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EternalScrappy continues on his MPRRS-passing moviemaking spree; his remake of ‘Don’t Stay’ (song by Linkin Park, action by Bungie and Scrappy) made it through last night. Not a lot of plot – just a well-timed music vid. Great camera work. Grab it in WMP9 format (41.3 mb) or QuickTime format (43 mb).(Louis Wu 19:57:52 UTC)

Major.Dump has been learning about 3D animations – he’s posted a few of his early works. You’ll find some in this post (local, more easily downloaded versions, including QT, are in this post), and another one here (local versions here). Pretty cool stuff!(Louis Wu 19:36:08 UTC)

PEZ wants to collect all the clues about Halo 3 multiplayer in one place – what better place than a Wiki? Swing by halowiki.net and peruse his starting collection – and if you have other confirmed info, add it!(Louis Wu 19:28:39 UTC)

Twenty new pieces available in the Fan Fiction section this week – some big names! Check it out.(Louis Wu 19:20:20 UTC)

The Halo Humpday Challenge was, once again, internal, and Halo 3-based, rather than Halo 2. KP teases you with tidbits of gameplay for a game you won’t see for a while… and gets in a shot or two at his boss. Fun writeup, as usual, as long as you can get past the envy. Thanks,…

IceWeasel noticed that you can now buy the Carnage symbol at the Bungie Store – but it’s no longer a sticker, now it’s an iron-on patch. At $3, you should buy a couple; they’d look great on backpacks.(Louis Wu 18:12:10 UTC)

A quick reminder – the Mackies, the annual Machinima Awards, take place this weekend, and the Machinima Festival that goes with them starts tomorrow; you can read articles at both Newsday.com and Wired.com. Halo projects feature prominently in both articles.(Louis Wu 17:53:27 UTC)

Bunch of new video content over at MLGPro.com – you’ll find some gameplay stuff linked from Foulacy’s blog, and a nice feature on Dave “Walshy” Walsh (included in the longer trailer in that blog, but available on its own, as well) for the upcoming TV season. Thanks to 3Suns for both.(Louis Wu 17:50:10 UTC)

EternalScrappy put together ‘Outside’, a video about the Arbiter set to the eponymous song by Staind. All of his footage came from cutscenes – but he did a fantastic job matching the action to the lyrics. Cinematics, of course, are great – Bungie did ’em. A couple of MPRRS reviewers weren’t happy to see purely…

Paul Maestri points out that Halo Heads 25 is available – it made me laugh. Go read.(Louis Wu 21:49:36 UTC)

Dennis Powers writes to point out that Static, Episode 2: Last Will and Testament, is now available for download. (Static is the latest story in the Halo CE Chronicles universe.) Petty Officer Alex Hicks thinks he might be stranded alone, forever… but he discovers he’s not alone. Grab this version in WMP9, QuickTime, or streaming…

We got a note from William Sullivan-Angulo, the leader of the Freelancer: Combat Evolved team, that Alpha version 116.24 of their Halo Total Conversion Mod for the MS PC game Freelancer has now been released. It’s a community-based online multiplayer role-playing game – if you’re interested in participating, you must be a member of their…

Hmm… bob1 points out a store on eBay where someone will make you custom Halo lego bits. That’s probably useful to someone…(Louis Wu 20:01:30 UTC)

Man, I HATE when I put stuff aside to post later and then forget. demus let us know last night that there was a story on digg.com about a costume contest in which the winner was a home-made Spartan. (Nice job, too!) $1000 for the win… not bad!(Louis Wu 19:16:52 UTC)

Rookie Rabbit Productions are back with Episode 3 of their Spartan Effect series; it passed the MPRRS with flying colors. There’s not a lot of action in this episode, but it pushes the plot forward, and it’s funny. Very well-filmed (great camera angles), and nice voice acting. Lots of goodies if you keep your eyes…

Thanks to simen, who found a video interview with Eric Nylund, focusing on the Ghosts of Onyx. No spoilers, and not a LOT of new info – but it’s always nice to put a face (and a voice) to someone you know a little bit about. This was done by a group called Expanded Books,…

PEZ writes to say that halowiki.net is back up and running, and wanted to point out a summary page containing the information available in the LEVEL article released last week. No scans, no wholesale transcription – just a nice overview of the new info. Check it out!(Louis Wu 14:27:58 UTC)

Over at Bungie.net, there’s a new Developer’s Diary, this time written by Shogo Ishii of Hired Gun, detailing the current status of Halo 2 Vista. Give it a read – she’ll be here soon!(Louis Wu 01:05:31 UTC)

This has come up a few times in the forum – now it’s appearing in my mailbox, so it’s probably time to deal with it publicly. We have a spoiler system in place for Halo and Halo 2 information. This is ENTIRELY story-based; the spoilers we’re talking about have to do with Halo’s story; plot,…