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We are continuing our mini-series with the initial episode of our Spartan Ops coverage. You’ve played the campaign; now it’s time to continue the story with your Spartan IV career as you go back to Requiem aboard Infinity. Covenant occupation has grown while you’ve been gone and it’s time to take the planet back. For our Spartan Ops coverage, we have partnered with HaloFanForLife over at halofanforlife.com. Enjoy

Not sure how we missed this when it was released back in November, but Jesse Cale wrote a song called ‘For the Love of Halo 4‘ – and posted a video… with a little help from Nak3d Eli. (If the name doesn’t sound familiar… you’ve probably heard his music before. He’s responsible for the soundtrack of the Master Chief vs Leonidas Epic Rap Battle last year.) Thanks to malfcn for finding this.(Louis Wu 17:48:01 UTC)

He’s a bit late (2 months or so, in fact), but Morpheus finally announced the winners of his Easy Does It 2 contest. Congrats to Eyeja Pearson, CDRomm, and RC Master!(Louis Wu 17:31:21 UTC)

Mig stopped in last night with a link to a video called ‘Halo 4 Case Study – Narrative Case Studies‘. I watched it. I have NO CLUE AT ALL what I saw. See if you can do any better.(Louis Wu 17:29:42 UTC)

FyreWulff uploaded hundreds of native 720p screen caps of Halo 4’s campaign cinematics and levels. It is a nice reminder of how fantastic the art, cinematography and lighting is in Halo 4. Now I can sit and marvel at the the game’s beauty without being slaughtered by Promethean and Covenant forces. Thanks, Fyrewulff!(mastrbiggy 10:32:47 UTC)

Prinz Eugn shared his re-imagining of the Halo 4 Light Rifle. He also provided a legitimate gameplay reason as to why he re-designed the weapon – the Light Rifle and the Binary Rifle are sometimes hard to tell apart. I have to agree with that. Check it out and let him know what you think.(mastrbiggy 10:16:19 UTC)

Blamite was kind enough to share his collection of Halo concept art desktop wallpapers. There are a total of 158 images to drool over. It was really neat to be able to look through years of Halo art. Great stuff!(mastrbiggy 09:58:07 UTC)

Victor Chavez is an animator for 343. He just updated his animation reel – and it includes some Halo 4 stuff (death animations, shooting animations). Go take a look! Thanks, Hypertrooper. Update: Looks like Victor no longer works at 343… now he’s at Bungie. Thanks, Veegie. (Louis Wu 19:30:44 UTC)

I stumbled across a YouTube account called ‘fatfinger’ – has some pretty funny game-related animation. Two of their videos are Halo-specific: Video Game Therapist was released last November, and has Chief and Cortana working out some… issues, while GameStain – Halo 4 (out this week) shows us what Halo 4 brings to the table. Not fully SFW… but they’re funny, and it’s the weekend. So go watch!(Louis Wu 18:24:45 UTC)

DeathMcGunz sent word of a trailer for a new Halo 3-based machinima series, ‘MLG’ – fine start! Keep your eyes open – ep one is coming in a week. (Louis Wu 18:18:57 UTC)

Kotaku reports how earlier this week, ‘Dual Survival’ on the Discovery Channel, featured an ammunition brand called ‘Halo-Point’ manufactured by Liberty Ammunition. If the obvious play on wording wasn’t enough, the ammunition box even used Halo’s signature font. As it turns out, Microsoft wasn’t too happy about the situation and it seems that Liberty Ammunitions went ahead and re-branded their ammunition. Be sure to check out the article for more details. (mastrbiggy 13:10:44 UTC)

Jack and Geoff from Achievement Hunter are back with another episode of ‘Fails of the Week’. Who knew ordnance could float? Watch it on YouTube or on AH.com. Thanks, Nikko B201(mastrbiggy 10:33:10 UTC)

Anoj released his latest Top 10 video – this one is titled ‘Unusual Kills”. These are some of the funniest Halo 4 kills I’ve seen! Thanks, Jordan Bell.(mastrbiggy 09:34:01 UTC)

Halo Waypoint has a video called ‘Making of the UNSC Raptor: Pt 1‘ – it shows off what Galpin Auto Sports did to build the custom Ford F150 Raptor that will go to the winner of the Infinity Challenge. (Well… it talks about what they did. You’ll have to wait for Part 2 to see the actual modifications.) Thanks, Havok.(Louis Wu 19:52:10 UTC)

Nak3d Eli has kicked off a new video series – he calls it ‘Breaking Halo 4’. It’s all about finding glitches in Matchmaking maps… and the first episode looks at an invisible walkway (well, probably more than one) on Adrift. Normally, we’d stay away from stuff like this, but if you get beaten because of this glitch, you deserve to know what actually happened. Here’s hoping it gets fixed soon. Thanks, MrGreencastle. (Louis Wu 18:53:40 UTC)

Skywalker DSP came by with another commentated gameplay vid – this was a four-player custom Regicide game. Fun editing… and entertaining commentary!(Louis Wu 18:51:04 UTC)

Our forum had a Secret Santa exchange (completely organized by JDQuackers, I just watched) – and NartFOpc dropped in last night to share his gift. I love you guys.(Louis Wu 18:49:28 UTC)