ElzarTheBam pointed out some high-resolution vids showing off gameplay on the new Reach maps coming with Halo Anniversary. Go watch!(Louis Wu 17:16:49 UTC)

Dielectric used the new Mega Bloks package to put together a Halo Wars Vulture. Not bad! (T07WRX5 reminded us of his LEGO version, which is also quite cool.) (Louis Wu 16:29:34 UTC)

GAF’s Im_So_Pringles found a pretty old (November 2009) YouTube vid showing off a fan version of Under Cover of Night arranged on guitar – KILLER. Go listen. It was new for me, and if you haven’t heard it yet, you should.(Louis Wu 15:44:45 UTC)

Okay, I’ve DEFINITELY missed stuff, and Grim and Hitmon have definitely missed stuff… but we caught a LOT. (Well, Grim caught a lot. Hitmon and I have been partying.) I’ve got a few things saved up from the last few days that I don’t THINK have been posted yet. Let’s see how long this page gets when I get it all listed. First up, from 3 days ago: robofin117 pointed out a live action fan film from Andrew ‘DaFronlineTrooper’ Cook, a New Zealand member of the 405th. Not too shabby!(Louis Wu 15:40:06 UTC)

We said it once, but we’ll say it again, as we try to gather the myriad of news bits that have bombarded Halo fans over the past weekend, make sure you head over to Forward Unto Dawn, where they have an excellent summary of the Halo Fest news that includes some great media links. Check it out!(GrimBrother One 16:47:15 UTC)

Ty_Coker made our forum aware that they have released a story trailer for Season 2 of his Machinima project entitled SYNAW. Looks very cool, definitely go and check it out!(GrimBrother One 16:39:25 UTC)

Vezuvius dropped by to make us aware of his Machinima Production project called Vezuvius Productions. You can find their YouTube channel here, which includes not just machinima, but also videos on tricking in Reach. Go and give them a look!(GrimBrother One 16:11:31 UTC)

This trailer was shown at the Halo 4 Panel on Sunday morning at Halo Fest. While it doesn’t give too much insight into what we’re going to see in the campaign graphically, it does lead to some speculation on what we might see in the game. Take a watch: we’ll be talking about it soon on the show.

As a quick note, we want to wish all of the HBO PAX-attendees the safest and most drama-free of travels as they head to their respective homes over the next few days. And and extra dose of John 117-luck to anyone affected by the recent hurricane, may you find your family and homes as safe and sound as possible. Godspeed!(GrimBrother One 07:35:19 UTC)

For those of you who love awesome things, Episode 10 of Red vs Blue Season 9 is up. I believe MoltenSlowa said it best… HOLYBACONPANCAKEWTPBBQ. Go watch it!(GrimBrother One 07:20:24 UTC)

Toby Dillman needs some Halo-flavored help on naming a respawn. Drop in, make your suggestions, and congratulate the man! ;-)(GrimBrother One 07:12:43 UTC)

Robofin117 let us know about a new episode of Arby N The Chief. Never dull, sometimes weird, always a good watch. Check it out!(GrimBrother One 07:07:04 UTC)

Having had a lovely dinner with Leviathan and tucked Kermit in, I figured I’d shake off some of the PAX-induced stupor and gather up some of the news that has graced our forum lately. Bear with us as we’ll be going back and sweeping up many a link over the next few days I’m sure. First off is Arithromaniac dropping in to show us his homemade Plasma Pistol complete with signatures from incredibly important people; mainly HBO members. Pretty sweet!(GrimBrother One 07:00:21 UTC)

The team is in transit today – but we’d like to apologize for the outage on the forum last night (and the apparent outage on the main site, if you were using a mobile browser). Hurricane Irene shut off an AT&T trunk in New York, which disconnected our forum, our mailserver, and our primary nameserver from the internet. Whee! Things should be back to normal tomorrow – there’s already a huge backlog of news, which I WISH I could get to right now. Double whee!(Louis Wu 18:04:51 UTC)

I’d like to apologize – in this time of massive Halo news, we’re totally slacking on updating YOU, our readers. It’s unusual that MOST of HBO’s updating staff is participating in the same event… so we’re sorry. In the meantime, there are great resources like Forward Unto Dawn (Dani posted a great summary of stuff from yesterday on our forum last night – but beyond that, he does a great job of summarizing the key points from various sources), and the IGN Halo Fest Hub should be on your go-to list for content directly from the show. We’ll be back to normal soon – we promise!(Louis Wu 18:22:47 UTC)

Hedgemony posted the second half (well… last two thirds, really) of Part 4 of his Halo: SPD Flash comic. You should read it. It’s not Halo Fest-related… but Hedge doesn’t disappoint. (Louis Wu 17:03:58 UTC)