Not many comics up at this point today…

• The Catfish posted 2501 Episode 42 over the weekend (thanks, urk)
• Bloogyo started the week with Rat’s Nest Episode 10 (2 is up today, 1 was posted yesterday)
• TTL Demag0gue announced the posting of Reclaimer 179 – Ripple in the Stream – and it looks like Ferial is playing a different game than everyone else.

A little something while you sip your coffee… (Louis Wu 13:19:46 UTC)

The first easter egg on the Mythic Maps has been discovered – and it’s a pretty cool one. Swing by Hawty McBloggy’s for the low-down! Looks like a fun little message was encoded (via morse code) into the blinking lights in the distance on Assembly… and Bungie.net forumgoer Sundmann decided to see if they spelled anything. They do, of course. Thanks for playing!(Louis Wu 12:29:38 UTC)

2900d4u stopped in to announce that he’s posted COTW: Best Clips, a collection of (whoa, whoda thunk?) the best clips submitted during The Final Fight’s Clip of the Weekl contests over the last while. If you want to submit clips for the next COTW collection, he encourages you to do so – visit this forum post, and submit away!(Louis Wu 14:29:32 UTC)

urk actually pointed this out to me more than a week ago – but it seemed like such a transient achievement that I passed on mentioning it. Today, however, we received mail from the person behind this gamertag – and as nine days have passed with no change to the score, it seems more than a coincidence. I Jango I says that his gamerscore of 77,777 is a dedication to his favorite development studio. All Bungie-related games with Achievement points (Marathon, Halo 2, Halo 3, and Halo Wars) have contributed to the total. Nice work!(Louis Wu 14:28:17 UTC)

Halo0001 X wrote to let us know that his goal of recording all videos ever added to the Bungie Favorites list (we mentioned it last week) has been met – and you can watch them on one of two playlists in his YouTube channel. He intends to continue adding new vids as they’re released, so you can subscribe if you want to be notified.(Louis Wu 14:27:38 UTC)

I don’t highlight a lot of Sandbox creations here – but Decadence Night stopped in with a remake of of Hang it High that looks fantastic. I haven’t had a chance to play it yet… but High Noon brings back great memories, just in the screenshots. Check it out!(Louis Wu 16:37:06 UTC)

The latest Arby ‘n’ the Chief (“Party”) uses the new-ish ‘annotations make movies interactive’ technique to present multiple flashbacks in a way that becomes a little tiresome before it’s all over… but it’s intriguing nonetheless. Thanks, sharpsniper99.(Louis Wu 16:36:31 UTC)

Daniel ‘Tyrant’ Morris sent word that a new challenge has been beaten – earlier this month, he announced an attempt to beat Halo 3 in co-op Mythic difficulty, no deaths by any player. (Standard Halo 3 co-op, even with the Iron Skull on, will not make you start the level over again if someone dies – you only have to go back to the last checkpoint. So these guys have upped the difficulty past this; if they die, THEY start over.) They’ve posted films of all ten Campaign levels – visit the Bungie.net thread for links and discussion! Congrats, guys. (Louis Wu 12:00:25 UTC)

jdars sent us a link he’d found to a website that looks like it was built to display images of a rendered warthog (which is pretty cool, all by itself)… but it’s more than that now, and the site is really, really nicely done. It’s still a work in progress; a couple of sections haven’t been filled in yet… but what’s there is really cool. Check out Paul Beard’s Shrine to the Forerunners! (I hope we don’t kill it; we’ll happily host a mirror if we do damage to his bandwidth. We couldn’t even ask first, because the contact link is not populated yet.) (Louis Wu 11:59:35 UTC)

Curtis Blakely let us know that the latest podcast from Nerdballoon, ‘Lunchpail Platoon’, contains an interview with Mad Max of Team End Result, a Canadian pro gamer team. It’s an interesting discussion that goes from pro gaming, to the Halo series in general. Go listen!(Louis Wu 11:59:03 UTC)

Last night, as is usual on Friday nights, Bungie posted their Weekly Update – it contains a summary of what happened around the Halo world this week. There’s not a HUGE amount of content for folks who pay really close attention – but a few tidbits that might have passed you by are definitely inside. Good stuff about how to Forge without pulling all your hair out, an interview with a Forger who created a pretty slick map, and details about the playlist updates for those who missed ’em the first time around are highlights. Go check out the whole deal! (You can, of course, read it right here at HBO in our Weekly Update Archive.)(Louis Wu 11:52:21 UTC)

hyokin stopped in with word of a new Halo 1-based machinima – Slayer. The first chapter is up now. The characters are from his Operation Respawn series, but this seems to be a self-enclosed story.(Louis Wu 18:45:10 UTC)