Urban Reflex noticed a gap in our Halo coverage – we didn’t have a copy of the Conversations From the Universe booklet that came with the Halo 2 Limited Edition online anywhere. So… he scanned it for us. We double-checked with both Bungie and 343, and nobody had a problem with offering this to you at this stage… so grab this 7.5mb PDF file and give it a read!(Louis Wu 14:28:16 UTC)

Lots of cool vids are available over at Halo Waypoint. First up – Assault on Squad 45, Part 3 went up a few days ago. This amazing stop-motion Mega Bloks-based series has been fun from the start, and this episode is the best yet. I want more toys! (The Hunter doing a Nixon impression is priceless.) When you’re done with that one, check out the Halo Fest Machinima finalists – and the overall winner (HBO’s own Bryan Newman!). Finally, a new Grifball Highlight vid from GrifballHub is live – these guys are amazing. If movies aren’t your thing, Waypoint’s STILL got you covered – The Halo Book Club just published a Q&A with Tobias Buckell, who wrote both the novel Halo: The Cole Protocol and the Halo short story Dirt. Great read! Go spend some time over there.(Louis Wu 14:23:04 UTC)

padraig08 pointed out a remix of Under Cover of Night, released for the Out With a Whimper project – nice!(Louis Wu 14:06:39 UTC)

Sl’askia did a bad thing with an Elite. (Well… TO an Elite. She… oh, never mind – just go look.)(Louis Wu 14:02:43 UTC)

Giant Bomb has an interview with David Ellis from Halo Fest last week – not a huge amount of new content, but it does a good job of presenting most of the salient points concisely, and the Ruby costumes that serve as a backdrop for the interview are pretty funny. A nice summary, and Ellis doesn’t do this very often – fun! Thanks, Ken. (Louis Wu 14:01:31 UTC)

RVideo sent word of a new Reach montage from VYE, a european MLG team – huge numbers of well-choreographed sniper shots, punctuated by some pretty fun effects. Production values are quite high. Editing provided by whaTime. Check it out!(Louis Wu 14:00:39 UTC)

When helpless creatures are needlessly slaughtered, heroic individuals step up to the plate. Thanks, Paula. (Louis Wu 13:58:54 UTC)

CruelLEGACEY has released the final article in his Playtime Season 2 Development Blog series – it covers audio editing and final production. (He’s also included a trailer for Season 2 of the series.)(Louis Wu 13:58:04 UTC)

Firestorm12 let us know that Halopen’s War (or War) has a new issue out – enemy fire does a good job of showing your mettle. (Louis Wu 13:56:57 UTC)

Four new pieces are available this week in the Fan Fiction section – go read ’em!(Louis Wu 13:55:23 UTC)

RC Master is trying to beat Reach on Legendary, in one go-through… with no deaths. He’s not there yet – but even his current progress is pretty impressive! Check out the post for full details. (Louis Wu 22:13:13 UTC)

Darkphibre was at PAX, and took a LOT of photos. Check out his post for links to some REALLY cool Photosynths of the City Diorama and the Weta Warthog (this is amazing). Love ’em!(Louis Wu 22:00:21 UTC)

Dust Storm gathered a nice collection of community leaders at Halo Fest (one jerk told him he was too busy to attend, but everyone ELSE was cool) – you can hear the results over at Podtacular. HBO is ably represented by the GrimBrothers (and Laird)!(Louis Wu 21:59:40 UTC)

Gina Johnson is running a new contest, with Halo goodies up for grabs. Read her post for details!(Louis Wu 21:58:41 UTC)

What would happen if the Flood got into Reddit’s servers? um… ew. (Thanks, Sqorck.) (Louis Wu 21:57:54 UTC)

What would happen if the Flood got into Reddit’s servers? um… ew. (Thanks, Sqorck.) (Louis Wu 21:57:54 UTC)

Devin Olsen posted this a couple of days ago, but I neglected to link to it yesterday – he did a nice job of photo-summarizing his experience at PAX/Halo Fest. Go see!(Louis Wu 21:57:32 UTC)

Urban Reflex put up a huge collection of short clips from Halo 3 multiplay, and posted the playlists on our forum. Go watch for varied pleasure!(Louis Wu 21:55:23 UTC)