Andrew Kleiner let us know that two new chapters of his Halo 3 screenshot comic, ‘Outbreak’, are now up – swing by his website for downloads. Volume 2, Chapter 4 (‘Recall’) is here, and Volume 2, Chapter 5 (‘The Calm Before the Storm’) is here.(Louis Wu 15:01:25 UTC)

Brad McMullen let us know that Stephen Loftus isn’t the only Halo fan obsessed with the Pillar of Autumn – his buddy AlmightyNabeshin, over at DeviantArt, has been posting his own cool PoA pieces. Check out a structural study, a cross-section of the ship (color-coded for functionality), and a pretty cool front-end view (not quite finished). Nice work! (Louis Wu 14:57:50 UTC)

Ryan Hamilton stopped by to announce a Halo song he created – it’s called ‘Playing Halo (ODST Remix)’, and it’s available on his MySpace page. Unfortunately, the page doesn’t display correctly unless you’re using IE on a Windows box – which leaves a lot of users (Mac users, Firefox users, etc) out in the cold. We’ve grabbed a local copy of the MP3 – you can download it from our server (2.5 mb). (If Ryan has a problem with this, we’ll certainly take it back down.) (Louis Wu 14:46:56 UTC)

Two new vids were highlighted yesterday afternoon on the Bungie Blog – Inside Halo Episode 29 is up at YouTube (typical Dead Pixel wackiness), and one of the ‘top 5 kills’ in that vid has its OWN vid – a father-and-son team rack up a pair of Killionaires in a Gauss hog on Standoff… great show.(Louis Wu 14:42:39 UTC)

Monochron noticed yet another GameDaily article that mentions Halo – this one picks the top 25 game logos of all time (based on their potential for tattoos, apparently) – and the Halo 3 logo comes in second. (Quake takes the top spot.)(Louis Wu 14:41:34 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy found a plasma pistol montage – it’s all kills with the plasma pistol. No, not an overcharge and then a beatdown/headshot/whatever… but actual kills by being hit with plasma shots. Some of these you have to wonder about – they take him many, many seconds to finish off his opponents, who totally fail at returning the favor. Quality’s borderline, but still fun. (You should watch the HQ version at YouTube.) (Louis Wu 14:39:52 UTC)

A million years ago (okay, really only 6.5 years ago), Karl “oldmano’theC” Nyman sent us a video he’d created using Pixels:3D and his own music. It was called ‘Halo Genesis•1’, and although it was tiny (320×180), it was gorgeous. Sometime in 2005, he remastered this video in a larger form factor (640×360) and newly-mixed audio… but we just heard about the new version today. If you watched this back in the day, give it another look. It’s prettier now. (9.6 mb, .AVI XviD format) If you’ve never seen this before, it’s definitely worth downloading. It’s Karl’s conception of the formation of a Halo ring, and it’s pretty fun. He told us we could use some screenshots to pique your interest – and if you like what you see, maybe take a look through his other stuff, too. (If you have trouble with the XviD version, for whatever reason, you can always go back and look at the original QuickTime version, in that first link.) (Louis Wu 20:49:03 UTC)

The Average Joe series at Bungie.net claims another victim today – urk sat down with Ascendant Justice’s Cocopjojo to talk about Halo, speakers, and Rockets on Chiron. It’s a good read!(Louis Wu 20:37:57 UTC)

mans1ay3r combined Halo 3 and Fallout 3 to make a pretty fun little video – check it out on YouTube! Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 20:33:11 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy noticed that the Halo Points program has finally kicked off over at McFarlane Toys – go see what you can pick up!(Louis Wu 20:18:52 UTC)

According to a post on the Bungie Blog, the latest episode of Chaos Theory is being released in pieces – Episode Eight: Part One is up now.(Louis Wu 20:13:47 UTC)