This comic was guest written by sexy Gus Sorola!

Over at NeoGAF, Dani pointed out a couple of upcoming books that might make some Halo fans happy – a new version of the Halo Encyclopedia (16 new pages of content, and presumably some errors from the first edition fixed), and a book called “Halo: The Essential Visual Guide“, coming this summer from DK. (While it’s true that Amazon’s description for the book is clearly out of date (ODST is no longer the most recent Halo title), it matches DK’s description word for word – which makes me wonder if the publication date is accurate. I hope so – looks like a great book!(Louis Wu 20:36:07 UTC)

SK1LL4XED sent word that Post Game Carnage Report Episode 75 is up. Plenty of Halo discussion this week – including talk about A Fistful of Arrows! Go listen. (Louis Wu 20:22:09 UTC)

Are you bored? Does the outside world seem foreign and inhospitable? I answered yes to both, so here’s what I found to pass the time:

• Want to watch 116 players duke it out in a Halo-themed paintball contest? Payback350z has you covered. The player running around with the Energy Sword was awesome, and so was the first-person shooting.
• Here’s a fan-made Halo movie trailer from 5233484. According to the description, he or she has never played the games before. Judging from the username, he/she is actually a robot, and this is a warning to humanity that our dependency on technology will bring about our untimely demise.
• Continuing the trend, tu1785566 made a Halo funtage with clips from Halo 3 and Reach. A rather unfortunate song choice, but the clips were good fun.
• Freelancer824 sliced together Halo cutscenes to the song “For the New Lunar Republic,” which is apparently a bada** fan-made song for My Little Pony.
• The new “Pregame Lobby,” titled “Things Change,” is online. There’s some NSFW language for you work types.
• Part five of Machinima Respawn’s “Adventures in Halo: Reach Campaign Matchmaking” is up. In case you missed them, here are the first four parts: (1 | 2 | 3 | 4).
• DetoX edited a Halo 3 montage featuring RPG Hero. The video has NSFW lyrics.
• Finally, episode eight of “Anguish” came out today. Catch up with the episodes here: (1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7).

And if you’re really bored, go watch Halo Legends. I’m about to watch it for the first time. I just got Netflix. Cut me some slack.(Hitmonchan107 18:24:14 UTC)

Raaaaaaage Quit! But quit right after you watch this video.

Oh, my God. Really?

To see how the other half lives.

The best of the best multiplayer kills.

ChrisTheeCrappy pointed out IGN’s latest Top 10 Reach Kills vid – he wasn’t really happy with them, but there are some fun ones in there! Check ’em.(Louis Wu 15:05:23 UTC)

Be ware. This Portal 2 video likely contains significant spoilers if you haven’t beaten the game. If you have, and are wondering how to get three missable Achievements, check it out.

Laird stopped by with a quick summary of some of the highlights to be expected at RvB CanWest, taking place this weekend – if you can make it to Vancouver, this one should be a doozy!(Louis Wu 12:04:13 UTC)

Arithmomaniac has updated his ‘HBO Forum Enhancers’ (scripts and styles adjustments to make browsing our forum a bit more streamlined) – check his post for links. (You WILL lose the Challenges box in the top right if you install the Stylish script – just a warning.) Update: Arithmomaniac updated to put the Challenge block back in (but made it pretty easy to edit yourself if you want it gone).(Louis Wu 12:03:13 UTC)

Hexlord posted four amazing photos (1 | 2 | 3 | 4) of a cosplayer in his custom-made Mark VI armor and weapons on deviantART. Did I use the correct armor this time, Grim? :^) Great stuff, Hexlord!(Hitmonchan107 06:37:56 UTC)

As mentioned on the latest Running Riot Podcast, David Ellis, Alison Stroll and Jessica Shea (bsangel) will be showing off some motion comic stuff at RvB CanWest 2011 this weekend in Vancouver, BC. If you’re going, be sure to take plenty of pictures for me!(Hitmonchan107 06:21:40 UTC)