This keeps coming around, it seems. IGN is reporting a rumor that Neill Blomkamp has been tapped to direct the upcoming pilot for the Stephen Spielberg-led Halo tv series. I guess we need to wait and see. Thanks, Avateur.(Louis Wu 16:24:39 UTC)

Katie Satow does a vlog for Geek & Sundry, and her latest shows you how to paint your fingernails in a full-on Halo theme. Awesome! (Really cool final product.) Thanks, doober187.(Louis Wu 16:19:17 UTC)

A recent influx of players to Halo 3 has generated discussions of what is important for the Halo franchise to succeed with Halo 5, but recent news may have Halo fans looking back further than the first HD Halo title. A recent update to the I Love Bees website, an ARG campaign that was run to promote Halo 2, has people speculating on the possibility of yet another Halo Anniversary game releasing this year. Among the rumors is the latest Halo Bulletin covering upcoming matchmaking changes including a special Halo Bowl playlist to be made available during Super Bowl weekend.

Another week, another set of fails. They actually look at them this time… you can watch on AH.com or YouTube. Thanks, as always, Nikko B201. (Louis Wu 19:50:37 UTC)

Grizzlei noticed a new article at Halo Waypoint, showing off the spring line of Mega Bloks – some pretty cool stuff in there! Go look. (Louis Wu 19:50:16 UTC)

Championing the noble cause of the weekend.

pete_the_duck is back with a new Rube Goldberg machine… and it’s awesome. The Mantis Shuffle, especially, rocked. Go watch.(Louis Wu 13:40:04 UTC)

Trendt Boe stopped in with a link to ‘Salvation‘ – a 2d digital painting of Halo 4’s Master Chief and Cortana, animated just because he could. Pretty nice! Take a look.(Louis Wu 13:39:48 UTC)

Looks like there were a couple of extra skulls in Halo 3: ODST that were cut before the final game was released; YouTuber TehBanStick posted a film showing off gameplay with the ‘Third Person’ skull activated. (As you might guess, it moves you into a 3rd person position off the right shoulder of the player model.) The second unused skull (the Director’s Skull) was actually discussed by dev team members at PAX ’09 – it would have provided hours of commentary that could run over gameplay. (Yeah, no extra work on that one…) Thanks, gamerguy2002.(Louis Wu 13:39:16 UTC)

Goose Checka let us know that screenshot maestro oObex has opened voting on the best Grifball screens of 2013. Go make your opinion known! (Louis Wu 23:10:03 UTC)

Zachary let us know that Guys Playing Games would be playing through all of the Halo campaigns on Legendary, for charity. They’re starting at midnight tonight, and you can watch them on Twitch.tv. Check out the reddit thread for more info! (Louis Wu 23:06:24 UTC)

Many journeys near and far.

GrifballHub is selling " Grifball World Tour" t-shirts featuring your favorite maps from Halo 3, Reach, and Halo 4. You’ve got until next Monday to grab yourself one. Thanks, Kal Belgarion.(mastrbiggy 20:42:03 UTC)

Team Beyond is hosting a Valentine’s Weekend Halo 3 2v2 tournament – prize pool maxes out at $576. Go check out the rules! Thanks, CyReN.(Louis Wu 20:12:44 UTC)

Heh – this made me grin.(Louis Wu 20:10:29 UTC)

In the last couple of days, we’ve gotten a number of emails pointing out Halo machinima projects – both new and updated. Here’s a roundup:

• ZoxinTV turned us on to Rookshot, a new Halo machinima series from Red Rook. There are two episodes live at this point (Ep 1 | Ep 2) – the second one even has a musical in it! Pretty entertaining.
• The Halo Mole team has released their eighth contestant introduction – this one looks at Master Sundown a strong (and sneaky) player. Go see what he brings to the table!
• Death McGunz sent word that Suicide Episode 9 is now live – Jerrod can’t seem to figure out his priorities.

Go watch!(Louis Wu 19:28:26 UTC)

Quirel did some digging through DeviantART, and came up with a bunch of Halo goodies. He’s organized them, and his first dump is focused on Spartans. We’ve seen some of these pics before… but as a whole, this is a great collection! Go explore.(Louis Wu 18:20:51 UTC)

Over the past weekend, a number of HBO regulars got together for the second annual HBO Mountain Bash, a ski-and-fun weekend organized by Schooly D in Heber, UT. Tex wrote up a pretty exhaustive recap of the event, chock-full of pics, and others in the thread added their own reminiscences. There’s nothing really like a real-world get-together of like-minded people… only a little Halo was played, but if it hadn’t been for Halo, these people wouldn’t even know each other. Go read!(Louis Wu 18:18:46 UTC)