Wow, it’s Thursday again. What does that mean? It means it’s time for another Double XP Weekend! What’s up this week? Well, urk says it’s Team Melee. Go beat on some people.(Louis Wu 19:24:12 UTC)

A new Community Spotlight is up at Bungie.net – this one loks at the Spartan I Project, and contains information about the group, along with new Bungie Favorites. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 17:50:53 UTC)

Bungie.net has been tirelessly promoting videos since we went dark early yesterday morning – here’s what we’ve found there so far:

• KillPie3 put together an interactive slot machine – YouTube’s getting so fancy!
• Static Hazard and B Mc Gann are back with MLG Top 10 Plays Episode 6.
• I like pie727 whipped up a second Mongoose Splatter montage.
• T7 spitfire created plasma art in Stick City. This one’s a little hypnotic.
• WARTICK007 filmed a relatively unique twist on the Tank Dropper achievement.
• The 7th Wonder folks built a golf ball maze on Sandbox. KWhat?
• Anoj has released Episode 29 of his Top 10 Halo 3 series – this one’s about Splatters.

That’s a lot of movies! (Louis Wu 17:49:57 UTC)

Heh – Hawty McBloggy highlighted a collection of secret Xbox360 controller button layouts, discovered by a Bungie.net denizen. See if you can use one of these. (Louis Wu 17:49:29 UTC)

Greg Bruno sent word of another Gamer Girlfriend column he’s written for 411mania.com (we mentioned one of these back in December) – his girlfriend (not a gamer) played some Halo 3 multiplayer with him, and they wrote up the results. Check it out! (Louis Wu 17:49:03 UTC)

HaLo2FrEeEk has been playing with compositing – his first attempts are up in this forum post. Nice work!(Louis Wu 17:48:22 UTC)

Marvel released Halo Uprising #4 yesterday (thanks, Ritchie Martin), as they promised they would. Our forum is full of discussions of very cold underworlds.(Louis Wu 17:47:09 UTC)

Vandya let us know about What The French, Episode 3 – funny Halo action with a French accent. Hohn hohn hohn! (Louis Wu 17:46:29 UTC)

Wow. UNSC Trooper and Leviathan are teaming up to create a Halo comic… and the teaser looks pretty cool! Check it out. (Louis Wu 17:41:38 UTC)

Pete Cooper sat down XMixMasterX, of The Social, and answered a few questions about Operation Chastity. Thanks to Scotty for the heads-up!(Louis Wu 17:40:08 UTC)

This is just… wrong. Blame serpx.(Louis Wu 17:39:29 UTC)

Halo Wars has been out for a while, and we’ve stopped posting news about reviews of the game (we are halo.bungie.org, after all) – but we received word from Ross Mills that he’d written up some commentary about the game from the perspective of a long-time Halo fan (he’s been around here for many years), so we’re letting you know. Go see what he thought!(Louis Wu 17:38:42 UTC)