Decadence Night put together a pair of very nice panoramas with Hornets getting toasted by Mongoose riders. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 20:12:46 UTC)

The latest Aesthetic Artist Interview is live – today, Team Pepto has a discussion with skm0000, a master of illusion. Go check out what he has to say – and some of his more impressive screenshots!(Louis Wu 18:00:26 UTC)

Need your Annual Achievement, but can’t find three friends who have the time to run through it with you? The Spartan 1 Project is here to help. Swing by their Bungie.net Group page to find willing helpers – or swing by this Bungie Blog post discussing their achievements to download a sub-15-minute Annual run!(Louis Wu 16:29:22 UTC)

The Halo 3 Gophers have kicked off a new website – and are hosting a Forge contest to celebrate. Swing by and check ’em out – and if you like to play with Forge, take a look at the contest. The best multiflag Sandbox variant wins either Microsoft Points or an action figure. You’ve got until the end of the month to submit.(Louis Wu 16:15:39 UTC)

HaLo2FrEeEk posted a meaty monster in our forum – it contains links to all the Halo Wars cutscenes, downloadable in both SD and HD, in both WMP9 and QuickTime. In fact, he’s put so much work into this, we didn’t feel like we couldn’t offer a permanent page for these videos. (We’re not hosting them; we’re halo.bungie.org, after all… but they’re beautiful, and they’re Halo-related, and the quality is up to the standards of the rest of our cutscenes.) Swing by our Cutscene Library for easy (and easy to find) access to all of these. (Be sure to stop by his site, Infectionist.com, for other goodies and a fun community!)(Louis Wu 12:19:29 UTC)

A really short comic list today – all we’ve got for you is 2501 Episode 50 (thanks, urk) and Reclaimer Episode 183 (thanks, TTL Demag0gue). Guess it’s gonna be a small cup of coffee…(Louis Wu 12:19:04 UTC)

retinence whipped out a brand-new Halo-related Bionicle – this one’s a Jackal. Extra pictures here. Where’s my carbine?(Louis Wu 12:18:38 UTC)

GeneticSpartan dropped by with word of ‘Colors‘, a Halo music vid he made based on the song by Kira Willey. Works well – very mellow! (Looks like Hawty McBloggy liked it too.) (Louis Wu 11:43:38 UTC)

RogueDarkJedi stopped in with word of Mindless Intentions Episode 3: Martyrdom. It looks at what might happen if a couple of the most popular XBL games were merged… I think my head might explode.(Louis Wu 11:43:01 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy has another round of Friday Caption Fun for you – highlights from last week, plus a Guardian shot just waiting to be defiled. See what you can do! (Louis Wu 11:42:23 UTC)

Halo0001 X sent word of Mandlbaum in: “White Bomb” [Part 3 of 3] – it’s a tribute to all those “so bad they’re good” movies from 20 or 30 years ago that you stumble across while you’re channel-surf, and then find yourself strangely unable to turn off. Starts a little slow… but it definitely picks up. Makes me want to go find some Starsky and Hutch episodes… (Louis Wu 11:41:48 UTC)

Podtacular 188 has been released – it discussed customs and creations from the Mythic maps (with a heavy focus on Sandbox, for obvious reasons). Guests are PainKilla05 and Captain Planet. 52 minutes, 24 mb.(Louis Wu 11:40:57 UTC)

A solid seven new pieces are available for you this week in the Fan Fiction section – go read! (Louis Wu 11:40:35 UTC)