WCG’s The Ultimate Gamer was on last night – the episode focused on Halo 3. Our forumites had some comments about the choices in the show. There are clips available on both SciFi.com (here, for example, is the final match that decided who was leaving the show this week) and WCG.com (here’s the episode page). (Louis Wu 14:41:01 UTC)

Justin Laboy pointed out a story on ESPN’s website – looks like Heath Bell, replaced Trevor Hoffman as the San Diego Padres relief pitcher, has chosen Breaking Benjamin’s ‘Blow Me Away’ (from the Halo 2 soundtrack) as the song that brings him out onto the field. Nice!(Louis Wu 14:26:28 UTC)

Laird stopped in with some disheartening news; he’s admitting defeat, and closing down Halo: Unyielding. He did provide a Word document containing the rest of the story, however… go see how it would have turned out. (He’s still planning on finishing the first 4 minutes.)(Louis Wu 14:10:18 UTC)

gunluva pointed out an article at Kotaku about the upcoming ‘Halo Encyclopedia’ coming from DK Publishing. Should be chock-full of goodies for the Halo story enthusiast! (This clarifies a post made by petin yesterday – this will NOT be a public release of the ‘Halo Bible’, but it WILL contain a large amount of background information.)(Louis Wu 14:08:41 UTC)

We missed it yesterday – but luckily, you’ve got until tomorrow morning. The 7 on the 7th list went live this month – jump in for 7v7 action on Avalanche, and a chance to grab the 7 on the 7th Achievement! (Louis Wu 13:50:45 UTC)

Pete Cooper stopped by yesterday with a pair of photos – looks like work on his real-life Warthog is continuing apace! (Louis Wu 13:44:34 UTC)

PsH Bling sent along a link to a High Impact Halo thread which includes pictures of some store stand-up displays for Halo Wars… that for some reason are missing the Spartans’ heads. (Apparently, the STORE did this.) Weird! Update: AnTi PRO let us know that Gamespot policy requires destruction of those displays when they’re no longer needed – which is probably the reason for the lack of heads.(Louis Wu 13:43:07 UTC)

Yay! It’s Wednesday, so there are a bunch of Halo Comics to tell you about!

• Fried Cookie789 told urk about 2501 Episode 37 – Not Much Luck.
• Dennis Powers sent word of Shipwrecked Episode 62 – A Drive in the Park (I’d have shot it).
• Elnea posted Halo Action Figure Theater 168 – Jinx. I’m not sure what’s going on any more.
• Adam Susskind stopped in with word of Chaos Theory Ep. 18: Mysteries Exposed – and the longest monologue since Shakespearean times.
• Bloogyo reminded us that he’s looking for jokes for upcoming Rat’s Nest episodes – and also announced Episode 8 5.
• Hawty McBloggy sent word of ODS Steve 21: Rock, Paper, Needler. Hope that map’s not made of paper.
• TTL Demag0gue let us know about Reclaimer 174 – Duck-and-Cover… it looks like Portent is still a little screwy.

Wonga. Now THAT’S a list. (Louis Wu 12:59:06 UTC)