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This week’s Halo Humpday Challenge was against the Cayote Cavegirls – if you don’t know who they are, the writeup starts off with an interview of their lader [sic]. The overall result – a tie, no matter how KP tries to spin it; this brings Bungie’s not-losing streak to 3. (Of course, their winning streak…

Over at Bungie.net, there’s a news story about a Wallpaper contest; it’s not specifically geared to Halo, but I’m guessing the majority of the entries will be Halo-related. (Small) cash prizes available for the winners – read the post (and the linked forum thread) for more details.(Louis Wu 03:41:16 UTC)

I don’t normally reiterate stuff that’s written in FAQs around the site, but I’ve been getting an awful lot of mail about this one, so I’m going to make a public statement: we’re really sorry, we don’t have space to announce new Halo websites on our front page. If you just put the finishing touches…

Early this week, MMaster stopped by our forum to post a link to a new video he’d created; it’s an exact remake of ‘Move Along’, a video from the All-American Rejects. (This is different from Clan 0kinawa’s remake of that same video.) He submitted the video to the MPRRS, too – and it’s good he…

It’s been a little while (okay, 3 months) since our last 7 on the 7th Contest – but hey, somebody’s got to watch for aliens! So now it’s summer (at least in the northern hemisphere), and thoughts turn to the outdoors – so what better way to give away Bungie shwag than to require creative…

c0ld vengeance continues with his 3D Screenshots series – this time, it’s Cortana, looking on as the Master Chief sticks a Brute. Sweet! Available both as a QuickTime rotating vid, or a QTVR file. Take a look!(Louis Wu 15:38:42 UTC)

Podtacular has some new updates – Episode 70 is up (looks at community desires for Halo 3, and other games Halo fans play), Pod TV Episode 3 is up (Humpday highlights), and a new official comic called Weekly Porridge is online. (Apparently, it’s been around for a while; there are a bunch of episodes up…

XerxdeeJ stopped by to point out that Tied the Leader has been updated – there’s a readers poll on sportsmanship, a treatise on teamwork (and whining), and a stroll through the referral logs, checking out what people are looking for. Go read!(Louis Wu 13:14:14 UTC)

I’m not thrilled with YouTube – but this one’s pretty darned funny. Swing by to see the original Halo 3 trailer… the special effects on Cortana must be seen to be believed. Thanks to Konrad, via IRC, for this one.(Louis Wu 02:31:35 UTC)

The MPRRS queue has been getting pretty long recently – Cybrfrk just brought in some new blood to try and clear out some of the movies that have been languishing. The first pass out of the gate is ‘Lost: Halostyle Episode 5’ – a continuation of a pretty funny series. (This episode is quite good,…

Over at Gamasutra, they’ve started their own podcast (everybody’s doing it!), and the first one is actually a recording of the talk given at the 2003 Game Developers Conference by Marty O’Donnell, Jaime Griesemer, and Mat Noguchi, entitled ‘Halo: Development Evolved’. It’s just over an hour long, weighs in at only 14 mb, and is…

He’s at it again; c0ld vengeance has posted 10 screenshots on our forum, and challenged you, the viewer, to come up with an exact location for each one. You’re going to need to be pretty specific on these… check it out! Update: DOH! 2 minutes after I posted this, c0ld confirmed that Dojorkan had nailed…

Foo Mo Jive, one of the men behind Podtacular, has been Spotlighted over at Bungie.net – KP has gotten the lowdown on the man who blew his one big chance to make money on the Halo community. Art majors the world around – take note! elessar787 was first, it seems.(Louis Wu 21:06:48 UTC)

In today’s One One Se7en, Stuntmutt looks at one of the characters that was cut from Halo 2 – maybe Bungie recognized the terrible pun potential and cut it in an attempt to avert disaster. Oh, well.(Louis Wu 15:24:43 UTC)

Over at the Escapist, there’s a great article about honor-system-based Halo 2 gametypes (with Zombies being the primary example); these will never show up in Matchmaking lists (because they require that everyone play by non-enforceable rules), but they’re loads of fun. Really enjoyable writeup. Thanks, mercury.(Louis Wu 15:13:00 UTC)

Halo: Portable has a bunch of updates – there’s a new design, new bandwidth, a new podcast, and plenty of their usual sorts of content. Swing by and fill up your portable device!(Louis Wu 15:01:30 UTC)

A few days ago, Hextall27 pointed out on our forum that Play! (a videogame music concert series) will be coming to Detroit on July 12. We didn’t pick up on it then, so he sent it to us via email. The Play team is hooking up with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for this event… if…

Sep7imus noticed an article over at Wired which discusses the lack of a ‘Lester Bangs’ of gaming. (Lester Bangs, for those of you under 20, wrote about rock music in the 70s and is considered by many to be the first really influential ‘rock critic’.) The article isn’t really Halo-related (Halo 2 gets a tiny…

The WSVG Intel Summer Championship kicks off today – doors open at noon, central time. GotFrag will be providing coverage – keep an eye on their site!(Louis Wu 14:00:06 UTC)

And that pretty much does it for today; HBO’s taking the rest of this July Fourth holiday off for barbecues, swimming, and maybe blowing stuff up when it gets dark. Enjoy – we’re back tomorrow!(Louis Wu 12:27:47 UTC)