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Over at Rampancy.net, spartan182 and young kaos have transcribed the Halo 3 Announcement Trailer piano solo, and it’s available for download in Finale Notepad format. Nothing else, right now, and don’t forget you’ll need to be logged in to see the download link – but if you’ve got Finale Notepad, and a Rampancy.net account, go…

Okay, I had to fight with myself about whether or not to post this – it’s an eBay auction I’d love to win myself, but it might be out of my price range. (Not front-paging it would significantly increase my chances of winning – but if I can’t afford it, why keep it from those…

RVideo swapped Cortana’s biped model into a cutscene for a couple of other characters… and the really odd thing is that Cortana lip-synchs nicely along with the dialogue. This is dialogue she was never intended to speak, mind you – it belongs to other characters (they identify themselves, fergoshsakes). Pretty cool to watch! Available in…

Sigafoos writes to point out The Riot #29 – he and Brathnok are back. lost of community updates, plus Halo news from around the web. 19 minutes, 7.5 mb. Go listen.(Louis Wu 22:17:47 UTC)

Z wrote about Reid 18’s fifth montage – worth watching. Great gameplay, great quality… and really nice synching (especially the second song). Check it out – WMP9 format, 138 mb, over at Halo3Forum.com.(Louis Wu 16:20:21 UTC)

You thought it was over – but WSVG wanted a chance to tell their side of the WSVG Finals confusion. Amped eSports has all the details. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 16:18:02 UTC)

According to Kotaku, the winner of the Child’s Play auction for the chance to have a line in Halo 3 was someone from the Red vs Blue crew – nice! Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 14:55:52 UTC)

John Cannon posted a link to some pictures showing off the beginnings of his Spartan III costume helmet. Just a few pics so far – but if he continues updating, we’ll let you know.(Louis Wu 14:52:20 UTC)

RVideo whipped up some new Panoramas – you can find the two we mentioned yesterday, as well as 3 new ones, here in this post. The first Cortana one is wonderful!(Louis Wu 14:46:12 UTC)

ComputerAndVideoGames was one of the press groups that showed up at Bungie’s offices a couple of months ago to play some Alpha Halo. Their interview with Bungie employees that day went live this morning. A lot of the info has already found its way to the public via one of the other press groups there…

When the first trailer for Frank Miller’s upcoming ‘300’ movie was released, there were a couple of different Halo tributes – both tried to stay true to the action in the official trailer. A second trailer has been released – and AgentMonkey117 posted a YouTube link last night to his Halo version – this one…

Swinging by the Red vs Blue site last night, I noticed a link to Forbes Magazine, where they were recently written up – and where they created a new vid about making money. Sarge scares me. Then, a bit later, back on their own site, they posted a new PSA for sponsors – it’s called…

First off – I noticed a frew folks saw the headline of last night’s Weekly Update post (‘Pistol De-Nerfed’) and wondered if I were being sarcastic, or if there really was going to be something done with the pistol to return it to Halo 1 status – for the record, it was a joke. Sorry.…

Whoa. The Bungie Weekly Update is up WAY early this week – and it’s WAY short. (The Bungie building lost power, so Frankie wrote it from a nearby coffee house.) There’s some clarification of yesterday’s Brute fiasco (nice to hear that you won’t need a 360 to watch the documentary), and some fun stuff about…

Paul Maestri sends word that Halo Heads 34 has been posted – made me smile.(Louis Wu 20:57:28 UTC)

Last couple of updates for a bit – both from Rampancy.net. First up is a speculation piece in Narcogen’s blog – he knows that Frankie has discredited the rumor that Brutes are playable in Halo 3… but he’s written an article explaining why they COULD be, anyway. Second is a note about a new subsite…

Stuntmutt continues his series of riffs on the Halo 3 ad in today’s One One Se7en. This one’s brilliant. (I know, I know, I just killed One One Se7en… sorry.)(Louis Wu 16:56:44 UTC)

RVideo did a couple of really nice panoramas – you can see one, and grab both (plus some extra files) in this forum post. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 16:54:28 UTC)

XBWFeenix found a really nice Christmas card from the Ensemble Halo Wars team… check it out!(Louis Wu 16:46:26 UTC)

So today Microsoft announced that Gears of War has sold 2 million copies – according to this article (thanks, JeBr0nie), that makes it “the fastest- selling next-generation game of 2006 and the fastest-selling exclusive Xbox(R) game ever”, and according to this one, it’s beaten Halo 2 in the race to 2 million. (That second article…