Pete Cooper stopped in this morning to unveil the latest – and last – piece of concept art for the ‘Operation Chastity’ project. These pieces are so spectacular, we’ve collected them to make a small gallery; they deserve close attention. Check ’em out.(Louis Wu 19:22:46 UTC)

Goodies via the Bungie Blog:

• ‘First Contact‘ is a Halo machinima with some great graphics and a taut story. The date work could use a little help, but mostly, this is top-notch. View/download at Machinima.com.
• Halo Final Fantasy: It’s not the first time someone’s made an RPG in the Halo engine (check these posts – 1 | 2 | 3 – for an older series using Halo 2), but this one’s pretty well-done, and fun to watch. Check it out in High Quality at YouTube.

Again, thanks to urk for the links!(Louis Wu 19:12:40 UTC)

New comics released today: we heard from TTL Demag0gue that Reclaimer 148 (“Veil”) is live – and Ferial runs up against more than he expected. We also heard from Rob Tracy, who pointed out that the last of the Halo/Grifball comics (“GOAAAAAAAAAAAAL”) went live at Remedial comics today. (He also mentioned that his thoughts on the Halo Wars demo can be read in the blog post for today.) (Louis Wu 18:54:38 UTC)

bluerunner experienced a bizarre glitch while playing the Halo Wars Demo last night… here’s hoping it’s an isolated incident! Anyone seen this before?(Louis Wu 13:36:31 UTC)

The Halo 1 Tricking continues apace. Latest cool trick: slYnki has managed to get a Scorpion Tank onto one of AotCR’s suspension bridges. A trick long thought to be impossible… now on film! I heard about this one from lots of people – Dark Helmet even posted it in our forum.(Louis Wu 13:34:37 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy was the first to let us know about ODS Steve #13 – I gotta say, I have no idea what’s going on.(Louis Wu 13:33:49 UTC)

FyreWulff and Beserker Barage will be hosting a podcast soon… and they’re looking for a guest that has submitted a map to ATLAS (Bungie’s community mapmaking group) who wants to discuss their work. Read his forum post for details on how to get involved!(Louis Wu 13:33:02 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy has kicked off a community eValentine project – create a cool Halo-themed eCard you can give to a loved one, send it along to Hawty, and she’ll publish it on Friday. (Well, she’ll publish ‘worthy submissions’ – so try to avoid sending in naked pictures of yourself.)(Louis Wu 13:31:06 UTC)

Last night, Bungie put up a question and answer session with Tyson ‘Ferrex’ Green and John ‘JonnyOThan’ Cable, about the limits in Sandbox… or more accurately, the limits in Forge. Worth a read, if you’re considering building maps! It also contains every Forge object that will be available in Sandbox – and the list includes the makings of a golf course. Thanks, 2900d4u. (Louis Wu 13:27:15 UTC)

Anton P. Nym noticed that Halo Wars got a review at CTV.ca – it’s pretty positive. Take a look. (Louis Wu 13:22:15 UTC)

Spawn.com likes to make mini-sites for their collections of action figures; they’ve already done one for the Halo 3 Series 1 and Halo 3 Series 2 (never frontpaged here) figures. There’s a new one up – for their Halo Wars figures. Slick way to see what’s available! Check it out.(Louis Wu 13:19:38 UTC)