Today’s Guest Edition of Another Halo Comic Strip comes from Lafinman – does the UNSC need to work on its hardware?(Louis Wu 20:28:25 UTC)

Game Guru, in India, has listed their 6 ‘Chumpions’ of 2008 – games that have no chance of living up to the hype. Halo Wars is on their list, because they don’t believe a Real Time Strategy game will work on a console. Hmm…(Louis Wu 20:28:14 UTC)

2P START! has another Halo-related comic (it was posted in April, but Don just brought it to our attention today) – pretty clever!(Louis Wu 17:07:49 UTC)

Terminator182 let us know that his HBO RSS News Widget has gotten a few minor tweaks (version number is now 2.22); looks like fonts have been cleaned up. Check it out!(Louis Wu 17:03:55 UTC)

Sigafoos pointed us to The Riot 102 – 21 minutes, 9 mb, full of challenges, videos, and – mudkips? WTF…(Louis Wu 12:25:44 UTC)

XerxdeeJ stopped by with word of a Tied the Leader update – no writeup on the LAN festivities yet (hey, they spent a couple of weeks partying, it might take a few days to recap the fun!), but there are two new articles: a new panel discussion about the parts of Halo that might be able to use a little work (some great, and some not so great, suggestions in there!), and a call to save Big Team Battle, with a challenge to all clans looking for a piece of TTL. Go read!(Louis Wu 12:22:01 UTC)

Captain Spark figured out a way to break Sierra 117 – nice going, dude. Who’s gonna pay for that? (Louis Wu 12:10:34 UTC)

Simpsons Rule was the first to notice an article over at Kotaku about Balloon Guy… and his amazing talents with balloons. (Check out his Featured Images slideshow – there’s some really cool stuff in there.)(Louis Wu 12:08:07 UTC)

Bungie.net contains a list of changes that will go live in roughly 5 hours to the Halo 3 Matchmaking playlist – 1v1 is back! (And 3Ball is coming in a few weeks…) Go read all the details.(Louis Wu 11:58:45 UTC)

RvB’s Reconstruction Chapter 2 is now online for the public (and in a larger format for Sponsors). We’re back to the humor! And the music. And stuff. Go watch!(Louis Wu 23:35:48 UTC)

You may or may not have known that Tied the Leader held another of their huge clanwide LANs earlier this month – it was a full vacation for many of the attendees. My guess is tomorrow’s Tied the Leader update will have a full writeup of the event – but to whet your appetite, Stuicide pointed out the group’s Flickr stream, with hundreds of photos taken during the event. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 23:05:46 UTC)

Pez is pretty excited that halowiki.net is the top choice for Google if you search for ‘Halo 3 Tips‘ – and he thinks it’s because they finally realized how bad their Tips page was, and reorganized it to be… well, good. Go check it out! (Louis Wu 22:56:36 UTC)

Xbox360Fanboy has shots of the packaging for the McFarlane Halo 3 Series 2 figures – things are a little less bulky this time around.(Louis Wu 22:51:27 UTC)

Once again, Luke Smith was the first to let us know about the latest episode of the Stride Championship Series at MLGPro.com – Week 3 is Final Boss vs Triggers Down, Team Slayer on Narrows. It’s a blowout – but maybe not the way you’d expect. We mentioned Week One back on May 24 – but nobody noticed Week 2, with Classic vs The Influence on Onslaught. Watch ’em both!(Louis Wu 22:47:25 UTC)