Adam Grumbo and his buddy Spase did a tour of downtown Austin this weekend… wearing some amazing stuff. You’ve seen Adam’s Halo 3 Spartan armor before – but I don’t think most of you have seen the Marine armor Spase is wearing. They’ve been working on this for some months now – and it looks… fantastic. Check out the pics at the 405th!(Louis Wu 15:50:24 UTC)

Halo Action Figure Theater got an update today – Episode 146 has Col. O’Hara and Brad waking up in a strange place. With a strange… person. Hmm…(Louis Wu 15:44:38 UTC)

Ascendant Justice has gone back to look at the visuals present in the Halo 3 terminals, and tried to offer some suggestions as to what they might mean. Some are obvious, some are obscure, but the discussion tries to stick with facts as often as possible, and is a very interesting read. (They’ve used yet another source of HD terminal recordings to do their work for this one – but if you don’t want to deal with a Java downloader, or if you don’t want to be limited to the WMP9 codec, or if your connection doesn’t allow BitTorrent downloads, remember you can always grab these from our Forerunner Terminal Network Archives, in WMP9 or QuickTime.) Thanks to mendicantbias00 for letting us know.(Louis Wu 15:21:56 UTC)

Geekscape Games is running a series of articles called ‘Teabag Prevention’ – they’re there to teach you how to ‘suck less at Halo’. Week 1 was published back on April 22, and focused on the Legendary maps. Week 2, published a day later (heh), contains Sniper Rifle tips. Week 3, from May 2, helps you with a Battle Rifle, and Week 4, posted just a couple of days ago, provides tips on grenade placement. They’re definitely not going for the crystal and linen set with their presentation – but then, that set doesn’t play a lot of Halo, anyway. Go read!(Louis Wu 15:07:43 UTC)

Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked Episode 19 is up – this one ties in the comic series more strongly to the Machinima series that spawned it.(Louis Wu 15:04:40 UTC)

The Halo Wars RTS group over at Bungie.net interviewed Kevin McMullan and JD Smith, the Audio Lead and Senior Audio Designer, respectively, for Halo Wars. It’s a two-parter; Part 1 and Part 2 are both open to the public. (There doesn’t seem to be a ‘theme’ to either part, so I’d guess this was split up for space reasons.) There’s a fun audio snippet (and its source) at the end of Part 2. Thanks to Planet Halo for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 14:57:58 UTC)

Sigafoos reminded us that it’s Monday, so it’s time for another Riot podcast. Number 99 is 14 mb for 34 minutes, covering Halo news, contests, and stuff… and has Sigafoos actually playing Halo during the recording. Funny… or failure? You decide.(Louis Wu 14:48:15 UTC)

The 49th Annual Clio Awards (advertising Oscars, essentially) will be broadcast this coming Saturday, and Adweek wonders if the Halo 3 Believe campaign will continue its winning streak. The Clio judges aren’t revealing their choices yet, but they did talk about the process. If this stuff interests you, swing by and read. Otherwise, we’ll let you know this weekend whether Believe went all the way.(Louis Wu 14:46:05 UTC)

kr-1426 stopped by to announce that the Fan Fiction Pick of the Week feature (now in its second week) is up over at the HBO Fan Fiction forum. Anyone can read, though you’ll need to register to contribute to the discussion. If you’ve found the huge collection of work daunting, you can use these discussions as a jumping-in point!(Louis Wu 14:40:08 UTC)

TheMaker420 and D ROCK898 have been working a new podcast for a bit – it’s called HaloCast, and it covers… well, Halo. They’ve just posted Episode 3, almost 50 mb for 26 minutes, and they discuss different websites across the net, along with videos available on them and the like. (They also spend the first five minutes of the ‘cast discussing the cheating they’ve gotten away with in school – hmm.) Go listen.(Louis Wu 14:39:36 UTC)

Ross Mills found a shirt at Shirt.Woot that provides a video game for each letter of the alphabet – and guess which game got used for ‘H’?(Louis Wu 14:37:29 UTC)

We here at HBO would like to wish everyone a Happy Mother’s Day! If there’s a mother in your life – yours, your kids’, your significant other’s, whoever – let her know how important she is! We’ll be back updating tomorrow.(Louis Wu 11:33:52 UTC)

Wow. I missed it, because I was out all afternoon… but Someday-Night Grifball was broadcast this afternoon, and the game was XTR3M3 vs L.I.E. (the winner to play Team HBO in Round 3 of the Sword League Playoffs). Looks like L.I.E. took the match – but I’m having trouble actually seeing it (the JustinTV feed is about 1 frame per sec, and the downloadable version seems to be corrupted, or maybe not fully uploaded yet). Maybe check back later!(Louis Wu 23:31:14 UTC)

Rockslider has set up some pretty entertaining-sounding battles between unarmed (but unkillable) Brutes and a bunch of marines – go read about it at Bad Cyborg!(Louis Wu 20:58:39 UTC)

Today’s installment of Another Halo Comic Strip might give you nightmares, if you’re old enough. ZZoMBiE13 predicted that someone would ask for a wallpaper version… so he made one.(Louis Wu 15:18:03 UTC)

AusQB has kicked off the Ar7is7s of Halo blog – a collection of cool screens. Nice initial work! Go look.(Louis Wu 14:28:18 UTC)

Spartan Jag let us know that Arby ‘n’ the Chief 11 is now up on YouTube – and you have a chance to vote on the continuation of the new characters… or not. Details in the vid (and on (Louis Wu 14:26:33 UTC)