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prometheus opened a new website yesterday – it’s unique, in that all it offers is content that glorifies the environmental grandeur of Halo and Halo 2. Inspired by David Galindo’s hudless tribute films, he made his own – ‘Orbital Shock Trooper Tribute’. You can find a WMP9 version (7.4 mb) on his site (hosted by…

One of the tradeoffs Bungie made in Halo 2 was an elimination of load times in-game… at the expense of some visual glitches during major scene changes. Stuntmutt looks at some side effects in today’s One One Se7en.

Goodness. There’s already a Blood Gulch mod for Half-Life 2. That’s amazing! (Driveable warthog, and everything.) Thanks, WonderWeasel.

Mhaddy writes that a new Spotlight article is up at the Junkyard – this time it’s focused on BOLL. Wanna know what makes this guy tick? Go read!

An interesting grab-bag of articles from around the net this morning:Yale Daily News – Halo 2 interfering with grades Stuff (NZ) – Halo is ‘about as close to a perfect game as you can get.’ Winston-Salem (NC) Journal – Halo 2 is a must-have gift Austin360 – Big-Screen Halo 2 tourneys at the Alamo Drafthouse…

Pcsme found a truly retro Halo-themed logon screen for Windows users at WinCustomize. It’s so old, it’s new!

We’re getting closer and closer to clearing out the various art queues (though new data comes in every day). I just added twenty images to the Miscellaneous Art section – and there is some SPECTACULAR stuff in there. Go look! (One of my favorites is Paul Davies’ ‘Installation Unknown’, though quite a few other ones…

Nice – Mat Noguchi, Tools Programmer (and a whole lot more!) at Bungie, will be giving a talk at the 2005 Game Developer’s Conference, according to his blog. Thanks to Narcogen, at Rampancy.net, for noticing.

Bungie’s store is now selling Holiday cards – you can buy a set of 15 (5 each of the 2001 and 2003 cards, originally shown on their website, and 5 of the new 2004 cards) for $12.95. Wish your friend a Happy Carnage Season in style! Thanks, Rio258k

HaloTwoFreak points out that the Windows version of Konfabulator is now available; we’ve mentioned a number of Konfabulator widgets over the past couple of years, but until now, only MacOSX users could make use of them. Follow the link above to see what’s out there in terms of Halo-related widgets, and then grab your copy…

Red vs Blue Episode 45 is now out for Sponsors. Just under 5 minutes of hilarity… poor Donut. (Did you know you could make blood from orange juice?) If you’re not a sponsor, you’ll be able to grab this by Sunday or so. Thanks, the beaz.

CBSNews.com has put up a Video Game Holiday Buying Guide – and Halo 2 is on it. There’s also a nice little note explaining how parents, not interest groups, are ultimately responsible for the games their children play – ESRB’s rating system is there to help, but the final decision on whether or not to…

During the month leading up to the release of Halo 2, we had a ton of submissions for various art sections that I simply didn’t get to. I’ve cleared out 20 of the desktops (30, if you count variations) and added them to our Wallpaper section – there are still a couple of dozen images…

BOLL’s Halorama section has gotten an infusion of 15 new images; 8 multiplayer shots, 7 single player. There is almost no better way to get a good look at Bungie’s beautiful architecture!

Wonga. The Major League Gaming website has been totally overhauled for the 2005 season; there is a quarter of a million dollars on the line this year. There’s an article about point and prize breakdowns for those competing, details about upcoming content from Dolbex, and more! Check it all out.

ThinkGeek is gettin’ in on the Halo Lovin’ action – they’re selling a plain black T-shirt with ‘Master Chief’ (in a pseudo-Halo font) on it. It ain’t cheap, neither. Thanks, Jonas.

A week ago, Time Magazine published their list of Top 10 Games for 2004 – Halo was Number 7. Thanks to Excalibur for the magazine scans; you’ll find the article in our Press Scans section.

After taking a week off for Thanksgiving, Frankie is back with another Weekly What’s Update, a service in which Bungie answers questions posed by Halo 2 fans during the course of the week. One question asks about non-flaming ninjas – you can create your own using our new Multiplayer Emblem Generator (if you don’t like…

BOLL recently sent us a web-based interface for experimenting with the emblems you can choose for your XBL Halo 2 profile – and Bungie kindly allowed us to post it for you to use. (We needed to ask, since the image generated actually comes from their servers.) Go ahead and experiment – build your best…

Captain Spark has posted another 33 dialogue snippets on his website. This is the third such release – if you missed the first two, don’t worry, we’ll be posting them soon in the upcoming Halo 2 Dialogue Databank. (These 33 will be available for the next week or so on CS’s website.)