Dan ‘Spartanx5’ Gerstner decided that last week’s Energy Sword render wasn’t up to snuff – so he redid it. More energy on the blade… but mostly way more detailed handle. Go look!(Louis Wu 14:51:52 UTC)

Cinema Blend believes that GTA4 deserves the hype it received – while Halo 3 did not. Go read the rationale.(Louis Wu 14:48:45 UTC)

Magni Harvald noticed a pretty funny vid on YouTube – guy snipes a fusion core (through another target, actually), which slams an opponent into a wall, killing him with a splatter kill… milliseconds before he would have died from a melee attack in the back. Definitely an epic kill-steal!(Louis Wu 14:46:00 UTC)

bigazn13 mentioned a 2v2 Halo 3 tourney in Bonney Lake, WA coming up at the end of May. Check the forum post, or the GAMEBREAKERZ website, for more details. (Louis Wu 14:45:33 UTC)

ZZoMBiE13 answers a question you might never have actually asked (and certainly one you could have lived without the answer to) in today’s Another Halo Comic Strip. Also, there was a request for one of the panels of Thursday’s strip as a desktop image – and ZZoMBiE13 obliged.(Louis Wu 16:22:34 UTC)

Fragg3d stopped by to let us know he’d just released a trailer for an upcoming machinima project called ‘Trust’ – hard to get a sense of what it’s gonna be like, but hey, it’s Saturday. Go watch.(Louis Wu 16:04:48 UTC)

Bungie, faced with a decimation of their writing team this week, punted. They let Stosh and Rocketmoose bring you most of the Weekly Update, and while the results are amusing and entertaining, they might leave you wishing you knew more about what was going on inside Bungie’s studios this week… Well, it’s still pretty funny that someone’s paid $250 to change their gamertag so far. You can, as always, read this in our Weekly Update Archive, if you so choose.(Louis Wu 02:29:27 UTC)

SPARTAN 294 let us know that Arby n the Chief Episode 10 has been posted at Machinima.com. Arbiter and the brute play a little GTA4, Cortana goes on a date, and the Chief gets jealous.(Louis Wu 19:22:17 UTC)

Dennis Powers pointed out that Shipwrecked Episode 16 is now up. That thing looks… mean.(Louis Wu 19:21:46 UTC)

Darkspire Films, too, has a new offering today – ‘Farewell Travis‘ looks at what happened to Travis after the last time we saw him. Here’s hoping you never meet the Guardians… thanks, Dan the Stick.(Louis Wu 17:52:05 UTC)

Harabek let us know that there’s a new short from The Guard, set in the PreGame Lobby world, but not part of the regular series. It’s fun!(Louis Wu 17:08:33 UTC)

Smooth Few Films hasn’t created a lot of Halo machinima – but everything they’ve put out has been of outstanding quality (check our news for details), and they’re back with a new piece that rocks. The GunStop Way takes aim at sleazy videogame sales tactics, using sharp humor, polished effects, and good acting. Don’t miss this one!(Louis Wu 16:51:49 UTC)