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Injured Knee Productions has released Episode 11 of their Lost: Halostyle series. I know I said last month that I like this series – I’m upgrading that. I LOVE this series. Great cinematography, great storyline, great voices. And it makes me laugh. Go watch it. We’re hosting copies for them – WMP9 (48.3 mb) or…

xiLeF[i] writes to point out a Halo PC LAN coming up in February – the 23rd to the 25th, specifically. It’s taking place in West Yorkshire, UK, and entry fee is £15 for competitors, or £5/day for spectators (or £10 for the whole weekend). They’re working on sponsors right now for prizes, but if there’s…

Rockslider updated his Two Betrayals page with a bunch of new challenges – if you’re bored, try to complete them all!(Louis Wu 18:08:06 UTC)

Week five of MLG Pro Circuit went live on USA Networks yesterday – but if you missed it, you can see it online at MLGPro.com. MLG Orlando was a watershed; Carbon settled on the roster that would eventually win the National Championship, and Str8 Rippin dropped Defy for Captain Anarchy. Check out the action! Thanks,…

Yesterday, we got mail from TheForerunner, who submitted a bunch of pictures he’d rendered using 3dsmax. I thought they were great. I put them up on this page. Give ’em a look!(Louis Wu 22:33:04 UTC)

Cool. Jamie98s whipped up a version of the Halo 3 ad using the Halo 2 engine (well, with a little help). Good stuff! 6.6 mb in WMP9 format, 6.x mb in QuickTime format. Grab a copy!(Louis Wu 22:31:17 UTC)

Heh – did you know Geoffrey Chaucer had a blog? And that he played Halo? Me either. Thanks, Anton P. Nym.(Louis Wu 21:59:52 UTC)

watchwood sent word that Halo Wars Heaven has opened – it’s a Halo Wars fansite. (The first?) Check it out – they’re already running a fan-fiction contest.(Louis Wu 21:57:39 UTC)

Wow. Remember last week, when the World Series of Video Games announced that they’d made a deal with CBS Sports to broadcast Halo 2 gaming on the network? Yeah, well… the WSVG finals are this weekend, and four top MLG teams were supposed to be competing. All sorts of conditions had already been agreed to…

Red vs Blue Episode 85, ‘Yellow Fever’, has been released for sponsors (free versions should be up by Sunday) – Grif tries to do the right thing with his sister, but he might have misjudged a little. Thanks to LX925 for the heads-up (and for the oh-so-true observation in that forum post).(Louis Wu 03:52:59 UTC)

Rob Oplawar stopped by to point out a new teaser trailer for his ambitious project Bridge CE (a working title only). Swing by and grab a copy – looks pretty cool!(Louis Wu 03:22:31 UTC)

You haven’t heard a lot from PraetoriaGuard in recent months (well, until a week or two ago) – but that’s not because they’ve been slacking. They haven’t been. They’ve put together a slick little promo vid to ramp up towards 2007 – you can grab it off their servers in QuickTime format (6.1 mb) or…

Up on Bungie.net, you’ll find the latest Bungie Weekly Update – it’s got an interview with Ed Ulbrich, president of Digital Domain’s commercial division, who answers some questions about the Halo 3 ad, and another with Stephen Dewey, the Sound Designer and founder of Machine Head, who did the sound design for the ad. And…

There are lots of questions people still have about the Halo 3 commercial… but here’s an answer, hard and solid, directly from Frank O’Connor at Bungie. With respect to the children shown at the start of the film:”Those kids are real actors. Not CG or MoCap. Even the grass is real in that shot.”More of…

This morning, we got word from Shaun Escayg, who was involved in an animation project over at CGSociety.org. The short video he pointed us to (5 seconds, about 6 mb) was fantastic – but I didn’t want them to suffer from a bandwidth hit if we front-paged this, so we’re making the video available here…

When studio funding for the Halo movie pulled out a couple of months ago, some people speculated that Microsoft wouldn’t have any trouble funding the development themselves. In an interview recently, Robbie Bach said that this would not happen – Microsoft was not getting into the movie-making business. Today’s One One Se7en suggests a reason…

Camboy45, a member of the Red vs Blue community, sent along a shot of his new Halo tattoo. Nice work!(Louis Wu 18:48:58 UTC)

Fifteen new pieces for you in today’s Fan Fiction update – well, not quite, because someone thought that because they’d mislabeled a series name, they should RESUBMIT the series, in its entirety… but you get the idea. (In the future, please don’t do this.)(Louis Wu 18:04:25 UTC)

Mark MacDonald and Luke Smith (of GameVideos.com/1Up.com/Electronic Games Magazine) have their own deconstruction of the Halo 3 commercial; what’s different about theirs (aside from the fact that these guys get paid for this sort of thing) is that it’s in video format. They walk through the commercial, conversing about all the juicy tidbits as they…

Normally, The Halo Humpday Challenge is a series of three games between Bungie and a community team. Normally, Bungie gets their collective rears handed to them in a majority of those games. This week was no exception, really; Bungie had a team of two (because everyone else was either too busy or too stupid), and…