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Remember back when Calvin was worried about what was under his bed? Today’s Calvin and Halo ramps up the fear factor.

Thirteen new pieces in the Fan Fiction section today – including a couple of poems and a pledge. See what you can find!

Radid Gnome interviewed a friend of his, an MLG staffer who played Halo 2 at the Downpour event, about the game. He’s posted the interview on his website. (The site is framed, so look for the ‘New Halo 2 Article’ in the news.)

Whoa. The band Regurgitator, out of Australia, is performing a 3-week ‘Band in a Bubble’ experiment, where they attempt to record an entire album in social isolation (though with millions watching). For entertainment? They’ll be playing Halo 2, apparently. Details can be found in this Xbox.com article. The whole shebang kicks off in 5 days.…

Gamespy has posted a Halo 2 Reader Feedback Followup article; questions readers have asked, answered by Gamespy staffers. There’ll be another part tomorrow. Thanks to LaMuerte for the heads-up.

Sevenar posted a short ad for a pretty entertaining event… in movie format. Details on what you’re watching (as well as filesize) are in the forum post. If there’s demand, I’ll rip a QT version of this, too.

[-TLG-]Madrox continues his ‘live stuff in the pit’ series by bringing a stack of live Marines to the bottom of the chasm in the underground area of AotCR. Amazing! Hosting provided by Mythica, via High Impact Halo. I’ll try and get a QuickTime version posted later today – look for an update to this newspost.

The London (Ontario) Free Press posted a news piece on X04 Canada, held recently in Toronto. Halo 2, of course, got a chunk of the text. Go read.

We got word of a couple of contests recently; Blade writes about a Halo 2 Cover Design contest, where winning entries get Gmail invites and some Halo 2 material. And Ryan Kiskis, Director of Xfire Business Development, writes to let us know about a Skins contest; design a skin for Xfire (an instant messenger for…

Narcogen pointed out that Rampancy.net, as well, has set up a special forum just for discussion of I Love Bees-related materials. Folks on our own forum cannot seem to get their heads around the fact that bee discussion will be deleted here – whether it’s Halo-related or not – but hopefully, as time goes on,…

Yaksha posted a video today showcasing a couple of Halo PC mods… and a pretty drawn-out punchline. 2:09 long, 10.2 mb, WMP9 format. Hosted by redvsblue.net. Check it out!

Boxer points out that the next episode of Adventures in Disaster is posted at akba.info. Man… I would HOPE they have this cleared up by then…

The Junkyard’s analysis of Halo levels by an experienced Marine pilot continues, his time with a look at Truth and Reconciliation. I was amused at the discussion about entering the grav lift area (“Going through the maze inside the plateau is a bad idea, especially if it’s guarded. Going on top of the plateau would…

Miguel Chavez, the Number One Bungie Fan, sent along a picture (72k) of The Smallest Spartan, otherwise known as Rafi Chavez. I’m not really sure whose desk that is behind him, but I’m pretty sure you’ve seen it on the webcam at some point.

Dang, I said I was done talking about Zanzibar today… and then Stuntmutt had to go and cover it in One One Se7en. I wonder if there’s a coral reef? Update: Go load it again. Make sure your speakers are on. Yes, it’s true, I’m a moron.

This was released yesterday, but would have been completely buried… timboh56 created a trailer for a stop-motion picture he’s putting together, ‘Attack of the Giant Grunt’. It’s short – but it’s quite good, so we’ve mirrored both the original WMP9 version (721K) and a new QuickTime version (812K), so that you don’t have to hammer…

synide, from haloTV, wrote to say that [cG]rapture finished the first of the cookedGamers at Summer CPL 2004 videos, cG vs Strive/Reality. You can watch it over at haloTV.net. It’s about 20 minutes long, 720×480 format, and streamed straight to your desktop. It was filmed behind the cG team; you get the players’ reactions as…

Since the ilovebees phenomenon started back on July 23, I’ve been ambivalent about posting updates related to it; on the one hand, it’s clearly Halo2-related, so it falls within our purview… on the other hand, we’re just not equipped to handle a game of this magnitude. A few weeks ago, in response to forum flooding,…

Wow. I hate for the front page to be dominated by a single file – but I guess this one is pretty big. The MLG Zanzibar Halo 2 Mirror page now has quite a few direct download links, if you’ve had trouble with BitTorrent – and Two Degrees, another peer-to-peer sharing network which made its…

As of now, a bit over 8 hours after posting the first link, the BitTorrent network has served up over 5300 copies of the MLG Halo 2 gameplay video (almost 650 Gigabytes). You guys rock. 🙂 However, there are lots of people who can’t use BitTorrent – they’re on firewalled corporate networks, or family members…