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Usul found a nice article about Lil Poison in the Sunday Times, a London (UK) newspaper. The word is spreading!(Louis Wu 19:03:48 UTC)

RVideo continues his awesome panorama work in Halo 2; there are three new ones in this forum post. The original .png files (hosted on his server) range from 1 to 1.5 mb; I’ve also added much smaller (filesize, not screensize) jpegs, ranging from 120 to 160 kb. They’re all pretty – but Judgement ROCKS.(Louis Wu…

Seven new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section today – go read. (Remember, submitters – there’s a new ‘max 3 submissions per week’ rule… don’t flood the inbox. Thanks!)(Louis Wu 17:51:14 UTC)

We got an email from DeAdLy SeNiX, about a montage video he’d edited (using footage from ThePanzerGnome). It’s got a large backstory, and the video itself is over 17 minutes long. It’s currently being hosted by FileFront, with mirrors from impressed watchers. (You can read the backstory, and find the download links, in this forum…

Over at Bungie.net last night, KP posted a Halo 3 Humpday Challenge writeup; it was the Community Team vs the Multiplayer team. The Community team lost – though KP suggests it might have happened on purpose. (Of course, KP also suggests that he gets coffee for Marty every morning not because he has to, but…

Nomi is a regular of the irc.bungie.org #hbo channel – and last fall, she was one of the attendees at a LANfest in Ohio, hosted by Tarny. What started as an insert for a Christmas card/thank you note to Tarny has grown into almost a cottage industry – check out her ultra-cool Paper Spartans!(Louis Wu…

Deomitrus wrote to point out a press release from the Sentinel Machinima Awards – this is a new awards project intended to replace the ‘Rockets on Prisoner’ Awards. (Well, ‘replace’ is probably a bad word, since Funkmon has said he intends to continue that particular tradition… but the idea is certainly understandable; the Sentinel Machinima…

Ruben Gonzalez sent along a screenplay adaptation of Eric Nylund’s ‘The Fall of Reach’ – he’s looking for feedback from Halo fans. Give it a read, then stop by our forum and let him know what you think!(Louis Wu 15:41:18 UTC)

Heh – this is one of the reasons I like this community so much. Cody Miller resurrected an older post from DanteThePoet, about gender usage in Halo 2… and the resultant thread is actually pretty highbrow, given the potential for crude humor. If you’re interested in how women are portrayed in Halo 2, you might…

rapture wrote up his own version of the Undead JANLAN 2007 event last weekend (the one Mintz went to only to get a front-page mention for) – comments can go either after the story itself, or in response to his forum post.(Louis Wu 15:01:15 UTC)

Tons of new stuff at MLGPro.com – you’ll find Player Match Commentary from Strongside (it’s currently the default video), plus Part II and Part III of the 2006 Halo Retrospective, plus the Division I Quarterfinal Wrap-up. That should keep you busy… (Louis Wu 14:54:27 UTC)

Over at Bungie.net, you’ll find a detailed summary of the M274 ULATV “Mongoose” – a vehicle we’ve all heard about, but very few have seen in action. What it can do, when you should use it, when you should get your butt off one… it’s all in there. Great read!(Louis Wu 00:33:18 UTC)

I have no idea how this happened, but when I checked last weekend, I noticed that the Wallpapers section hadn’t been updated in over 3 months. !!! During this time, Bungie released the Halo 3 Ad, providing wallpaper creators with a WEALTH of material, it seems – there are 75 distinct new entries in the…

KP was recently interviewed on the Podtacular podcast – it’s long and rambling, but there’s some fun stuff in there! Go listen.(Louis Wu 22:05:19 UTC)

Shacknews posted a Halo 2 Vista multiplayer impressions article from someone who got to play during CES – good read! Thanks to rapture, who let us know by writing this up at H2Vista.(Louis Wu 20:08:09 UTC)

Paul Maestri is on a comic kick – Cat in the Hat, Part II is the latest Halo Heads. How could you NOT like a comic about exploding cats? (Note: they don’t really explode.)(Louis Wu 18:55:48 UTC)

Stuntmutt takes a shot (crack?) at one of the possible routes into the Halo 3 beta in today’s One One Se7en. (Louis Wu 17:50:36 UTC)

Sigafoos stopped by to point out that voting has opened for the 2006 Community Awards from The Riot. Stop by and toss in your two cents!(Louis Wu 14:21:33 UTC)

Bader found a truly bizarre entry over at IMDb; Jason Jones, the Jason Jones that co-founded Bungie, is credited with work as Cecil the Puppet for the TV series ‘Mother Goose and Friends’. Now, IMDb has been known to contain mistakes, and Jason Jones is a pretty common name (there are 15 of them at…

Deekor posted a note about Halo Outkastz Episode 2 – for me, it didn’t live up to the potential of earlier work, but watch it and decide for yourself!(Louis Wu 14:12:15 UTC)