The Achievement Hunters team strikes again as they team up with Halo Waypoint to bring us another awesome flythrough of a new upcoming map. This time they’ve set their sights on Penance. Again, they provide us with an incredible mix of beautiful pan shots and witty banter. Check it out!(GrimBrother One 15:59:48 UTC)

The Waypoint modsquad is back with Episode 3 of the Halo Waypoint Community Modcast. The Waypoint Community Leader/Mod team takes to the mics again, this time beginning a 2-part retrospective on Halo: Combat Evolved. Yours truly is among the hosts, so come and join us for an hour or so of old school Halo talk and borderline humor!(GrimBrother One 15:33:58 UTC)

The final podcast in Podacular’s Decade series is happening this Saturday night, November 12, at 7 eastern. Swing by the site for more details – and tune in for the live broadcast! (Louis Wu 14:41:58 UTC)

Daniel ‘Tyrant’ Morris is trying something new – a series entitled ‘Women of Xbox’. Female gamers from the community will offer general tips, tricks, and reviews. First up: GrifballHub’s GooseChecka. Her skillset is impressive!(Louis Wu 14:40:22 UTC)

FyreWulff put together the Zombie Cartographers Map Pack #1 – a collection of submitted maps for folks who love Infection. Check it out! (Louis Wu 14:33:57 UTC)

Rockslider continues to explore the options available with the first Falcon on Winter Contingency… go read about it!(Louis Wu 16:06:31 UTC)

There was a boatload of new material released on Halo Waypoint this week – we touched on only a small portion of it. Here’s a summary of some of the videos we missed – there’s plenty more content that we’re simply skipping! (That means you should explore the site for yourself.)

• jmanX36 put together ‘Only Getting Started‘, a jumping video from Reach’s multiplayer – I was really impressed by some of the grenade throws, and the scenery jumps.
• SidewardFuture remade the Jenkins cutscene in the Reach engine – a pretty amazing piece of work, given the limitations set by available resources.
• Stewie2552 released Halo: Reach Fails 13, his latest collection of bad luck and bad decisions.
• The latest collection of games from MLG Raleigh (Finals, games 6-10) are up – it’s the end of the 10-game series that Waypoint started last week. Go watch Instinct and Infamous battle it out!
• Jack and Gus from Achievement Hunter did a flythrough of Battle Canyon, the Beaver Creek remake that’s included with Halo Anniversary. These guys are good at panning shots, and this flythrough gives you a great look at this map.

Again, there’s more – screenshots, Halo in real life, community interaction… go play! (Louis Wu 16:04:01 UTC)

CaptainTony stopped in with another deviantART roundup. He says that after Thanksgiving, he’s going to drop these to one per week. (Louis Wu 15:39:06 UTC)

Wow. Looks like Mike Salvatori got hired by Bungie! I wonder what they’re working on…?(Louis Wu 23:00:05 UTC)

Leviathan has now officially completed A Fistful of Arrows – he’s posted the final Adjunct segment, a followup to the Quezon Superindentent’s piece released last week. A fitting conclusion to the project – go read it (either on our forum or on the project’s website).(Louis Wu 16:37:43 UTC)

I’m not sure I ever envisioned seeing a project like this one – but I’m wholeheartedly behind this iteration, primarily because of the guy who’s putting it forward. pete_the_duck wants to create a Machinima reality show… but he doesn’t have the equipment to make it happen. He’s decided to ask the community to help; he’s fired up a Kickstarter project to fund this. The beauty of Kickstarter is that if his goal ($400) isn’t reached in the time allotted (two weeks), nobody owes a penny; the project isn’t funded. And pete gets a pretty solid message that this sort of project simply isn’t of interest to the community as a whole. If you DO want to see this, though, you can pledge a few bucks; again, you won’t be billed until (and unless) the targets are met. I can’t see myself endorsing a lot of projects like this; far too many Halo-based projects have great ideas behind them, but enthusiasm fizzles out when the people involved realize how much work is really needed. pete_the_duck has proven himself over and over again as someone who follows through on what he starts – and as someone who comes up with really entertaining Halo projects. I’m looking forward to seeing where this goes – if you, the fans, decide to risk your dollars on pete’s vision! Update: Whoa. Within an hour of this newspost, pete_the_duck hit his goal, and then some. you guys rock.(Louis Wu 16:29:23 UTC)

Gametrailers has released the second installment of their Halo Retrospective – Index 2 is called ‘Once More Unto the Breach’, and it brings us up through the present in terms of releases. (Don’t worry, there’s still more to come – the next episode focuses on multiplayer and DLC releases.) Thanks, ZZoMBiE13.(Louis Wu 16:15:04 UTC)

Nak3d Eli got featured by The Game Station – and he picked a controversial video for the honor. Watchers are split between those who like the carnage, and those who feel the choice of weapon was better at showing problems with Reach’s multiplayer than at showing Eli’s skill. Go watch for yourself!(Louis Wu 16:12:52 UTC)

smiichy is back with another photomanip – this time, it’s a moody piece called ‘Look Over the Night‘. Nice work!(Louis Wu 16:10:04 UTC)

RC Master has uploaded a monster (1 hour, 38 minute) video showing his world-record sub-87-minute run-through of Halo Reach (9 individual level runs, combined into a single video) at Heroic difficulty. Pretty amazing!(Louis Wu 16:07:20 UTC)

Timgie is back with a new episode of Reach Customz – this one spotlights Hot Pursuit, another Infection gametype that reimagines Cops and Robbers. Watch the video, download the gametype, go play!(Louis Wu 16:03:09 UTC)