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)

Stephen Loftus has added ANOTHER 15 signs to his Halo Signs collection – mostly civilian (I was amused by the Citizen Alerts – I hadn’t realized Dave Dunn was the Minister of Information, or that Paul Russel was Secretary of Defense), but also a Covenant hatch label and a couple of UNSC signs. Go look!(Louis Wu 14:54:06 UTC)

Andrew Derksen let us know about an interview with Certain Affinity’s Bill Fox and Adam Crist on a recent JointOps podcast. (The podcast is “Call of Duty” themed… but there’s plenty of discussion about Halo products CA has built.) The interview starts at 20:43 in the 90-minute podcast.(Louis Wu 14:50:49 UTC)

Skulk let us know about a new tricking vid from Xwo and friends at jumprs.org – a tribute to HIH. Good stuff!(Louis Wu 14:33:40 UTC)

Edge, from Halotracker, let us know that he’s put together another Reach montage from clips from the Halotracker Community; you can watch it on YouTube, and comment on their forum. (Louis Wu 14:33:10 UTC)

RedBubble has a fun Pixel Art Spartan T-Shirt – fun!(Louis Wu 14:25:34 UTC)

We neglected to mention this yesterday, but kanbo pointed out that if you sign up for a thirty-day free trial at Audible, you get two free audio books. (You will not be charged for these if you cancel within 30 days.) Since all the Halo novels are available from Audible, this might be a good way to get these!(Louis Wu 14:21:48 UTC)

Daniel ‘Tyrant’ Morris sent word that the ODST Legendary Walkthrough of Tayari Plaza (and the Mombasa Streets section leading to it) is now live – 21 minutes long, with helpful commentary! Go watch. (Just as a teaser, he also mentioned that he and some crazy friends are getting together to beat Reach on Quad-Mythic this weekend – as far as he knows, nobody’s done this yet for ANY of the campaigns. Documentation will be presented forthwith.)(Louis Wu 14:14:17 UTC)

Hitmonchan107 continues to scour the internet for interesting Halo content – there’s no way I’m gonna complain, because he’s making my job quite a bit easier. Here’s a roundup of the goodies he found last night:

• Someone whipped up a Noble Team logo in Minecraft. Nicely done!
• If you didn’t make it to MLG Dallas, there’s a nice collection of photos on Flickr. (If you’re just interested in the ones tagged Reach, those are here.)
• Halo Waypoint denizen Noble29 played Ashes, from Halo: Reach’s official soundtrack, on piano. Wow. Really great.
• Two new vids from the MachinimaRespawn crew – The Dead Pixel saves the day for a frustrated Firefighter, and Mr Sark helps out when Campaign partners are hard to find. Funny stuff.
• IGN’s posted their Top 10 Kills for 04.07.11 – Angry Hogs made me laugh. So did Windshield Wiper. (Hitmonchan107 doesn’t like IGN’s video player, so he linked to the DailyMotion mirror.)
• Away From Keyboard has written up an article explaining why Halo: Reach is the worst multiplayer experience in the series. I didn’t get that far into it; his #1 complaint was present in Halo 2 and Halo 3, as well, and his #2 complaint says RIGHT IN THE DESCRIPTION that Reach is actually better than Halo 3. But if you’re unhappy with Reach, go read this and commiserate.
• A video game company in Franklin, TN (just south of Nashville) is hosting a 1-day video game convention tomorrow – and there’ll be a 4v4 Reach tourney to play in.

Okay, my work is done. Is it beer time yet? (Louis Wu 14:07:32 UTC)

On April 1st, pete_the_duck announced a Flaming Ninja Challenge contest – somehow, we neglected to front-page it. (This is weird, because I REMEMBER writing the post.) The deadline is April 21, so it’s not TOO late yet – and this morning, he posted a walkthrough of the course, to make your life just a little bit easier. Swing by his website for full rules and guidelines (and links to the map and gametype) – and get to the challenge! There are 1600 MS Points on the line. (Louis Wu 14:06:41 UTC)

shadow8p is back with another Pro Fail Wat vid – fun clips, with commentary. Entertaining! (Louis Wu 14:04:35 UTC)

AssaultGodzilla has recut his Spartans Never Bow video to replace a few scenes with clips from Halo: Reach. We liked the first one – this one’s good too! (Louis Wu 14:04:00 UTC)