…and… more from Hitmonchan107. Halo: Evolutions is up for an Audie (the Audiobook industry’s equivalent of the Oscars) in Science Fiction/Fantasy. BenStreeper is building a Reach armor suit out of Fedex boxes. justCrafted wants your clips for a community montage, and has a teaser to show you what he’d do with them. And My Gamer Connections is offering a chance to play Reach with MLG Pro Ghostayame. Go soak it in!(Louis Wu 21:00:48 UTC)

Rockslider has decided to make his original videos (same screensize, but larger filesize, smoother animation) available from his site. Check his forum post for details!(Louis Wu 20:55:14 UTC)

Hitmonchan107 put up another pair of posts on NeoGAF last night – here are some of the goodies he uncovered:

• MachinimaRespawn has posted another promo piece – this one stars Mrs Sark, Hutch, and the Dead Pixel. While I’d appreciate the help… I could live without the underwear.
• Justgameblogger is hosting a Reach FFA tourney on LIVE, with a Gamestop giftcard (or MS Points) as the top prize. Game day is next Wednesday.
• TheGamersHub posted a review of the Defiant Map Pack – probably not TOO many people still undecided about this, but you never know!
• NightshadeMachinima posted a Halo: Reach rendition of the Men in Black theme song. Pretty nicely done!
• jimexproductions1 cut a Halo Reach Trailer – it’s not perfect, but it’s pretty cool nonetheless! Go watch it.

(There’s more stuff than that; I only pulled the best links.) Okay, my slaving all day over a hot forum post is done – I’m gonna go rest.(Louis Wu 15:45:33 UTC)

RVideo stopped in last night with a link to Reid18’s unreleased Halo 3 montage… great piece of work! Take a look.(Louis Wu 15:22:30 UTC)

Lord Friendship managed to kill the BOB (the gold Ranger Elite hidden on most (all?) Reach campaign levels) on Lone Wolf – if you want to watch how, swing by his fileshare. A pretty interesting video! (Louis Wu 15:21:47 UTC)

ZZoMBiE13 let us know that Rooster Teeth’s Fails of the Weak Volume 29 is live – they are ALL great clips this time around. Loved this one. (Louis Wu 15:12:32 UTC)

In a bit of a PSA, the Grim household recently received an update from Amazon.com regarding the Hardcover Fall of Reach: Bootcamp Graphic Novel. Looks like the estimated delivery date was moved up to April 13, 2011. For those of you picking it up in stores, this means you might be able to grab it as early as next week. Good stuff!(GrimBrother One 14:51:58 UTC)

Bungie once again provides us with a lovingly crafted weekend-readying reward for making it through the Monday-Thursday grind. The Weekly Update contains some knowledge nuggets regarding chess, PS3 hiring, and world-changing wristbands. Top it off with some gorgeous Covenant-themed backdrops and a fun Blame Stosh, and you’ve got yourself a kickstart to Saturday, mojimbo. Also available in Inverted Contrast Edition.(GrimBrother One 04:18:18 UTC)

Yesterday was Thursday. Thursday.

Yesterday was Thursday. Thursday.

kanbo was first to notice a post on Halo: Faith’s Facebook page – looks like they’ve been annexed by Machinima.com! Interesting. Distribution is now exclusive to Machinima’s YouTube channel.(Louis Wu 18:03:31 UTC)

If you didn’t get enough views of the newest batch of McFarlane action figures when we posted a link to Inside Pulse’s photo set, you should swing by Halo Waypoint – they’ve got their own batch of pics. Some of those are looking amazing!(Louis Wu 18:00:52 UTC)

TWO Dragon Age 2 videos about slaying things inbound!

First off Brownman joins in as we kill a ton of dragons to get the Dragon Slayer achievement.

Then Tudor hops in while we collect scrolls and slay demons to get the Demon Slayer achievement!

Immediately after drop…

Pretty handy little glitch for machinima makers – Stone Angel lets you walk around without actually walking, and without carrying a weapon. aCardboardTube put the video together (he’s Bungei Boy on LIVE), Hitmonchan107 (really? AGAIN?) found the link.(Louis Wu 15:48:39 UTC)

Looks like a fairly quiet weekend compared to previous posts. You guys do realize that last week was an April Fools… right?:

This weekend starts with, Soothsayer57 who’s taking a stab in the dark while trying to boost the multiplayer achievements in The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena.
April 8th all day.
Send a message here on AH or over XBL to Gamertag: Soothsayer57

Next up is McHennessey, not going for achievements, but looking for some good custom games, matchmaking and trying for the Avatar awards in Halo: Reach.
From Friday April 8th to Sunday the 10th.
Send a message here on Achievement Hunter to get involved

Last but not least is Nand, who’s looking to boost 100 frags for the “Destroyer” achievement with other people in The Doom II: Hell on Earth.
April 8 at 5 PM EST.
Send a message here on AH or over XBL to Gamertag: Nand311

If you want to host a future Weekend Hunt, post the details in this group thread to get some frontpage attention.

The sign ups for Achievement Challenge 17 are now open, with the challenge starting next Friday the 15th. Head over to the Achievement Challenges group for more info!

Remember how we mentioned Reach was up for awards in 9 categories at the MI6 Advertising awards? Looks like they went home with 13 actual awards. Whoa. (Thanks (again), Hitmonchan107.)(Louis Wu 15:39:29 UTC)

Heh – Andrew Jester might have figured out where the rings are built… (betcha woulda never guessed ‘Indiana’!)(Louis Wu 15:33:47 UTC)