Don’t listen to this at work, unless you’re wearing headphones… but it’s pretty amusing. Thanks, padraig08.(Louis Wu 16:27:57 UTC)

SEspider stopped in yesterday, with a pretty nice piece of Halo art created by DeviantARTist Texly-D41 – it’s based on some roleplaying. (Louis Wu 16:27:16 UTC)

Stephen Loftus sent along another small batch of new Halo signs (mostly Civilian, showing up on this page, but also a pair of UNSC signs at the end of this page) – I’m most intrigued by the Jotun signs. Will anyone ever decipher those dots? (Louis Wu 16:26:15 UTC)

Play Grifball your way!

It’s not new content per say to us here at HBO, but it’s worth mentioning that our own ridiculously talented Leviathan finds his Fistful of Arrows comic picked as the Waypoint Weekend Webcomic. Yet more recognition for outstanding work. As always, you can find the entire story right here. Great work, Levi!(GrimBrother One 22:03:26 UTC)

CrazedOne1988 took the audio from the StarCraft II Launch Trailer and coupled it with both cutscene and in-game visuals from Halo: Reach – and the end result is just plain awesome. Go watch HaloCraft!(Louis Wu 05:05:13 UTC)

TriBlox’s Voho stopped in with news about Halo: Out With a Whimper, the fan-made sidescroller – the engine’s been rewritten, and everything is “better than ever”. You read all the nitty-gritty details at Mod DB!(Louis Wu 05:00:36 UTC)

Looks like The Mona Lisa Part 4 is up now, both on Halo Waypoint’s website and on Waypoint on Xbox Live… things are getting pretty tense! Thanks, General Vagueness. (Louis Wu 04:54:26 UTC)

SonGoharotto continues his rewrite of the Halo storyline; if you’ll remember, he’s integrating later canon material into the first game’s tale. He’s up to 343 Guilty Spark. This is a pretty interesting project, and it looks like he’s well on his way to finishing it! (Louis Wu 04:53:02 UTC)

RC Master provided a nice wrapup of recent goings-on over at High Speed Halo:

• Dark Devastation whipped through Reach’s New Alexandria in Mythic mode in 12:12 at the end of last week.
• RC Master took down ODST’s Kikowani Station with nearly 550,000 points on Legendary.
• zusaij set the new speed record for ODST’s Tayari Plaza on Normal – 2:03.
• Then he did the same for ODST’s Uplift Reserve, on Easy – 2:24.
• KroKus beat Reach’s Winter Contingency on Heroic in 8:48.
• Finally, GevarM96 and GewehrM48 flew through Reach’s Tip of the Spear on Easy in just 7:02.

This last run debuts a new format for videos – just one screen at a time, flipping back and forth between players based on who’s doing the most interesting stuff. They’re looking for feedback on the change – swing by their forum and talk to them!(Louis Wu 14:22:33 UTC)

Homeboyd903 and friends are maintaining a thread at Bungie.net that contains all the community maps that are now, or have ever been, in Reach Matchmaking. If you want a chance to look over these maps without being shot at, swing by and grab copies! Great resource. (Louis Wu 12:36:47 UTC)

Jimmy Jangles has put together a nice collection of Reach Concept art from a variety of sources – it’s a great roundup! Go look. (Louis Wu 12:33:37 UTC)

FyreWulff reminds you that this weekend there’s a Super Jackpot potential in the Action Sack playlist; if you play, you have the chance to win a bonus 11,000 cR jackpot added to your Slot Machine total at the end of the game. It’s supposed to be limited to once per day per person… but we’ve got multiple reports of multiple wins from yesterday. Go give it a shot! (FyreWulff is also keeping track of Super Jackpot weekends on his website, so you can watch how the offers change.) (Louis Wu 12:30:10 UTC)

Has urk left a man-sized hole in your heart? Dani from Forward Unto Dawn stepped up to the BWU plate with his “Bungled Weekly Update,” a fantastic read with plenty of info and a hilariously boring Blame Ghaleon. Please, sir, I want some more.(Hitmonchan 23:59:50 UTC)

ElzarTheBam put together his first montage – pretty nice clips and composition! It’s up on YouTube, but there’s been some wonkiness with the soundtrack (first it was on, then it was turned off, then it came back on again), so we put up local copies of the video. You can watch it online, or download QuickTime/WMP9 versions.(Louis Wu 21:02:01 UTC)