Hehe – pretty cool. ThinkGeek sells a green laser pointer, and accepts ‘Action Shots’ – the combination led one Halo fan to send in this very slick shot. Thanks, Troy Conrad, for letting us know!

Chronomaw writes to point out that Halogen, the Halo mod for C&C Generals (last mentioned in February, though that website no longer works) will be releasing a new render every day. Swing on by to see their progress!

Noah Hofmann, who used to go by the name ‘Shrike’, but now goes by ‘Ultrash’, has turned in a third piece of Halo Fan Music. (The first two can be found here.) This one is called ‘Halo The Miracle‘, and is an 8-minute-long, 9.2 mb mp3 which is great to listen to. Ultrash is happy if someone wants to use this in a fan work – just contact him.

Dave Writz pointed out the new bumper sticker on his mom’s car…

Today’s Calvin and Halo shows why you should never play games with sneaky tigers. (Or sneaky game documentarians, either… Just ask Dan Chosich.)

The second batch of Miscellaneous Art is now posted – 32 pieces, covering authors beginning with C through P. There is some truly spectacular stuff in this batch; look at ALL of it, but certainly don’t miss work by DC, Gruntsbane, Iatro, and NeoFreak. (The first batch, if you missed it, was posted yesterday. The last batch will be posted tomorrow.)

20 new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section – after I deleted the garbage. It’s becoming less and less fun to manage this particular subsection of the site…

One One Se7en looks at a recent Bungie Weekly Update – MC shows that you can dress him up, but you can’t take him out.

Bah. I hate forgetting. It’s still today… for a little while longer. Today’s Halo: Resolution has the cardboard box meeting up with… trouble.

Wow. NeoFreak posted some pictures of a Master Chief bust he made a while ago out of Sculpey – I’d find a spot for that in MY home! Beautiful.

Wow. It’s been a LONG time since the Miscellaneous Art section was updated. I decided it was time to stop putting it off… I process 86 entries today. Neither the server, nor folks on slower connections, can handle that kind of load, though, so I’m going to release them in 30-image batches. They’re currently sorted by author (first name, because many people submit with just a one-name alias), not submission date (it was too much work to figure out what came from where) – so if you’ve submitted Miscellaneous Art in the past 3 months, and your name begins with A or B, your material is up now. Tomorrow I’ll post C through P, and Saturday will be R through Z. It’s going to be so nice to have an empty queue! Apologies to EVERYONE involved. This batch is primarily sketches – go see what’s there!

Okay, I wasn’t going to add yesterday’s mini-update to the Weekly Bungie Update Archive… but it turns out Frankie even created new Mister Chief artwork… how could I pass it up? The (tiny) item is now part of the official record. Sheesh. (Thanks, Jager.)

Eric Trautmann has updated his blog with the information that he won’t be involved in any future Halo projects for Microsoft. As he says,

“…it feels reaaaaaally weird to know that things like hypothetical novels or comics or whatnot will happen on someone else’s watch.”

Trautmann has been a guiding force on Halo novels and the like from the beginning; for the fans, too, there will be a shift. We’ll miss you, Eric! (Thanks to Narcogen, at Rampancy.net, for finding this.)

TeamXbox has posted higher-res versions of the first Halo 2 ad (we posted lower-res scans on Sunday) – stop by if you want a better look! Thanks, LaMuerte.

Sparky has written the second of his series of Guides – this one is a Guide to Oddball. (The first can be found here – it was a guide to vehicle handling.) It (and the rest of the series) has found a permanent home at Rampancy.net – this is ideal, because the format gives people an opportunity to comment and augment. This guide is another great read – there are general tips about Oddball, and then specific comments about each multiplayer map, with respect to the gametype. Good stuff! Thanks to Narcogen for the heads-up.

Sep7imus has whipped up a fun morale booster for the Covenant home front – a 3:08, 11.2 mb QuickTime video that gives those left behind a reason to cheer for their soldiers! You can find copies on files.bungie.org and mythica.org.