HBO has a long history of helping fans get through the toughest parts of Halo Campaign play – Asmodeus wrote up a Legendary Walkthrough of Halo, and Mike Miller put together a much-lauded guide that could get you through Halo 2 on Legendary. For Halo 3, Daniel Morris (AKA Tyrant) has upped the ante – not content with a guide for muddling through on plain old Legendary, he’s built a Mythic Walkthrough – Solo, Legendary, All Skulls On. This is Halo 3 at its most difficult – Legendary difficulty, using 9 gold skulls, 4 silver ones (and don’t think the silver ones are all sweetness and light – the Blind skull, for example, removes your HUD, meaning you have no easy access to health or weapon status, and you have no reticule for targeting). Just showing a runthrough, though, would be somewhat useless, from the standpoint of teaching you useful skills – if that’s all you want, you should swing by High Speed Halo and check out the SLASO runs. No, what Tyrant gives you is much, much more useful – it’s a guide you can follow that will get most of us actually THROUGH THE GAME on this difficulty. There are several pages of general tips, and then a guide for each specific level. We’ll be releasing one level per week – there are a lot of video clips that go with each level, and we want to make sure we have the bandwidth to support everyone who wants to try this. First up – Sierra 117. Read the text, watch the video clips (download them, so you can refer to them during your run)… and you’re well on your way to finishing Halo at its most challenging!(Louis Wu 15:25:40 UTC)

Red vs Blue: Reconstruction Chapter 16 is now live – both the free public version and the extended cut for sponsors. Things are getting a little crazy; Washington does a lot of explaining, and while we won’t post any spoilers, if you’ve watched it and are trying to figure out what the implications are, there’s a lively discussion going on on our forum. (Do NOT read it before you watch – there are spoilers in almost every post.)(Louis Wu 13:18:46 UTC)

XerxdeeJ stopped by early this morning to announce new content at Tied the Leader – it’s a look at a recent study of gaming and American youth, putting the findings into perspective that the Halo community can appreciate. An interesting read! (Louis Wu 13:18:29 UTC)

Tony ‘ubald’ Marcotte sent word that he’s finished another render. This one is entitled ‘RRTU Scorpion Group‘ – that’s not a team I’d mess with! Check it out – and look through his whole gallery if you haven’t seen the rest of his stuff! (Louis Wu 13:18:03 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy ran across a Cafe Press shirt inspired by a Newgrounds Halo Flash vid – and it tickled her fancy. I’m pretty sure I’d never actually WEAR it… but it’s funny.(Louis Wu 13:17:30 UTC)

Dennis Powers sent us the September Update for the Halo Custom Edition game Archive – there are 60 new maps and assets, bringing the total up to 3,555 items. Highlights this month include Painball beta, a mountaintop level by halorider, Insomnia, a nighttime map from GAIGHER, and Peril, a mountainside level from Higuy. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 13:16:59 UTC)

Crispy stopped by to announce a new website that contains at least three comic series – with potentially more on the way. Go see what he’s got to offer! (Louis Wu 13:16:37 UTC)

UnSiLeNtSlAyEr pointed out that Master Chief Theater 3000: Episode 204 is online, covering the Whisper in the Storm cutscene.(Louis Wu 20:42:51 UTC)

More new comics, listed on our forum – anthraxgoon let us know that X36 Issue 3 is online, and Raulboy posted the first two ‘White Space’ strips.(Louis Wu 20:40:30 UTC)

That woman… she’s gonna be the death of me. A risqué title for a new article over at Hawty McBloggy’s leads to a discussion about a fan-made grenade that started life as a Christmas ornament. This somehow got her to dreams of sticky blue balls – oh, man. Go read.(Louis Wu 20:31:17 UTC)

It’s Monday, so TTL Demag0gue let us know there’s a new Reclaimer up – Episode 93 shows that the Reclaimer doesn’t think a lot of the Cavalcade’s ability to help him. (It’s also a day for Chapter 1, Page 7 of The Biased, from OddGodHMK – lots of dead people.)(Louis Wu 17:49:24 UTC)

Rockslider has stopped into our forum with word of a redesign of Bad Cyborg (his website devoted to Halo campaign shenanigans), and a walkthrough of a solo attack on the third tower of The Covenant. Check ’em out! (Louis Wu 17:43:26 UTC)

A Halo fan has created a Halo mod for LittleBigPlanet – check out the video at GameXtract.(Louis Wu 17:42:48 UTC)

The newest Bryan Simon tune is now up on YouTube – it’s an ode to The Banhammer, and heeding its advice will keep you playing Halo 3 on Xbox LIVE. (There’s even a kind word for my current situation.) If you’d rather have an MP3 version of the tune, grab it from us here (3mb).(Louis Wu 16:53:05 UTC)

SonofMacPhisto ran across a video entitled Halo 3 Campaign: Ep 1 – Tsavo Highway while exploring YouTube. Richardson Pictures, the creator, has used the Halo 3 saved films feature, voice acting, and some dramatic music to reproduce the Tsavo Highway level as a movie. Some nice camera angles! (The creator has followed up with Ep. 2 – Sierra 117 at this point.)(Louis Wu 14:56:05 UTC)

Wow, it’s a little late to be announcing this… but we just got word from job syne of a contest for the Lego Halo Group at Flickr. It ends tomorrow, unfortunately. We were sent this link specifically – a very cool recreation of Rat’s Nest. (It’s unclear whether job syne is Vidgamer838, the creator, or just a fan.)(Louis Wu 14:49:55 UTC)

My7hos reminded us that there are only a few hours left in his TTL Foundation charity auctions on eBay – Round 2 contains both boxed and unboxed action figures, and all profits go to the Tied the Leader Foundation!(Louis Wu 16:30:37 UTC)

A few weeks ago, we mentioned smick6’s Brute Spiker – if you really, really wanted one, now’s your chance. He’s selling one on eBay – starting bid is $250, and you’ve got almost a week to make up your mind. Go look! (There are lots more pictures of the project as it was being completed in our gallery.)(Louis Wu 14:28:43 UTC)