The latest render from Tony ‘Ubald’ Marcotte went live in his gallery here today – ‘Spartan’ is a great shot with an epic feel to it. Take a look!(Louis Wu 18:00:18 UTC)

Newsarama’s John Stvan played some Halo 3: ODST Firefight at PAX – and wrote up his experience yesterday. Go give it a read.(Louis Wu 17:35:48 UTC)

Another day, another huge batch of videos, courtesy of the BungLog™:

• Aberrant Designs whipped up a screenshot montage
• The Skookumchuk released his second goosetage
• Stewie2552 shared Funny Halo Fails and Laughs 6
• Clantacular.com has announced their first Top 10 Plays vid
• The August ESPN/MLG Top Ten is live (this one, as usual, deserves special mention – amazing plays)

Send urk a note – tell him he’s making me watch a LOT of movies, and could he slow down? Thanks.(Louis Wu 17:30:03 UTC)

xmoosev3 was the first on our forum to point out a tweet from the Halo Waypoint team… looks like Waypoint’s going live on November 5.(Louis Wu 17:01:46 UTC)

The 405th was out in force at last weekend’s Dragoncon 2009 in Atlanta, GA – and you can see some great pics in this thread on their forum (thanks, Sean Bradley). Sean’s own photos can be found at photobucket – including a brand-new energy sword he debuted at this event. (More on that coming soon!) Check this stuff out – it’s amazing.(Louis Wu 16:51:07 UTC)

RVideo was the first to point out a new song from Mac and Cheese – it’s called ‘Master Chief Left Me‘, and it’ll make you cry. (Not so much from the story, either.)(Louis Wu 16:44:39 UTC)

Adam De La Rosa let us know about a new image created by Halcylon and posted recently on Hawty McBloggy’s forum it’s called ‘We Are ODST’, and while it was inspired by the live-action flick, all the imagery comes from the game. Nice piece of work!(Louis Wu 16:42:26 UTC)