Pete Cooper dropped in to announce that the blog devoted to Operation Chastity (the live-action fan film project that’s building its own Warthog) has been updated with lots of pics and a writeup of the progress to date. Great stuff – give it a read!(Louis Wu 16:46:46 UTC)

Last week, we mentioned that some new Halo Wars screens had been released. You can find these at most gaming sites around the net by now… but always in a screen-sized version, and almost always with a watermark. We don’t believe you should have to be limited by watermarks, or by arbitrarily-resized shots – so we’re provding them to you at the resolution they were released in – 5120×2188, for the most part. Gives you a chance to look over the character artwork pretty well.(Louis Wu 16:40:27 UTC)

Paula (you might remember her cardboard Spark) created a cardboard Master Chief with a rocket launcher for Halloween last year. (Yes, she’s a little late getting the word to us. She knows.) She took him to the local mall – and was kicked out because of the ‘no toy weapons’ rule. Bummer! She also went trick-or-treating in the costume… and then swung by a Florida comicon attended by Steve Downes. She got her helmet signed. Later, she painted a shirt to look like the Chief’s armor, and wore the helmet to school as part of a Homecoming ‘Dress up as your favorite holiday’ event at her school. Swing by Photobucket for a slideshow showing off most of this stuff!(Louis Wu 15:17:48 UTC)

It’s Monday, so TTL Demag0gue let us know about Reclaimer 141 – and it’s a good thing the Mercyhoard’s protector doesn’t stand on ceremony. (So to speak.)(Louis Wu 14:13:13 UTC)

rapture, over at the Hushed Casket, sent word that a friend had found a modded Left 4 Dead map based on Hang ’em High (okay, as far as I can tell, a near-perfect replica, not just ‘based on’), and rap recorded some video. It’s much, much longer than it needs to be – but it’s pretty dang cool. You can watch a streaming version on THC, or you can download an enormous 480p version (nearly 8 minutes long, 172 mb) from blip.tv. Check it out!(Louis Wu 14:07:10 UTC)

Relativiox was also at Saturday’s VGL performance in Seattle – and managed to capture the entire ODST segment (a world premiere, remember) on video. Great seats, great recording!(Louis Wu 04:42:26 UTC)

2900d4u and his brother, 2900d4u2, recreated Neil Blomkamp’s ‘Landfall’ series… as a Halo 3 machinima. There’s something surreal watching a Halo 3 machinima-based remake of a live-action movie based on the Halo 3 video game… but man, they pulled it off well. Awesome piece – all the more so because it’s just two of them! (Louis Wu 02:46:10 UTC)

oriol003 stopped in to announce the launch of iPhront, a community machinima site. The Halo content (so far) is a bunch of high-quality stuff culled from recent announcements – I’d assume that as time went on, they’ll start to see new stuff there. Check it out! (Louis Wu 02:45:18 UTC)

RogDarkJedi stopped in to announce a new series of shorts called ‘Mindless Intentions’. The first one, ‘Hotline‘, is online now. Personal opinion: the series has potential… but hasn’t grown into it yet. Give ’em time! (Louis Wu 02:43:59 UTC)

Cortana4ever has put together a Portal/Halo mashup, with Cortana singing ‘Still Alive’. Check it out!(Louis Wu 18:18:31 UTC)

Dracc went to the Seattle Video Games Live show last night (the one that debuted the ODST music)… and wrote up a massive piece discussing the evening. Give it a read!(Louis Wu 18:17:26 UTC)

SonofMacPhisto and CrazedOne1988 put together a montage dedicated to betrayals. Some are accidents, some are not. Some are sad, some are hilarious. The ending is spectacular. (Louis Wu 18:16:26 UTC)

FyreWulff has been building some pretty charts based on Matchmaking playlists – not all of his data is perfect, but overall, these can help you more clearly understand where people are in Matchmaking, and what they’re doing. Visit the site and check it all out! (Louis Wu 18:15:44 UTC)

The Halo Story page hasn’t kicked the bucket yet – and with the new infusion of story material from Friday’s Weekly Update, Jillybean has some great new speculation for you! Swing by for the goodies.(Louis Wu 18:13:55 UTC)

FriggenFragger noticed this airsoft rifle – if you’re looking for a decent start for a rifle you can mod to look like Halo material, this isn’t a bad choice!(Louis Wu 18:11:45 UTC)

Spartacus280 created a short video of a Covenant/Human meetup – great effects! Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 18:10:29 UTC)