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Mid7night has been working on a Longsword model for X-Plane – he’s got some pics, and a flash vid showing the retract sequence for the landing gear. (We’ve grabbed copies of the images themselves, if he runs out of bandwidth, but the video we don’t have – here’s hoping tinypic holds up.)(Louis Wu 13:32:51 UTC)

Halomega has a ton of new vids – Dymdez’ 3rd Montage Trailer, plus Fyler’s 5th, a Team Midway gamplay, BROHAN’s 7th 1v1 preview, and Frozen’s 5th 1v1. Should keep you busy for a while…(Louis Wu 12:42:28 UTC)

Rockslider has posted a new Spotlight with Suzie – this time, Suzie interviews a grunt about a possible water level in Halo 3. This all came out of Ducain’s recent Halo 3 wishlist… poor guy!(Louis Wu 12:34:54 UTC)

Brandon stopped by to announce that his Oblivion mod is finished – you can now play through in Mjolnir Mark V armor, with energy sword and shield! screenshots and a link to the download are in his forum post.(Louis Wu 12:31:04 UTC)

Interesting. Mike Smith pointed out a new update on the Halo Wars forum – the crew has been working on motion capture for cutscenes. (Personally, I’d rather be seeing where the GAME ITSELF was going right now, rather than the interstitial movies – but some update is better than no update.) Hmm… upon rereading, it’s…

TheDonWan pointed out LoadingReality.com – a podcast focused on gaming in general. Episode 4 contains a sizeable interview with Bungie’s KP – lots of ‘favorite’ questions, user-submitted questions, Bungie questions, all mixed in with general abuse of KP… good stuff. Well over an hour, 43 mb. KP shows up about 15 minutes in. (Louis Wu…

Funkmon sent us an update about the Rockets on Prisoner Awards; he took over from That Weasel, and plans to have a version out for Fall 2007 – if you have suggestions for how this should work, let him know over at Halo: Portable! (The plan now is to expand the awards to other Halo…

Dojorkan put up a bunch of new, large hudless shots on our forum – some gorgeous stuff! Check ’em out.(Louis Wu 15:24:40 UTC)

Funkmon wrote to point out two new portable-formatted vids at Halo: Portable – Jamie98s’ We Become Silhouettes, and the newly-posted Legend 3 (whose provenance is still being debated) are now up. Go grab ’em for your PSP/iPod/Zune! (Wait… people actually OWN Zunes?)(Louis Wu 14:42:13 UTC)

Evilcam is a new moderator at Bungie.net – and he’s also the newest victim of KP’s IM-style interviews; go read about his interaction with the Halo community over at Bungie.net. (Thanks to Schedonnardus for letting us know.)(Louis Wu 14:36:39 UTC)

Mister Froggy wrote to point out that Halo, Articulated #9 is online – the headless Barbie storyline continues. After a fashion.(Louis Wu 13:50:55 UTC)

Wow – it’s been a while since our last mention of Tied the Leader… but boy howdy is there a lot of new content there. (No, I don’t use that expression very often. No, I didn’t get it from the TTL crowd. It just seemed appropriate.) Interviews (2), Clan Profiles (2), link roundups for folks…

That quote from Chris Butcher just won’t die, even though Bungie addressed it in the most recent Bungie Weekly Update – but Stuntmutt shows why it might not matter so much in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 20:15:25 UTC)

Games in Action has kicked off ‘The Olympics of Halo’ – an online tourney. Swing by their forum for rules. Prize announcements coming later.(Louis Wu 19:18:35 UTC)

Wow – sorahn noticed a YouTube vid showing someone recreating the Master Chief in MS Paint. There’s something amazing about being able to create artwork that looks this good with a tool like Paint… (I could do without the soundtrack, though.) Update: here’s the second part of the drawing. Thanks, newDeviLedeT1.(Louis Wu 18:43:35 UTC)

Years ago, Mike Miller created ‘Legend’, and a followup, ‘Legend 2’ – these were basically Halo 1 campaign montages showing some really elegant gameplay at Legendary difficulty – the trick wasn’t so much the difficulty, but the style with which the gameplay was performed. He was good enough that we asked him to create a…

Paul Maestri wrote to point out Halo Heads 43 – what happens when someone you think doesn’t deserve it (as much as you do) gets access to the Halo 3 beta, and you don’t? Well, there’s always something you can take heart from…(Louis Wu 16:48:50 UTC)

GetOverITEnor found a cool film showing Center Grove (Indiana) High School’s entry in an Indoor Percussion competition in 2005 – it’s a drumline show featuring Halo music. Fantastic show! (As a side note, FancyShmancy inspired me to do some hunting on the last high school band vid we posted, last week – turns out it…

Obienator, who released ‘Gameplay May Change During Online Play’ last year (and garnered high praise for it), has released a teaser for the sequel, ‘The Haxor that Loved Me’ – you can watch it at YouTube from that forum post, or you can download higher-res versions. (Louis Wu 16:22:21 UTC)

Over at MLGPro.com, you’ll find a front-page-linked video of Fonzi, doing player match commentary; watch him discuss strategy over video of himself playing in tournament play. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 23:09:10 UTC)