One intrepid painter, inspired by yesterday’s Halo 3 trailer, decided to do a speed painting depicting one of the trailer’s scenes. This guys named *Rahll, well, thats his DeviantArt name, and hes an amazing painter. I highly recommend you check out the painting here: Halo 3 Painting. Its hard to believe he accomplished all that in under 2 hours.

In other news, a Halo 3 theme has been released on Xbox Live Marketplace based on the recent trailer. Before you run off to download it, I should warn you that its not free. The theme costs about 150 points, but the cool factor is definitely worth the money spent.

If you’re reading this site, you’ve probably heard of the “upcoming sometime in the future” Halo movie. Unfortunately, it now seems as if the movie is not a sureshot thing. In a recent interview, Robbie Bach, Microsoft’s President of Entertainment and Devices, hinted that if Microsoft doesn’t find an outside backer for the Halo movie, they most likely won’t make it at all.

Bach believes Microsoft itself should not be involved in the movie business, therefore, if no backer comes along, Microsoft will simply pass on the movie. Hopefully a studio picks this up, as a Halo movie would be sure to pull in big bucks. I mean honestly, the only person that could make that film flop would be the dreaded Uwe Boll.

Check out the full Robbie Bach interview here: Robbie Bach Interview

I found another cool Halo auction on Ebay. This time its a leaded stained glass Halo 3 window made by Jacob’s Stained Glass in Buffalo, NY. The price is $500 right now; unfortunately, it is only available for local pickup in Buffalo. This intricate piece even includes reflective orange glass for the visor! You can check out the auction here: Halo 3 Stained Glass

In other news, you may have forgotten, but today is Halo 2’s birthday! Halo 2 is now 2 years old and still going strong.

Black Guard has collected an awesome set of Halo 2 cakes from around the web. You can check them out here: Halo 2 Cakes. Some of the cakes are truly works of art, my favorite is definitely Steven Evolved’s cake (in the picture above).

And finally, Dennis Powers has released the third episode of Static. You can check out the video here: Halo Static

Well, after reading my horrible reference “Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my!”, we can get into today’s post.

First off, IGN 1UP has released some detailed descriptions of a few of Halo 3’s multiplayer maps. The maps they go over are Valhalla, Snowbound, and High Ground, all of which sound absolutely fantastic. Don’t take my word for it though, read all about it here: Halo 3 Map Descriptions

Now for the screenshots. Screenshots is kind’ve misleading, as they aren’t actually screenshots, instead they are a mixture of concept art and cutouts. You can check out these four new screenshots at 1UP.com here: Halo 3 Images

And now finally, we get to talk about armor. Some lucky person named Supernova over at bungie.org snagged himself an awesome set of Mjolnir armor. I don’t know where you buy such a great collectible, but I’d sure like to find out. Read Supernova’s original post here: Halo 3 Armor

Browsing around Ebay recently, I came upon an auction with the title “Halo Energy Sword…”. Instantly intrigued, I browsed further into the listing. To my surprise and exultation, I discovered that the auction was indeed for an amazingly intricate Halo Energy sword.

The creator of the Energy Sword is the same person who sold a replica needler on EBay for $650. The current price of the sword is $230. You can check out the auction here: Halo Energy Sword

In other news, there’s a great new video remaking the 300 (a movie about ancient Sparta in which 300 Spartans fight the entire Persian army) trailer with Halo footage. The video encompasses footage from Halo 1 and 2, as well as the trailer for Halo 3. You can check the remade trailer out here: Halo 300 Trailer

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