ForgeHub has posted their ‘Best of Fall/Winter 2008/09‘ competition – the best of the best, in 16 categories (plus a pair of runners-up in each category) means lots and lots of cool maps to try out! Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 15:49:47 UTC)

Back in January, we mentioned ‘Ultimate Gamer’, a reality show focused on gamers competing in a variety of games. According to USA Today, the first episode (with Rock Band 2 being the game of choice) airs tonight at 10 PM on Sci-Fi. We’ll mention it again when the Halo episode shows.(Louis Wu 15:44:49 UTC)

Paul Shelley, of Treeskunk Productions, sent us a link to his first Side Note – it’s pretty crude, but in the spirit of Dirty Harry, it’s not offensive to one particular group – they hate everyone equally. It’s as close to an apology for any delay in content from Treeskunk as you’re likely to get.(Louis Wu 15:35:47 UTC)

Rooster Teeth has posted RvB: Relocated Part 4 – an old friend returns, and a slow one becomes creepy (well, creepier). Shooting Grifs never gets old… and they’re nicely set up for the next series. Thanks, PsycoJoe.(Louis Wu 13:03:46 UTC)

sbear stopped in with some pics of a pepakura rifle he’s building, from a source file he got from the 405th. Great start! (Louis Wu 13:03:14 UTC)

A company called ‘PalTalk’ is suing Microsoft for patent infringement on a pair of patents it bought from MPath Interacive; it says that the technology it now has the rights to was infringed upon by the Halo games. According to the article,

Microsoft said it did review the inventions and chose a different path in developing its games. The technology is for an older dial-up method of communicating between computers and “the patents don’t cover the way the Halo games work,” Pritikin said.

Bungie isn’t even MENTIONED in the story. Doesn’t sound like it’ll go very far – but it’s interesting to see what happens when you get big enough to be a target.(Louis Wu 12:35:08 UTC)

Lando Griff1n sent word of his second Halo 3 montage – it’s called ‘Lando – First Blood Part II’, and you can read about it (and download it) at Halo3Montage.com. Heavy on the effects, available in both a massive 470+ mb HD version, and a smaller (80 mb) version formatted for iPods – take a look!(Louis Wu 12:32:31 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy ran across a Microsoft job listing for a software development engineer to help build what sounds like a successor to Bungie.net. An “immersive Halo world that follows the dedicated Halo fan wherever they go”? Hmm…(Louis Wu 12:32:12 UTC)

Domino Theory, undaunted by the insane amount of reading he needed to do to pick a winner in the Ask a Rookie contest last weekend, has kicked off ANOTHER contest – this one is for a Legendary map code. All you have to do is enter. Do it only once, and do it before Friday night. Read the page for full details!(Louis Wu 22:58:15 UTC)