We had a release date for Halo: Uprising #3 (the third of four installments from Marvel comics this summer) – but no cover art, until now. IGN Comics has put up a sneak peek of the first three comics, including nicely-sized cover art of all three episodes. (There’s still nothing about episode 4 – anywhere.) Thanks, XAL.(Louis Wu 12:45:40 UTC)

Stuntmutt has updated his blog with a whole bunch of content – a special 7/7/07 strip from him, plus several guest strips mailed in by fans. Check it out! He comes back for real on Monday.(Louis Wu 12:33:42 UTC)

Mister Froggy has posted Halo, Articulated #54, in which an entirely new type of fighting begins.(Louis Wu 12:32:25 UTC)

Sean Mortensen has submitted ‘The Lone Spartan‘, a 2:13 long, 2.4 mb MP3 of a piece of music he wrote to commemorate a specific moment in the novel ‘Ghosts of Onyx’. It takes place in Chapter 8, and involves three young Spartan-IIIs. If you haven’t read the book, it’s a last stand by very young but very dedicated humans against an overwhelming Covenant force.(Louis Wu 12:30:10 UTC)

G4TV has a video wrapup of the Halo 3 Beta – it seems like it would have been more appropriate a week or so INTO the beta, but hey – you post what you got when you got it.(Louis Wu 12:00:25 UTC)

Turtle Mann stopped by our forum to point out a trailer for Fallout, an upcoming action series. Cinematography is intriguing – this one looks to be good! Check it out.(Louis Wu 11:22:49 UTC)

This past week, we’ve mentioned a series of video interviews that Gamepro held with Bungie employees during their recent trip to Kirkland – there’s now a short text article that pulls out ten interesting nuggets from those interviews (most of which never actually made it into the videos) – give it a read! Thanks, Anton P. Nym.(Louis Wu 11:18:22 UTC)

Shayne pointed out that CamoTourneys hosts online Halo 2 tournaments with cash prizes. They’ve got a free-to-enter 1v1 today, with a $10 prize.(Louis Wu 11:12:42 UTC)

Monster Bungie Weekly Update this week – though very little of it is about Halo 3. Tidbits about tomorrow (Bungie Day), mockery for the folks who thought yesterday’s screenshot was fake, VERY cool info about the upcoming toys from McFarlane, an awesome farewell interview with Alta, and some teasery (yeah, I know that’s not a word) about the vocal side of Bungie. Go read – either at B.net or here, in our Weekly Update Archive. (The HTML is better here, I’ll tell you that.)(Louis Wu 00:38:52 UTC)

Bungie is celebrating Bungie Day (7/7/07) in style – there’s going to be new content on their website, but more importantly (and more time-sensitive), there’ll be content on Xbox Live Marketplace that will only be available tomorrow. Get it between 12:01 am PDT July 7 and 11:59 pm PDT July 7 – or don’t get it at all. (No, it’s not Halo 3 content, so don’t worry too much about that.) More details in the B.net news post!(Louis Wu 19:20:07 UTC)

Wow, disturbing. Today’s Dork Tower makes me wonder if I want to buy Halo ActionClix after all… thanks, Anton P. Nym.(Louis Wu 16:43:18 UTC)

Thunder, over at the Halo Wars forum, has posted a note that lets people know that Halo Wars will be demoed at E3 next week – and there might be some stuff that makes it out to the public from there. Good news! Thanks, CHAOS1212.(Louis Wu 16:13:36 UTC)

Today’s Guest One One Se7en is c0ld vengeance taking a shot at the mass marketing of the Halo brand.(Louis Wu 15:16:15 UTC)

We haven’t commented very much recently on the Iris ARG – because there hasn’t been much to comment on. On June 20, Server 5 was unlocked at Halo3.com – and there hasn’t been a lot of action since then. However, yesterday, a number of people who were among the first 100 to help with the unlocking on the 20th received mailed packages from Microsoft; one was reported here, and you can see the pictures that remain online here. Thanks to Valchael for the pictures, and Jason Axelrod for the email. (It also showed up last night on args.bungie.org.)(Louis Wu 14:56:41 UTC)

Overswarm’s put up a new article – this one’s about turning the tide when you’re down. Interesting read – go check out Not So Common Sense!(Louis Wu 12:31:05 UTC)

trigger119 let us know there’s a new ‘interviews in Machinima‘ episode for your perusal; this one is a discussion with Laird, who has created the ‘Halo: Unyielding’ series, among other things. Go see what makes him tick!(Louis Wu 12:30:06 UTC)

Only 5 new pieces this week in the Fan Fiction queue – go read ’em!(Louis Wu 12:10:29 UTC)