Jamie98s has made a series of videos detailing the beauty of Halo’s scenery. (Check our news archives if you missed the first three.) Yesterday, he submitted a new one – Oh So Beautiful 4 sticks with multiplayer maps… gives you a new perspective on the killing fields we spend so much time in. The MPRRS reviewers loved this one. Grab it in WMP9 format (62 mb) or QuickTime format (56 mb).

Over at Rampancy.net, there’s a pretty interesting writeup of Stubbs the Zombie; Narcogen is eloquent in his defense of Stubbs as a fun game, and one that is underappreciated in several key areas. It’s the first part of a longer piece, and it uses Halo as a benchmark, in some cases, to judge against – he makes a strong case. I’m looking forward to the next installment.

Wow. A couple of weeks ago, we pointed out the DeviantART gallery of lhs – today, MattKnight01 noticed a new image in that gallery. That’s one heckuva gun!

Chaos Recon, on our forum, and Dolbex, over at MLGPro.com, both pointed out a goof on the Gamestop website (first seen, apparently, at Kotaku) – Bungie’s next project… is an EA-franchised game… for the PS3? As Neo would say… whoa. (And before you jump on your email client to tell us how stupid we are – yes, we know it’s a mistake.) Update: Looks like they fixed it; you can still see the original on Dolbex’s blog. Thanks, Dante.

There are a pair of pretty interesting new blog entries over at Tied the Leader – XerxdeeJ wonders if who you are in real life ever bleeds over into your Halo gameplay… and Wheels (a clanmate of deeJ) discusses your brain, and how to get it into the zone where you can be the most effective. Go read!

Frankie wants your Qs. And your Ps. And your carrots. Hmm… maybe just your Qs. If there’s something you want to know from Bungie, and it’s NOT about stuff they haven’t announced yet, visit the thread, toss your question into the hat. You might just get it answered in tomorrow’s Weekly Update. Update: You’re certainly welcome to keep posting questions, but realize that Frankie’s only gonna answer about 5 of ’em, and he almost certainly stopped reading several hours ago. That’s not to say that other READERS might not have some answers for you… but you’re not gonna make it into the Weekly Update any more.

Dennis Powers writes to say that the Halo CE Chronicles WILL have a Season 3… but it won’t be episodes, per se. It will be a single, 80+ minute long feature, broken into chunks for more reasonable downloading. You can view the trailer online at the HCEC website. Check it out!

SNOWBLIND1717 submitted a music video called ‘So Cold’ (set to the song of the same name by Breaking Benjamin) to the MPRRS yesterday; it passed handily. Imagine… a music video with a message! This one’s nicely filmed, nicely edited – grab a copy. WMP9 version is 33.1 mb, QuickTime version is 32.7 mb. (QT version has been cleaned up a little – hope SNOWBLIND doesn’t mind!)

A couple of weeks back, blackouTT made some noise with Legendary, the first episode in a machinima series he’s working on. Episode 2 was submitted to the MPRRS this afternoon – and it passed with flying colors in three hours. Wow! As usual, great camera angles. The story is fleshing out. This one’s big – over 8 minutes long, 83 mb large. Grab it in WMP9 format, or QuickTime format – your call.

Wellsley created a pretty amazing-looking stained-glass Elite for an art contest… he’s a little late, but he certainly deserves some recognition. Check it out!

Broken Console has made The Squadron Episode 16 (‘Frenchy’) available to the public; go grab a copy in WMP9 format from their downloads page, or the QuickTime from our server. Lots of preparation… lots of setbacks. Sometimes I weep for humans.

Bunch of news came in late yesterday – let’s get it posted, so I can go to bed. First up – ShocKWav3 is the Player of the Week over at MLGPro.com; go read what makes this guy tick!

Bah. I hate it when I forget things. A few days ago, Halo2Forum.com released a trailer for an upcoming montage vid from Titan VIII, Verse, and MADDOG – it was called the Triple Threat, and folks were pretty excited about it. Swing by to grab a copy in WMP9 format. They also submitted this file to the MPRRS – and the reviewers liked it a lot, too. (It’s pretty slick, and it’s really not very big.) Because of that, we’re offering a QuickTime version of the vid – there’s no real need to mirror the WMP9 (you can still grab that at H2F), but if you prefer QT, here you go. And I apologize that real life’s been getting in the way of this stuff recently.

The Daily Nebraskan has a profile of Rachel Delovechio, known in Halo 2 circles at PMS Rambo – go read about this girl gamer!

Periodically, Bentllama spams our forum with random comments about his favorite breakfast food. If he weren’t a Cananimator, we’d probably just ban the guy… but as it is, he tends to draw the forum locals into silliness (as he did last week). Today’s One One Se7en gives you Stuntmutt’s take on the situation.

Funkmon found some fun Halo-related stuff at WinCustomize.com – there’s a pretty cool-looking clock and an in-progress Windowblinds skin (not downloadable yet). Check ’em out!

LunarShadow has updated the H2O Stats Reader to version 1.5 – big changes are in the searching and sorting areas. Check out his forum post for more details!

B.J. let us know about Blue and Blond, a webcomic that features Halo today (a departure from the norm, if I’m reading the blog entry right). The permalink doesn’t work yet – but I’m guessing that once the next comic is posted, this one will be able to be found here.