NeoGAF’s Kibbles ran across a couple of videos recorded by fans at the Sydney event this week – this one has an intro by Curtis Creamer, and then the opening custscene of the game… and this one shows off the first level’s gameplay. (All of this has been seen before – but whenever you watch existing content from a new vantage point, you stand a chance of seeing something you missed before.)(Louis Wu 18:11:37 UTC)

Hopefully it’s not too late to remind you that it’s August 7, which means Bungie’s running its special 7 on the 7th playlist on Xbox LIVE – and this month, it’s full of community-formed maps. What are you waiting for? Get online! (Eazy’s map doesn’t suck.)(Louis Wu 18:06:22 UTC)

It’s been a little while since the last Aesthetic Artist Interview… but the series is back, with a mole. TheMoleN1, to be precise. Go read about how he got into this business… and check out a huge collection of his work! Thanks to COL0NEL SANDERS for the interview work this time out.(Louis Wu 17:58:34 UTC)

Back in April, 2008, we took over the hosting of Haloscreenshots.net, sorahn’s handy-dandy screenshot collection site. At the time, it was a 20GB package – I don’t remember how many screens were there, but it wasn’t that many. Fast forward 15 months… and this beast is half a million screenshots, 130GB in size. It’s beginning to reach a point where we can’t handle it any more. I’m not taking it down – but we HAVE turned off updates for the time being, and sorahn is looking for anyone interested in taking over the hosting. If you’ve got a ton of space (and a decent amount of bandwidth) – let him know!(Louis Wu 17:50:20 UTC)

GivinTats built an entire Halo world… for his fish. You can read about the construction, and check out his Flickr stream showing off the work, on Bungie.net. Lucky fish!(Louis Wu 17:38:49 UTC)

Friday afternoon’s video roundup on the BungLog™

• Rogue Modder submitted a SLASONK run – Solo, Legendary, All Skulls On, No Kills. Before you pooh-pooh that it’s just Floodgate… try to do the run yourself. (It ain’t easy.)
• Pissed Iguana’s back with Spartans Versus Beanies: Episode 2 – just when you thought it couldn’t get any sillier.
• HIH’s BigGruntyThirst got a ton of stuff to the top of the tunnel exit shelf on the second level of the original Halo. This is, quite simply, insane.

Go watch!(Louis Wu 17:33:49 UTC)