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It has become apparent that the promised gaming magazines are now hitting the stands.  They do contain much awaited and long-promised Halo 3 content.

The Bungie crew plus guests took on the guys over at Hollywood Halo Productions, best known for their machinima. In three close games, the Bungie crew fought a hard match against the seasoned Hollywood Halo crew.

Little is known thus far of the team developing Halo 2 for Windows Vista. We’re about to change all that for you. We take a brief look at the members of Hired Gun, the team handling the bulk of H2V’s development.

This week we sit down with Zoom Demon, of the Cayote Cavegirls about the group, her role in the group and their recent charity event, Fight Like a Girl. Read on to learn that and more. Also because she is hawt chix.

On Wednesday, October 25th, Bungie.net will be offline from 9am to approximately 10am Pacific time for maintenance.  Bungie.net’s forums and account creation will remain offline until approximately 1pm Pacific time.

We here at Bungie.net have started a process for collecting Bungie fan art in one place. We’ll be going through all of the submissions monthly, hosting and featuring the best submissions from you guys. View and submit your own entries in this Gallery forum thread.

The folks at UNSCDF have interviewed Eric Nylund on several topics including Ghosts of Onyx, fan-fiction, Gears of War, and some of his personal projects.

News breaks about the movie this week and we’re here with clarity and hints of good news to come. We also return with a guest appearance of Ask Noguchi, discuss the EGM visit to play Halo 3 and even a couple of Waaaahmbulance mails.

Last night the Community Team had a few Free-For-All Halo 3 games which ended up being the Humpday for this week. Don’t expect to find any new Halo 3 info, but if you enjoy general Halo tactics and vagueries then this Humpday’s for you! And yes, it was because Xbox Live was borked.

This week we took some time to chat with Chris547, Bungie.net moderator extraordinaire and Mob of Angry Peasants co-founder. He talks about his roots in the community, wrecking cars and, for no apparent reason, puppies.

Frankie is still in Aruba, but Sketch and I decided he’s having too much fun so we looped him into the update. Thursday morning, we launched a coordinated trolling of several major Halo boards across the net, asking for questions for the Weekly Update and sent them along for him to answer.

Xbox Live is being taken down on October 17th for 24 hours, during which I suspect you’ll all lose your minds. Xbox.com has put up a bunch of information on what exactly this means for you and what you can do in the meantime. I suggest lannage.

IGN has taken a moment to sit down with Eric Nylund on the Ghosts of Onyx novel. The interview touches on a variety of topics, from the Halo universe to his writing style to some new details about the book itself. If you’re interested in the book(s) at all, it’s a good read.

Bungie did indeed compete in a Humpday last week but because things got crazy busy last week, there was no time to write it up until now. Last week, Bungie took on Code of War in yet another fun Humpday experience with cool people. Thankfully, we’re okay with getting owned by cool dudes.

Marty the Elder posted in The Marty Army a link to the first segment of three podcasts at The Kindlings Muse, the first with the Master of Stereotypes himself. The podcast is dubbed ‘Halo: Games as Interactive Storytelling’ and is a good listen. Check it.

The mother of all spotlights with the father of the Halo community. This week I take a new approach: real-time chat, permitting me to achieve heights of jerkery not previously possible. Read on for some insight into what makes Wu tick, as well as volley after volley of insults.

The October 2006 Playlist Update has been released this morning and there’ve been quite a few changes. Chief among them is the swapping of the Community Carnage Playlist. Out with HBO and in with Real Custom Games. Team Swat has now become ranked and the usual tweaks have been applied to several playlists.

Unfortunately, Frankie’s off lolling about the Carribean and was unable to bring you a Weekly Update this week. But I hear your cries. With the exception of that one guy asking for Noguchi’s manbabies, you all want an update, and an update you shall get.

Matt Priestley, of the Halo 2 Vista team, checks in this week to let us know what’s going down in his department. In his second developer diary he touches on the team’s progress, how H2V was received in Barcelona and how some Vista-specific features are shaping up

This week it was decided to make a new tournament for the 7th Column to spice things up a bit. Here’s the juicy info about it. Cover your eyes!