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The Maw will have another Halo PC tournament next month. This time, it will be a teams tournament. Any Halo PC player is invited to sign-up and test your skills.

For years this debate has raged in many a forum. Keyboard/Mouse or Joystick? We’ll run over the most common arguments for each as they relate to Halo 2 Vista. Then members of the H2V Dev Team took on the Bungie Community Team in an epic Keyboard vs. Joystick Humpday.

HBO has announced the results of the faceplate contest that we noted a few weeks ago. You can view the finalists along with the two winners at HBO. Congratulations to the winners, Hawaiian Pig and Wheels.

Pi Studios are the team responsible for bringing the map editor to Halo 2 on Windows Vista, and they wanted to share their progress and ideas, with you, our gentle reader. It’s Day 2 of the week that KP foolishly calls Vistravaganza.

The Community Carnage Playlist is now available in Matchmaking and we can finally tell you that this playlist was designed by the folks over at halo.bungie.org. HBO has designed a 6v6 list full of wonky gametypes so if you want to know what you’re getting into when you choose this playlist, read on.

Bungie is fielding a team of crack Halo players at the Penny Arcade Expo on Saturday (which takes place between 10:30 and 2:30 in the console tourney room at Bellevue’s Meydenbauer Center in the lovely state of Washington. Be there or be sad.

In the first of a week long Halo 2 for Windows Vista spectacular, we introduce you to Matt Priestley from the Bungie H2Vista team, and dish some info on the game bound to break many, many mice in 2007.

With a community this large, it’s easy to slip through the cracks, or just lose track of everyone. Well, we hope to fix all of that with our fan driven newsletter/fanzine:The Bathroom Reader

No update per se, this week, since today is the Annual Bungie BBQ & Pentathlon. We’ll be in an undisclosed location ’til 8pm. A few snippets for the hardcore, nonetheless, but nothing for the mainstream consumer, who demands more answers, dammit.

This week Bungie took on the administrators of halo2.junk.ws in what may have been the closest Humpday challenge of all time. So close that, in about a month, it’ll be shown on ESPN Classic with a crazy filter on the film to make it look like it happened ten years ago.

Podtacular has been voted the best Gaming Podcast out there by the internet’s ears, as was announced earlier today. To see all the winners and the other categories Podtacular was nominated in, check out PodcastAwards.com. Congrats to foo mo jive and the Podtacular staff on the accomplishment.

Cody Miller’s speedrun of Halo 2 on Legendary with no deaths has made the Guinness Book of World Records. Grande Carne noticed this in his new edition of the BoWR and posted it to HBO this morning. Congrats to Cody Miller for his insane speedrun and for going down in history.

This past weekend in the sizzling Georgian suburbs, 30 people gathered to play Halo, yell at each other and eat Tijuana Mamas for two straight days of uninterrupted gaming. Except for bathroom breaks.

The Bungie.net forums will be down for maintenence until further notice. Hopefully we’ll be back online shortly but until then, in order to compensate, I suggest you go to the local grocery store and get in unprovoked and completely off-topic shouting matches with other patrons.

Halo 3 theme skin gives Halo3Forum.com a new look and feel to the ever growing forum. Check out the newly redesigned H3F.

This past weekend marked the 2nd annual 2old2play Chicago Lan Party. Gamers over the age of 25 met up from all across the US and Canada for the ultimate in Halo 2 gaming.

Hey guys, an update so lacking in movie info that you’ll be all, “Whaaaa?” But them’s the breaks. In this short weekly update we talk about everything BUT the Halo movie. Go figure. See you next week!

Bungie challenged Clan PMS this week. It went about as well as playing a professional gaming group ought to go for Bungie. I fought back the tears long enough to describe in detail just how badly we were humiliated.

This week we had the opportunity to talk to Anne Wolanski of Seasoned Gamers. Read about how she came to have such an interest in games, what Seasoned Gamers is all about and how she feels about hyperventilating teenage potty-mouths.

Ever watched a clip from Bungie promoting one of their games that just made you go “wow”? Nows your chance to make your own video promoting one of Bungies games and make others go “Wow”.