Heh – Hawty McBloggy stumbled across a photograph of a shadow that made her think that maybe she plays too much Halo…(Louis Wu 20:05:13 UTC)

The next installment of jdars’ Aesthetic Artist Interviews is now online – he talks to jEEborz, a guy with some serious screenshot skillz. Check out the interview – and the pics!(Louis Wu 17:50:09 UTC)

Morpheus is running a rather odd contest – submit the slowest overall time on Halo 3 (all solo levels, combined), win a copy of ODST. There are plenty of rules to keep you from parking your character in a corner and leaving your Xbox alone for a week… go read ’em all. (I do NOT envy the guy having to judge the entries…)(Louis Wu 17:43:02 UTC)

New movies (and stuff) are up for you now at the Bungie Blog. HaloTracks’ denizen ‘kiler200o’ has released Final Effort; there are links to a video and the map itself in the blog post. And xkevlarpro whipped up a montage that tells a story, called ‘Halo 3 Handlebars‘. Enjoy!(Louis Wu 17:38:11 UTC)

jake108 sent along a link to Geekscape’s latest Teabag Prevention article – this one covers the Banshee. Read it, suck less!(Louis Wu 15:36:02 UTC)

There’s a fascinating article over at AiGameDev.com – it looks at AI bugs from various games that have been caught on film by players and uploaded to YouTube. In most cases, it provides general outlines of how the developer might fix the bug. Halo’s Swimming Grunt comes in at #12, and a funky driving glitch in Halo 3 comes in at #16. Go read! Thanks, Devin.(Louis Wu 15:17:43 UTC)

A quick update from Mr Sark, regarding his Sarkathlon 3, running now over at G4TV’s X-Play – looks like the top two finishers will also earn Recon armor. Nice!(Louis Wu 14:22:04 UTC)

It’s a little bit late, but last night RandomSauce sent along the second of his ‘Director Dialogues‘ interviews – this one is with CMNeir, the man behind the Halo 3 Tricks videos. (We most recently mentioned him for his ‘Earth’ video, showing off cool Halo 3 landscapes right here at home.) Go read about what inspires him, and what he’s got to offer to upcoming machinima artists!(Louis Wu 10:47:38 UTC)

Friday Caption Fun is up to Round 45 over at Hawty McBloggy’s. A recounting of some of the best captions from last week, and a new cool screenshot to play with… grab your coffee, put on your Fun cap, and get to captioning!(Louis Wu 10:46:10 UTC)

Yesterday, urk posted notice of a new film on the Bungie Blog – it’s from a group called Black Water Ops, and it’s pretty amazing. It might just have some of the best Halo machinima cinematography I’ve ever seen. Go watch it, in HD (there are a couple of YouTube HD links)… and then check out the group that made it. urk’s made it easy for you.(Louis Wu 10:40:27 UTC)