Bungie’s posted the June 27 Bungie Weekly Update quite a bit earlier than usual (it’s been up since before 4 pm, their time) – it contains more exhortations for anticipation of Good Things on both Bungie Day and PAX Weekend, a recap of the Content License Transfer Tool we mentioned yesterday, new overhead screens of Cold Storage, a matchmamking update, and… something else. As usual, you can read it in our Weekly Update Archive, if you choose.(Louis Wu 23:31:06 UTC)

mrsmiley let us know that he’s joined Pyroman in doing Master Chief Theater 3000 – he’s voicing the part of the Arbiter in Part 4, now up on YouTube. Go watch!(Louis Wu 23:27:08 UTC)

Costume City is selling Rubie’s Master Chief costumes – the Collector’s model is listed as in stock, shipping now. (The two cheaper models are ‘coming soon’.) These are the same costumes we mentioned back in February; that site is listing a July 31 ship date for these items. With the exception of the high-end model, these are definitely the cheapest way to get into a Master Chief outfit you don’t make yourself this year! Thanks, Parabus. (Louis Wu 19:51:32 UTC)

ODSTAdrianFii noticed that Master Replicas has posted a preview of their upcoming Halo 3 material – good looking stuff!(Louis Wu 19:40:41 UTC)

Captain Spark was playing Campaign, and started hearing a bunch of new Grunt dialogue. He’s not coming out of retirement – but he sent along nearly 50 new snippets for our Halo 3 Dialogue Databank. Some of them are simply priceless. Go listen!(Louis Wu 14:37:08 UTC)

It’s Friday, so Hawty McBloggy has another edition of Friday Caption Fun for you – this week’s image is a great shot, and should lead to some interesting choices!(Louis Wu 14:02:20 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue let us know that Reclaimer 59 is up – Ferial’s talking to a new AI. Who’s this?(Louis Wu 13:09:56 UTC)

Nine new pieces in the Fan Fiction section this week – go read!(Louis Wu 13:04:33 UTC)

A few inquisitive souls have already found the new links… but for the rest of you, I’m (tentatively) pleased to announce that our Halo 3 Cutscene Library has just been upgraded with HD versions (thanks, once again, to Cody Miller) – this leaves only the Halo 1 scenes in standard res. (That’s almost completely my fault; we’ve got people chomping at the bit to record, and I’ve been too busy to process stuff. But that’s neither here nor there, right now.) Swing by and grab (some) Halo 3 scenes! To explain the hesitancy: I’m nervous, because we’re talking about a LOT of bandwidth, and even though I’ve devoted three servers to the situation, I’m not totally confident we can keep up with demand if people start downloading the entire collection at a shot. So be gentle… but go see what you can find! And if you see Cody, say thanks.(Louis Wu 23:13:54 UTC)

Simpsons Rule noticed that Amazon has The Cole Protocol available for preorder – current price is $10.17, and posted release date is November 25, 2008. Poking around a bit, though, Barnes & Noble has a listing, too – sort of. (No author, no title, just a release date of September 30 and a price of $12.70 – the only way you know it’s The Cole Protocol is by the ISBN number. I’ll stick with Amazon on this one, thanks.)(Louis Wu 21:05:50 UTC)

ZZoMBiE13’s latest episode of Another Halo Comic Strip shows just how innovative the Master Chief can be. (Well… or the fans that put thoughts in his head…)(Louis Wu 19:46:09 UTC)

Yay! KP stopped by with some awesome news – Xbox 360 downloaded content licenses can now be migrated to a new machine. This means (for example) that if you buy Halo 3 DLC, and then your Xbox red-rings, or you upgrade to an Elite, you no longer have to jump through hoops to play the maps you already bought. More details in KP’s post, or in the Xbox.com article he references. Have I said yay yet? Yay!(Louis Wu 19:42:11 UTC)

Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked 32 is live – looks like Taylor got a bit pummeled by the river trip.(Louis Wu 18:45:37 UTC)