SonGoharotto continues his rewrite of the original Halo script – he released The Silent Cartographer last night. Seems like we’re pulling away from the original… (Louis Wu 11:57:42 UTC)

padraig stopped in yesterday to point out a tweet from thevowel, who was present at RvB Canwest. Looks like we know the next short story from Evolutions to be released in graphic animated form! Update: in case anyone was unsure whether this was official or not, Waypoint’s Alison Stoll confirmed it.(Louis Wu 11:54:03 UTC)

The Tyrant had a bit of trouble getting his normal Quad Mythic team together, but he did pull Matclan, Michael Archer, and Leumas Loch from the Mythic community to run New Alexandria in Legendary, with All Skulls On… and the resulting run gets The Tyrant one level closer to be the first person in the world to conquer a Halo game on Quad Mythic! They’re planning to do a cleaner run later this week – but if you want to see their first (successful) attempt, it’s available for download from Bungie.net.(Louis Wu 21:57:13 UTC)

Wow. I love my kids – but I don’t share any ink with them. This is not true of Gnuet and MikeyDog62 – this father/son team has matching NOBLE tats. That’s Halo (and family) love!(Louis Wu 21:53:27 UTC)

RVideo sent word of 48 Hours, a minitage from Toastyame that includes footage from a single 48 stretch. (That timeframe covers both the gameplay AND the editing.) It’s just two and a half minutes long – but it contains some pretty impressive gameplay and nice editing – go watch!(Louis Wu 21:48:25 UTC)

Community
–PSN and XBL Security Issues
–Achievement HORSE #21
–Fails of the Weak! Volume 32
–Weekend Hunt

AH Videos
–Schrodinger’s Catch, Ship Overboard, Overclocker, Preservation of Mass, Smash TV, Portrait of a Lady, and No Hard Feelings video guides in Portal 2
–Good Listener, You Made Your Point, and Pit Boss video guide in Portal 2
-A presence I’ve not felt since part 2 in LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars
-Babalities part 1, part 2, and part 3 in Mortal Kombat
-Stage Fatalities part 1, part 2, and part 3 in Mortal Kombat
–X-Ray Attacks part 1 in Mortal Kombat
–Top 10 Xbox 360 Easter Eggs
–Singing Turrets Eater Egg in Portal 2
–Rage Quit: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Community Videos
–Portal Conservation Society and Party of Three video guides in Portal 2 from BioHRay and Nand
–Smash TV video guide in Portal 2 from BioHRay and FlapNasty3
–Empty Gesture video guide in Portal 2 from shovelmage
–Ship Overboard video guide in Portal 2 from Ollie123456
–Getting Wood and Benchmarking video guide in Minecraft from L0rdVex
–Going For Gold video guide in Portal: Still Alive from shovelmage
–Tin Boy and Iron Boy video guide in Super Meat Boy from Soothersayer57 and BioHRay
–Fatal and Tragic video guide in Homefront from MrCheevo
–Preservation of Mass, Overclocker, Good Listener, No Hard Feelings, Scanned Alone, Shrodinger’s Catch, Made Your Point and Pit Boss video guide in Portal 2 from CreepyDoll
–Speedy Warrior video guide in Dynasty Warriors 7 from HGN_Kevin
–Pistol Whipped video guide in Homefront from Xngine
–Pit Master video guide in Mortak Komabt from Nand
–What Cat? video guide in Half-Life 2 from DexterGrif19

Xbox 360 Achievements
-Added achievements for LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean
-Added achievements for Brink
-Added achievements for History Channel: Great Battles Medieval
-Added achievements forDungeon Siege III
-Added achievements for MX vs. ATV Alive
-Added achievements for Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters
-Added achievements for The Adventures of Shuggy
-Added achievements for Captain America: Super Soldier
-Added DLC achievements for Fantastic Pets
-Added secret achievements for Operation Flashpoint: Red River
-Added secret achievements for Thor: God of Thunder
-Added secret achievements for L.A. Noire
-Added secret achievements for Hunted: The Demon’s Forge
-Added secret achievements for Red Faction: Armageddon
-Added secret achievements for The First Templar
-Added secret achievements for Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon

