You might remember a little feature we hosted last year – Daniel ‘Tyrant’ Morris created a Halo 3 Mythic Guide, showing you how to get through the game on Legendary difficulty, with all skulls on. Well, he hasn’t been resting on his laurels – he’s been putting together a new version of this guide, with new, faster, more efficient routes and tricks – and we’re proud to help him host it. Presenting The Halo 3 Mythic Walkthrough, Version 2.0. Conceived as an add-on, rather than a replacement, the original tips and level walkthroughs are still available if you’d like to compare… but each level will now have a NEW walkthrough, with new tricks and videos. (Check the Home Page of the new guide for a fully-updated set of Tips and Tricks.) He’ll be posting levels to coincide with his Summer Mythic Recon Challenge – so if you haven’t completed this week’s run of The Storm yet, you can use the Storm page of his new guide to shave some time off your effort!(Louis Wu 22:38:56 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy sent along an update for the Fundfax Fairraiser, the charity event she hosted for a few days last week – an amazing chunk of change was generated in the few days she was able to keep it running (over $6000!), and she’s still working on a method of picking the winners publicly. Swing by and give it a read! Congrats to everyone who made this a success, in spite of some unexpected roadblocks!(Louis Wu 22:22:44 UTC)

We’ve posted a couple of batches of panoramas from dutch Halo player 2good4u2 (here and here) – now his brother 2good4u is doing it, and his first batch is on our forum. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 21:27:25 UTC)

Mr Sark sent word that he’d been interviewed on the gameblog Digital Kuroko – it’s an interesting discussion about the creation of his Sarkathlons, the Halo 3 obstacle courses that have generated interest from thousands of gamers. It’s just 20 minutes long – go listen!(Louis Wu 21:15:57 UTC)

Another Dev Blog went live at HaloWars.com yesterday – Designer Joe Gillum discusses how a mission took shape, from concept to enactment. Interesting read! Thanks, 2900d4u.(Louis Wu 18:35:33 UTC)

Bungie.net’s updated the Bungie Favorites section, using another batch of goodies from Major League Driving. Swing by to see what they have to offer!(Louis Wu 17:58:19 UTC)

Lando Griff1n let us know about a new montage from HAZMAT v2 – it’s 17 minutes long, and REALLY heavy on the editing. The HD download weighs in at a seriously meaty 600 mb (but there’s a streaming version available on the Halo3Montage.com page). I liked the ‘Unexplained’ section (though I wish it had been brighter). Take a look! (Louis Wu 17:27:30 UTC)

In early June, we mentioned a charity tournament being organized to raise money to help search for a missing teenager in Tennessee. The tournament scheduling is much farther along now – looks like it’ll be taking place on July 18, in Newport, TN. Swing by JeSteR 343’s forum post for full details.(Louis Wu 16:47:18 UTC)

A couple of new movies for you, courtesy of the BungLog™:

• Top 10 Halo 3 Splatters HD shows off (surprise, surprise) ten splatter vids. I’d say number 8 was the best of the bunch, unfortunately.
• Halo 3 Crudbusters takes a relatively unsubtle approach to parodying the Halo 3 Mythbusters videos – but I like the last one quite a bit.

Be like Chauncy Gardner.(Louis Wu 16:36:18 UTC)

It’s Wednesday, so it’s time for a summary of Halo comics released in the last 48 hours:

• Dennis Powers let us know about Shipwrecked Episode 75 – Wishful Thinking; sometimes, apparently, you get what you wish for.
• Hawty McBloggy sent word of ODST Steve #31: Falling Angel – and the new Lieutenant has a surprise.
• Bloogyo stopped in with word of Rat’s Nest 20 2 – I’m pretty sure the Master Chief isn’t THAT stupid…
• TTL Demag0gue put some extra effort into Reclaimer 200 – AI Upgraded. This one is Flash-based, and created completely by Demag0gue – congrats on a fine piece of work! Go get a better sense of who Tran is.
• The Catfish sent word to urk that 2501 Episode 73 is live.

That’s it for today – grab a cup of coffee and do some reading! (Louis Wu 16:17:19 UTC)