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Walshy wrote up a Top 5 Worst Places to Spawn list for MLGPro.com – worth a read! (Where you spawn can tell you a lot about what your opponents are doing…) Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 02:08:24 UTC)

SpartanHunter69 put together ‘The Virus of Life’, a 9 minute story about zombies taking over the world. There is no dialogue – the movie is pretty creepy without it. The MPRRS reviewers loved the darkness, and the lack of speech. The atmosphere rocks. Grab it in WMP9 format (60.6 mb) or QuickTime format (60.1 mb).(Louis…

c0ld vengeance put up another Halo Hide n’ Seek on the forum – it was solved less than an hour later by Dojorkan (again). Still worth trying on your own – some great pics in there (this time all from Outskirts). Check it out!(Louis Wu 02:02:47 UTC)

Joyride Has put up some pics of the latest ‘exclusive’ action figures; check ’em out. (An invisible Prophet of Regret?) Thanks, littlebigman.(Louis Wu 16:56:09 UTC)

Pixellated found a Halo mention in the current comic from ‘The Evil That Men Do’.(Louis Wu 16:53:22 UTC)

Str8 Rippin went down to XiT Woundz in a three-game matchup at the Intel Summer Championships – GotFrag’s got the play-by-play. Update: Oops, looks like I missed a day. GotFrag’s info was only through the Upper Bracket Finals, the first matchup of these two teams; they met twice more, with Str8 Rippin taking both series,…

zugy’s been working on a program that makes line designs – and his first ‘model’ is Stuntmutt’s One One Se7en character. Check out his blog here.(Louis Wu 16:48:41 UTC)

I’m very, very happy this morning. Why? Because over at Gamefaqs, they’re running a ‘Best.Series.Ever’ contest, with two series pairing off each day, and being voted on by their members – and yesterday, Halo lost its first-round battle, with Castlevania. I was really hoping it would lose (which is why this news post is going…

c0ld vengeance grabbed a really nice 3D shot of the atmospheric processing station hologram visible at the start of the ‘The Perfect Plan in the Perfect Storm’ chapter of the Oracle level – check it out in regular QT or QTVR formats in this forum post. Beautiful timing!(Louis Wu 13:08:43 UTC)

Pinkuh’s been busy – yesterday she posted an adorable celebration of Bungie Day, and this morning she graced us with an anime version of Miranda Keyes; we’ve added both images to her gallery page here (Bungie Day | Anime Keyes). Great work!(Louis Wu 12:22:52 UTC)

I didn’t want to front-page this without permission from MMaster – but a few days ago, when we posted his remake of the All-American Rejects music vid, I took a few minutes and composited MMaster’s version with the original, just to give folks a sense for how closely he tried to match his source material.…

GotFrag has scores up from the first few rounds of the WSVG Intel Summer Championships, as well as seeding for the final round. As they mention, Final Boss didn’t show here, so no matter WHO wins, there’s no way to claim total superiority. More gaming this weekend!(Louis Wu 12:15:14 UTC)

WikiRiot releases Episode 6 – there’s a special interview at the end. 11 mb, half an hour long. Go listen! Thanks, Sigafoos.(Louis Wu 12:04:59 UTC)

It’s not the first time this song has been used in a Halo video (I think our own Cybrfrk gets that credit), but it’s a pretty funny movie in its own right – swing by Halo3Forum.com and grab a copy of Muhna Muhna (77 mb, WMP9 format) – it should make you smile.(Louis Wu 12:00:11…

Late, but hey… it’s Friday. A few hours ago, Frankie posted the Bungie Weekly Update – not a lot to say, except that the Halo Graphic Novel is actually done (w00t!), and a really cool pic from it has been posted. Well, there’s a little more. Go read. (Or read it here, in our Weekly…

Halo CE News Item One: Tallon IV, a map created by the Metroid Online Mapping Team, has been released; you can play as Metroid, complete with built-in arm cannon. Grab it from HaloMaps.org. Halo CE News Item Two: Rob Oplawar has started work on a new Halo CE Campaign level; you can check out the…

Bungie took note of things that didn’t work in Halo, and came up with alternatives in Halo 2. Stuntmutt comments on one such alternative in today’s One One Se7en. Groan protectors – ON!(Louis Wu 13:00:59 UTC)

16 new pieces (stories and poems) up in the Fan Fiction section today; two would have been deleted, but I thought they might help submitters remember that the formatting pseudocode is case-sensitive. Enjoy!(Louis Wu 12:24:59 UTC)

c0ld vengeance has ANOTHER 3d screenshot for you today; this one shows the 7 Halos from the hologram at the end of Great Journey. The standard QT movie lets you spin around them, while the QTVR version gives you a great view from any angle. QuickTime required, and be patient – this one’s a bit…

Just Passing By noticed a small writeup of RvB in the New York Daily News – pretty mainstream stuff!(Louis Wu 04:09:02 UTC)