Windows Phone 7 Achievements
-Added achievements for Pitfall!
-Added achievements for Hydro Thunder Go
-Added achievements for geoDefense

Games for Windows LIVE Achievements
-Added achievements for Section 8: Prejudice

PlayStation 3 Trophies
-Added trophies for SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs

Steam Achievements
-Added achievements for Universe Sandbox

Web Game Achievements
-Added update achievements for Adventures in Ponyville

Attention, entire world. Why aren’t you in Vancouver right now? Kathleen (aka Tex), Nico (from Trocadero) and Luke (the artist of m*therf*ck*in’ RT Comics) are there. Go say “hi”.

katancik won a package of goodies from Bungie for his very early All-Star win – t-shirts, an action figure, and (best of all) birthday cards… with his own winning design. Awesome!(Louis Wu 23:13:17 UTC)

Stephen Loftus sent us another 20 signs for his “Signs of Halo” collection – they’re spread out amongst almost all groups. This brings the total for the collection to 200 – not too shabby!(Louis Wu 22:42:41 UTC)

Neeew Video! Earlier this week we had the pleasure of working with Jon Graham. Jon as many of you know is the creator of Arby ‘n’ the Chief. This mashup didn’t really start off all that great. We had never seen Jon before and we weren’t expecting him for a few days so there was… some confusion. We got it all sorted out later. Luckily, Sal Black, a documentary filmmaker from Austin, was at the office with his crew shooting a little featurette on Rooster Teeth life for a local film fest. He let us borrow the footage so we could share our embarrassment with you.

The saga continues on Halo Waypoint for The Mona Lisa motion comic. Still building, but getting better and better. Go check it out! Thanks to General Vagueness who also mentioned it on our forums.(GrimBrother One 15:40:31 UTC)

Hitmonchan107, just before heading out for a weekend of debauchery and pantsless reveling, stopped into our forum with word of an interesting aside in an interview with Epic’s Cliffy B. Apparently, the Master Chief COULD have been in Gears 3, but the idea was nixed by Microsoft because Gears is a bit too… bloody. Go read Cliffy’s description of what might have been!(Louis Wu 13:23:43 UTC)

Bones153 wanted to give folks some serious incentive to complete this week’s Weekly Challenge – four copies of the Defiant Map Pack (or the equivalent in MSP, if you have it already) for the 4-player team that could score the highest and have the most fun. Read his (well-documented) post for full rationale, and rules – but be aware that it was supposed to happen last night at 10pm, so you’re just reading to see what fan love can lead to. (Sorry I didn’t get this posted yesterday!) Update: I’m wrong – you’ve got a week and a half! (Thanks to munky-058 for pointing out the rules addition I missed.) Get your team together, and win a ton of points!(Louis Wu 13:23:10 UTC)

DeviantART’s Mesmeretics released the first official poster for Halo: Faith (the fan movie we’ve been seeing lots of recently). Suitably grandiose! Thanks again, munky-058. Update: Looks like Grim noticed this yesterday (and I didn’t). Oops!(Louis Wu 13:18:50 UTC)

If you’re playing Stockpile, and you have an epic encounter, what better outcome could there be than to turn that into a machinima of sorts? Thanks to GAF’s Account Attempt #4 for pointing this out. Made me laugh.(Louis Wu 13:13:08 UTC)

SonGoharotto stopped by yesterday with another rewrite of his version of Pillar of Autumn, a rewrite of his version of Halo, and a brand-new release – Truth and Reconciliation. The overhaul of the original Halo script (to bring it more inline with newer canon material) continues!(Louis Wu 13:10:50 UTC)

Fails of the Weak Volume 32 is now online – this shows that there are still plenty of silly happenings in Halo games, and lots of them result in funny death. Go watch! Thanks, munky-058.(Louis Wu 13:08:09 UTC)

This comic was guest written by sexy Gus Sorola!