So last fall, we mentioned a project a couple of times (one | two) – a team called ‘Kre8-fx’ was building an animatronic Elite costume. Well, it looks like they’re back – urk just highlighted the latest post from the team on the 405th forums… and I’m having trouble pulling my jaw up off the floor. There are a pair of images you can see in the post itself, plus a few more down below (if you’ve got a login for the 405th); if you don’t, we’ve hosted local copies of these three (we’ll pull ’em if that’s a problem). Check head | spy | scary – amazing stuff.(Louis Wu 18:37:58 UTC)

New vids for you, up on Bungie’s Comm Chatter this afternoon:

• The Detonation is a Halo 3 montage from Kottiz – guy likes his sniper.
• Top 10 Halo 3 Splatters: Episode 54 is the latest from Anoj – lots of splats.
• Cloud (a Pro player with Team Instinct) gave a bunch of clips to Vidol, who put together a teaser montage to advertise something coming out soon. Fast cuts, but you still see the ridiculous gameplay.

Go watch! (Louis Wu 18:35:15 UTC)

Interesting interview with Brian Jarrard and Chris Carney over at Gamasutra this morning – they discuss the Halo Reach Beta, and the take-home messages from it. It’s a monster – 6 pages of good questions and better answers, lots of info about how the lessons learned in the Beta will be applied in the final game. Check it out! (Looks like Epyon MX noticed this too – if you’re looking for a place to discuss this, use his thread!) (Louis Wu 14:55:13 UTC)

Minime637 was browsing YouTube, and ran across a vehicle montage with some nice gameplay – go check out oaklesss’ Vehicular Annihilation.(Louis Wu 14:52:54 UTC)

Exige created what he thinks Spartan-II emblem should look like… pretty snazzy!(Louis Wu 14:35:35 UTC)

Ready for more Fire Team Zulu challenges from FyreWulff? Banshee Battle is a Campaign challenge on Kikowani Station, while Post Mortem is a Firefight challenge on Alpha Site. Pick your poison – and kill some Covies!(Louis Wu 14:31:48 UTC)

Willy’s back with another 20 Questions for the month of June – he interviewed Krewtaun, a guy who makes videos highlighting entertaining dialogue in the Halo campaign. Fun read!(Louis Wu 14:29:15 UTC)

We missed this when it went live a couple of days ago, but Stephen Loftus’ Scale Comparison can now be found on Halo Waypoint – it’s even got new artwork that isn’t in the HBO-hosted version! If you’ve got Xbox LIVE, swing by and check it out! Thanks to both General Vagueness (who noticed the announcement before it went live) and doober187 (who pointed out the actual article). (Louis Wu 14:09:43 UTC)

Pennybags stopped in with a heartwarming story from the MLG forums – a community outpouring for a kid who just wants to play with pros. Check it out! (Louis Wu 14:08:40 UTC)

There’s a full game of Firefight, recorded on the map Beachhead, by the Halo Waypoint team – no voiceovers, just gameplay. (Not always very GOOD gameplay – but gameplay.) You get a great sense of the level itself, see what Wraiths can do, and so on. Thanks, GrimBrother One! (Louis Wu 14:04:00 UTC)

Thursdays come awfully fast these days – I totally missed it when one went by yesterday. But if you were paying attention, the latest Double EXP Weekend Playlist went live then – and you can go play Living Dead right now (through Monday morning). Social 13-player FFA… with lots of brains. (Louis Wu 14:02:58 UTC)