You might or might not remember link4044 – he built a really cool Assault Rifle last year. He’s back – and this time, he’s putting together a Legendary Crest. It looks incredible! Check it out.(Louis Wu 20:43:03 UTC)

MLGPro.com has posted the MLG/ESPN Top Ten #4 – this one is completely culled from the MLG Meadowlands tournament, and you’ll see some great pro playing. Take a look!(Louis Wu 19:23:08 UTC)

Wow. NOKYARD sent word that Pahis (Pahat Pojat) has done some amazing Campaign work – first up, he beat the Million Point Challenge using just three levels; The Ark (443,175), The Covenant (415,230), and Cortana (168,075). (This blows away the first instance of that challenge being beaten, back in October – that one needed six levels.) Go read the news post at High Speed Halo for download links (or grab the runs themselves from Pahis’ FileShare). That October news post, with the challenge getting beaten the first time? I asked if anyone wanted to try for two million points – Pahis has done that, with a combined total of 2,243,974 points for all nine levels. These runs are done Solo, Legendary, All Skulls On – as of May 2, only two people had completed the game in this mode. According to NOKYARD, he holds the High Score record for all Campaign missions, the SLASO record for each mission, and has completed the entire game in SLASO style in 4:13:22 (though not in a single sitting). Insanity. Go watch some of it. (Louis Wu 18:50:27 UTC)

Chairleg Productions has posted a podcast discussing some of the special effects and how they took care of them in their latest production, Console Wars. (We mentioned it on Tuesday.) If you haven’t seen the video yet, you should – since our newspost, which contained links for an SD flash version and a downloadable HD QuickTime version, they’ve put it up on YouTube, and we provided a couple of mirrors (the HD QuickTime, and an HD WMP9). Watch the video, listen to the podcast – these guys are at the top of their form! Thanks to TheSquareCoin for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 18:26:11 UTC)

It’s Friday, so it’s time for another round of Friday Caption Fun – this time, I’m guessing Hawty McBloggy is going to get a LOT of sex-while-driving jokes as submissions. Go see what you can come up with! (Louis Wu 14:27:02 UTC)

xMixMasterx is back with a new set of Mix Picks for you – culled from Bungie community map submissions, this is a list of four maps with descriptions and reviews. Always nice to have someone sifting for gold!(Louis Wu 14:23:35 UTC)

RandomCTG stopped by again yesterday with some new sculptures. (We saw a few items back in April – the Brute stuff is new here, along with the Elite figurine, and the Bioshock Big Daddy has been finished.) Check ’em out – pretty nice work!(Louis Wu 14:22:31 UTC)

Scruss let us know that the Septagon, a Bungie.net group, has created the Septagon Gazette, a biweekly Bungie/Halo paper. Scruss and Just Another Fan report on happenings in the Bungie community, in the style of the Onion. There are currently two episodes available for download, from MediaFire – the June 9 issue is 3.6 mb, and the June 18 issue is 7 mb. (Adobe Reader could handle these, but OSX’s Preview choked on the text.)(Louis Wu 13:58:31 UTC)

If you’re looking for a noise-cancelling PC gaming headset, you could do much worse than the Plantronics .Audio 350 Halo 2 unit – right now, Buy.com is selling it for $10, with free shipping. (If you, for some reason, have a problem with the Halo 2 branding, you could, I suppose, buy the NON-branded version – but that one costs $25.) Thanks, Black Six. (Louis Wu 13:55:40 UTC)

It’s almost like a Fan Fiction renaissance – fifteen new pieces this week, and many of the submitters are old-timers! Check it out.(Louis Wu 13:53:47 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy was the first (that I know of) to notice that the Bungie Store is no longer online. Be patient, and a replacement location for buying your favorite Bungie schwag will be forthcoming!(Louis Wu 23:22:27 UTC)

Not listed on Bungie.net, yet, but this week’s Double XP playlist is Team Snipers – and it’s live. Go shoot someone in the head!(Louis Wu 20:25:14 UTC)

Heh – ZZoMBiE13 takes a shot at something he knows pretty intimately in today’s edition of Another Halo Comic Strip. I gotta get playing with him…(Louis Wu 16:31:01 UTC)

Chris Sauer has just finished creating a Halo 3 version of the Beastie Boys music video Sabotage. If you’ve never seen the vid before (I hadn’t), he also put up a side-by-side vid showing the original and the Halo 3 version running together – I must say, he did a pretty good job! Check it out.(Louis Wu 14:49:56 UTC)