Halcylon put together a stickytage – a montage composed entirely of stickies. It’s available in HD. Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 18:36:56 UTC)

Daniel “Tyrant” Morris let us know that the next Monthly Mythic Challenge is being kicked off a little early – it starts on December 26, and finishes on January 1. You have those seven days to complete Halo 3 on Mythic difficulty – if you’re the first to do so, you’ll win 4000 MS points. Remember, you can use his Halo 3 Mythic Walkthrough to help you out. Changes this time around: folks who’ve already beaten Halo 3 on Mythic difficulty can compete, as long as they also acquire the Mythic Medals along the way (check the Mythic Ranks page for classifications of Mythic conquerers, and the bottom of the challenge page for which medals need to be finished for each class.) There are even rules for Multi-Mythic – folks completing Mythic with friends. Get to preparing – the January challenge begins in just 11 days! (Louis Wu 18:06:20 UTC)

Episode 7 of DigitalPh33r’s Hard Justice series was released a few days ago – thanks to urk for the heads-up. High-tech surveillance doesn’t always mean high quality surveillance.(Louis Wu 18:05:38 UTC)

Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked 46 is now live – there’s even worse stuff in that valley than the marines thought. (Louis Wu 18:05:20 UTC)

I… wow. I don’t know what to say about this. Cleveland.com has an update on a court case that began last October, when a 16-year-old boy was barred from buying Halo 3 by his parents. In retribution for this, the boy shot both of his parents in the head, killing his mother and wounding his father, a pastor. It’s difficult to look at the facts in the case and say “the parents did a bad job”, or “the boy clearly had problems that weren’t being addressed” – from the details available in the original story, it would appear he was a normal kid with a normal life. Would something else have driven him to this extreme if it hadn’t been a video game? It’s impossible to say… but it’s a frightening case that should make you think a little bit about violence in our society.(Louis Wu 17:00:53 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy is taking on the massive task of running a ‘Best of Halo’ awards ceremony for 2008 – and is currently accepting nominations in a variety of categories. Swing by and make her job easier! (Louis Wu 16:45:51 UTC)

More from TTL Demag0gue – he’s kicked off Halo 3 Webcomics, and is providing a home for anyone who wants to publish a Halo-based webcomic. Nice! (Louis Wu 16:45:21 UTC)

mendicantbias00 let us know about his nephew, who created a pretty cool Halo-based oil painting… at age 12. Swing by the thunder and the surf for full details. (Louis Wu 16:44:34 UTC)

MTV’s Stephen Totilo has a few previously-unknown tidbits to share about Halo Wars – one of the hero units available will be a female spartan, for example, and the Halo Wars story will explain how canon is not broken between Halo and here. Go read the rest! (Louis Wu 16:43:36 UTC)

Firestorm12 let us know that the HaloPen Pencast Episode 3 is now online – comments can go on their forum. Discussion revolves around their newest projects – Quixotical and Quixotical: {CITIZEN TRANSFER} (you can contribute here, or learn more here).(Louis Wu 16:43:00 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue stopped in to point out Reclaimer 124 – and more of Ferial’s machininations become clear.(Louis Wu 16:42:26 UTC)