Sigafoos let us know that The Riot 71 is now up – 34 minutes, 14 mb, ramblings about the website, the community, and totally non-Halo-related stuff. Brathnok works very hard at making Sigafoos look dumb. You’ll have to decide if he succeeds. (Louis Wu 20:53:38 UTC)

Dean Takahashi is addicted to Halo. Go read why.(Louis Wu 17:39:50 UTC)

Maximum Fear is setting up a league for Bungie.net groups – 4v4 team slayer, consisting of about 30 teams. If you’re interested, swing by the group he’s set up for the purpose!(Louis Wu 17:38:06 UTC)

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)