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If you visit live.xbox.com, you can see what the people on your Friends List are doing, if they’re online. There were some odd entries this morning, from a couple of Bungie employees… now I’m nearly 100% certain that nobody’s actually putting time into building a Pimps at Sea game, fun as it might be -…

Whoa. Over at Bungie.net, you’ll find a screenshot from the upcoming Halo 3 ad, airing this Monday night on ESPN. If you don’t have access to ESPN, you’ll be able to see a 720p version on Xbox Live Marketplace soon after. (If you don’t have a 360, I’m certain a version will be on YouTube…

Over at MLGPro.com, you can find a blog entry from Karma, discussing Carbon’s success this year – interesting read. There’s also a teaser for Episode 4 of the MLG Pro Circuit show coming up this Saturday.(Louis Wu 17:34:16 UTC)

Over at the Halo CE Chronicles website, the final episode of Static has been posted – Alex gets clear of the Hunter, finally, and a surprise twist makes lots of things clear. It’s double-size – 60 mb in downloadable WMP9 or QT, 36 mb in streaming Flash format. Nice end to the story! (Louis Wu…

Dojorkan found a pretty fun pic.(Louis Wu 23:07:48 UTC)

Not long ago, we released Pie Chapters 1 and 2, from Machine Enema – both were fantastic examples of Halo machinima. Recently sodaGoD completed Pestilence, set in the same universe as the Pie stories, but on a different tack. As before, cinematography is excellent, storyline is strong, voice acting is top-notch. I loved this film.…

Compton noticed that the XBL Playlist changes we heard about a couple of weeks ago are now in effect – if you log into Xbox Live to play Halo 2, you’ll find a much smaller set of available playlists. Team SWAT is dead… long live Team SWAT. (I’m happy that the last game I played…

Last week, our forum was awash with complaints that the Halo screenshots released recently looked more like Halo 2 with a spit-shine than ‘next-gen graphics’. The folks voicing their opinions didn’t want to hear that these shots came from an alpha build of Halo 3, or that some of the textures used right now are…

prometheus stopped by to point out a bunch of cool new stuff at the Halouvre – there are some SPECTACULAR new shots in the various galleries. (He also mentioned that they’re coming up on their second anniversary… wow, it really doesn’t seem like that long ago! Happy Birthday, guys!) Check out the links in his…

Koethe, from the MjR37 Team, wrote to say that Episode 2 of their series, Species, is now available for download from Mythica.org. QuickTime format, 14 minutes, 37 mb. Funny stuff, nice use of mods (though I’d have to say, if HaloNinja was anywhere near me, I’d stuff a rocket launcher in his mouth). If you…

PEZ writes to point out that over at halowiki.net, they’ve started up a new feature – Issue of the Week. This week’s focus is the Halo Turret – go read about it!(Louis Wu 17:06:34 UTC)

At bit-tech.net, there’s an article entitled ‘Goovies: Why games’n’movies don’t mix’ – and they look at Halo for insight into the future of this genre. Thanks, JPOGDNA.(Louis Wu 16:49:12 UTC)

Issue 73 of the Escapist covers Microsoft, in detail – every major article is about them. Two hit Halo in more than a passing note – The Number of the Beast discusses the I Love Bees campaign, and The Perception Engineers talks about Human Factors psychologists, and how they helped Bungie make Halo more fun.…

I hate it when real life gets in the way of fun. Sorry for the update delays. Last night, KP posted a new Community Spotlight on Bungie.net – this one focused on LordGideon, the guy behind PraetoriaGuard, Halo2Cheaters.com, Halo2Gametypes.com, and the soon-to-be-opened HaloEverywhere. (Okay, so his friends do all the work – he just makes…

It’s Tied the Leader Tuesday! That means XerxdeeJ stops by our forum to point out all the cool new stuff you can find at TTL this week. This week contains a 22 Questions interview with Dolbex (who’da thunk he wanted to be a tour guide?), a clan profile of the Halo2Junkies (stats rule), and a…

Mukelo, from Invalid Mob, wrote to point out a new 2D scroller created by allbowdown, and downloadable from their site. Has features like weapons zoom, grenades, and sword lunging. Executable for Windows – 2.5 mb, go grab a copy.(Louis Wu 15:57:54 UTC)

IGN did a one-year retrospective on the Xbox 360 – high and low points of its first year, as well as a look at what’s coming. Halo gets a number of mentions, as you might expect. Thanks, Grey Wolf.(Louis Wu 15:53:53 UTC)

Wow, seems like the ‘offer some cash for video content’ idea is getting around – Halomega is running a contest to produce a video intro for their site, with a $50 prize. (They’re also offering video hosting for any vid – check this page for details.)(Louis Wu 15:21:41 UTC)

Everybody’s getting into the ‘videogaming is a sport’ thing, it seems – the Tampa Bay Fox affiliate covered Storm Ventures’ Legit last week in a personal interest piece. I chuckled when they got to the part where his dad put his foot down… go watch. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 15:18:57 UTC)

Halopen Films is celebrating their one year anniversary (it was yesterday, actually, but I didn’t get this posted in time) with the Halopeno So Hot Editing Contest. This is an editing contest using stock materials – Halopen Films is supplying the soundtrack, and the video footage will come from our Cutscene Library. $70 in Gamestop…