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trigger119 wrote an article entitled ‘Halo Machinima: Why do it?’ – he looks at some of the motivations that drive filmmakers. As a jumping-off place for a discussion, this is worth a read.(Louis Wu 21:09:11 UTC)

Jayshum transcribed the piano part of the Halo 3 theme, heard in the trailer. You can find a lot of info in this forum post.(Louis Wu 21:05:10 UTC)

The Halowiki.net crew played Bungie last night in this week’s Halo Humpday Challenge – and no matter what you thought of last week’s somewhat sleazy manner of ‘not losing’, there’s no denying that this week the Bungie crew lost. Lost hard, even. Go read LegendaryMark’s writeup at HaloWiki.net – KP’s still nursing his wounds, it…

Finn awoke from his real-life ‘slumber’ to gather some gems from older Weekly Updates; they’re not NEW bits, but they’re bits nonetheless. You’ll find this collection on the Halo Story Page. Now don’t bother Finn any more – he’s got work to do. (And not for us.)(Louis Wu 15:02:32 UTC)

Farfalo stopped by to let us know about Halo: First Offensive, a mod for Star Wars: Empire at War. They’ve got a forum up (link is in the above post), if you want more info!(Louis Wu 13:31:51 UTC)

Yayap the Grunt let us know about a Halo 3 pendant he’d created; check out his work! (Louis Wu 13:29:17 UTC)

New updates over at Tied the Leader; a piece on good sportsmanship, and a fun feel-good bit about Big Team Battle, and how nice it is to go in with a full team of 8. (If you find XerxdeeJ’s stats in the included picture hard to believe… believe anyway. They’re real.) Thanks to XerxdeeJ for…

MLG continues to look at the top teams in the ramp-up to MLG Chicago; the latest interview is with Triggers Down. Fun read – thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 13:03:49 UTC)

Gamepro has written up their idea of The 55 Greatest Moments in Gaming; Halo 2 takes 36, for a Berserker in multiplayer, and Halo pulls in #2, for the Maw run. Not too shabby! Thanks, Private Idaho.(Louis Wu 12:56:32 UTC)

MLG has posted a summary of the predictions of one of the pros for the upcoming MLG Chicago tourney – interesting to see how well he does. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 17:42:26 UTC)

Heh – spartanerik noticed a Halo-related construction over at HowStuffWorks, in an article entitled ‘How Play-Doh® Modeling Compound Works’; on the off chance that the pic disappears, we’ve archived it here. Good stuff!(Louis Wu 15:32:44 UTC)

For the most part, movies we host run through the Movie Peer Review Rating System; it gives useful feedback to the movie maker, and it cuts down on the films the staff actually needs to weed through to find the gems. It works really well – though since it’s totally volunteer-run, occasionally, movies are in…

Fans in our forum are pointing out that the Halo Graphic Novel is showing up in stores – so today’s One One Se7en riffs on Brian Jarrard’s Newsarama interview from last week to take another shot at… well, One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 11:48:43 UTC)

Mute Radio, a new venture that has evolved out of MLG PwnCast, opens its doors – it sounds like their focus is shifting from Halo to everything that gamers are interested in (which means that while they’ll be appealing to a larger audience overall, we’ll be covering them less) – but for now, their first…

MLG’s got an interview with XiT Woundz, one of the top-rated pro teams preparing to compete at MLG Chicago this weekend. Sounds like these guys are ready for the fight! Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 11:28:47 UTC)

Riccardo Lee Davies sent us word of a UK Halo 2 LAN tourney coming up in August in Birmingham, West Midlands – it’s being run by TriStarGames Ltd., and details can be found on their website. £15/pp to get in, lots of goodies to win (top prize for the 2v2 tourney is a pair of…

augie doggy put together a paper mache rocket launcher – check out a pic (and a link to a thread over at High Impact Halo, with more pics) in this forum post. Nice work!(Louis Wu 21:41:08 UTC)

Andre Vrignaud is a member of the Xbox Platform Strategy group, and used to be the Drector of Technical Strategy for Xbox Live. His latest blog post contains a Penny Arcade strip that the PA guys created for the XBL team when Xenon (the project that eventually became the Xbox 360) was approved for go-ahead.…

Mintz writes to point out that Halo: Portable has quite a bit of new content for you; a few classic Mike Miller vids (Legend | Winning isn’t everything | In Too Deep), along with a portable version of Whammy Kablammy, and a new episode of their podcast. Get to downloading!(Louis Wu 12:11:02 UTC)

Over at Bungie.net, there’s a news bit that takes straighter-than-usual aim at a rumor currently circulating – normally, Bungie ignores rumors, but when they get bad enough, they feel like they have to step in. Folks are spreading the word that a ‘stealth auto update’ has occurred on Xbox Live – that a tree with…