TTL Demag0gue has posted the latest Reclaimer – Ep 86 introduces yet MORE trouble for Viper.(Louis Wu 11:44:28 UTC)

InnerRayg noticed that Spawn.com has posted their 2009 Product Release list for Halo items – some pretty cool-sounding stuff there! Check it out.(Louis Wu 10:54:56 UTC)

Harabek found a rather massive Halo 3 machinima entitled ‘Why we kill’ over on YouTube – it’s not his, nor does he know the creators, but he was impressed enough to bring it to our forum’s attention. The message – that losing your humanity can be worse than losing your life – is one not often explored in Halo machinima, and though it’s might be a little long, ‘Why we kill’ is an interesting piece.(Louis Wu 10:53:22 UTC)

The latest article is up at Ascendant Justice – vociferous has continued the ‘Architecture of War’ series, and Part III looks at The Enemy. He makes the argument that the opponents you face are, in many ways, the most critical part of any encounter – more important than The Environment and The Sandbox – and he makes it well. Go read it. Thanks, rhubarb.(Louis Wu 10:47:08 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy wants to know what your Halo playing style is. To help, she’s linked to a left brain/right brain survey; take it and then join in the discussion!(Louis Wu 10:40:10 UTC)

Boilerman Bill let us know about a music video he’d created – it’s set to Iron Maiden’s ‘Run to the Hills’, and recreates the story told by the song. Nice piece of work!(Louis Wu 10:38:17 UTC)

IGN editors sat around discussing what the next Halo game should contain – then wrote it up. Like a standard forum discussion, except as an IGN article. Thanks, Metalingus627.(Louis Wu 10:37:42 UTC)

BlueNinja posted another batch of panoramic shots – this one is dark and grey. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 10:37:09 UTC)

Your Halo playing has to take place this weekend without a double experience playlist (unless you want to count Ranked Big Team Battle) – and this is true for next weekend, too. Why? It has to do with the release of the September Matchmaking update, which is coming in late September, in time for Title Update 2, instead of at the START of the month, as usually happens. Sounds like it’ll be worth the wait, though…(Louis Wu 19:36:35 UTC)

OddGodHMK let us know that Chapter 1, Page 2 of The Biased is now online. Someone’s calling… and it doesn’t sound good.(Louis Wu 19:33:41 UTC)

He hasn’t left the house yet, but Fairfax (Marissa’s Bunny) has been getting his Halo 3 game on. First he tried on some helmets (he skipped the one that was OBVIOUSLY too big), then decided he’d just play some Halo 3. (Check out those slick A40s!) Follow his latest exploits in the gallery we set up for him!(Louis Wu 14:45:51 UTC)

pete_the_duck posted a series of comics he made a while ago that never got released because he didn’t think they were funny. I think he was wrong.(Louis Wu 14:42:44 UTC)

R3y’s GameDay interviewed Matt Soell and Doug Zartman yesterday about Stubbs the Zombie, and its release on Xbox Live Arcade. There’s some interesting discussion of open-ended gameplay in Stubbs, and how some of this was inspired by the game’s Halo roots. Thanks to Matt himself for letting us know!(Louis Wu 14:36:55 UTC)

Mark25 has written up the Fan Fic Pick of the Week this week over at the HBO Fan Fiction forum – thanks to The 14th Wonder for pointing it out. (The fact that he won might have something to do with his excitement…)(Louis Wu 14:23:06 UTC)

Lots of Halo Wars discussion this morning – Avateur noticed a Kotaku article talking about the new structure of Ensemble (and how it’s reminiscent of Bungie’s situation), Narcogen did his own analysis of the situation over at Rampancy.net, and SteelersX07 pointed out that the Halo Wars site has some reassurances from Dave Pottinger, Halo Wars Lead Designer. Interesting times…(Louis Wu 14:20:18 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy continues her Cortana fan art exploration with a new piece today – I like it!(Louis Wu 14:02:26 UTC)