Three new movies for you at Bungie.net (what, surprised?):

• ExterminatorV1 and GamemasterAT whipped up ‘Daylight’, a Halo 3 dualtage; this went live yesterday, but I missed it. Minimal editing, great gameplay – worth the 3 minutes.
• Americanista123 is back with another Bungie Employee Bloopers vid – 6 minutes of Bungie mishaps, glitches, and wtf moments.
• In case you haven’t had enough racetrack videos… there’s a new one, based on a map called ‘Cape Canaveral’. (There’s a modeled Space Shuttle in the middle of the map.) This one’s built on the ground, instead of Sandbox’s Sky Bubble – and has some nice action.

Go spend some time watching.(Louis Wu 17:40:07 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy has a new “Halo 3 by the numbers” feature for you – she calls it ‘The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth‘. I call it a painful reminder.(Louis Wu 17:29:14 UTC)

On Thursday night (seems odd to write that, because where I am, it’s still Thursday morning), Microsoft held a promotional event to show off Halo 3: ODST in Sydney, Australia. One major benefit – it’s just across the water from New Zealand, where Weta’s got all those cool Halo props… Partygoers got to pose in Weta’s Warthog – and one lucky person won a raffle to take it for a drive on the weekend. NeoGAF’s Zhuk was there, and took a bunch of photos; we’ve mirrored his impressions article (with his permission) because we don’t want to kill his photobucket account. Great writeup! Update: Zhuk posted a second batch of pics – we’ve included them here. If he adds more, we’ll grow that page.(Louis Wu 15:59:10 UTC)

Pete Cooper stopped by to say that fundraising is going swimmingly for the Operation Chastity project – they’re bringing in lots o’ cash! If you’d like to help, swing by the site!(Louis Wu 15:20:33 UTC)

Last Night, G4TV’s Gamer’s Choice awards, G-Phoria, announced winners for 2009 – Halo Wars took Best Strategy Game. (They were up for Best Soundtrack, as well, but lost out to Fallout 3.) Thanks, General Vagueness.(Louis Wu 15:18:43 UTC)

We got word from Woody Tondorf (a comedy writer for HBO – the broadcast network, not us – and a contributor to our Fan Fiction section for almost five years) that he’s been working on a fiction series set in the Halo universe known as ‘Minutemen’ – he’s been publishing chapters on his blog. (He submitted some of these to our Fanfic section – but these are expanded, more details chapters, including illustration.) Chapter 1 went up in early July – you can find it here. Chapter 6 went live a couple of days ago – he’s planning on uploading a new chapter every Monday. The series contains strong language, and the tone can be pretty dark at times. Go on by and give it a read!(Louis Wu 23:19:14 UTC)

Dennis Powers sent us a Halo Custom Edition update from Halomaps – more than 100 files were added during July, including the CMT SPv2 beta (mentioned earlier today), the Ring of Life videos (mentioned the last couple of Mondays), and some new maps – single-player maps like Rio Firefight and Salisp, and MP maps like Abandonment, Paradis Perdu, and Destiny. Go check ’em all out!(Louis Wu 20:18:40 UTC)

The latest community to be spotlighted is Outcast Reborn, a group that’s been around since 2005, and is still going strong. Go read about ’em on Bungie.net, then check out some of their favorite files in the Bungie Favorites section.(Louis Wu 18:39:25 UTC)