Schedonnardus let us know about a short clip on the Xbox LIVE Dashboard, viewable by visiting the ‘Spotlight’ section. For those without access to that particular fount of goodness, we’ve put up 720p versions for download – both QuickTime (90 mb) and WMP9 (106 mb) formats. It’s under 3 minutes, and consists of stock footage interspersed with an interview by an OXM reporter of a Weta employee, discussing how the hog differs from the in-game model… along with some driving practice. Fun! (Louis Wu 20:56:47 UTC)

Bored? Feel like playing with Bungie.net’s tagging system to find cool FileShare content? The latest example of urk’s tutorial series shows off some pretty sweet hammer pics.(Louis Wu 20:56:15 UTC)

Another fun highlight – Rast07’s Equipment Emporium, where you can buy anything you need to augment your battle fun, at discounted prices! (Louis Wu 20:51:07 UTC)

Bungie’s blog pointed out Real7alk’s Podcast #6 – a farewell to a site founder, and interview with a montage master, and a discussion with the moderators of halotech.org – 92 mb, 110 minutes. Go listen. (urk warns that you might need a bathroom break. Or something.)(Louis Wu 20:49:20 UTC)

Over at HaloGAF, Kibbles pointed out a pretty interesting YouTube vid… I’d love to know how this happened. (Minor spoilers, I suppose, for those who haven’t played Halo or Halo 2.)(Louis Wu 20:31:20 UTC)

ManKitten is working on an assault rifle – he’s even started up a facebook profile to keep track of progress. Check out his forum post for a link, and a pic of the progress so far.(Louis Wu 16:26:58 UTC)

It’s Monday – so TTL Demag0gue tells us about Reclaimer 132 – wherein Ferial gets a surprise. (Louis Wu 13:24:05 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy ran across a video which gives you a nice (hmm… maybe the wrong word) snapshot of Halo 3 voice chat on Xbox LIVE – people are pretty random, aren’t they?(Louis Wu 13:23:45 UTC)

Yesterday, Major Nelson released a list of the Top 20 LIVE Games of 2008, based on unique users… and Halo 3 came out on top of the pack. Impressive feat, given the competition! Thanks to many – first seems to have been LostSpartan987. (Louis Wu 13:23:23 UTC)

Apologies – the normal Fan Fiction update for Friday never made it out; life here’s been a little topsy-turvy. It’s up now, though – four new stories for you to read. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 13:22:32 UTC)