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Twenty-three new pieces this week in the Fan Fiction section – busy week! Go read.(Louis Wu 12:57:31 UTC)

We usually put up just a couple of copies of movies that pass the MPRRS (a QuickTime version that’s generally compatible with versions 5 and up, and a WMP9 version) – but yesterday, a vid passed that simply didn’t want to re-encode. Lordstemplar1 submitted a trailer for Prophecy, an upcoming machinima project, in H.264-encoded QuickTime…

SteveOll found an interview with Marty O’Donnell on the BBC website; Marty’s in the UK to speak at a game developers’ conference in Brighton. (They caught him on a beach – in a long-sleeved shirt with an undershirt. Way to enjoy the sun, Marty.) There are some great quotes in there – I liked this…

It’s not much – but it’s the most REAL Halo movie news we’ve seen in quite some time. Game Set Watch interviewed DB Weiss, who’s currently in the process of rewriting the Halo script:How far along with the screenplay are you?Just starting in on an entirely new second draft.Lest you think it’s an old interview…

For the second year in a row, Halo 2 was named Game of the Year by the Entertainment Merchants Association (though last year, it was the Video Software Dealers Association that did the award-giving; they merged with the Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association in May to become the EMA). We mentioned the nomination a couple of…

Bungie played another Humpday Challenge last night – this time against the Gunslingers. (These aren’t the Tied the Leader Gunslingers – they’re an MLG clan, it seems. It’s all made more confusing by the fact that the TTL Gunslingers have, as the top story on their website, a piece called ‘MLG: Major League Gunslingers’. I…

A couple of nice articles over at MLGPro.com – ‘On a Power Trip – Next Stop: Chicago’ takes a look at MoBPowerTripBev.com, one of the up-and-coming teams hoping to play as one of the top 8 teams in Chicago… and ‘The Zone 6 Interview: Making A Stand’ has Trunkers sitting down with Zone 6, another…

This Spartan Life has released the final module for Episode 3 – it’s a music video/dance segment which revolves around a Halo 2 easter egg. It’s awesome. (Watch the synchronization of the dance choreography… and then think about what’s involved in getting that just right. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it done this well…

Newsarama has interviewed Brian Jarrard about the Halo Graphic Novel; info about how the project started, where the stories came from, how the artists and writers were signed up. Great questions, solid answers – go read! Several brand-new pieces of artwork, as well. Thanks, drummand.(Louis Wu 17:43:11 UTC)

Covinator and friends put together a ‘Real-life Montage’; Halo in their backyard. (Or maybe a park. Whatever.) Pretty funny stuff; he’s made it available at FileFront (WMP9 format, 20.4 mb). Grab a copy!(Louis Wu 16:58:19 UTC)

Interesting – turns out the ‘Exclusive Figure’ to be released at the San Diego Comic-Con this year is going to be an ODST – in two variants. The second contains what looks like pink Fluff all over him – but the packaging suggests it’s inspired by the Halo Graphic Novel artwork. Either way, there are…

Hmm… The most recent comment from Bungie about any work they’re doing (or not doing) on an Xbox Live arcade title came back in March, in a Bungie Weekly Update. (Well, there was a question about Marathon on XBLA in this update, but Frankie said it’s not happening.) In May, during an interview with IGN,…

A few days ago, a montage submitted by uK x HoBo was passed by the MPRRS – nice timing, nice quality. Advance warning – the first song is pretty rude. R-rated, even. That said – the reviewers said go ahead and release, so we’re releasing. WMP9 version is 69.7 mb, QuickTime version is 74.8 mb.…

Last week, we mentioned an audio release of a talk given by Jaime Griesemer, Marty O’Donnell, and Mat Noguchi at the 2003 Game Developers Conference, entitled ‘Halo: Development Evolved’. Jaime was kind enough to send along the slides he presented at that talk – so now you can get both the audio AND the visuals!(Louis…

Still more original Halo fun with Rockslider – collect your marines and go to town!(Louis Wu 13:10:25 UTC)

Chairleg Productions has created a number of Halo-based machinima projects – most (all?) have met with critical success. They’re funny, they’re well-filmed, they’ve got high production qualities. They’ve got a new series just beginning: MPs. They submitted Episode 1 to the MPRRS last week – and were given a high passing score. They asked us…

Laird stopped by our forum to present a few teaser pics and describe a new project; a 3d animated Halo space battle video. Swing by, take a look!(Louis Wu 12:43:18 UTC)

Over at Tied the Leader, you can read about how the TTL Gunslingers aren’t letting Clan Matches die with the loss of the Clan playlists. Thanks, XerxdeeJ.(Louis Wu 12:39:00 UTC)

Heh – depending on how you look at the numbers, Halo is still the media king – or it’s not. Much hay was made of the fact that Halo 2 made $125 million in its first 24 hours, and that this beat the record for ‘biggest opening weekend box office take’, held at the time…

When we hosted our ‘Going Nowhere Fast’ contest a few years ago, the winning time for the Library speedrun was 20:57 – and that was 5 minutes faster than the second-place finisher. Since then, time has been chipped off that record… but yesterday, a new vid was uploaded to High Speed Halo (WMP9 format, 29.2…