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Stuntmutt takes a closer look at the Mongoose, and Bungie’s claims about it, in today’s One One Se7en. Paging Robert Pirsig…(Louis Wu 16:15:26 UTC)

WortroW found some cool work towards the Spartan III armor from Ghosts of Onyx over at the Scifi Meshes forum; most of the images so far are visible without a registration. Nice stuff!(Louis Wu 12:30:38 UTC)

Dojorkan posted 3 fun screens, and asked for user-submitted captions – no prizes in this contest, but see how creative you can be!(Louis Wu 12:09:35 UTC)

Retsof-Noraa stopped by last night to point out a website that takes user-created art (in this case, his renditions of One One Se7en, in the initial post, and a Grunt, in a followup) and animates it in a huge rave scene. Bizarre… but fun. Check it out! (Add your own creations to the thread; it’s…

MereCatfish writes to point out that Lifepod #6 is now up for your listening pleasure – HaloCE news, the standard community roundtable, and an interview with Zeph round this one out. 29 minutes, 26 mb. Go listen!(Louis Wu 11:49:37 UTC)

Remember the Halo Everywhere contest sponsored by the Halo 3 Webring? LordGideon posted the prize packs yesterday – and man, there’s some nice stuff in there! Go see what’s on the line, and then make sure you’ve submitted your entries – contest deadline is February 1, 2007. Still plenty of time!(Louis Wu 11:46:18 UTC)

Riccardo Lee Davies wrote to point out ENDURANCE IV, a Halo 2 tournament in Birmingham, UK coming up on February 3rd and 4th. Entrance is £15/person to play in either the FFA or the 4v4, with thousand of pounds in prizes and cash on the line. Check out all the details at the TriStarGames website.…

Greg O’Connor-Read writes to point out that Nile Rodgers, the Halo 2 Soundtrack Album producer and founder of Sumthing Else, will be in Cannes for the MIDEM Music for Images Conference next week; he’ll be participating in a session set up by Music4Games entitled ‘Video Games – The Latest Challenge for Labels and Composers’, and…

trigger119 wrote to remind us that the Video Intro contest they announced about a month ago has had its entry deadline extended until Tuesday (the site was down for a short time, so the January 3 deadline was pushed back). If you’ve got the interest, check the details at the GTV website, and submit your…

Over at Bad Cyborg, Rockslider has put up a new page called ‘Weapon hot spots’ that details the best places to use each weapon for each gameplay type he’s described over the years. It’s a nice cross-reference if you’re looking for original Halo fun! (Louis Wu 13:43:13 UTC)

Over at H2Vista, rapture noticed 3 new clips of Halo 2 Vista gameplay over at Gametrailers; There’s a clip from Sanctuary, and two from Beaver Creek. The play uses an Xbox controller instead of a keyboard and mouse… but it still looks pretty nice!(Louis Wu 13:39:58 UTC)

Luke McKay was doodling, as he does often… the result this morning was pretty cool.(Louis Wu 22:03:50 UTC)

MLG has posted its Pro’s Choice Awards – the top 64 players have picked the best amongst themselves. Go see who they admire most! Thanks, reprobate.(Louis Wu 21:53:19 UTC)

Troy Hurtubise has been working for a while at making a suit that can save a soldier’s life. PlasmaFire thinks it might be the precursor to Mjolnir armor (doesn’t hurt that Troy says he looked at Halo for inspiration); you can find an article and a video in PlasmaFire’s forum thread. (Louis Wu 21:28:05 UTC)

Frank Miller’s 300 isn’t even out yet, and it’s already generated more Halo tributes than any other movie. Amazing! Latest in the field (bunch of links to other ones in this post) is a video from eternalscrappy; quality is startlingly sharp. It’s leet.(Louis Wu 21:25:20 UTC)

We got word from Mister Froggy that Halo, Articulated Episode 4 has been posted; Master Chief and the Arbiter face off on cool skills.(Louis Wu 14:44:54 UTC)

Red vs Blue Episode 88, ‘Spelunked’, is now up for sponsors in Flash format. (Downloadable versions will be up for sponsors on Monday, along with a flash version for free; they’re working on ways to keep sponsor versions from ending up on YouTube before sponsors have seen ’em.) This one focuses on the Red Team…

The Bungie Weekly Update is now live over at Bungie.net – and it focuses on grass. Well, grass and other non-rigid stuff that makes the levels look more realistic. Water, weather, fog… all sorts of stuff. No Mister Chief this time around, but there IS a pretty funny grunt dialogue outtake from Joe Staten… As…

The Brute Video Documentary made some new AI behavior public. I think Stuntmutt may have misunderstood… decide for yourself in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 20:05:57 UTC)

sodaGod has added another video to his Jungle Trigonometry series – Jungle Trigonometry 3. Couple his fantastic camera work with funny skits, and you get a vid absolutely worth downloading. This one has a number of ‘Master Chief is Kind of a Jerk’ segments… and a fantastic longer parody of zombie movies. There’s plenty of…