machine – you might remember ‘How to trap a noob‘, back in November… this time the noob gets revenge. Check out “Sniper vs. Noob: The Noob Strikes Back“, on YouTube. Pretty sweet kill! (Louis Wu 12:53:18 UTC)

Foundry Variants, from the Pros One of the perks for Bungie employees is that they get to stick their Foundry creations into the Bungie Favorites category whenever they want; go grab the maps mentioned in this article and see if it’s favoritism… or just plain good mapmaking. (Before anyone gets bent out of shape about the wording of this post: these guys build multiplayer maps for a living, and many of you just paid $10 for three of their products; here are three more, sort of, that cost you nothing.)(Louis Wu 12:42:42 UTC)

Fourteen new pieces – prose and poetry, and even song – available for you today in the Fan Fiction section. Go read!(Louis Wu 12:38:39 UTC)

john.cb let us know that Episode 3 of Spriggs is up, both at their website, and on YouTube. Willy thinks he’s going to kill Spriggs… but Willy is wrong. Poor Willy! (Louis Wu 12:31:26 UTC)

Last week’s Humpday writeup mentioned that Bungie had played The Frag Dolls – it doesn’t, any more, but it did. And now we get the Frag Dolls Matchup in writing; this took place 10 days ago, but it’s still a win for Bungie. Having been fragged by at least one of these Dolls, I have to wonder how Bungie pulled this one off… I’m gonna have to call shenanigans. Go read, though – Luke makes it exciting.(Louis Wu 12:25:25 UTC)

BlitzSnake let us know that he’d posted an episode of a machinima program called ‘Neurons’ last summer – he’s still working on Episode 2, and looking back, he feels Episode 1 is somewhat ‘cheesy’ (his word) compared to what 2 will look like… but it’s still pretty well done; check it out on YouTube!(Louis Wu 12:18:31 UTC)