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Great interview with Carbon, discussing their win over Final Boss in Orlando, up over at MLGPro.com. They’re a little cocky… but hey, they just came off a tremendous win, they can be forgiven. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 21:21:02 UTC)

Holy Art Overload, Batman! The Wallpaper section has been updated with 49 new entries (and, if you count variants, over 60 new images) – some have been posted on our forum, but others are brand-spankin-new, and many are GORGEOUS. Go look ’em over – you’ve got your choice of image sizes ranging from 800×600 up…

As you can probably guess from the title, Stuntmutt has taken a long, hard look (you might even call it stone-cold) at the title of the newest Halo novel. See what he came up with in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 16:04:21 UTC)

The Famous Maroon Band of Mississippi State University played a bunch of video game music for the MSU/SC halftime show on August 31 – and somebody YouTubed it. The whole clip is 7 minutes long, but the Halo bit is over in the first minute. (Nice formation, as well!) Thanks to Alt, in irc.bungie.org’s #hbo,…

Spider-Man originally submitted this song to Podtacular, but as far as I can tell, they never released it. It’s a song called ‘Snow ((Halo))’ – a parody to the tune of Snow ((Hey Oh)) by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Quality isn’t great – but it’s pretty funny! 3.8 mb, mp3 format.(Louis Wu 15:50:24 UTC)

Heh – fun. Brannon Boren, who, as a consultant with Microsoft, helped oversee the integration of the Halo story into various products, noticed that the Wikipedia entry for Bungie Studios suggests that the Halo Bible is not a real item, but rather a metaphor for the large collection of info about the Haloverse. Due to…

Heh – GFC Danny was reading Nintendo Power magazine, and in the email section, someone had asked the mag staff what Master Chief would look like with his helmet off. Their answer was funny.(Louis Wu 14:37:40 UTC)

The Series 8 Halo action figures have been available from various retail outlets for a couple of months now, but if you want to support Bungie’s plans of world domination, you can buy two of them (a Spartan with a popcorn Flood and a minor Jackal) at the Bungie Store, as of yesterday. Thanks to…

Before you leave High Impact Halo, swing by this news post – it describes a trick that’s been waiting to be completed for years… that the HIH community finally pinned down. Uzny was the guy who finally made it happen – but it was a community effort, through and through. The video’s pretty fun -…

Over at High Impact Halo, Ducain pointed out a new tribute vid created to pay homage to the Halo Speedrunners, that group of fans that does their best to make it from the start to the end of a level in as little time as possible. It’s long (17 minutes) – but a pretty impressive…

A month ago, Next Generation ranked the top 100 Games of the 21st century, based on sales volume – and the Halo franchise came in second. last week, they did the same for PC Games – and Halo PC came in 20th. Not too shabby! Thanks, Phan7om.(Louis Wu 22:06:36 UTC)

Helveck painted a great Master Chief bust on his garage wall… what a wonderful way to spice up your garage!(Louis Wu 22:02:35 UTC)

QuickTactical has whipped up a basic guide to using Audacity, a cross-platform audio program that lets users record their voice – useful for machinima makers who don’t want to record dialogue over XBL. He posted it on Halogrid.com – and we’ve put up a local mirror for posterity. Give it a read!(Louis Wu 10:41:40 UTC)

TheGarbageMan has released another bunch of piano variations – some really nice work! Grab the downloads from his forum post, in either .wma or .mp3 format. (Louis Wu 10:37:36 UTC)

DropShock Episode 22 has been posted – bit over an hour. There’s Halo content, this time out. (As always, this one is not even remotely G-rated.)(Louis Wu 10:24:36 UTC)

Sep7imus noticed that there’s a bunch of Halo stuff with clearance prices over at Hot Topic – including the Mister Chief t-shirt, which went on sale for the very first time less than 4 months ago. That’s like straight-to-video DVDs… poor Frankie.(Louis Wu 12:55:06 UTC)

Stuntmutt uses up all his accumulated goodwill at Bungie with a single One One Se7en. Way to go!(Louis Wu 12:21:57 UTC)

Chris Simpkins sent us a link to a Halo-inspired trance song he’d created called ‘808 Guilty Spark’. 8.2 mb in MP3 format… starts slow, speeds up!(Louis Wu 10:52:57 UTC)

Masta Chef noticed a couple of new Halo action figures available for preorder at DieCastExpress.com – a Blue Spartan with a flag (and a large stationary gun), and the Halo 2 Weapons Battle Pack – lots of extras for your existing figures. (You can also grab the Red Spartan with white striping and a Covenant…

Sigafoos let us know that WikiRiot 14 (34 mins, 13.7 mb) is now available. Master Chief fights… Batman?(Louis Wu 17:02:13 UTC)