Renovatio Music has a video tutorial to help you play Unforgotten on a piano. (The link goes to Part 2 – I couldn’t find a direct link anywhere to Part 1, but if you scroll down to the bottom of the page, it’s the last video on the right.) Looks pretty useful, if you’re trying to learn this!(Louis Wu 13:04:17 UTC)

ZZoMBiE13, upon request, has sent us a panel from yesterday’s installment of Another Halo Comic Strip sized for widescreen wallpaper. Go spruce up! (Louis Wu 12:59:00 UTC)

Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked Episode 9 is up – things just got quite a bit more serious. (Louis Wu 12:58:23 UTC)

Today’s episode of Another Halo Comic Strip shows why the Covenant have an edge when it’s time to go fishing.(Louis Wu 20:29:10 UTC)

Jordan117 bought the Audio Book version of Contact Harvest – and realized after the fact that he’d missed the post-epilogue section of the book – which was sad, because it’s a powerful ending to the story itself. He decided to transcribe the ending, for others in his situation. (If you haven’t read the book yet, don’t follow this link.) If you bought the Audio Book, when you’re finished listening to it, swing by and read this!(Louis Wu 20:23:19 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy noticed that McFarlane Toys will be providing a cool gamer picture pack, and a dashboard theme, for your LIVE decor – and both are free. Nice-looking stuff!(Louis Wu 20:16:29 UTC)

A few days ago, Flinet posted some renders of a Halo pistol he’s been working on – we managed to miss the forum post. He followed up today with an email – so go look!(Louis Wu 20:12:45 UTC)

Over at Ascendant Justice, vociferous takes a look at multiplayer. Typically in-depth and thorough. Thanks, Jironimo.(Louis Wu 15:37:56 UTC)

Sniper2477 stopped by to announce Marathon Man – “A New Beginning”, the latest episode of his ongoing machinima. I had a little trouble with the story, and one gratuitously silly scene, but otherwise a fine effort.(Louis Wu 15:37:36 UTC)

J23 noticed that It’s a Wonderful Live Episode 3 has been posted – slower and more rambling than earlier episodes, but still with its standard rants at LIVE silliness. (Louis Wu 15:37:15 UTC)

Dream053 reports that The CovieCast Episode 3 is up. Go listen!(Louis Wu 15:36:56 UTC)

oddgodhmk worked on a comic featuring Cortana. Not really polite, but the artwork’s cool.(Louis Wu 15:36:37 UTC)

Quikthnkr has been really busy with Grifball stuff – there’s a video showing you how NOT to play Grifball, a promotional video explaining how Someday-Night Grifball will work, and the recording of the first run-through of an actual GAME of Someday-Night Grifball. (This is a spectator version of the sport.) Go check it all out!(Louis Wu 15:28:33 UTC)

The Bungie Weekly Update is up over at Bungie.net (as well as in our Weekly Update Archive) – lots of Legendary stuff (including a cool deal!), info about the MLG Meadowlands tourney, a funny look at Bungie’s news queue, a playlist update, and too many pies for Frankie. Go read!(Louis Wu 00:31:17 UTC)

Lots and lots and LOTS more Legendary previews:

• Gametrailers: Interview | Ghost Town | Avalanche | Blackout (thanks, darthbob)
• Xbox360Fanboy (thanks again, darthbob)
• 1Up Show (interview with Lars and Frankie – thanks, Red_Breast)
• Gamespot (thanks, google)
• Gametap (Frankie gets plowed by a Warthog – thanks, Jared Rea)
• Gamespy (thanks, google)

Is that enough? Geez.(Louis Wu 00:27:08 UTC)

As has been mentioned a couple of times, Bungie held a press event last week for the Legendary Map Pack – and two of the invitees came from fansites. KP was there representing HBO, and TTL L Askan was there representing Tied the Leader. Writeups from both individuals are fascinating reads – we’ve got KP’s here, and L Askan’s is posted at Tied The Leader (duh). [side note: the final section of KP’s piece just made me laugh. A lot. -ed] Other media outlets have released, or will be releasing, their own coverage today, since the embargo has been lifted – You can go read 1Up’s recap (with video walkthroughs of the maps), a TeamXbox preview (impressions, mostly), and an official writeup on Xbox.com. (There were a couple of other gaming news outlets there, as well – but their writeups aren’t online at this point. We’ll add them when they appear.) There’s also a preview at x360.com.au – they weren’t at this particular event, but they got their hands on the maps, as well, and have added their thoughts to the mix. Get to reading!(Louis Wu 18:41:45 UTC)

So in Bungie’s writeup of the Humpday challenge this week, SketchFactor mentioned an epic stop by team HBO, keeping Bungie from scoring a third flag at one point. Turns out the hero was mnemesis – he was able to provide a screenshot, but a screenshot doesn’t do the event justice. So I’ve taken Sketch’s film clip, and converted it to 720p video footage – swing by our forum to download the flavor of your choice.(Louis Wu 18:40:40 UTC)

wkfd is conducting a survey for his Games Software Development course at Glasgow Caledonian University – it looks at the Achievement system for Xbox games in general, and for Halo 3 in specific. Swing by and spend a few minutes answering his questions!(Louis Wu 18:32:43 UTC)