Another day, another batch of simply stunning screenshots from Hedgemony. He is so, so good at showing you things you might never have noticed… and doing it in a way that makes them beautiful. No matter WHAT they started out as. (Louis Wu 17:51:36 UTC)

Stephen Loftus has completely overhauled his Halo-verse Planetary Scale article – the newest version contains all the information of the older versions, plus a bunch of new stuff that we now know about (systems described in books/games, etc) – plus some new distance calculations that are pretty impressive! Check it out. (Louis Wu 17:45:00 UTC)

The team responsible for the new terminals in Halo: Anniversary are making some noise – AngelicLionheart noticed that they’ve got a Halo piece up on their Artwork page, and one of their animators posted some cool screen grabs at NeoGAF (thanks, Elzarthebam). Looking pretty amazing! (Louis Wu 17:44:00 UTC)

Yesterday, Deepblue stopped by with a proposition – he was unhappy with the Assault Rifle shown in the most recent Halo: Anniversary footage, because he felt that it suffered from the non-inclusion of all the cool changes made to the Reach AR. Over the course of the evening, he posted a number of revisions of his work – and this morning, he posted what he calls a near-final version. It’s met with some positive responses from our forum – go take a look! (Louis Wu 17:41:21 UTC)

Edge has just released 150 classic reviews – including all three original Halo games (Halo | Halo 2 | Halo 3). Edge is really one of the most impressive gaming mags out there – and their Halo reviews were spectacular. If you missed them the first time around – go check! Thanks, Hypertrooper. (Louis Wu 17:40:08 UTC)

Interesting! hotshot revan noticed that the Amazon listing for Halo: Primordium, Greg Bear’s second novel in his Halo trilogy, has been updated with a small summary of the book’s plot. If you’re dying to see where this story is going – check it out! (Louis Wu 17:33:15 UTC)

Carnage A51 let us know that Physics Remastered has released a tutorial showing how to get out of Lone Wolf – pretty cool! (Louis Wu 17:28:38 UTC)

Over at NeoGAF, Awesome Barlow pointed out that the Custom Mapping Team (a Halo CE group) is back in action – you can read about it on their site! Update: Masterz1337, the CMT leader, asked that we change the link to point to the CMT site itself – there’s far more information. We’ve done that. (The Modacity post we used can still be found in Awesome Barlow’s post.)(Louis Wu 17:20:21 UTC)

Laird is doing something cool at Halo Fest, coming up next month at PAX. He can’t tell you what it is yet – but if you’re interested in participating (no, you don’t have to get naked, and no, it won’t cost you any money), he wants to hear from you! Check his post for details. If you’re going to be at PAX, and you’re a Halo fan… this is probably something you want to check out. (Louis Wu 17:06:36 UTC)

I thought this might be worthy enough of its own newspost so I’m, well, making a newspost. Hidden in the lovingly-crafted Halo Bulletin that went live around 7 minutes ago was the announcement that there was also a brand new Halo Sparkast, featuring the wind beneath my left and right wings, David Ellis and Frank O’Connor, talking Halo hotness with one Ms. Karen Traviss. There’s also a bonus pre-Comic Con segment that you should absolutely hear. (By the way, if you’re hot enough, Frankie will let you record anything, just saying) Go and give it a listen!(GrimBrother One 23:13:22 UTC)

Goose Checka sent word that GrifballHub has posted its 1,000th article – and to celebrate, they’re running two GRUNTs (tournaments), PLUS holding a contest – with a cool signed T for the winner. Check out all the details on their site!(Louis Wu 21:04:40 UTC)

It’s Day Three of Hedgemony’s 117 Images over 5 Days project… and some of my favorite pictures so far are included. “Collapsing Elevator” is spectacular… while “Falling Glass” reminds me of the detail Bungie’s added to these games. The entire batch… well, just imagine me kissing my first three fingers and thumb, with a pinky held high in the air. Go look.(Louis Wu 15:26:42 UTC)

Fire Team Zulu is back – FyreWulff has a challenge for you on New Alexandria; can you make the run with no human guns? (This includes the turret on your Falcon.) Oh, yeah… and you’ve only got 30 minutes. Sounds like fun! Go try.(Louis Wu 15:13:21 UTC)

Lord Friendship built a panorama on ONI Sword Base as a tribute to the adventurous spirit of HBO denizens. It’s… epic.(Louis Wu 15:12:54 UTC)

Over at NeoGAF, Ramirez pointed out a recent episode of Pawn Stars, a show about a pawn shop (and what comes in) – starting at 3 minutes in to this video, a guy negotiates the sale of his homemade Halo armor. The girlfriend’s input is priceless.(Louis Wu 14:57:41 UTC)

Apparently, some DLC coming for Duke Nukem Forever takes shots at other shooters – including Halo. (Sounds like Sandbox is a parody of Blood Gulch, though I can’t find any pictures yet.) Thanks, Elzarthebam.(Louis Wu 14:50:07 UTC)

mattroe used a Red vs Blue clip as a jumping-off place for an animation class project – the end result is pretty cool! Check it out.(Louis Wu 14:47:53 UTC)

mr.sci-fi bought a couple of cool Halo items, and posted video reviews of them – swing by his post to see a couple of minutes each of the Essential Visual Guide and some Peel-n-Stick vinyl graphics. Interesting idea!(Louis Wu 14:46:34 UTC)