The night is always darkest…

Home for a whole 3 hours, have to leave again… but a tidbit for you, before I go. Some folks were asking about the music in the Halo 4 Teaser Trailer – it was composed by Neil Davidge, composer and producer on the last three Massive Attack albums. Good stuff!(Louis Wu 20:32:31 UTC)

The third of the trilogy of new comics has been posted to the One One Se7en page – Stuntmutt felt that the best way to help you remember his glory days was to… well, remind you of his glory days. Glasses up!(Louis Wu 16:41:49 UTC)

There were no new stories submitted for last week’s Fan Fiction update – but in the previous 7 days, six new pieces have been submitted. Go read ’em!(Louis Wu 16:39:07 UTC)

FyreWulff has let us know about a couple of new Fire Team Zulu challenges – check out Unnerfed, a Reach Firefight challenge on Unearthed with no hog action, and Night Recon, a Reach campaign challenge that’s sniper- and warthog-free. Challenge yourself!(Louis Wu 23:10:32 UTC)

Kaidon continues his custom figure awesomeness with a Spawn-inspired Reach Spartan. As a big Spawn fan as well, I find this creation particularly sweet. Go check it out!(GrimBrother One 22:00:22 UTC)

I meant to get back to this… not enough time near a computer recently. Ducain pointed out that the High Impact Halo newspost about the Tower to Tower challenge completion was updated… with a SECOND successful attempt. MrMonopoly ALSO finished the challenge, and filmed his technique. After 7 years of trying – two people nail this within a day or so of each other. That blows me away. Congrats to the entire Halo 1 tricking community for sticking with this one! (Louis Wu 17:27:41 UTC)

The nerve of that guy! Stuntmutt continues to riff on the Halo 4 trailer in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 17:21:54 UTC)

AssaultGodzilla let our forum know that his Indestructible 2.0 HMV is now complete, featuring new footage from obvious new sources. He never fails to impress me. 🙂 Go and give it a look/listen!(GrimBrother One 15:38:39 UTC)

GHOSTKILL helped remind us that Episode 27 of the awesome Achievement HORSE series from our friends at Rooster Teeth went live yesterday. This time, Geoff squares off against HORSE/PIG rookie Joel, and the results are predictably hilarious. You never want to miss these! Go and watch it!(GrimBrother One 15:28:08 UTC)

Black Six sent notice that Issac Hannaford’s blog has had another update, this time with some concept shots of New Alexandria. Gorgeous! Go look!(GrimBrother One 15:25:18 UTC)

The ever-awesome DeepCee dropped in with word that not just one, but two new editions of The Chronicles of ODS Steve are out. Always great to see! Go give them a look!(GrimBrother One 15:21:06 UTC)

FSC Nightmare wanted to share a wallpaper he put together using various Halo 4 visual assets. I think the result is really nice! Go and take a look!(GrimBrother One 15:17:25 UTC)

This isn’t purely Halo-related, but it certainly has Halo overtones, and should be of general interest to gamers everywhere. We spent a bunch of time talking to Max Hoberman, of Certain Affinity – they’re behind the 7 retooled Halo maps that will be included with the Halo: Anniversary package released this fall, and Max is back at his first E3 since 2004, when Halo 2 multiplayer was shown off to huge acclaim. (You can read about Max’s recollections of that fateful reveal in CA’s E3 Blog – just scroll down to the Day 0 entry.) Certain Affinity was not at E3 to show off those maps, though – 343 Industries is taking point on the Halo: Anniversary unveil. CA is there showing off Crimson Alliance, a new action RPG that gets you right into the carnage without a whole lot of inventory management. Definitely my kind of game – you should absolutely check this out when it hits Xbox LIVE Arcade later this summer! (We have a couple Crimson Alliance t-shirts to give away, thanks to Max – when I get back into town, we’ll figure out how to share ’em.)(Louis Wu 07:51:09 UTC)

For some reason, Padraig08 decided to share this… um… this BETTER not be the graphically enhanced Anniversary Jackal. I swear to God, 343…(GrimBrother One 23:55:46 UTC)

We mentioned it yesterday already, but it seems to have gotten lost in the shuffle that 343 Industries released their newest podcast, Sparkast 004: E3 Edition. It just went up on Waypoint itself today, so we wanted to remind everyone to go and listen to the sultry manvocals of David Ellis, Frank O’Connor, and 343i Producer Dennis Ries as they discuss Halo Anniversary, Halo 4, and donut-derived codenames. Go listen!(GrimBrother One 21:35:36 UTC)

If your desktop wallpaper needs some waking up, look no further than the images Capt Spanish has whipped up utilizing the “Wake Up John” media assets from the Halo 4 teaser. Looking awesome!(GrimBrother One 21:32:00 UTC)

Hitmonchan107 brought word via Tunavi from NeoGAF that the Reach June Playlist is now live. Our own Fyrefulff also weighed in with changes that he’s noticed himself. Though there isn’t an official changelog from Bungie just yet, details of what were planned for the full update can be found in their most recent Weekly Update. Get in there and swat some heads!(GrimBrother One 21:23:04 UTC)

VideoGamer has a second article up on “Halo: CEA.” The site is reporting the game will not allow users to toggle between the original music or sound effects and the re-recorded versions. Of course, the original dialogue is being retained from “Combat Evolved,” with the notable addition of terminal dialogue. There are still unrevealed features for the game, so unless Frankie comes in wielding the Dreamcrusher, I’ll hold on to my hope for some inclusion of the original audio.(Hitmonchan 19:13:34 UTC)