Gametrailers Game of the Year Awards continue – Halo takes Best First Person Shooter from a field that included Bioshock, Call of Duty 4, Metroid Prime 3, and The Orange Box. Thanks, Mattus.(Louis Wu 21:51:12 UTC)

Some people might look at a recently-posted video from FooFoo and wonder why… others will see the value in sofa launching without any prompting. Which group are you in?(Louis Wu 21:49:03 UTC)

A representative from AKQA, the agency behind the IRIS ARG and the Halo 3 Believe ads, stopped by our forum to point out that the Believe website is up for Flash Website of the Year from the Favorite Website Awards. Go help ’em win! (He also wanted to thank the community for its involvement in the games – so pat yourselves on the back!)(Louis Wu 21:46:44 UTC)

Sigafoos sent word of The Riot 80, an hour-long discussion of their Community Aawards nominations. There’s still a little community news, but the focus is on the awards. Go listen! (Louis Wu 21:42:05 UTC)

Avi Levin let us know that Gamespot has posted their Editor’s Choices for their Game of the Year Awards, and Halo didn’t win anything it was nominated for. (That includes Multiplayer, Shooter, 360 Game, and GotY, as well as the Bungie Microsoft split for Biggest News.) Ouch!(Louis Wu 21:40:05 UTC)

Z let us know about a Halo 3 gameplay montage from Luck is Taken – it’s about seven and a half minutes long, and weighs in at 171 mb. Plenty of sticks and snipes – but lots of other weapons too. Take a look.(Louis Wu 21:30:55 UTC)

A pro gamer who was awarded Recon armor by Bungie for a pretty cool suicide he filmed has had his account stolen by a jerk who wanted the armor. The story on Joystiq suggests his account was ‘hacked’, but if you read the thread on Team vBi’s forum, it becomes clear that the account was stolen by someone who called up Xbox Customer Support and somehow convinced the person on the other end of the phone that the account belonged to him, and that certain info needed changing. Having had my own personal run-ins with tech support over there, I find this totally believable – and I’m curious to see how this turns out. Hopefully, the upshot will be better phone security for Xbox Live accounts down the road.(Louis Wu 21:24:37 UTC)

AnTi PRO, from Arm The Flag, let us knwo about a trailer for their upcoming movie, ‘Epic Machinima’. I’ts a spoof of every overdone idea in machinima, all in one place. You can find download links (and comment on the project) in this HaloGrid thread.(Louis Wu 21:14:55 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy has a whole bunch of goodies to show you; starting off, there’s a Master Chief helmet created in Forge. (I thought I’d seen this before – but I can’t find it in our news.) Then, she mentions an auction for an item she does NOT want you bidding on – because she wants it. Finally, she points out an auction for a custom Halo 3 Guitar Hero III for the 360. Nice!(Louis Wu 21:10:22 UTC)

AJay put together a Halo 3 stat sig generator – swing by and make one for yourself!(Louis Wu 12:00:54 UTC)

Bryn ‘ofthehi77’ Casey let us know that he’d created four new Halo images – we’ve added them to his Gallery section here. Check out Arbiter, Sierra117, Tunnel, and Feet First into Hell. Wow – these would look wonderful on your wall! (Louis Wu 11:49:41 UTC)

Today’s episode of Another Halo Comic Strip isn’t NSFW… but it’s close. Still… I like it. And it WAS a very good year. That’s it for AHCS until 2008!(Louis Wu 11:45:40 UTC)

Ouch. So a couple of days ago, gunluva brought a challenge from the Falling Sands Game forum – some Halo lovers over there wanted to challenge HBO regulars to a few rounds of Halo. Apparently, they’re better at the Falling Sand Game than Halo – the HBO team (made up of gunluva, Major Silva, and Spartan Jag) went 5-0 in the competition. Congrats, guys!(Louis Wu 11:39:44 UTC)

Wow, awesome. If you’re on the right list, apparently, you get a giant chocolate Master Chief from Microsoft. Now THAT’S pretty. Thanks, Peronthious.(Louis Wu 11:31:26 UTC)

There are some great pics of McFarlane’s rendition of the Arbiter over at Kotaku – this figure won’t be for sale until June, but you can see what it’ll look like now. I’d agree with Luke Plunkett’s assessment – those feet are HUGE. (These are, of course, also available at their home site, Spawn.com – it’s just that I found them first at Kotaku.)(Louis Wu 11:18:27 UTC)

Luke McKay has finished the doodle he started in late September (we mentioned it here) – check it out in his Gallery section! Once again – Halo 3 spoiler warning.(Louis Wu 20:22:01 UTC)