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If scary pictures give you nightmares, don’t visit Bungie.net for KP’s interview of Stuntmutt – that opening mugshot will haunt your dreams. If you can get past it, though, the rest of the interview’s a pretty funny read. The final strip is badly referenced (at least right now) – you can see the large version…

Wow – if you weren’t excited about the upcoming release of the Halo Graphic Novel, swing by IGN and read Hilary Goldstein’s review; it should pump you up. Great summaries without spoilers, nice commentary on where this piece of work fits into the Halo universe. Thanks, AfroRyan.(Louis Wu 20:16:32 UTC)

I have to go lie down – today’s One One Se7en has given me pun-overload.(Louis Wu 16:55:13 UTC)

Heh – we got an email from ODST Major General Fannin, who, along with his buddies, engaged the enemy in some paintball combat in Acramandale, NY. They (the 712th UNSC Marine Division) beat the 567th UNSC Marine Division in three rounds, over 7 hours – kill-to-death ratio was 19-7, and a couple of pics came…

Northeast noticed a vid on YouTube that reproduces the Sin City trailer in the Halo engine. (It’s different from the one we hosted here.) Go watch – pretty good work!(Louis Wu 11:19:09 UTC)

Just a quick reminder: Submission period for the 7 on the 7th contest ends in about 4 and half hours (9 pm PST, midnight EST, 4 am UTC). If you’re gonna enter, now’s the time! (Louis Wu 23:33:11 UTC)

Midnight In Iraq, a weblog written by a Halo diehard currently serving in Iraq, has a great piece on a Halo tournament at Camp Fallujah, in Iraq. (Midnight won.) Fun read. Thanks, THX Slayer.(Louis Wu 23:31:18 UTC)

megadude139 found another video of a high school group playing Halo music – this was Klein Oak High School, in Spring, Texas, with the orchestra ensemble playing Halo and Halo music for a variety show in 2005. Pretty nice work! (YouTube, the vid itself is about 13 mb.)(Louis Wu 15:41:19 UTC)

Shrek writes to let us know about Halo Videos – a new Halo video site containing a pretty impressive collection of montages, gameplay, and humor vids. This is a great source of Halo 1 gameplay vids from back in the day!(Louis Wu 15:24:32 UTC)

WikiRiot, the podcast from the Halo2Wiki crowd, has its own website now – and episode 007. More room for show notes, and more. Go listen – 23 minutes, 9 mb.(Louis Wu 11:55:33 UTC)

We have yet another Game Developers Conference talk for you today – this time, it’s Chris Butcher and Bart House, in 2005, talking about ‘recreating the LAN party Online’. Fascinating, with tons of info about how Matchmaking works, along with lots of technical details about Halo 2 networking. Slides and audio are available.(Louis Wu 11:47:44…

Bry posted a number of images to our forum – a nicely customized X-Plane jet. Can you just see Frankie in the doorway of that thing?(Louis Wu 11:37:31 UTC)

Never say Pinkuh doesn’t respond to her fans. Her last image, showing the Master Chief without a helmet, spawned a surprisingly long forum thread, many people loving her interpretation, but others feeling that the Chief should never look this happy. (What a depressing view!) For the latter crowd, Pinkuh sketched a revised Chief – this…

The Se7enth Prophet decided to copy c0ld vengeance and create a series of Hide and Seek pics – these are on Outskirts, as well (because his disk is scratched) and the pics are photographed off the screen (which makes them a little hard to interpret) – but as of now, they’re not all solved, so…

Frankie’s in an up phase, I guess – tonight’s Weekly Update takes potshots at Marty (what else is new?), discusses Comic-Con, coming up next week, looks back at FPS’s in history, and provides a Mister Chief I never really needed to see. You can read it on Bungie.net, or you can read it in our…

Couple of new films to watch over at Halo3Forum.com – thanks, Z. There’s DaY?& EXP10S1ON’s DualTage – a mix of two players, a mix of Halo and Halo 2. And there’s a trailer for HANXU’s upcoming montage – some really long-range sticks. WMP9 format for both (135 and 17 mb, respectively). Go watch.(Louis Wu 19:58:33…

Captain Spark his dialogue snippet queue – there are 27 new Brute bits in the Dialogue Databank. As always, you can grab the lot from his website, if you don’t want to browse.(Louis Wu 17:21:58 UTC)

Knuxchao created a Halo Buddy Kit – a collection of sprite parts you can put together to create your own images. Link’s at the bottom of his forum post – pretty nice work!(Louis Wu 17:21:35 UTC)

In anticipation of more entertaining ‘Whaaaaamulance’ stories in tonight’s Weekly Update, Stuntmutt has put together a short guide to proper formatting of your ban protest. Go read today’s One One Se7en… and then write up those emails for Bungie!(Louis Wu 14:51:51 UTC)

So the deadline for the latest 7 on the 7th contest is coming up in a couple of days… and we don’t have any submissions yet! If folks have been waiting until this weekend to create their lawn-based masterpieces, cool – but if you’ve forgotten, now’s the time to think about it! C’mon… lots of…