Z let us know about ‘The Finale‘, a Farewell-to-Halo 2 montage from Phurion, Drako, Kblocker & Kfost. Weighs in at nearly 300 mb – but there’s some pretty nice gameplay in the 13 minute monster. The last section has some less-than-successful trick attempts, which are fun to watch, as well.(Louis Wu 10:13:26 UTC)

Cinema Blend is giving away a copy of the Halo 3 Legendary Edition – swing by to read the rigorous rules! (Bottom line: if you live in the US, can read, and have an IQ above about 50, you’ve got a shot.) (Louis Wu 10:00:51 UTC)

Thirteen new pieces are up in the Fan Fiction section this week – go see what you can find! And while we’re on the subject of fan fiction, garbageman44 stopped by yesterday to point out a book written by his brother that they’re scanning and posting at DeviantART.(Louis Wu 09:47:07 UTC)

The September hardware and software numbers are out, as expected… and Halo 3 (and the Xbox 360) had a pretty amazing month. Visit this page at Video Game Chartz for a comparison between two of the bigger names in industry stats. Bottom line – as of a couple of weeks ago, Halo 3 had sold somewhere between 3 and 3.5 million copies in the US and Canada alone. That’s a LOT of Master Chiefs. (The same region picked up more than half a million Xbox 360s, beating analyst predictions by a healthy margin.)(Louis Wu 09:40:21 UTC)

Ca’gerrin built a Lego Arbiter, and then stopped by to tell us about it. Pretty nice!(Louis Wu 09:28:03 UTC)

Bungie, apparently unwilling to face any of the hundreds of community teams clamoring for a shot at burying them in a Humpday challenge, went up against the Bungie.net moderators this week. No warmup game at all (I guess they were afraid they wouldn’t be able to pull off the same bait-and-switch tactic twice in a row), but they didn’t need it – they won the first two, tied on the third. Looks like Fires7orm was first with the news.(Louis Wu 09:26:13 UTC)

Not fully Halo-related… but interesting nonetheless. TeamXbox has put up some interviews with the voice actors that worked on Mass Effect – and one of those actors is Keith David, who also voiced the Arbiter in Halo 2 and Halo 3. He’s talking about voice acting in general; it’s not a long interview, but it’s interesting to hear what he thinks about the job. Thanks, Caligula Caesar.(Louis Wu 09:16:03 UTC)

Simpsons Rule pointed out a pretty cool kill over at the MLG Gameroom – Blackstar even made a new medal for it.(Louis Wu 20:42:22 UTC)

halowiki.net wants to know what your favorites are in Halo 3. Current options are Weapons and Maps. I can see this page getting pretty massive… thanks, PEZ.(Louis Wu 15:13:09 UTC)

GU Comics takes a look at the “Master Chief killed movie sales” argument in today’s comic – nice artwork. Thanks, Ross Mills.(Louis Wu 14:24:06 UTC)

Yahoo has put up an article for gamers who want to get their significant other into playing videogames. Halo is considered the graduate school program of the Xbox 360 curriculum. Thanks, Deten. (Louis Wu 13:32:12 UTC)

See… now THIS is why I love the Halo community. Cocopjojo let us know about a way he and a friend had stumbled on getting out of multiplayer levels in Halo… it’s ingenious. And the results are pretty darned interesting to look at.(Louis Wu 13:23:29 UTC)

Elnea’s son replaced Terence Stamp with Chris Crocker in a cutscene from Crow’s Nest. (If you haven’t PLAYED Crow’s Nest (mission 2), you’ll be faced with some minor spoilers here.) I’m disturbed by how well it works…(Louis Wu 13:04:48 UTC)

Rampancy.net has posted another entry for its Halo 3 Weapons Guide – this time they’re looking at the SMG.(Louis Wu 12:24:44 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy points out a somewhat risqué custom-made Cortana statue for sale on eBay; this can probably be considered NSFW. That said, it’s a pretty amazing piece of work. Starting bid is $200, with just under 5 days to go.(Louis Wu 12:18:27 UTC)