FyreWulff sent us a note about a new Fire Team Zulu challenge – we missed it. Take it out on the Covenant! Two Birds, One Stone gives you the opportunity to snag a brand-new achievement on the FTZ site – “Mirror, Mirror” is unlocked when you complete the FTZ challenge on the same day that a matching challenge is up on Bungie.net. LD Winter is live until 3am PST tomorrow morning – so get to work!(Louis Wu 19:57:45 UTC)

DHalo dug up a pretty interesting interview with Mrs Doublefire, over at 2old2play – this was published last September, but it’s the first I’m hearing about it. Mrs Doublefire is a name that might be familiar to some – he was a major player in the Halo PC building community, and later worked for Bungie as an environment artist on Halo 3 and Reach. It’s a fascinating discussion explaining how he got hired (through a contract agency), how Halo 3 would have been different without him, and more. (Did you know that Corvette was the geometry they used to make the ‘Deliver Hope’ trailer? I can see it now, but I certainly didn’t know it before.) Go read!(Louis Wu 18:56:50 UTC)

Cody Miller has decided to put together a list of changes that would need to be made to correct the continuity breaks that Reach introduced into the Halo universe. It’s a pretty small list. Go see if you agree with it! Update: Oops, I read the post carelessly. Cody didn’t write this – he simply brought it to us. The author is William Swartzendruber.(Louis Wu 18:24:45 UTC)

Willy let us know that he’s put up a new 20 Questions interview on CE United – this one is with GodlyPerfection, probably best known for his Forge Lessons. Go give it a read!(Louis Wu 18:20:31 UTC)

This was the only way we knew how to make everything just OK.

I pulled a gun at the world today.

Longest interview ever.

We missed yesterday’s posts at Bungie’s Comm Chatter – urk’s back in town and updating again! Here’s what you’ll find if you mosey on over:

• A Minecraft user (and his friends) built a huge recreation of a UNSC Frigate – then made an exhaustive video showing you the details.
• Gamers Outreach Foundation has teamed up with The Game Fanatics to raise money to buy a portable gaming kiosk that will be donated to the Dallas VAMC. Swing by their site for more details!

We’ll try not to get behind again.(Louis Wu 15:27:28 UTC)

INSANEdrive noticed a little retrospective on Bungie’s early days over at Kotaku – if you weren’t around in the early 90s, you might have missed this stuff! Go see where they came from.(Louis Wu 15:06:33 UTC)

AlphaGamma stopped by to let us know that Frostbite Chapter 5 is now live. (The last one we mentioned was Chapter 3, back on April 2 – you can find a link for Chapter 4 in his post, as well.) Nice work!(Louis Wu 15:03:45 UTC)

NeoGAF’s Booshka pointed out a montage from Ninja, a current player on Final Boss – the man is frighteningly accurate with a sniper rifle. (That’s not to say he’s a slouch with ANY other weapon.) Gameplay, in general, is over the top. (That’s a good thing.) Go watch.(Louis Wu 15:00:21 UTC)

SonGoharotto stepped up the pace a bit on his rewrite of the Halo storyline – Two Betrayals is live a scant three days after The Library. Reactions continue to be positive – go check it out!(Louis Wu 14:51:39 UTC)

MaxRealflugel let us know that The Secrets Within is giving away a Defiant Map Pack code – just submit a picture of an EOD helmet (either drawn or screenshotted), and you’ve got a chance! (You’ll also get your artwork included in the upcoming Revolutions volume 2.) More details on their site.(Louis Wu 20:20:41 UTC)

So, remember that “Buy A Laptop, Get an Xbox 360” deal that Microsoft just started? Well, their accompanying marketing campaign just got a whole lot better. So… where do I get the free Spartan Laser?(GrimBrother One 18:41:05 UTC)

Over at GAF, Zeouterlimits pointed out an article at Destructoid about the E3 MS Press Conference tickets… and what they might reveal. Interesting speculation! Update: Frankie stopped in to crush a few dreams – turns out, the agency who created the tickets just wanted attendees to put stickers on their their badges to identify with a favorite Xbox motif. Ah, well.(Louis Wu 16:34:19 UTC)

Haven’t been keeping up on news-scraping from NeoGAF – time to fix that. Willeth wrote up a little tidbit about Bungie’s upcoming project, now known as ‘Destiny’ – his source is unnamed, and uncorroborated, but the information fits the data we have, so take it as you will.(Louis Wu 16:31:32 UTC)

Gamers Outreach Foundation help you get your charity on.

Get all the main maps in one meaty place.

Reverse psychology included.

Forward Unto Awesome.