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Happy New Year, from the Halo Story Page crew! Jillybean has rooted through the mailbag, and come up with a bunch of Halo-Marathon connection theories (and some other stuff). Go read!(Louis Wu 17:15:40 UTC)

Over at the Halo 3 Data Archive, there’s an article about the shield bubble from Halo 3 (visible in the Halo 3 Commercial), and how it might be implemented, and controlled, in-game. There are a lot of assumptions (and frankly, some circular reasoning), but the fact is, Bungie hasn’t given us much to go on…

Back in early December, Jamie98s released Space Dementia, a movie about a guy on a space station who wasn’t in full control of his faculties. It was actually a very well-done vid, but Jamie wasn’t happy with it; he didn’t like the ‘Chapters’ that broke up the action. So he remade and re-released it. You…

A bit over a week ago, we posted some pictures of some paper Spartans created by Nomi for her friends in the Halo community. Nomi can’t make spartans for everyone – but she CAN show you how to make your own… and, in fact, has done that, with a tutorial and a template you can…

Veegie (who’s got a gallery here) dropped in to point out a collaborative work he put together with HawaiianPig (whose wallpapers brighten our Wallpaper collection, who’s done quite a bit of Red vs Blue scenework, and who’s won at least one HBO art contest) – the final product is a pretty amazing night scene. (Read…

Prometheus dropped by our forum to point out a sizeable update at The Halouvre – 65 new images, from 3 artists. He also pulled out a few highlights – to his list, I’d add this one; nice pose. (Louis Wu 13:54:40 UTC)

Ross Mills has been playing the recently-released World of Warcraft expansion, ‘The Burning Crusade’. He noticed some similarities between one of the new character types there… and some old friends of ours.(Louis Wu 13:48:47 UTC)

Mister Froggy pointed out that Halo, Articulated #6 is now online – Julie Benz talked to reporters about the Miranda Keyes character last summer, and the Master Chief has now gotten a chance to toss in his two cents.(Louis Wu 13:46:13 UTC)

The Bungie Weekly Update went live tonight, as it usually does on Friday evenings – and if you’re looking for things to drool over, give this one a read. Sounds like Campaign is coming along nicely, and that the stuff they have planned for dialogue… well, I should be wearing a bib. If, for any…

Spec ops Grunt found what might be the funniest Halo fanfic ever. Not because of its content – but because of its presentation. (The original is here, actually – thanks, Infinite_7.)(Louis Wu 20:52:07 UTC)

Sometimes, Stuntmutt can go too far with his One One Se7en puns. (Wait… sometimes?)(Louis Wu 14:56:53 UTC)

Hellhawk has released Floaty Silence 2 – no relation to Floaty Silence, or even the Floaty Silence 2 Trailer, but funny nonetheless. His forum post contains a QuickTime encoded with h.264; if you’d rather have a WMP9 version (18.1 mb), or a QuickTime that’s more compatible with less powerful machines (18.9 mb), we’re making these…

360Zine is a free downloadable magazine that covers (surprise, surprise) Xbox 360 news. Issue 2 has a Halo 3 preview. You can grab it (23 mb) from their downloads page. (Some of the features of this secured PDF were a little… buggy for me.)(Louis Wu 13:37:26 UTC)

Twelve new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section today… go read!(Louis Wu 13:08:52 UTC)

MLG has posted a wrapup of their Division I Halo Online Tournament – congrats to FBI GamerGraffix! Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 12:44:17 UTC)

Over at Bungie.net, you’ll find the latest Halo 3 Humpday writeup; a mean group of Bungie employees went into Halo 3 matchmaking against 3 groups of brand-new players… and destroyed them. As KP accurately points out in the writeup, the tables will turn as soon as enough players learn the ins and outs of the…

Edge has posted their January 2007 article on Bungie and Halo 3 online – go give it a read. As is true with most Edge articles, it’s well-written, thought-provoking, and fascinating. Everyone can learn something from this – I learned stuff from this. Where Bungie’s come from, where it might be going – how it’s…

Foxcross noticed three new Halo 3-related items at HotTopic; there’s a beanie, a messenger bag, and a pretty slick Master Chief T. Nice!(Louis Wu 12:26:51 UTC)

Ibeechu sat down to create a Halo machinima piece that parodied ‘sub-par machinima’. He was shooting for ‘so bad it’s good’; I’m not sure he got there, but it’s definitely pretty bad. Cheesy story + cheesy dialogue + cheesy cliches… mmm, the power of cheese. He’s put up a 41 mb WMP9 version, and Funkmon…

Frankie, who’s not very nice, told us about a writeup of the Assault Rifle on Bungie.net. Lots of down-and-dirty details, and scenarios for use. Go read!(Louis Wu 01:18:11 UTC)