Okay, I thought i could come home and clear out the mail queue – but I didn’t count on the plane trip from hell. I’m pretty lucky I made the drive from the airport in one piece – there’s no way I can get coherent news on the front page. More tomorrow, I guess…(Louis Wu 19:55:47 UTC)

Xbox 360 Fanboy’s Dustin Burg posted a hands-on impression article of Assembly over at Joystiq – swing by and read the details. There’s a short video clip, as well. (More news coming later today; I’m posting this from the DFW airport as I wait for my connecting flight.)(Louis Wu 12:16:24 UTC)

kr-1426 stopped by the main forum to announce that the HBO Fan Fic Pick of the Week has been posted over on the Fan Fiction forum – go see what’s what this week!(Louis Wu 12:13:26 UTC)

More video and stills from PAX – Devin Olsen posted some fun stuff on our forum (Lots of Bungie people, playing Assembly, some intriguing Covenant symbols found around the map), and QuickTactical posted his set of photos of the event over at Halogrid. Go read about it!(Louis Wu 15:05:14 UTC)

According to LoneRanger 2.5, Lukems joined in on a live version of the 1UP Yours podcast at PAX yesterday. I haven’t been able to listen (crappy hotel connection), but you can grab a copy from 1Up to see if there’s any juicy Halo stuff in there!(Louis Wu 15:04:38 UTC)

Nabsuh announced a teaser trailer for Prophecy Episode 4 – this one is completely animated. More information about the project is available here. Jump over to YouTube to watch!(Louis Wu 15:04:13 UTC)

UNSC Trafalgar found an article that looks at the most expensive video games ever made. Halo 3 comes in at number 5.(Louis Wu 15:03:42 UTC)

DigitalPh33r has released part four of his Guide to Making Halo 3 Machinima – this one covers gameplay sequences, and saving them as films. Swing over to Machinima.com to download or stream it. Thanks, UnSilentSlayer.(Louis Wu 15:03:12 UTC)

H3MB pointed out a new video from DTHClan called ‘Halo 3 Mythbusters, Episode 1‘ – they go through a number of ‘myths’ of actions that you might or might not actually be able to do in Halo 3 matchmaking, and test them. Some of these are pretty interesting!(Louis Wu 15:02:44 UTC)

Mike Riess, of H3Press, reminded us that the music video contest they kicked off in early August is closing in seven days – and they’ve only got 3 submissions so far. There are over $100 in prizes – your chances are pretty good if you submit something!(Louis Wu 15:02:19 UTC)

Last night, at their PAX Q&A panel, Rooster Teeth unveiled an amazing animated short showing off the Red vs Blue characters in a completely different context. They’re not ready to DO anything with this material yet (they’re in the feeling-out stages with various parties), so they’re not planning on putting it online any time soon… but (as could be expected) the session was shakeycammed, and can be watched online (thanks, 2900d4u). These vids are totally unworthy representations of this footage… but they’re all you’re gonna get for the near future.(Louis Wu 15:37:53 UTC)

MasterChief2829 found another couple of gameplay vids showing off Assembly gameplay – and Kotaku has one, too. I’m sure there’ll be more throughout the weekend.(Louis Wu 15:37:27 UTC)

The Seattle Times has a profile piece on Alexis “Mischief” Hebert, one of the Frag Dolls, in the context of her preparations for tomorrow’s 128-team Halo 3 tournament at PAX. Nice look into the online life of a frontline female gamer!(Louis Wu 15:36:59 UTC)

The folks at CrunchGear have put up a video walkthrough (er, runthrough? wanderthrough, with dying?) of one of their guys playing the new map while at PAX. Go look! Thanks go to DMFanella for the heads-up on the forum.(mnemesis 03:34:07 UTC)

The Bungie WWU is available over on B.Net. An introduction to a tale about Bungie’s Ultimate Frisbee team, a copy-and-paste of the PAX booth info we reported on earlier, and a bunch of pictures of Assembly. What’s Assembly, you say? Just a new map (remember the code name Purple Reign?) that folks who attend PAX get to play on this weekend. Curse them all!! Go check it out, the pictures are beautiful. Dilly noted it first on our forum. Update: Whoops, forgot to add this: Dilly also posted the images from the B.Net article, in case folks can’t get there to see them. Pretty… (mnemesis 03:25:40 UTC)