Dani’s been busy finding previously unseen Halo concept art and adding it to the Forward Unto Dawn Concept Art Gallery – new work from Ryan Demita, Halo Wars stuff from Marco Nelor, a whole new Halo Wars section, and, in this NeoGAF post, a couple of Noble Map Pack concept pieces that look seriously cool. Go explore!(Louis Wu 13:28:18 UTC)

SonGoharotto pointed out that Halo (specifically, conventiongoers in Master Chief armor, and a Gunnery Sergeant you might know) plays a significant role in Season Five of The Guild, the long-running webseries that made Felicia Day a (geek) household name. If you haven’t been watching recently… pick it up again! Update: man, I’m doing this a lot lately. We mentioned this stuff back in August. Sorry. (Louis Wu 13:26:32 UTC)

TheOddOne pointed out a pumpkin-centric Tweet from @WideEyedFox – dat Halo font… (Louis Wu 13:25:19 UTC)

More deviantART from CaptainTony – I think we’re going to start combining these a couple of times per week. Look for future roundups on Thursdays and Sundays! (Louis Wu 13:23:22 UTC)

Gametrailers has kicked off their Halo Anniversary coverage – uberfoop was the first to let us know about the Anniversary Trailer, released yesterday (already on YouTube), and ZZoMBiE13 forwarded links for their ‘Ultimate Fan’ contest and the first video in their Retrospective series (which actually starts much earlier than Halo). Keep your eyes peeled – there’ll be more! Update: we’ve posted the official press release.(Louis Wu 13:13:39 UTC)

When poking around CGHub, I stumbled across an artist known as ‘alp‘ – Allen Altiner is an art director in the film industry, but he does a lot of Halo work on his own time. Here are some of his pieces.

• Concept Painting – Spartan vs Elite
• Halo Fight – speed painting
• HALOMAN – Spartan and landscape
• Halo – speed painting
• Halo Alley – Gritty Spartan
• Scifi Gun Set – Halo-inspired weapons
• Halo 3 – speed painting

Pretty cool stuff! (Louis Wu 22:42:34 UTC)

Jarod Lenz Erwin, who created the UI and painted background for the Waypoint mobile app, posted a pretty cool picture of Jun he did for 343. Love that detail! Thanks to NeoGAF’s TheOddOne for finding it. (Wait… does this mean we’ll be seeing Jun in future 343 creations? Ack! What will happen to A Fistful of Arrows?) (Louis Wu 22:39:27 UTC)

Podtacular 267 went live this weekend – Dust Storm talked to CruelLEGACEY about his series Playtime, and to one of Playtime’s characters about the plot. Go listen!(Louis Wu 22:39:08 UTC)

It’s been a long time since we heard from ICDedPpl – but he sent us a link of his buddy’s Photobucket album showing off some great armor pics. thorn696 is a 405th regular who doesn’t even play Halo – but he makes armor good enough to win contests (three First Place awards this weekend alone!). Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 22:38:30 UTC)

CaptainTony pointed out a pretty cool Halo Comic poster created by Riznof he found on deviantART – look at that six-pack! (Louis Wu 22:35:49 UTC)

Morpheus noticed a GameInformer article on the Top Ten Launch Games of All Time (how do you measure this?) – Halo made the list. Pretty high up, even! (Louis Wu 22:35:27 UTC)

DaFrontlineTrooper put together a video showing off a Spartan Laser he built – very cool! Thanks to robofin117 for the heads-up – and for pointing out DaFrontlineTrooper’s Facebook page, which contains blueprints for his weapons! (Louis Wu 22:35:01 UTC)

nillapuddin is into remakes – check out his post for details on where you can find his work, and the work of his friends! (Louis Wu 22:34:20 UTC)

It’s been 17 hours – but it looks like AT&T managed to get a generator on the switching hut near HBO Central. The fiber line has power again, so things are running. Forums are back. We’re sorry for the downtime.(Louis Wu 22:05:19 UTC)

Quick note, parts of HBO central are without power. Expect power back up fairly soon. Everything’s cool otherwise… how’s by you?(Ding 15:35:20 UTC)

More deviantART rounded up by CaptainTony (including one of his own) – and I finally put together the fact that DA’s X38 posts as Ken on NeoGAF! (Love his Emile sketch.)(Louis Wu 22:11:31 UTC)

Imrane-117 brought our attention to some newly-registered domains – what do YOU think they mean?(Louis Wu 22:09:22 UTC)

Financial Analyst Michael Pachter takes a look at the remaking of ‘classic’ games in light of the release of Halo Anniversary in his regular Pach-Attack! feature on Gametrailers – interesting to see this game being appraised so clinically! Thanks to ZZoMBiE13 for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 20:52:56 UTC)

lack Six noticed a pretty killer life-sized LEGO Halo sniper rifle at The Brothers Brick – go check it out! (The final shot is money.) (Louis Wu 20:43:13 UTC)