Out all morning, half the afternoon – just enough time for Bungie.net to churn out a Prowler-load of new Halo content:

• The Running Riot Podcast is broadcasting live again on August 18, 9:30 pm EST. Guests are Jironimo and Cocopjojo from Ascendant Justice – should be fascinating!
• A Deaf Boy whipped up a new screenshot montage – this one focusing on the Halo 3 campaign. Gorgeous!
• phatcorns whipped up another one of his 3rd-person montages – I gotta say, these are my absolute favorite class of montage, and phatcorns does an amazing job; go look at Rocket Blues Sunset Hues.
• Phurion and Hyena (and friends) put together a ‘Ninjatage’ (lots of backsmacks) – it’s called Ninjitsu. Timing’s nice, though the material gets a bit repetitive after a while.
• The latest Tag and Release feature uses the tag ‘The Cutting Edge’. Looking at the results, I’m not sure I understand the connection… but I can’t deny they’re cool shots!

Well, that ought to do it – go catch up!(Louis Wu 19:06:01 UTC)

The latest Katonian Press article at Hawty McBloggy looks at the new Dashboard update for the Xbox 360 – and what it means for Halo 3 players who feel their feedback options are limited. I’m glad the details of this are finally getting out!(Louis Wu 11:12:18 UTC)

Australia’s Gameplanet interviewed Curtis Creamer about Halo 3: ODST – he discusses Weta’s Warthog, what Bungie wanted to do with ODST, and more. Good read!(Louis Wu 10:48:04 UTC)

MSNBC’s Tech Watch has an interview with Frank O’Connor – he discusses how the Halo Legends project came to pass, and what you can expect from it. Nice discussion! Thanks, DarkSky Forever. (Louis Wu 10:47:24 UTC)

TDSpiral let us know about a Halo music video he’d created – it’s set to Muse’s ‘Take a Bow’, and it’s not your typical HMV. Even though almost all the footage is static… it’s got a lot of energy. Try it out!(Louis Wu 10:46:57 UTC)

Atomic MPC put together a preview article about Halo 3: ODST, based on their experiences at the Sydney press event last week. If you’re making sure you read everything… read this.(Louis Wu 10:46:12 UTC)

Xbox Evolved has posted a rumor that Microsoft will re-release Halo 2 on their ‘Games on Demand’ service next month, as part of the Halo 3: ODST hype machine – and then follow it up with a value-priced version of ODST itself on the service. (Given that Bungie has said that the Halo 3 Multiplayer portion of ODST was not really designed to be run from the hard drive, this seems a LITTLE hard to swallow… but we’ll wait and see.) (Louis Wu 10:45:01 UTC)

You might remember the Ghosts of Onyx Preview comic that Leviathan and UNSC_Trooper were working on – the first page went up on July 20, and the second page went live a couple of days ago. Last night, Leviathan sent along the finished comic (9 pages, plus a cover and credits) – you can grab the PDF from us here (4 mb). If you like the cover art, but wish you could see it without logos or text – swing by his forum post; he’s put up a nice big version. Amazing work!(Louis Wu 18:46:32 UTC)

wraps52 noticed a trailer showing off the Risk: Halo Wars edition game over at TeamXbox. I think this could have been done just fine with screenshots… but hey, I’m not in marketing. Go read the promo text, and watch the vid. (It’s only 2 minutes.)(Louis Wu 18:34:33 UTC)