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DOH! Almost forgot. Briar’s Armor, who has made some pretty darned cool Halo 2 armor over the past couple of years, is trying his hand at Halo 3 armor; a prelminary shot of the helmet shows some nice details. Can’t wait for the rest!(Louis Wu 18:19:03 UTC)

Funkmon (who wants everyone to know he’s cooler than his co-admin Mintz) wrote to us about new vids available at Halo: Portable; you can find mobile-formatted versions of lots of cool stuff there right now. The Brute Vidoc is there, as is the classic ‘Heart is a Lonely Hunter’, and Hickadam’s ‘Holiday’. Get to downloading!(Louis…

John Cannon posted more public pictures of his Spartan III helmet that he’s working on – pretty cool looking!(Louis Wu 18:08:34 UTC)

Hellhawk posted about a trailer for a new vid he’s working on – Floaty Silence 2. I liked the first one, the trailer looks cute, and if you grab the WMP9 I encoded, it’s under 10 mb. (The QuickTime, hosted by Mythica and linked in the forum post, is over 30 mb.) Give it a…

I can’t say I understand this, but… if you’ve got a Wii, this might be relevant to you, in a Halo sort of way. Thanks to SquirrelOnFire, who was first, and pile0nades, who has a bigger thread.(Louis Wu 17:15:47 UTC)

Oshovah found a picture in the Art of Halo book that has convinced him that the fourth grenade we’ll see in Halo 3 is an incindiery grenade; you can find his reasoning in his forum post (and I’ve added a scan of the image in question, for reference). We won’t know anything until Bungie confirms…

At Bungie.net, you’ll find a really short Bungie Weekly Update – Frankie is totally insane, and is lucky not to be dead right now, and he also broke all sorts of speeding limits in the last 24 hours, but we love him anyway. Go read about some general, but heartening, plans for the Halo online…

There’s an interesting interview with Tyson ‘Ferrex’ Green over at Gamepro.com – read it for some insight into Bungie’s multiplayer philosophies. Thanks, Coffin Joe.(Louis Wu 23:30:16 UTC)

Today’s One One Se7en is Stuntmutt’s New Year’s wish to you… it’s sweet, in a groany sort of way.(Louis Wu 23:29:48 UTC)

Ducain, then NOKYARD, sent word of a new speedrun through Halo – 90 minutes, start to finish, all in one shot. (The actual downloads are broken up by level, but that’s just to be reasonable, bandwidth-wise.) Swing by High Speed Halo for all the details. Congrats to slYnki for the impressive achievement!(Louis Wu 23:29:27 UTC)

Computer and Video Games put up an article ripping into Halo’s story, and questioning the value of stories in video games in general. The article seems a bit shallow, but everyone’s got their own perspective, I guess.(Louis Wu 23:29:04 UTC)

Lt Tuma sent word of a trailer he’d made, and posted on YouTube – audio comes (mostly) from the Casino Royale trailer, video comes from lots and lots and lots of different Halo sources. Really well put together, great choices – go watch it!(Louis Wu 23:28:44 UTC)

Yesterday morning, RVideo posted a cool movie showing a first-person view from a Warthog; it’s not true first-person, but a modified chasecam perspective that simulates a first-person view. His forum post explains what you’re looking at (and the problems involved in collecting the footage). He released this in DivX 6.4 format (link is in the…

Seven new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section this week – give ’em a once-over!(Louis Wu 23:27:42 UTC)

A couple of days ago, Dielectric mentioned on our forum that Joyride had sent out a press release stating that the Heretic Grunt action figure had been cancelled… and that the Halo 2 figure collection was now finished. No more!(Louis Wu 23:27:15 UTC)

Friday afternoon posting spree! First up – 411mania.com posts their Top 5 Most Anticipated Games of 2007… Halo 3 comes in at number 4 on two editors’ lists, number 2 on two others, and number 3 on a third pair. Not bad!(Louis Wu 23:26:43 UTC)

There are a couple of new dissections of the Brute documentary you might find interesting – the Halo 3 Data Archive has one (thanks, Old Mattacus), and so does Rampancy.net (thanks, Narcogen). Get to reading!(Louis Wu 16:39:49 UTC)

A quick note about a new hoodie at the Bungie Store – this has been pictured before (in a Bungie Weekly Update), but has not been for sale until recently. Thanks to a few people who noticed – but Jonathan Rivas was first (a couple of days ago… I’ve been a bit overwhelmed for newsposting).(Louis…

Mark MacDonald, of GameVideos.com, gave us a heads-up about a new analysis video they’ve posted, picking apart the Brute Vidoc in minute detail. Downloadable versions are in the hundreds of megabytes, or you can stream it on their site. Looks like a thread has started on our forum – some folks are amused (or unhappy)…

In a Rampancy.net article about the Normal Mapping article at HaloDev, Narcogen noted another cool image by Veegie, over at DeviantART – go take a look, it’s great!(Louis Wu 19:04:30 UTC)