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Random Outburst Productions submitted the extensively-titled ‘OMEGA TEAM Volume: 1 Episode: 1 “A More Perfect Federation”‘ – it’s got an RvB vibe (right down to the censorable language). Pretty funny – the MPRRS said ‘yep’, so we’re offering you a WMP9 version (29.1 mb) or a Quicktime version (30.8 mb)… grab your favorite poison.(Louis Wu…

Xboxyde has posted a Q&A with Phil Spencer (GM of Microsoft Game Studios Publishing) and Dave Luehmann (GM of MGS Internal Developing) about Halo Wars, collected during X06. More than anything posted in the last three days, this makes me a little apprehensive… but read it for yourself. Maybe I’m just overreacting. Thanks to broony…

Dennis Powers stopped by to point out a teaser for Static, a new series from Halo CE Chronicles. Film style of the teaser is reminiscent of the Halo 3 trailer, and hints at a darker storyline than earlier HCEC work. Stay tuned!(Louis Wu 12:38:54 UTC)

Ten new stories today in the Fan Fiction section today. And you’re waiting for…?(Louis Wu 12:29:30 UTC)

Retsof-Noraa put together a small Grunt Flash Toon, hosted over at DeviantART… should bring a smile to your face.(Louis Wu 12:23:49 UTC)

ESKAY RULZ. That is all.(Louis Wu 12:16:12 UTC)

CanMag has written up a first look at Halo Wars, and what it might mean for the Halo franchise. (It echoes a lot of points made multiple times on our forum, but a forum post doesn’t get the same viewing audience, generally, as an article in a big online mag.) Go read.(Louis Wu 12:15:42 UTC)

A REAL Halo Humpday Challenge happened this week after all – offspring of Bungie employees came in and gave Bungie employees a whuppin’. That is – until KP showed up. The first game was a rout – the kids ruled. Games 2 and 3 were a bit different… and the difference wears a red cape,…

Great video interview with Marty O’Donnell over at IGN – Marty talks about sound design, and emotion tweaking. Good stuff! Thanks, darthbob.(Louis Wu 22:55:32 UTC)

Pinkuh calls them doodles (here and here, on the forum, or here, and here, in her gallery). I say pshaw.(Louis Wu 22:45:38 UTC)

The roundtable discussion about storytelling in games this morning at X06 between Peter Jackson, Greg Zeschuk (Bioware) and Peter Molyneux (Lionhead) – moderated by Frankie – has been put online, in its entirety, by TeamXbox, in WMP9 format (almost 200mb). I haven’t had time to watch more than a couple of minutes – but grab…

Hmm… this is pretty bizarre… Team Xbox has Halo Wars on the list of games arriving in time for the holidays this year; I have a little trouble believing that, since that means they pretty much need to have sent it to the duplicators by now… but hey, stranger things have happened. I say, until…

I’m not sure how good an idea this is, but… BARBARIC RAGE stumbled across the portfolio of the Treanor Brothers, a 3D Animation and Cinematics company – apparently, they created a a 10 second web trailer for the launch of the Halo 2 website back in 2004. As far as I know, it was never…

Paul Maestri writes to say that Halo Heads 13, with a visit from One One Se7en, is now posted; this makes much more sense (and is actually quite funny) if you listened to Podtacular 82.(Louis Wu 20:13:35 UTC)

Gah. I grabbed this this morning, but forgot to post it. Microsoft has made the streaming feed from yesterday’s press conference available again, for those that missed it live – but the video is so small, and (in the case of the discussion with Peter Jackson) so irrelevant, I simply cut out the audio portion…

Heh – rapture is amused by how quickly Wikipedia info is compiled – check it out, there’s already a pretty comprehensive page on Halo Wars. (rapture also wanted to point out that the new H2 for Windows screens are browsable at halo2pc.org – though if you happen to be browsing in Safari, the page is…

Haloplayer, of Injured Knee Productions, sent the MPRRS ‘The Life Obstacles of Special Ted, Episode 4’, a video depicting the troubles Ted has in the fast food and automotive sales industries. Poor Ted. Funny stuff – grab a copy in WMP9 format (34.4 mb) or QuickTime format (34.2 mb).(Louis Wu 14:16:59 UTC)

Sneaking in under the radar, SketchFactor posted a Humpday Challenge writeup yesterday, missed (by our readers, anyway) until this morning, when hnc wondered about it. It’s not Halo, this time around – they played Shadowrun and Gears of War – but the end result (Bungie gets battered) was pretty much the same. Well, that’s not…

Foo Mo Jive points out new content at Podtacular.com. Episode 82 has been posted, with guest host Stuntmutt, who is so self-effacing that the Podtacular boys have started a ‘save Stuntmutt’ fund. (It also covers stuff like the Bungie Podcast, Halo news, a glitch roundup, and more. This was all recorded on Sunday, which means…

One of the biggest discussion topics flooding our forum at the moment (and flooding is the right word; we’ve jumped from an average of about 200 posts/day to about 800 in the last 24 hours) is the idea that Halo content is now being created outside of Bungie’s direct control. This may or may not…