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TheMaker420 put together a tribute film entitled ‘Machinima: Over The Years’, looking at some of the better vids out there. The MPRRS reviewers liked it, for the most part… so we’re hosting it. It’s 50 mb, and comes in WMP9 or QuickTime formats. Grab one!(Louis Wu 01:52:52 UTC)

Paul Maestri, having no idea that the Halo news scene would get flooded by goodies coming out of Barcelona, sent us a link yesterday for Halo Heads 11, which continued the running gerbil gag. (Made me laugh out loud.) As soon as he saw the treasure from Spain, however, he whipped up a topical strip,…

Just a reminder – if you’ve been away from the Halo scene for a day or two, you REALLY want to check Wednesday’s news; there were quite a lot of tidbits worth reading.(Louis Wu 01:13:42 UTC)

Thanks to Oliver “HO Legend” Stopienski, who pointed out an interview with Dispraiser, of the Halogen team, at his website, HaloOrbit. An interesting read, and an interesting choice of release times… (Louis Wu 01:10:22 UTC)

There have been a number of requests for a QuickTime version of the Halo Wars trailer; I doubt there’ll be one coming from Ensemble, so I whipped one up myself. It’s not the full 720p version – but it’s still bigger than the low-res 360p they’ve made available – it’s 480p (852×480), and it weighs…

In all the rush to cover Halo Wars and the Wingnuts stuff, we totally forgot that Bungie was going to be talking about Halo 2 for Vista in Barcelona today; if you swing by the Xbox Press section, you can grab a 50 mb zipfile containing a fact sheet, some logos, and 12 hi-res BMP…

Dolbex, in true Dolbex fashion, has put his own spin on the X06 news; things that make him happy, things that make him worried. My favorite kind of Halo/Bungie fan is one that loves Halo (and/or Bungie) without being blind to potential problems; Dolbex shows he fits this nicely. Go read!(Louis Wu 21:11:56 UTC)

Narcogen, at Rampancy.net, gathered up a bunch of links to stories about today’s Halo news. You can also check out ICDedPpl’s mention of this CNN Money article. I’m sure there’ll be plenty more – but it’s time to leave the keyboard for a bit…(Louis Wu 20:08:56 UTC)

Xbox.com article on the Peter Jackson venture… still hard to tell what he’s planning.(Louis Wu 19:44:55 UTC)

More Halo Wars info here, at Xbox.com – keep searching!(Louis Wu 18:24:17 UTC)

Wow. Tons more info on Halo Wars and the new Peter Jackson project is now available at Bungie.net – go read! (There was an amazing trailer shown at the end of the X06 press conference, of Halo Wars – this should almost certainly be available for download soon, from Halowars.com.) Update: It’s up now -…

I was wrong – there’s MORE Halo news from Barcelona today, Halo Wars isn’t the end. Peter Jackson and Microsoft are teaming up to create Wingnut Interactive (no real website yet) – a new studio that will create “a completely new and original chapter in the Halo universe”, according to this 1Up story. No details…

The really, really big news today from Microsoft is the announcement of ‘Halo Wars’, from Ensemble Studios (the guys behind Age of Empires, and other similar games) – a Halo Real-Time Strategy game! It hasn’t been announced on the live feed yet – but Luke Smith has announced it on 1Up. Stay tuned for more…

X06 coverage is going live very soon – the Xbox.com feed seems to be busted for most viewers, but keep trying. In the meantime, Luke Smith, from 1Up.com, is going to be liveblogging (thanks, Morangie), so if you can’t SEE what’s up, at least you can read about it. We’re not positive what’s coming from…

Sometimes, Stuntmutt is scary in his ability to mimic real people. Like in today’s One One Se7en. I mean… this could have come right out of a forum thread! (Maybe it did…)(Louis Wu 16:30:31 UTC)

Trevor Chesler has embarked on the creation process for a suit of Mjolnir armor – he’s shooting for a very high quality finished product. He’s just starting out right now, but you can see his gameplan, and the first few photos, on this page. As we get more from him, we’ll add them (and let…

Wow – Wolverine Monkey dropped in with word of a really cool Halo case mod he noticed. (Here’s hoping we don’t kill their bandwidth…) The original can be found at Team Xtender.(Louis Wu 12:24:55 UTC)

TNL Alex stopped by our forum to announce a tourney in Brooklyn coming up on October 7 – FFA and 2v2. Rules, prizes, and directions can all be found in his forum post.(Louis Wu 12:22:35 UTC)

Over at Bungie.net, KP has written up a great guide to Halo 2 players online (and a quiz, to help show you which type you’re most like). What I want to know is… how did it know what kind of underoos I’m wearing?(Louis Wu 23:07:35 UTC)

agdTinMan stopped by our forum with the story behind Don Wan’s Spartan Tattoo (mentioned, and pictured, in last week’s Bungie Weekly Update) – great read! (If you follow the Flickr link he provides, there are other photos in her stream that may or may not look familiar…)(Louis Wu 19:52:49 UTC)