Digital Journal interviews Bungie environmental art lead Mike Zak about the challenges of designing the incredibly detailed environments of Halo 3.

Up for grabs on Bungie.net or XBLM is the latest and greatest ViDoc yet, Cinema Paradiso. It shows off amazing Forge and Saved Film footage, and maybe a couple new armor permutations as well.

UPDATE: There is also a local copy in the movie database.

Achronos notes that although the Bungie.net reboot is done, the Halo 3 sections will remain offline until this weekend.

Part Three of Ferrex's trilogy on Forge is up at Bungie.net: Advanced Forge Editing. It covers how to edit objects in ways specific to creating certain goal-oriented gametypes, instead of just piles of fusion cores.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

What this article does talk about a lot is spawning: spawn points and spawn zones. If you've always been interested in how Halo chooses to spawn you where it does, this article is a treasure trove.

Tyson "Ferrex" Green dishes details on the Construct multiplayer level over at GameSpot. Thanks Louis Wu at HBO.

That note about "significant changes to the Banshee" around the time of the public beta sure is interesting...

Luke Smith posted at NeoGAF that there will be plenty more information about Halo 3 released by Bungie every day before the game launches, including info on Forge, a Halo 3 humpday, and an unnamed "surprise".