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Merecatfish points out that LifePod 3 is up – highlight is an interview with mapmaker NeuroKoNeza. 30 minutes long, 28 mb. Check it out!(Louis Wu 03:59:16 UTC)

Red_Breast found a story at totally360.com (and 3Suns found a similar one at 2old2play) talking about a snippet in an upcoming issue of EGM – apparently, they’re claiming that Microsoft’s gameplan is to alternate Gears of War and Halo releases, to help stomp on Sony and Nintendo’s marketing buzz. The biggest problem with this gameplan…

3Suns pointed out a bunch of new stuff at MLGPro.com – there’s an interview with Carbon, a story about Legit (who recently left Storm Ventures) joining Legendz, filling StrongSide’s slot, and the MLG side of the WSVG/MLG tiff this weekend at the WSVG finals. Good fun.(Louis Wu 03:46:53 UTC)

Nerrolken, of the Edgeworks Entertainment team (the guys who created the Codex Series last year), sent word that they’ve released The Heretic Trailer, the first of two. This is the Drama Trailer – the next will be the Action Trailer. It gives you a taste of the storyline of the upcoming Heretic series. It’s available…

According to IGN, over 140,000 people signed up at Halo3.com for a chance to participate in the North American Halo 3 beta test kicking off next spring. No wonder the page was having trouble at times!(Louis Wu 19:18:11 UTC)

If it’s Tuesday, there must be a TTL update! And lo and behold, there is. XerxdeeJ summarizes the new goodies – a 22 Questions Interview with Fitbabits, of Evil Avatar, a fun bit of parody artwork, a reader’s poll asking for help updating the 22 Questions, and a profile of the PMS Clan. What are…

Dennis Powers has re-released his movie Static, as a single 320×240 file, 36 minutes long. It’s 121mb, and only available in WMP9 format. (The individual episodes were released in higher-res, 640×480 format in WMP9, QT, and streaming flash; this is really only for the people who want to watch it as a single file, and…

Heh – Tex started a Halo snowflake craze. (Well, it’s not a craze YET – that’s sort of up to you.)(Louis Wu 15:54:34 UTC)

Compass stopped by with word of an alpha release of Halo: Slayer Edition, a mod for Madness Interactive. Fun stuff!(Louis Wu 15:51:18 UTC)

Despite the melodrama, the WSVG finals went off as planned this weekend – and Str8 Rippin took the first-place title (and $20,000). MoBDeep.net took second, and XiT WoundZ grabbed third. You can read a writeup at TeamXbox.(Louis Wu 15:46:30 UTC)

The second interview done by This Spartan Life for the 2006 SpikeTV Video Game Awards (the first went live last month) is now up – Damian talks to Jared Palomar, of the band Augustana. Band talk, a discussion of the whole Game with Fame program, and trap shooting… with fusion cores. Fun stuff! (To find…

Evil Avatar has interviewed Eric Nylund – some Halo stuff, some general writing stuff, some questions about his other writings. Good stuff! Thanks to all who mentioned it – 3Suns was first.(Louis Wu 15:39:22 UTC)

Chad Souter wrote to point out 2 tournaments at violatedgaming.com – a 4v4 MLG-rules tourney on December 14, and a 4v4 SWAT tourney on the 21st. Swing by for more details!(Louis Wu 18:13:29 UTC)

Z wrote to point out Abusedgoat’s Megamix – a montage that includes 10 different maps (it’s not just Lockout and Midship!) and some nice editing. Abusedgoat’s pretty darned good with the stickies… and he’s a master spawnkiller on Turf. (Heh – he’s a pretty good sniper all around, but there’s a Kilimanjaro or two that…

PEZ wrote to point out that halowiki.net has a new Issue of the Week – it’s Waterworks. (You can find it on their front page – look for the yellow Highlights box.) Check out basics, tactics, tips and tricks… and add your own!(Louis Wu 17:53:42 UTC)

In today’s One One Se7en, Stuntmutt dares to ask the tough questions that come up in the dark.(Louis Wu 16:59:28 UTC)

The staff at High Impact Halo wrote down a bunch of questions about running a fansite, and I did my best to muddle through ’em. It’s not strictly Halo-related, though most of the questions are about HBO… but if you’re thinking about getting into the fansite arena, it might have a few useful tidbits for…

Monday’s here, so Halomega’s CiphA sent another weekly update. You can find two new gameplay vids – not montages, but full games (TalenT, WMP9, 265 mb, and Bradddddddd, WMP9, 164 mb). You can find the results from last week’s Snipe of the Week contest, and a page for the next contest. (you should really check…

Yesterday, gunluva stopped by our forum to say that he’d stumbled across some pictures of a woman done up in Cortana bodypaint – but that he was reluctant to post the URL, because there was artistic nudity involved. (I’d like to go on record that I appreciate his hesitance; while Halo is a Mature-rated game,…

Wow, is the weekend over already? I guess it’s time to get back to work… we got mail from Bitter Irony, the host of this week’s episode of The Riot (Sigafoos and Brathnok are MIA). It’s a short one – 12:30 long, 4.5 mb – but it covers lots of stuff. Go listen!(Louis Wu 14:52:30…