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1Up.com has begun collecting data for their Best Games of 2004 Awards – head over and vote. Halo 2 is up for Best Shooter, Best Online/Multiplayer, and Game of the Year. Thanks, Frankie.

Gearbox Software, EPG Servers, and Halo Maps have teamed up to present a pretty nice contest; create a 90 second video on the theme ‘Play Halo CE’, and win free dedicated server hosting for Halo CE and Gearbox schwag. The full details can be found over at the Halo Maps website. You’ve got December 31…

New guest strip over at Halo Babies – done by Bluestone, of 343GS. Hehe – I’ve seen this a few times myself…

18 new pieces for you today in the Fan Fiction section – quite a few of them are poems. Interesting shift…

Gamespy published its 2004 Holiday Guide – and of course, Halo 2 is among its recommendations. “Great Gift For: Xbox owner who loved the first one, loves shooters, or breathes.” Sounds about right. Thanks, HaloPlanet.

Another Brute joke in today’s One One Se7en. Or maybe it’s not a joke… it would explain a lot of things…

Bentllama has updated his blog with some fascinating sketches – early work he did to teach himself how Elites moved. You want to see where an animator starts? Check this stuff out.

Lothar Hex points out that Gamespy has named Halo 2 its Game of the Month for November 2004. It beats out Half-Life 2, Metroid Prime 2, and Metal Gear Solid 3 for that title. Nice!

Edwin Davis has created a series of Halo 2 icons for Mac OSX – use these to spruce up folders and disks. You can grab them off our server, in .sit format (900k), or you can visit Edwin’s site and grab them in about a million different formats (from photoshop files to .icns resources and…

Articles around the net:VNUnet.com – more on Microsoft and modded boxes The Gateway – Halo review (no score, but very positive, except for the ending)Eurogamer – Multiplayer review – 9/10 (lost points for lack of coop) The Scotsman – Multiplayer saves Halo (thanks, kinggun)

This week’s Halo Humpday Challenge pitted the Bungie Frag Doodz against girl gamers the Frag Dolls – a team of talented women who’ve shown themselves to be pretty deadly on the virtual battlefield. The game writeup was great… but the Frag Doodz website had me confused. (The Gamertags listed don’t match the people pictured, for…

A few days ago, we opened a new section devoted to BOLL’s panoramic shots of Halo 2. Thanks to BOLL’s industriousness, we not only have a new set of 15 images for you, but the entire set of images (Halo AND Halo 2) are now displayed by the same system. You can easily jump back…

The traditionally insane ‘biggest shopping day of the year’, the day after Thanksgiving, helped push Halo 2 over the 5 million mark in sales in less than 2 and a half weeks. You can read the press release for more details. Thanks, Dolbex.

I know it seems like pigpiling on Bungie… but it’s not. Yet another hardcore community member has taken the time to write out, coherently, what he thinks is wrong with Halo 2. Mothergoat wrote up a ‘Reflections on Halo 2’ post on our forum, looking at the little things that (for him anyway) diminished Halo…

Recently, Bungie posted two new desktop images – both contained ‘Covenant text’ at the bottom. The code, it seems, has changed a bit since the Halo2.com site went live – but Ain Soph Aur, with the help of Hybrid-X-Ultima, managed to decode them anyway. (‘Jiralhanae’ is the Covenant name for ‘Brute’, according to the Limited…

There’s yet ANOTHER Stats aggregation option now (thanks, Craven); vviperrx, at the Bungie.net forums, has written a perl script to do the basic work for you. I just tested it out (the linux version, which I ran under FreeBSD – it’s pretty generic Unix, actually), and it works nicely. There’s also a Windows version -…

Hehe – you thought the Covenant came to Earth to kill us. Calvin has learned otherwise, in today’s Calvin and Halo.

A few days ago, kornman00, ViperNEO, and Fayt released a movie runthrough of a new level they were working on for HaloCE – called ‘The Engine Room’, it recreates the space from the Maw pretty nicely. (Thanks to MasterGrief for pointing this out.) The following day, kornman00 released a beta version of the map. (There’s…

There’s an interesting news post over at Bungie.net – it addresses some of the fears and desires fans have expressed about long-term stats. Currently, there’s no easy way to archive your old stats when Bungie does a purge… and even between purges, there’s no way to look at your CUMULATIVE stats (total kills in all…

Thanks to the 8 million people who pointed out that Bungie has updated the XBL Matchmaking playlists; visit the news post for an overview of what has changed, as well as links to the full list of gametypes.