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Last week, we pointed out a remake of the trailer for ‘300’, the upcoming Frank Miller movie about ancient Sparta. Today, we got email from Berzerker dude, of Treeskunk Productions – he’s made another one. Like bikeman704, he used existing cutscene footage, and like bikeman704, it’s really nicely put together. I’m intrigued by how few…

EGM said the Halo 3 needler is way better than the Halo 2 needler. Stuntmutt chimes in on today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 17:06:08 UTC)

IceWeasel pitted an ODST against a Heretic Elite, in a stop-motion tribute to a great movie. It’s one of my favorite scenes of all time, and he did a great job with it. Go watch!(Louis Wu 16:37:46 UTC)

RVideo whipped up a short screentest showing what Halo might look like with a female marine as the main character. He warns that he didn’t spend a lot of time putting this together – but I found it to be fascinating. Great angles! (Do him a favor – use our download links, save his bandwidth.)(Louis…

The REALLY big news today is embodied in an article called ‘Happy Halo Day’ over at Bungie.net. In fact, there are 4 separate stories, all bundled into one jaw-dropping article. There’s a CG Halo 3 ad (with new music) that will air on Monday Night Football on December 4 (and be available on Marketplace, and…

3Suns collected up all the new content available at MLGPro.com for us – to start with, there’s a sneak peek at Episode 2 of the MLG Pro Circuit, airing this Saturday at 10 am. (A lot of pros are actually going to be at the Nationals in Las Vegas when this one goes live, so…

There is an enormous amount of new content at Bungie.net this morning – I’m afraid, in fact, that there’s so much some of it is going to get lost. Let’s go in order, I guess. First up is an article posted last night – it’s called ‘Anniversary Panel’, and it’s a compilation of 5 mini-interviews…

Heh – when I saw the title of the latest Halo Heads, I thought it would be Gears of War-related. Nope… it’s a shot at the PS3 availability… and the hubris of certain Sony execs. Funny stuff… unless you’re in line right now.(Louis Wu 19:41:44 UTC)

Tol Eressea stopped by to point out that with Blogspot (or other free blogging sites) and Google Video (or, presumably, YouTube), you can set up a place to show off your better games to family and friends – and it doesn’t have to cost you a penny. The first post on Knights Templar (Live) is…

At-GNaT points out that today’s Little Gamers comic is Halo-related. (Louis Wu 16:55:59 UTC)

As is the custom on Tuesdays, XerxdeeJ stopped by our forum to point out new content at Tied the Leader. There’s a 22 Questions interview with Karma, of Team Carbon, the recounting of a debt to be paid, and a Clan Profile of the TTL MLG clan. (There’s also a paean to the goodness that…

Rampancy.net noticed a quote in an Xbox.com article about Gilbert Arenas, of the Washington Wizards, in which he stated that he wanted to start modding his Xbox, to get revenge on the modders that are ruining his Halo 2 rankings. Hookay…(Louis Wu 15:54:35 UTC)

The MLGPro.com website has a preview of Storm Ventures posted – get to know more about these guys before the Nationals this weekend! Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 15:49:44 UTC)

We got a note from Sigafoos – apparently, WikiRiot has been cancelled, and the site has been pulled down. There’s no explanation for what happened on the halowiki.net website, but it sounds like it wasn’t pretty. Sigafoos wanted to assure everyone, however, that they would be continuing their podcast in a non-wiki format, beginning this…

The second half of EGM’s Monday content is now up at 1Up.com – Combat Evolving, a discussion of multiplayer aspects as they stand in Halo 2, and ways that Bungie is working to make them better (or more fun) in Halo 3. Great info – lots to look forward to! Go read. Update: Looks like…

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer wrote up an article on women gamers; they focused on Kari ‘The Don Wan’ Toyama, and how gaming pulls her together with friends and supporters. It’s a great read. Look for her online, but don’t get mad if she beats you…(Louis Wu 21:48:53 UTC)

Over at 1Up.com, part of their Monday Halo 3 content – a writeup of the Halo 3 Humpday Challenge between Bungie and the EGM staff – is now online. Written in the style of the Bungie.net humpday writeups, this chronicles the blatant cheating and general poor sportsmanship of the Bungie team… and reissues the ‘X-button’…

Bungie asked recently for community feedback about an idea to add a female spartan death scream to Halo 3 multiplayer. Stuntmutt looks at one of the possibly unforeseen consequences in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 17:46:55 UTC)

I finally got a chance to go through our uploads directory – and buried amongst all the movies that people keep uploading (even though it says REALLY CLEARLY at the top of the page not to upload movies), I found a song submitted by StitchLips, called Killtacular. It’s pretty hard rock; he says it’s inspired…

Voting ran for a week on the 2006 Guilt O’ Lantern contest – and while a significantly smaller group of people voted this year than last (under 2,000, compared to last year’s nearly 6,000), there still emerged a clear winner – congratulations to Lacie O.! Michael Coffing, who won the last two years, and was…