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Down at Comic-Con last week, SvF’s Laird snagged a poster that represents the monthly Halo comic coming out next year – along with some signatures (front | back). Nice!(Louis Wu 19:48:52 UTC)

Whoa – WOLFBANE 101’s 3-year-old son ended up with a pretty cool birthday cake this year! (Louis Wu 19:14:56 UTC)

Wow, not too shabby! Podtacular has been nominated for two categories in the second annual Podcast Awards – Best Produced and Gaming. Go vote for ’em! (Thanks, Laird.)(Louis Wu 18:49:51 UTC)

Whoa. TheGhost has created a new tool to ‘bridge the gap between 3ds max and Halo’ – basically, it’s a series of scripts that allows for easy (REALLY easy) imports and exports of Halo models and animations. Project BlueStreak has a site page up – the first released script is the GBXModel Importer. In TheGhost’s…

QsK King submitted a duo montage – footage of himself and QsK Icy, edited to within an inch of its life. The MPRRS reviewers liked it – so we’re hosting copies for you. It’s long – more than 8 minutes – so it weighs in at 111 mb (WMP9 or QuickTime). There’s a pretty cool…

Stuntmutt takes a look at a common XBL-related phobia in today’s One One Se7en. If you were scared you were going to go a whole Monday without your corn fix, thank Coolpengwn. (If you’re saddened that you ALMOST made it to Tuesday without this, blame Coolpengwn.)(Louis Wu 21:56:59 UTC)

And another Halo 2 egg bites the dust. There’s been a pretty wild hunt for the last few days over at High Impact Halo; Ducain has summarized the process, and the findings, in this forum thread. it’s pretty obvious that this is a real easter egg – but it’s always good to confirm these things…

MTV has an article today about how secrecy is both a necessity and a publicity tool for video game manufacturers – and Frank O’Connor, of Bungie Studios, is their prime evidence. Great read. Frankie, of course, broke the story.(Louis Wu 17:20:42 UTC)

Interesting – Dry Ice posted a note on our forum with a subject line guaranteed to rile the masses (I almost got annoyed when I saw it) – but the content is pretty solid stuff! Eric Nylund’s latest blog post talks about ways to get yourself writing again – and one of the anecdotes he…

I didn’t clear out the queue, but there are 20 new desktop images in the Wallpaper section (27, if you count variants) – we’ll get there! Check ’em out.(Louis Wu 12:52:19 UTC)

Nexus Beat sent us word of a 2v2 tourney being run by a forum member of MediaGamers.com – swing by this thread to read the rules. No prize yet – but they’re working on it.(Louis Wu 11:54:47 UTC)

XerxdeeJ takes a hard look at clans, and what they mean for online play, in the lastest Tied the Leader discussion. Always nice when we get a heads-up in our forum!(Louis Wu 11:33:29 UTC)

Narcogen has taken the latest Halo Story Page update as a jumping-off place for speculation – some good thoughts about the Halo 3 trailer in there! Give it a read.(Louis Wu 11:18:23 UTC)

It’s all over but the writeups – MLG Chicago finished up yesterday, with Final Boss beating out Storm Ventures (twice) for the 4v4 win, and Karma holding on to his 1v1 winning streak. Full brackets are here. The full writeup of the 4v4 finals should be interesting – we’ll let you know when it’s up!…

MaritalBlaze54 submitted another comedy vid to the MPRRS; shorts from Mitch Hedburg and Dane Cook, set to Halo action. The reviewers gave it a thumbs-up, so grab a copy in either WMP9 format (28.3 mb) or QuickTime format (30.8 mb). Don’t forget your cranium accessories!(Louis Wu 18:52:40 UTC)

Jillybean, poked by our very own Stuntmutt, posted an update to the Halo Story page – she gave Stuntmutt his moment in the sun (yeah, he needs more of those), but also gathered up a few choice morsels from the banquet table that is the Halo Story mailbag (including, of course, a random shot at…

Advanced Media Network has a recap of the Championship Gaming Invitational – pics, plus interviews with folks like PMS Clan’s Mary Jane. Check it out!(Louis Wu 14:40:11 UTC)

Ivan Jiron sent us word of the Halo 3 Data Archive, a Halo blog that normally looks at the Bungie Weekly Update, but this week chose to cover the Halo Graphic Novel instead (including speculation about tie-ins to Halo 3). Give it a read! (Again – this one contains HGN spoilers.)(Louis Wu 14:34:31 UTC)

If you’ve read the Halo Graphic Novel, there are a bunch of fun tidbits in this forum post, courtesy of Mr. Paul; he spent some time grilling Robt McLees. (If you haven’t read it yet… wait.)(Louis Wu 14:29:37 UTC)

QuickTactical wrote up a pretty comprehensive guide for using Windows Movie Maker – if you’re just getting started in Halo machinima, and you have a PC, you DEFINITELY should read this piece. He originally posted it on the HaloGrid forums – but gave us permission to host it here, as well. Awesome stuff – a…