FyreWulff pointed out a thread on the Halo Waypoint forums where you can express your support for the Community Cartographers, a group of fans Bungie used to help filter out the best fan-made maps for use in Matchmaking. If you like the idea of fan-created maps finding their way into populated playlists, stop by and weigh in!(Louis Wu 15:38:03 UTC)

Postmortem is looking for fans interested in helping him create a very high-quality “Wildlife of Halo” field guide – if this sounds intriguing, you should read his post carefully, and see if you can contribute! This sounds like a fantastic project – here’s hoping it works out!(Louis Wu 15:33:23 UTC)

Rooster Teeth’s production schedule for Red vs Blue season 9 is an episode a week, for four weeks, then a PSA, lather, rinse, repeat. We watched Episode 4 last week – so this week, you get a PSA. It’s a very funny PSA, in which Caboose recounts his adventures with the nice men and women of Noble Team. Thanks, mattroe.(Louis Wu 15:24:03 UTC)

A month ago, Microsoft Game Studios VP Phil Spencer talked to OXM UK at E3. He was hyping Halo 4, and talking about how it will be a return to the story of the Master Chief. The terminology he used might be considered… unfortunate, based on the press this article began generating yesterday. (Not sure why nobody noticed before yesterday, but that’s a different question altogether.)

“We kind of lost our way a little bit, I’ll say. And that’s why I wanted to make sure that at the unveiling of Halo 4, you knew you were playing Master Chief, that John was back. Because Master Chief is the John Wayne character of that universe, and that’s who you want to play.”

The thread on our forum about this has people a little annoyed that Spencer basically seems to be saying “the direction Halo went in, with ODST and Reach, was not the direction it SHOULD have gone in.” Do you think he’s right? Do you think that’s even what he was really trying to say? Chime in!(Louis Wu 15:21:10 UTC)

Don’t forget to check out the 4th and final episode of CruelLEGACEY Production’s Playtime machinima series. Awesome stuff, go give it a look!(GrimBrother One 14:28:45 UTC)

Pete Cooper stopped in to give word that the Operation Chastity feature article in OXM UK has now gone live on the web. Big congrats to them for such a great article, go and check it out!(GrimBrother One 14:25:04 UTC)

Whoa – almost a blast from the past! TTL Demag0gue stopped in to announce that Reclaimer’s back – go see! (Plus, congratulate him on the nine-week anniversary of his daughter’s birth.)(Louis Wu 15:22:13 UTC)

Forbes has an interesting piece about how the top echelon of gamers are beginning to be treated like athletes in other sports. It includes a sizeable interview with Dave ‘Walshy’ Walsh. Go see!(Louis Wu 13:16:43 UTC)

Tony ‘ubald’ Marcotte let us know that he’s got a new pair of images for your viewing pleasure – check out ‘Delta B Company‘ and ‘Jackals‘ in his gallery here! Loving the energy…(Louis Wu 16:13:51 UTC)

Hedgemony dug up some ancient Halo ads that came out in Australia back in 2002 – great stuff!(Louis Wu 15:36:37 UTC)

Higuy sent word that the TM Mapping Team has released new info about Lumoria Episode 2 – the campaign mod they’re making for Halo: Custom Edition. Swing by Halomaps for a full update – including a new trailer!(Louis Wu 15:36:01 UTC)

Dark Helmet (!!) dropped in with a very nice little piece…(Louis Wu 22:37:05 UTC)

Rockslider slipped back into Halo 3 for some fun in Sierra 117’s jail – check out his post for details!(Louis Wu 19:24:17 UTC)

Nidonocu pointed out that Team Grim (no relation to the GrimBrothers) is back doing another Halo marathon for Child’s Play – they started this one on the evening of 7/7, and have been playing ever since. (We mentioned them last September.) Go watch the stream, and toss some money in the pot! (Louis Wu 19:23:52 UTC)

CaptainTony let us know about a Flash creation on DeviantART – KazMazter put some kinetic typography to the final speech from Halo 3, to really nice effect. Check it out! (Louis Wu 19:22:21 UTC)

Trunks stopped by with a link to the 11th episode of the Bancast, a podcast put out by the crew of Sure to be Ban’d. They tried really hard to play some Reach against Bungie – they didn’t earn any steaks, but you can still go listen. (Louis Wu 19:21:50 UTC)