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1Up.com wraps up their three weeks of Halo 3 coverage with an article on the five best things about Halo 3. Read it and drool. Thanks to Drakkari for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 16:33:49 UTC)

William Sullivan-Angulo, of the FL:CE team (a Halo conversion for Freelancer), wrote to point out a bunch of new stuff – an intro video for the game, a teaser video for the Inner Colony Seiges (story stuff), new screenshots, and a new store. They’re also up for some Mod of the Year Awards – you…

Legend, from Halo Base, sent us a note about a bizarre glitch experienced by some folks in matchmaking – you need to watch the vid (44 seconds, 2.8 mb, WMP9 format) for yourself. Freaky…(Louis Wu 16:13:58 UTC)

Interesting article at Gamesindustry.biz – a discussion of what qualifies as ‘mainstream’ or ‘mass market’, and how those things got to where they are. Halo is held up as an example of a video game that has reached far beyond its normal target audience, with some speculation as to why. Thanks, deftangel.(Louis Wu 16:11:14 UTC)

As he shows in today’s One One Se7en, Stuntmutt knows which side his bread is buttered on…(Louis Wu 18:15:04 UTC)

Two very cool pieces of artwork showed up in the last couple of days – rather than wait for the next Misc Art update, I thought I’d publicize these now. The first is a gorgeous render (1300×975, 85K) of the Master Chief, helmetless, created by benman08. The second is a pretty amazing piece of collage…

A couple of days ago, we posted a Lego recreation of the original Halo 2 trailer, made by Marshall Brekka, of InfalliBull Productions. We recently got mail from Marshall – apparently, a lot of people are uploading this file to YouTube, and not crediting him. The YouTube username of the original creator is infallibull -…

More This Spartan Life goodness… Damian Lacedamian was interviewed for the public radio show Studio 360 – the interview airs tomorrow, and is available today for listening on the Studio360 website. A video that went along with the radio interview is available on the TSL website.(Louis Wu 17:39:37 UTC)

Twelve new pieces available for your reading pleasure in the Fan Fiction section – check ’em out!(Louis Wu 17:11:35 UTC)

Earlier this week, we mentioned an imminent release of a Halo CE map; this morning, NeuroKoNeza stopped by our forum to point out that Immure 2 was now available for download. Check out the forum post for links, including a screenshot and a dev-cam flythrough video!(Louis Wu 17:00:03 UTC)

darthbob noticed a new mylar print in the Bungie Store – this one is an image created by Bungie’s Isaac Hannaford, and it’s called ‘Ark Storm’. Gorgeous piece of work – if you’ve got $40 lying around, grab one of the 500 copies of this print!(Louis Wu 16:53:28 UTC)

I didn’t think this was news, but it’s spawned so many threads on our forum (and others) that if I DON’T front-page it, it’s going to overrun us. In one of the screenshots released recently, there’s some faded text behind the blue Spartan on the left – clearly, whoever photoshopped the text out only did…

First off, apologies for scaring anyone yesterday – I’m fine. On to the news… let’s start with Cromium’s post about an interview with the Frag Dolls, done by This Spartan Life’s Damian Lacedamian, created for Spike TV’s 2006 Video Game Awards. (You’ll need to click on the ‘This Spartan Life’ link on the left to…

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I had visions of getting up a bit early this morning, before the preparations started (we’ll have over 20 people in the house in less than 3 hours) and putting up whatever Halo news we’ve got in the queue… but that was before spending several hours last night in the emergency room…

Over at Bungie.net, there’s a pretty cool screenshot dissection; go read it, and see what you might have missed in the high-res screens released yesterday. Lots and lots of little details… thanks to sui, in irc’s #hbo, for the heads-up. (Warning – the page is pretty huge to load right now; the full, 5+mb screenshots…

The other half of 1Up’s Wednesday coverage is a Q&A with Bungie about the upgrades to Halo 3’s matchmaking – there’s tons of great stuff in there. After reading it, I’m thinking Halo 2’s matchmaking looks a little drab! Check it out.(Louis Wu 19:21:05 UTC)

Justinian let us know that the 1Up Halo 3 Podcast, half of Wednesday’s Halo 3 content during this final week of Halo 3 coverage, is now available for download – EGM interviews Bungie just for you. Almost an hour and a half, 22.5 mb… go listen!(Louis Wu 19:16:12 UTC)

Dennis Powers writes to point out Static, Episode 5 – ‘What Would my Daughter Think?’ is available at the HCEC website. Alex comes pretty close to death, and figures out his next step. As usual, it’s available in WMP9, QuickTime, and streaming Flash formats.(Louis Wu 19:13:05 UTC)

Mukelo, from Invalid Mob, wrote to point out that they’ve been collecting Halo Flash games from around the web, and have made them all available from their site. They’ve got 17 right now – and though we already host a bunch of them, there are others I’ve never seen before. Take a look! He also…

3Suns points out that the second TV episode of MLG Pro Circuit is now available for free (in full) at the MLGPro.com website. If you missed it last week on TV, go watch on the web!(Louis Wu 17:12:55 UTC)