Treeskunk Productions has released Outpost: Isil Episode 7 – in their standard 854 formats. Go figure out which one works best for you, and watch it! These guys are worse than the F-Troop soldiers, I swear. Thanks, Bzerker01.(Louis Wu 19:15:44 UTC)

Forge Hub is kicking off their ‘Best of Forge – Spring/Summer 2008‘ contest – they’re looking for nominations and votes from the community – full rules are available in the news post. Thanks, Bungie Blog. (Louis Wu 19:11:42 UTC)

Dragoncoals let us know that the second teaser for Unleashed has been released… nice angles, and a nice taste of action! Go watch.(Louis Wu 19:05:19 UTC)

In June, we mentioned the 2old2play charity drive they called ‘Pwnathon 2008’ – they were looking to raise $500 to benefit the PKD Foundation. According to this news post at Bungie.net, they not only met that goal – they more than doubled it. The final tally was $1,183.77. Nice! You can read the full writeup on the 2old2play forum.(Louis Wu 19:02:51 UTC)

Bungie Favorites have been updated with a new week’s worth of favorites from HaloTracks, who have recovered from last week’s pummeling – go check ’em out!(Louis Wu 19:02:23 UTC)

Littlebigman noticed a bunch of new stuff available at Big Bad Toy Store – all of it’s been announced elsewhere, but it’s nice to see that it’s becoming widely available! And the dates on the Master Replicas helmets is a positive thing.(Louis Wu 19:01:58 UTC)

Anton P. Nym was the first to notice (via Kotaku) a very intriguing screenshot over at a Fable II fansite – if that’s real, it’s a pretty cool easter egg! (If it’s not, it’s a pretty good photoshop.) Chime in.(Louis Wu 17:58:40 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy’s been busy lately – swing by her digs for speculation on E3 announcements from Bungie next week, a heads-up on a pretty spectacular mini-weapon you can buy with a custom LEGO figure, and a discussion about Halo 3’s call signs. What are you waiting for? Go read! (She counts better than me.)(Louis Wu 20:09:07 UTC)

I KNOW I shouldn’t be encouraging him… but hey, his list made ME smile. Cody – go run some laps. Or something.(Louis Wu 18:31:45 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue stopped in to point out Reclaimer 63 – our hero and his Cavalcade friend are on a mission.(Louis Wu 13:50:01 UTC)

Over at Geekscape, the Teabag Prevention Team has posted a guide to navigating Cold Storage. Thanks, t4ng0.(Louis Wu 13:33:10 UTC)

vector40 returns to our forum with one last Banshee submission – back in the Halo PC days, he was an enthusiastic Banshee pilot, and created a number of articles and videos showing how best to use this vehicle in battle. He recently found an unpublished piece that lays out “a protocol for two-man Banshee wing voice communications”. Go give it a read!(Louis Wu 13:14:41 UTC)