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A fan calling himself Gravemind has written a massive (45,000 words) look at Halo and Halo 2, with an eye towards making Halo 3 a better game. Anyone interested in looking at the strengths and weaknesses of the first two Halo games, and how they might be optimized going into the third, could probably find…

A couple of days ago, we mentioned a performance piece that had been YouTubed – a bunch of folks in high school, playing self-arranged Halo music to their peers. It was a pretty impressive piece; even Marty O’Donnell weighed in with praise. Well, over the next day or so, a bunch of the people involved…

imSuck submitted another vid to the MPRRS – this one is set to Matchbook Romance’s ‘Monsters’. It does a pretty good job at getting into the idea of subjective evil – good and bad being more an issue of the side you’re on than absolute positions – and it has some great battle scenes. As…

Podtacular Episode 79 was released a week ago – we apologize for the delay in reporting this. Thanks to Laird for letting us know (and we’re sure it’s not JUST because he was the guest-host!). Go listen.(Louis Wu 22:03:33 UTC)

Several months ago, a movie was submitted to the MPRRS – but the submitters stated in the description of their movie that they had a higher-resolution version they wanted to use if the movie passed. It DID pass, and we sent them a note, asking for that higher-res version. After a few days went by,…

If you swing over by LatinoReview.com, you’ll find a review of a spec script for a project called ‘Kashmir’. You might wonder why this is showing up on a Halo website – Kashmir is a drama about some soldiers who go hunting a terrorist. Well… the answer is pretty simple; Kashmir is a project written…

DropShock Episode 23 has been posted – 75 minutes, 35 mb. Discussion of the book cover, and the new armor, discussion of future Bungie stuff, and plenty of the standard features. Check it out.(Louis Wu 19:04:36 UTC)

Paul Maestri writes to point out Halo Heads 5 – he looks at the new character on the Ghosts of Onyx cover. We still don’t know who that guy is… but Paul takes a shot at it.(Louis Wu 18:58:41 UTC)

Today’s One One Se7en looks at the Halogen situation. It’s good to laugh. Next time we’ll use someone other than Stuntmutt.(Louis Wu 16:52:03 UTC)

Captain Spark turned in another 26 dialogue snippets for your perusal – you can grab them at his (newly-overhauled) website, or browse them individually in our Dialogue Databank.(Louis Wu 15:17:41 UTC)

It’s been known for a while that Jackal snippets are created from reversed audio (as Halo 1 Elite snippets were) – but decoding them has been a bit more difficult than the Elites were, because they’re more tweaked. RVideo took a shot at 6 of them – did a great job, too. (His post contains…

Luke McKay whipped up a new piece of art this morning – someone should set this to music. He posted it to his RvB image collection – we’ve added it to his gallery here.(Louis Wu 12:14:19 UTC)

Dustbunny27 stopped by to point out that there’s a bunch of Halo-related stuff over in his DeviantART gallery – a cel shaded look with MS Paint, and lots of pixel art. Check it out!(Louis Wu 12:00:41 UTC)

A bunch of friends put together a pretty cool entry for their high school talent show… great video game music (primarily from Halo). Even Marty liked it! Go watch. Thanks, Eastbeast314.(Louis Wu 21:09:04 UTC)

Sigafoos points out WikiRiot Episode 15 – Gestor, Barbie, and matchmaking – what more could you want? 40 minutes, 16 mb.(Louis Wu 21:08:44 UTC)

Havoc737903 wrote to say he has another batch of Halo action figures for sale on eBay. Six figures, current bid is $5, auction ends in 6 and a half days. Check it out.(Louis Wu 21:07:18 UTC)

The introduction of fantabulous Halo tourneys continues to creep into our living room (I know, slightly redundant!). If you have DirecTV, you can catch a free preview on channel 101 this weekend. Halo 2 is one of 5 different tourney’s being showcased. I wonder if they can pull it off? Color me interested! Noticed at…

MaritalBlaze54 continues his series of music videos – this time out it’s Soul Survivor, by Akon and Young Jeezy, and it tells the story of a pair of drug dealers jumped by an enemy gang. The MPRRS liked it, so we’re hosting it. WMP9 format is 56.4 mb, QuickTime format is 55.6 mb.(Louis Wu 14:42:02…

A couple of days ago, a Halo fan from China posted a bunch of pictures over at High Impact Halo. They don’t normally post news about fan creations – so Amaroq shot us a heads-up, and I contacted the artist. He gave me permission to put these pics up here, in a format that might…

KSP SRT and |X|POOHBEAR|X| put together a dual montage – the MPRRS liked it a lot, and with good reason; solid gameplay and nice timing. Lots of BR action, lots of great grenade placement, plenty of multisnipes. 7 and a half minutes long, just over 100 mb in either WMP9 or QuickTime format – go…