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The MPRRS went into something of a hibernation over the weekend… but a little kick-start this morning got reviewers reviewing again, and a movie stuck in the queue for 5 days was spit out this afternoon, with pretty high marks. It’s ‘The Spartan Effect: Episode 2’, from Rookie Rabbit Productions, and it continues the story…

3Suns ran across an article at Wired about ‘the Mythical 40-Hour Gamer’, which points out one of the larger difficulties facing developers these days; with more and more older gamers out there, finding ways that make games playable and enjoyable for folks who fit their gaming in between ‘real-life’ activities while KEEPING it enjoyable for…

Ace Heart noticed a writeup of a local Halo tourney in the Montgomery (AL) Advertiser – puts a smile on my face that a 10-year-old girl came in fourth in her semifinal round.(Louis Wu 12:20:19 UTC)

Kotaku hunted down Hanah Stuart, violinist extraordinaire, who made waves a couple of weeks ago as part of a very cool high school Halo music exhibition. It’s a monster interview; it kept coming back to discussion about the music, but it did quite a bit of moving around. Pretty funny stuff – and I’m already…

KP’s been looking for stuff to do – he updated two somewhat neglected sections of Bungie.net, the Gallery (with a cool ninja-kick screenshot) and the Voting Booth (where you can weigh in on the Bungie Podcast). I’m saddened by early returns in the poll…(Louis Wu 19:07:40 UTC)

Stuntmutt takes a novel look at the Ghosts of Onyx cover in today’s One One Se7en. There’s something for everyone!(Louis Wu 17:21:23 UTC)

j41m3z got a bunch of stuff signed at Thursday night’s Hollywood Bowl VGL show – he scanned a bunch of it for the forum. Lucky!(Louis Wu 13:50:42 UTC)

Jillybean took some time out from her busy videogame-playing schedule (mostly because she can’t play the games she likes with the video card she has) to process some of the recent story-related content floating around out there (including a pretty intriguing observation from Wado just last night). Check out the Halo Story Page for all…

Major Silva, of UNSCDF, snagged me for a few questions recently. I hate pointing out interviews of myself – makes me look like I’m tooting my own horn. So don’t read it! Yeah, that’s the ticket! Don’t follow the link, skip it. Don’t go there.(Louis Wu 12:56:49 UTC)

Tempus Fugit noticed an entry for an audio version of Ghosts of Onyx… real, or Amazon’s mistake? (And if it’s real, who’s reading it?) Nice.(Louis Wu 21:34:34 UTC)

Wonga. Someone synched the song ‘Circle of Life’, from the Lion King, to the video from the Halo 3 trailer. The amazing part… it works! Go watch at YouTube. Thanks, Retsof-Noraa, for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 21:33:04 UTC)

Sigafoos writes to let us know that WikiRiot 17 is now online. 44 minutes, 17.5 mb, covering wiki updates, Bungie’s first official full-length podcast, and ‘The Game’, which you have to listen to to figure out. Go listen.(Louis Wu 18:46:31 UTC)

BOLL found a series of vids called ‘Console Wars’ – they’re remakes (hehe, sort of) of Star Wars films, with video game characters sort of grafted on. The Master Chief has a pretty big part. They’re pretty funny.(Louis Wu 13:10:42 UTC)

Rockslider describes playing ‘Shark’ in Assault on the Control Room – sounds like a fun game variant!(Louis Wu 13:06:26 UTC)

Brannon Boren’s blog entry about ‘Creating A.I. for Halo’ is now live; it’s an interesting look at how backstory was developed to explain specific, visible parts of the early game. (This backstory was then used, and further developed, in books, leading to a pretty rich history.) (Louis Wu 13:05:16 UTC)

In the nick of time; one more huge batch of Miscellaneous Art has been added to the collection. There’s stuff in here that had gotten lost in the depths of our queue for months; apologies to the artists involved! We should be ALMOST caught up (there are still a bunch of recent pics in the…

Wow, cool. BOLL found a site called ‘TheDailyDrawing.com’ that has videos showing someone (‘J.W.’?) drawing stuff – and today’s artwork is the Master Chief. The video is 4:21 long, and was filmed at 2.5x speed, so this pic took about 11 minutes to complete. Pretty fun to watch! (If you’re reading this news post at…

Break Point Halo has interviewed Dan Preuss, the co-creator of Treeskunk Productions (a machinima group that created Outpost: Coagulation’ and ‘Outpost: Backwash’, among other projects. Nice to hear they’re gearing up again! Thanks, haphazardly.(Louis Wu 18:45:00 UTC)

Over at Rampancy.net, Narcogen noticed a tasty tidbit in the weblog of Brannon Boren, who was once heavily involved in the maintenance of the Halo Bible – he’s going to be discussing some of his professional experience – and he’s starting, tomorrow, with ‘Creating A.I. for Halo’. Sounds great! (Louis Wu 12:51:18 UTC)

j41m3z noticed that fan-filmed videos from the VGL Hollywood Bowl shows are showing up on YouTube… including one of the Halo 3 Premiere played there. Love the guitar licks! Update: just a quick note; Halo fans should be tickled by the fact that the Cortana part was being performed live at the show by Jen…