I love this stuff. Omega did a pretty nice job of estimating the size of a large (possibly spoilerish) item on ‘The Storm’, using a fan-generated method for getting to a measuring spot, and known info about the Halo universe itself. (Louis Wu 17:35:24 UTC)

A couple of Marty O’Donnell tidbits: Simen went to see the Play! concert in Norway on Friday, and the Halo music was introduced by Marty (a recorded message – youtubed about two thirds of the way down the page)… and Anton P. Nym noticed that Marty will be participating in a panel at the LA Music Conference next week, presumably discussing Halo.(Louis Wu 17:29:49 UTC)

Mid7night continues his X-Plane shenanigans – this time, he’s built a replica of Halo (the second level of the first game) in X-Plane. Go look! (Louis Wu 17:16:55 UTC)

AnTi PRO let us know that Arm The Flag has just released ‘My Imaginary Friend‘, a Halo music video. I enjoyed it! Go download it from Mythica, or watch it on YouTube. (Louis Wu 17:15:12 UTC)

kornman00 got his hands on a 360 stress test kit… and he can do stuff like this… and this. Don’t try this at home! (You’ll get banned if you do.)(Louis Wu 17:12:42 UTC)

PEZ let us know about a section of halowiki.net devoted to tactical jumps – visit for more info (or to ADD more info!).(Louis Wu 17:09:48 UTC)

Yoshiary pointed out a study/event in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, happening November 3. They’re going to be studying participants playing video games (including Halo 3) on a giant movie screen, with time for the public to participate in the morning. If you’re interested in more information, visit FFgaming.tv.(Louis Wu 17:06:25 UTC)

Slava Nossar sent along three new panoramas – one, entitled “Nothing Sacred“, from the Campaign level ‘Covenant’ (mild spoilers, 3857×1252, 512 kb), one from Snowbound (“Endless“, 7350×1252, 1 mb), and one from Last Resort (“Beach Front“, 7850×1252, 1.3 mb). These are rather amazing. go look.(Louis Wu 16:56:33 UTC)

Lordstemplar1 stopped by to let everyone know that a teaser for Prophecy, called “Hope”, is now available at the 508th Brigade website. Pretty nice piece of work, modeled after the Halo 3 ‘Believe’ ad. Go watch!(Louis Wu 16:51:36 UTC)

V10L3N7 JAY posted the next episode of Section 3 – a secret mission goes wrong. The artwork and layout continues to rock… go check it out!(Louis Wu 16:48:46 UTC)

There are more and more fun pics and film clips from Live games showing up around the net – here are a few of the most ridonkulous from our forum:

• LX925 pointed out a film of a rocket that got deflected by a grenade explosion, and ended up killing a couple of people who had no idea there was even a battle going on.
• _Wheels03 and Ekkoz spent a while building a pic of a Master Chief helmet.
• Rox went through the trash on High Ground, and found some fun stuff.
• Raulboy was first to point out a film of some guys who figured out how to get a new vehicle in Halo 3. Blackstar even created a new medal for it. (A tutorial can be found here – thanks, Z.)
• Dustbunny27 got a double-kill off a single sniper shot that ricocheted in a way you simply couldn’t have predicted.

There are plenty more – just scan through our forum for links! (Louis Wu 16:33:16 UTC)

Elnea realized she’d introduced a major continuity error in Halo Action Figure Theater – or did she? Problem solved, in episode 98.1. (Why not 98.6, that’s what I want to know?)(Louis Wu 15:22:18 UTC)

Looks like this was bought with Buy it Now between when Arancio Atlas pointed it out on our forum and now… but someone hacked up a life-sized Halo statue and sold just the head, as a bust. Not a bad finishing job!(Louis Wu 15:20:01 UTC)

Haloplayer came by yesterday to point out a new comic from Injured Knee Productions – the strip is now called ‘The Newbs’, and this strip is called ‘Them’s The Breaks‘. It looks at the current melee system in Halo 3… (Louis Wu 15:17:00 UTC)

ZZoMBiE13 took umbrage at Nolan Bushnell’s comments about Halo 3 being “Doom 1 in different clothing” – go see his take in the latest Another Halo Comic Strip.(Louis Wu 13:54:58 UTC)

We totally spaced on letting you know about this ahead of time… but Mig and I were on Spike TV’s Game Head last night. It SHOULD be on GameTrailers later today, and you can watch it again on Spike TV next Friday night (well, Saturday morning) at 1 am if you’d like. (It’s the Simpsons Game episode.) It was a cool little (about a minute long) snippet plugging HBO and the Halo community – go find it!(Louis Wu 13:49:23 UTC)

Red vs Blue: Recovery One Part One (in HD) is now available on Xbox Live Marketplace, for 80 points. Burnie has said that it will be available for at least sponsors on their website at some point – but it’s not there yet. Thanks, darthbob.(Louis Wu 13:41:00 UTC)

Trindacut let us know that the Missile Pod glitch that lets you go weaponless was discovered (and documented) by Unreal Studioz about three weeks ago. and Bryan Burns suggests that there’s a way to go weaponless without Forge; it involves dropping a flag and deploying equipment, but I couldn’t make it work. In general: we’re happy to give credit where credit is due, but I’m sure there are LOTS of people who’ve discovered specific glitches that haven’t come to our attention; (after this) we’re not going to keep rehashing old ones as people say “well, I found that the day Halo was released!” or “I found that on the copy I bought from eBay a week before release!” or whatever. Enjoy the information, enjoy the credit if you manage to get it to us before anyone else does… but please, do this for the Halo community, rather than for a credit mention. Thanks!(Louis Wu 13:37:51 UTC)

Omar Raja sent us pics of the M90 shotgun he built from Mega Bloks – colorful!(Louis Wu 13:37:07 UTC)