Bungie’s Facebook page is currently at 9,965 fans – they’ve just posted that they’ll post a Mythic Map Pack code when they hit 10,000. Go be one of the last 35 needed! Thanks, Speedhuntr.(Louis Wu 17:09:04 UTC)

According to the Bungie Blog, the next Running Riot podcast will be recorded live on March 31, at 9:30 EST. Special Guest is Bryan Simon, Halo Songster Extraordinaire. Swing by their website if you want to be part of it.(Louis Wu 17:00:58 UTC)

Treeskunk’s Bzerker01 put together a Halo Wars/GI Joe mashup you might find interesting. Great choice of clips!(Louis Wu 16:14:04 UTC)

pete_the_duck recorded himself running through his Flaming Ninja Challenge, if you’re interested in seeing how this might be done. I’m pretty sure this sort of thing is out of my league… (Louis Wu 16:08:35 UTC)

Last year, we mentioned a Halo schwag collection owned by Seraph XXVII. He’s back… with more stuff.(Louis Wu 16:07:18 UTC)

Bungie officially confirmed the release date of the Mythic Map Pack on XBL Marketplace (not that Major Nelson’s confirmation wasn’t official) – but the REAL reason to read the newspost is because it’s chock-full of cool stats about Halo 3 matchmaking to date. Did you know that there are more than 70 million screenshots available on Bungie.net, taken in Halo 3? Or that if you totalled up the running time of all the film clips currently stored on Bungie.net, you’d have over 750 MILLION seconds of footage? Go read the rest. (There’s a reminder about our Mythic Movie contest at the bottom, as well… don’t forget, you’ve got until Monday!)(Louis Wu 22:58:04 UTC)

mikinater1 put together some matchmaking highlights of the last Grifball Double XP weekend, along with some footage of the new Grifball arena NOKYARD built on the main floor of Sandbox. This one seems to be full of trick plays. Thanks, urk. (Louis Wu 22:53:00 UTC)

Check this out:

mythicmoviecontest.bungie.org

What is this, you ask? Simple: it’s a new contest looking for fan-made trailers showing off the Mythic maps… with winners getting all sorts of goodies (Recon armor, Bungie Pro for their File Share, extra Mythic codes for friends). The rules are all there – read ’em. Read ’em carefully, because we’re going to get a lot of submissions, and I promise you, if we can weed your entry out because you didn’t read the rules, we’re gonna. (No, we’re not mean – we’re just doing all of this under a little bit of time pressure, so we can’t afford to be flexible.) Make your trailer, upload it to us, and then wait until next week for the results! Do it quick – submissions end late Sunday night/early Monday morning (depending on where you are).(Louis Wu 17:51:06 UTC)