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Congrats to Carbon, who came back from being beaten in the Winners Bracket Finals in New York to play Final Boss again, in the overall finals… and win! I wish I had VoD…(Louis Wu 22:30:04 UTC)

Sigafoos points out that Wikiriot 20 is now online – 33 minutes, 13.3 mb. Full of… you know, stuff. Go listen.(Louis Wu 22:26:57 UTC)

Keyboard Killer, of Pothole Studios, submitted another Totally Random Short Video to the MPRRS; they liked this one, too. It’s called ‘Shoplifters will be Prosecuted’, and it’s short and sweet. Great filming, great use of mods. You can grab it in its original DivX format (17.4 mb), or in WMP9 (16.4 mb) or QuickTime (18.2…

No, not like that. Zukan found a 2D arcade game called ‘Super Mini Halo’, created by Jpdeathblade at DcEmu. The forum thread contains a shot showing off the sprite art, and a short video showing the first level’s gameplay. 1.3 mb download, available for 1.5 and 2.71. I can’t tell you what it really plays…

The Tied the Leader Gunslingers celebrated their 1-year anniversary yesterday – thanks to both Quikthnkr, who invited people to say hi in their forums, and XerxdeeJ, who challenges the world to a duel in a blog post – beat the Gunslingers, win a buck. (Read for details.) Congrats, guys – you’ve had a great first…

Playoffs in New York are underway – the 1v1 Championship concluded yesterday, with Karma coming out on top (and winning the $5000 first-prize purse). Thanks to 3Suns, who pointed out the MLG article. There’s also a writeup on GotFrag, for people looking for every perspective. The 4v4 competitions take place today.(Louis Wu 13:38:01 UTC)

Will “Dracc” Curry pointed us to his blog, ‘ModIt’, which discusses (surprise, surprise) modding. Not just Xbox/Halo modding – but it certainly touches on that. In fact, his latest entry tries to draw a distinction between modders and cheaters on XBL, with respect to Halo. If you’re interested in the idea of modifying your hardware…

Amped eSports has interviews with a couple of MGL Pro gamers you don’t hear from very often – elamitewarrior, and MimiC. Check ’em out as the league gears up for the New York playoffs!(Louis Wu 12:54:09 UTC)

Luke McKay is on a Halo sketch kick – another image showed up in his RvB journal last night, and we’ve added it to his gallery here at HBO. Nice action!(Louis Wu 12:10:31 UTC)

Wow, very cool. We’ve received quite a bit of mail over the past 3 years from people who’ve lost their Halo PC CD Key (because they lost the case it was attached to) – and wanting to know if we knew how to extract that CD Key from their registry. Up until now, we’ve had…

GameBattles has concrete dates for the broadcast of MLG content on USA Networks starting in November – check it out, and mark the dates on your calendar!(Louis Wu 11:55:19 UTC)

Eric Nylund talked to Gamespot yesterday, as well (not wanting to make them feel left out after the IGN interview, I guess) – again, he does a pretty good job of filling the interview without actually saying much about unannounced material… but it’s an interesting read nonetheless. Looks like Maxmidget was first.(Louis Wu 11:44:03 UTC)

Today’s weekly update is full of useful answers, as asked by fans of our site in this thread. A very strong warning to modders and cheating in general. Nice tidbits on the latest news. Thanks to wortwortwort for the reminder.(Cybrfrk 20:44:52 UTC)

Wow. Rooster Teeth has released Episode 80 of Red vs Blue, ‘Baby Steps’, WAY early (by their normal timeframe) – sponsors can grab a copy right now. They seem to have fixed the Video Archive issue, as well… thanks, KP.(Louis Wu 20:03:37 UTC)

Wow, nice. GryphonOsiris found a pretty cool Halo Master Chief statue (well, it’s wall-mounted, so I’m not sure what you’d call it) on eBay – check it out! Do it quickly, though – only 4 hours left. (Current bid is just over $150, and reserve isn’t met yet.)(Louis Wu 18:13:20 UTC)

Paul Maestri points out that Halo Heads 17 is online – I’m starting to worry about the intelligence of that GoO spartan…(Louis Wu 18:01:38 UTC)

If you scroll down to the bottom of Trevor Chesler’s Mjolnir Armor page, you’ll find a few new pics of his helmet; he’s nearly finished with it. Lookin’ good!(Louis Wu 16:57:35 UTC)

Stuntmutt wrote today’s One One Se7en when it was unclear whether the Gears of War XBL Party Furor would apply to Halo 3 or not. (It seems that it won’t.) Still pretty funny, though.(Louis Wu 16:32:11 UTC)

Thanks to XerxdeeJ, who pointed out new content at Tied the Leader – there’s a Reader’s Poll asking if cheating is dropping at all on XBL (TTL would suggest it is), and a 22 Questions interview with Cayote, of the Cayote Cavegirls. Check it out!(Louis Wu 16:20:14 UTC)

Captain Spark turned in another bunch of dialogue snippets – you can grab them off his website, or you can browse them in our Dialogue Databank. Some really nice Stacker quotes in there!(Louis Wu 16:12:24 UTC)