Quick Roundup of new goodies on the Bungie Blog:

• ‘Flag Campers’ Episode 1 is a ne wHalo 3 machinima series
• Major League Driving Top 10 #5 is another collection of vehicular mayhem
• Facility B5D has put up a new Teammates of Genius – Mr. Determined Elephant Operator. Honk if you like Elephants.
• The Plasma Pistol Project is a schoolhouse look at the Plasma Pistol.

I’m sure there’ll be more later.(Louis Wu 17:57:34 UTC)

Here’s what we’ve heard about since Wednesday:

• The Catfish told Bungie.net about 2501 Episode 35 – Destruction. Things might go boom.
• Dennis Powers send us a note about Shipwrecked Episode 61 – The Sin of Omission. Poetry and Halo… whoda thunk?
• Bloogyo stopped in with word of Rat’s Nest Episode7 3 – plus site enhancements.
• Elnea posted Halo Action Figure Theater #166 (Cassandra) – who knew Tarot cards would play a part in a Halo drama?
• anthraxgoon announced that X36 Chapter 2 #9 is now out – 4 pages of PDF goodness.

No Reclaimer today – TTL Demag0gue is having health issues. Get better!(Louis Wu 17:57:02 UTC)

SnowJP 360 told us about a list of 17 memorable game explosions at Gameplayer – awesomely, Randy Glass’ ‘Warthog Jump’ vid made the list. Check out the rest! (Louis Wu 17:56:35 UTC)

MastaSin333 visited to announce ‘HaloWars Goes Gray‘, a flash animation he’s put together and posted at NewGrounds. It’s not about Halo Wars, the game, it’s about wars in Halo, and it focuses on the Spartan Gray Team (of Onyx/Cole Protocol fame). Check it out! (Louis Wu 17:56:05 UTC)

Apologies for the flood of Halo news about to hit this page; things have been a tad crazy today. There were six new stories up for your reading pleasure in the Fan Fiction section this week – check ’em out!(Louis Wu 17:48:30 UTC)

Today’s Broken In article at Bungie.net stars Dave Dunn, Artist Extraordinaire. (Don’t ask about the white boards he filled during Halo 2 production…) Go read about how he got where he is, and how you can follow him!(Louis Wu 23:43:36 UTC)

Jon stopped in to let us know that there’s a Halo 3 FFA tourney coming on April 11 at ReconLive.net. Top two prizes are 1600 MS Point cards. Check it out!(Louis Wu 23:14:45 UTC)

It’s Thursday, so it’s time for another Double XP Weekend – this week, it’s Team Flag, a perennial favorite. Get online! (Thanks, hezekiah.)(Louis Wu 20:23:24 UTC)

Lando Griff1n let us know that over at Halo3Montage.com there’s a new montage edited by Hazmat v2, featuring gameplay by NeoFlux jp, part of the Hatred of Heroes team. Very heavy on the editing. 13 and a half minutes long, you can stream it, or download an enormous 600 mb 1080p version.(Louis Wu 20:14:20 UTC)