Stephen Loftus continues in his quest to eradicate all low-res understanding of Halo signs – there are almost two dozen new images up in his Signs collection here today. In case it wasn’t clear, Stephen recreates these himself, using vector tools, starting with the low-res versions you can find in-game. “Fueder Construction”? I have NEVER seen this sign in-game. And I’m not sure I ever read all the instructions surrounding Optican MediGel – but I really want 5-minute healing on my current wounds… go see what else you can find.(Louis Wu 14:29:34 UTC)

Industry Gamers scored an interview with Marty O’Donnell – who would love to score the (not “a”, but “the” – interesting) Halo movie. He’s not too confident of his chances, though. (He would, of course, “certainly answer the phone if somebody called – Spielberg or whoever it might be.”) This made its way to our forum via ElzarTheBam, who found it at CVG. (Louis Wu 14:28:48 UTC)

nam was at the Toronto Wizard World Convention, and saw some pretty cool stuff from Halo Mega Bloks. The embedded images he included don’t show up (the site doesn’t allow deeplinking), but you can follow the link he provided to a lightbox slideshow, or browse more conventionally by starting here, and just navigating forward using the page numbers at the top. (Halo shots are on Page 28, and then 30-36.) (Louis Wu 14:27:03 UTC)

Hedgemony posted a teaser for his next comic series, Halo: SPD last night around 12:30 am Eastern… and then posted the first part of the series itself 8 hours later. I guess Hedge doesn’t believe in long teases! There are already 21 pages online (start at the linked post above and just keep going forward), with Part 2 coming next week. A really interesting story so far, and the artwork is fantastic! (Louis Wu 14:26:07 UTC)

Both Hedgemony and Mazz dropped new panoramas on our forum last night – good stuff all around! (Louis Wu 14:25:08 UTC)

ZZoMBiE13 let us know about Achievement HORSE #16 – this one has Geoff going up against Rage Quit’s Michael. As Mankitten noted on our forum, it’s rather profanity-laced. Doesn’t make it any less funny, though… and a couple of those maps look pretty fun! Go see. (Louis Wu 14:24:45 UTC)

If you guys haven’t checked out our latest podcast you should totally go listen to it. You can stream it on that page, download it, or get it via iTunes. This week we have Michael from Achievement Hunter’s Rage Quit series sit in with us.

I also wanted to take the time to flesh out some more details about our first ever community event, RTX, which will be taking place May 27th through 29th. This will be a small gathering of only 200 people who will spend the weekend bumming around Austin with us. I’m not ready to get too specific yet, but we have a kick off event planned for Friday evening, we rented out a couple screens Alamo Drafthouse for a few hours of screening and big screen gaming on Saturday, a studio tour and partying at the studio after the Drafthouse, and finally on Sunday you’ll have a chance to take part in a Rooster Teeth Production. To take part in the Sunday event you will have to fill out a release waiver for insurance purposes (its that awesome). We will be wrapped up by dusk on Sunday. We are working on securing a deal with a hotel and also securing transportation to haul everyone around Austin to the various events in case you need a ride. Tickets will be going on sale next Friday April 1st at 2PM Central time. Tickets will first be available to sponsors for an hour. If any tickets remain at 3PM we will open them up to everyone else. We will continue to update you guys with details as the date draws closer, but rest assured, we’re doing our best to fill the weekend with awesome events. We’ll keep you posted.

I finally had a chance to take a break from HORSE and instead let Michael and Geoff go at it. It’s a battle of the A-holes.

All maps are available right here! Enjoy!

Hey guys, I have a couple of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood videos for you today. Up first is a horse-tastic new achievement in the DaVinci Disappearance DLC, “Grand Theft Dressage.”

And after that is the gambling achievement “High Roller.” Enjoy!

If you’re lax about visiting Halo Waypoint, never fear, bs angel has your back. Stuff you might have missed this week so far:

• A 3D screenshot of a jackal on LNoS (awesome!)
• A Halo 3/Reach montage from HwnT called ‘Forever’ – loved the clutch exterm on Midship CTF, and the ending repeat on Countdown
• A fan submitted 29 Windows Phone 7 Reach-themed wallpapers – you gotta find SOMETHING you like!

Go explore; there’s tons more.(Louis Wu 21:35:03 UTC)

To be fair, it doesn’t take much to make Geoff laugh.

Hey guys, I have a couple of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood videos for you today. Up first is a horse-tastic new achievement in the DaVinci Disappearance DLC, “Grand Theft Dressage.”

And after that is the gambling achievement “High Roller.” Enjoy!

Warning: Do not operate heavy machinery for at least three hours after dying.

Call her Goose.

I blame Mankitten for this. He heard the music before it existed.(Louis Wu 15:43:47 UTC)