trigger119 let us know that the MLG Halo 3 Film Festival winners have been announced – congrats to GuN SmOk3d, zbsh0gun, Peridious, and the underdogg!(Louis Wu 15:08:42 UTC)

Heh – a safe holiday message, from QuickTactical. Nice!(Louis Wu 15:06:53 UTC)

Bungie Weekly Update is up – Frankie lets you know why you shouldn’t worry about the downloadable content coming next week. And what’s coming after that. And when the next podcast is coming. And how to make REALLY awful motivational posters. You can, of course, read it in our Weekly Update Archive.(Louis Wu 00:05:05 UTC)

c0ld vengeance continues his creation of Forged puzzle maps; Puzzleball 03 has been released. This one even has a prize for the fastest finisher – a copy of Crackdown, courtesy of Simpsons rule. Go read the rules, and get to practicing!(Louis Wu 19:37:19 UTC)

Many people are annoyed by the delays occurring with the Halo: Uprising comic from Marvel. Judging by today’s One One Se7en, Stuntmutt is one of them.(Louis Wu 18:47:22 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue has gone back to the poster-edged look for Reclaimer – Chapter Two, Part Five looks great, and makes it clear that the Viper team is in trouble. (Louis Wu 11:24:52 UTC)

After being posted a couple of days late last week, the weekly Fan Fiction update is back on track. This week’s offering is understandably light – six pieces. Go read!(Louis Wu 11:20:50 UTC)

stan has proven that he has way, way, WAY too much time on his hands. (Louis Wu 11:18:17 UTC)

1UP has put together a graphical summary of the Halo 3 storyline, for folks who might be confused about certain points. Not all the info is canon (for example, I was under the impression that Installation 05 was closer to Earth than Installation 04), but in general, it’s a decent overview, in an entertaining format. Thanks, BlueNinja.(Louis Wu 11:11:10 UTC)

Don was the first to let us know about an article on Yahoo! Games – it’s another summary of games that might be up on the big screen in the forseeable future. Halo’s on the list, though the project is currently in limbo. Yahoo is pessimistic about the chances that a decent flick coming out of the franchise…(Louis Wu 10:39:37 UTC)

Halo3.junk.ws is quickly becoming the place to go to look at your Halo 3 stats; the options they offer over Bungie.net are ridiculous. They’ve just added a game browser that lets you filter your games based on more than 20 parameters – date played, game length, headshots, type of medals… you can see exactly how you perform, in any way you choose. If the results were directly linkable, for example, I’d show you how selecting ’11/28/2007′ games for Indutiomarus would yield the three Humpday Challenge games that the Junk.ws team played against Bungie this week. They lost that challenge – but you can read either their writeup (on their front page, or on their forum with comments), or you can read Bungie’s writeup, on Bungie.net. Looks like it was a good match! And the stats can be exhaustively analyzed using the tools these guys have put together. If you haven’t signed up for a (free) account – do it today!(Louis Wu 10:35:41 UTC)

The ‘Break it Down’ blog looks at a couple of articles that detail the evolution of water in video games… and decides that Halo 3 is better than any of the games they looked at. Go read why!(Louis Wu 21:07:44 UTC)

Due to some true foolishness, Another Halo Comic Strip has been offline for several hours – but it’s back now, with a new funny. Hmm… I’m not sure ‘funny’ is the right word, in this particular case… in fact, some of you may wish I’d kept the site broken after reading it. In any case, though, it’s up, and you should look.(Louis Wu 20:34:15 UTC)

Microsoft’s Larry Larsen went into the Microsoft company store with a camera to take some cool footage of pieces of the huge diorama built for the Believe ad. Taylor Smith, of the Xbox Global Marketing Team, helps to explain what you’re looking at. Amazing stuff.(Louis Wu 20:22:29 UTC)