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A while ago Games in Action announced it was to host a Team SWAT Tournament.  Well over the last two months teams have been battling it out for a chance to win $200.  Read on to find out all the details about who won.

This week we take another look at a Bungie.net community member, GameJunkieJim. You may know him from his role as a Bnet moderator and as the creator of Bathroom Reader. What you didn’t know is that he wakes up earlier than you.

The guys over at Rooster Teeth have released the much anticipated Season Five of the Red vs. Blue series. It’s available for sponsors now, everyone else will have to wait until the weekend’s over to grab it. w00t!

Frankie and Sketchfactor are still off cruising the nude beaches (“Toptional”) of Barcelona, but in their stead I bring you cake. After you’re done with that though, there’s word from Frankie, some community news and a little tease from a sly Microsoft source of ours.

Bungie’s been frantically searching for opponents we can beat in order to raise our morale. This week, we finally found our match: Bungie’s children! That’s right, Bungie beats its own children.

Bungie was pretty busy yesterday in Barcelona, not only with the two big announcements but also in showing off Halo 2 Vista. Today we’ve added the screenshots they released to the Halo 2 Vista section of the site, so go check them out!

Frankie and I are over in Barcelona for Microsoft’s X06 event but we still managed to throw together a little Humpday Day challenge… with a twist. Some things may change, but some things will always remain the same.

Bungie has announced two new projects today at X06. The first is a partnership with Peter Jackson and his talented crew to bring you another chapter in the Halo universe. The second is Halo Wars, a real-time strategy game being developed by Ensemble Studios. Get the scoop in the full story.

We’ve compiled a humorous list of the most prominent gamer stereotypes in the Halo 2 Xbox Live community. Check out our list, see if any of these seem familiar and take the quiz to find out which kind of gamer you are most like.

The Gallery and Voting Booth Forums are back with a vengeance today. Select few have been given privileges in both forums to revive them. Just now, something’s been posted in both, so go check them out and expect more in the future!

Today’s Weekly Update showcases the process of creation and finalization the Halo 3 logo. Thanks to Stosh, who spent some time this week making the logo into a wallpaper, you can now use it as your desktop! You can find all four versions of the wallpaper on the wallpapers page of our Halo 3 section.

Huge update this week, starting with the first ever Bungie Podcast and including real audio from Halo 3. Download it! Listen to it! We also premiere the final Halo 3 logo and debut In-Fusio’s Halo Mobile Portal for cellphones. Halo music ringtones are finally here!

This week the Humpday Challenge went internal with three head-to-head Halo 3 matches at Bungie Studios. Six men, three maps and an unlimited amount of vague descriptions. Don’t expect to find screenshots or new info on maps, weapons or multiplayer modes in here.

Game-Spectrum.com recently had the honor of interviewing Bungie employee, Kevin Paul, more commonly known as KP.  After threatening to stab me in the face, the interview went pretty well.

Arrrr! It be “Talk Like a Pirate Day” and to celebrate we dropped anchor in the port of Tied The Leader to flap jaws with Xerxdeej, he who claims to be a full-beard pirate! Read on to learn about his crew and how shivered be his timbers. 

It’s like a sonic cathedral of sound! Halo 3’s trailer music is just one of the live, orchestrated pieces being blasted out of the aural amphitheater known as the Hollywood Bowl. It’s your chance to see and hear a musical spectacular with special guests. It’s Video Games Live.

The largest and most popular endurance coop in the Myth community just got a huge upgrade! Mazzarin’s Demise VI has been released!

It has been brought to our attention that someone is sending fake emails form “bungie.com” (we’re actually Bungie.net and we never email you about your account details or security.) and we have to assume the sender of the mails, often with a zip file attachment, is up to no good. Simply delete and ignore them…

It was about time we answered some of your mailbag questions, so we did. There’s a tiny update on the state of the Podcast and our cowbell-filled theme song. We also chat a wee bit about the Warthog, or more properly, about some of the new AI creeping into Halo 3.

Bungie once again accepted a challenge from a senior citizens center this Wednesday and found ourselves in a familiar position: Eye-level with our ankles. Read on for excruciating details of our defeat. Next week, an orphanage.