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Wow… I’d spent the entire day on a plane yesterday, and the evening with my family; I figured when I got in this morning, I’d be swamped with stuff to post… but the mailbox was almost empty! I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing… but let’s start going through what…

Red vs Blue’s Episode 47 has been posted on their website for Sponsors – a bit over 5 and a half minutes of plotting and scheming, and playing Volleybomb, or something. As usual, it will be available for the masses tomorrow, or Monday at the latest. (And as usual, we will not be making a…

Chronox wrote to say that a German Halo 2 level transcript is now posted at Halo Orbit. If you can read German, go check it out!

Last month, IGN posted their Xbox Best of 2004 Awards – yesterday, they put up their Overall Best of 2004 awards (all platforms). Halo 2 took Best Multiplayer, and was Runner-Up for best First Person Shooter and Best Use of Sound. Thanks to many – John Rivas (who found it suspicious that the PS2 version…

First piece for the new year from Tina Leyk… and wow, it’s a doozy. She wasn’t completely happy with this one, and says she’ll be using this subject more often in the future… but I love him. (Minor Halo 2 spoilers ahead.)

There’s a singles/doubles tourney in West Chester, Ohio, next week – visit Game Junkie’s page for details. Thanks again, R.net.

Halo Babies points out one of the lesser-known perils of Xbox Live in their most recent comic. Thanks, Rampancy.net.

The Weekly What’s Update has been posted to Bungie.net. The top story? Cheaters are, in fact, being dealt with. What more can I say? Go read it.

Stuntmutt gives us an inside view to what Truth really sounds like, when he’s not speaking for the benefit of the court reporters, in today’s One One Se7en. I think he needs one of those energy beams. Would save us all a lot of trouble.

Eighteen pieces added to the Fan Fiction section today – should keep the readers busy for a little bit.

For a couple of months, forum regular Hikaru-119 has been talking about an ambitious endeavor called Project: ODST; it’s to be a long (an hour or so) real-action movie based on Halo. Today, halochat posted on our forum that a website for this project is now available. (There are a variety of links to get…

In case you didn’t feel there was enough conflict in your life, Bungie increased the number of debate threads on their ‘Voting Booth’ forum. Go duke it out with other Halo fans!

There are a bunch of new Wallpapers up over at Bungie.net – looks like the first public work of AGDTinMan, and I gotta say, I’m looking forward to more. Go check ’em out! Update: Oops, looks like I misstated TinMan’s contributions – Shishka set me straight.

This week’s Halo Humpday Challenge pitted the Bungie team against the Geezer Gamers – it was a pretty close match. You can read the details on Bungie’s site – or at GeezerGamers (thanks, 3Suns).

IGN put up ‘The Future of Game Design, Part 1’ – a look at where things should be going. Halo 2 is held up several times as what’s right today… as well as what’s wrong. Thanks, 3Suns.

Dolbex writes that the MLGPro.com website has gotten over its registration glitches – if you wanted to register, but couldn’t, go now! There’s other fun stuff there, as well: they’ve had over 100 rooms registered for the Washington event this weekend, and they’re having a new contest – make a cool fan video, and you…

Last minute update, from the MacWorld show floor… today’s Calvin and Halo gets back to what’s important.

Just a quick note – I’m headed to the airport (I’m late, as usual), and will be on a plane (or in a convention hall) for the next… oh, long time. Updates might be sparse for the next day or so. Be patient. Go play Marathon. Or something.

Nick Danger sent along a link to an Elite drawing done by his friend Luther for their clan site, The Halo Hangout. Nice job! Comments can go in this forum thread.

Mitch B. sent along a screenshot (91K) of a Halo 2 Flash-based sidescroller he’s working on. More when we know it!