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On August 2, we got word of a new Halo 2-branded headset, made by Plantronics, that would be coming out this fall. More details emerged a week later. Now, thanks to Team Xbox, we have official word, in the form of a Plantronics press release. Looks to be a classy piece of equipment!

Wow. Talk about dedication. [-TLG-]Madrox and Monoxide got a Hunter to the bottom of the pit in the middle of the underground cavern in AotCR. How’d they do it? They gave him a ride on a Banshee. Vid is 5.5 mb in WMP9 format, hosted by Madrox. I’ve put a QuickTime version up on files.bungie.org.…

Pballwizard points out a new update over at Homefront, the Battlefield: Vietnam mod. Map updates, mostly.

Carlo Zottman points out the blog of Boris Schneider-Johne, German Product Manager for the Xbox – he was at the German Games Convention yesterday, and got a pretty nice shot of the Master Chief doing “the hardest job of all time; handing out Halo 2 survival bags to journalists. Contents: energy drinks, deodorants and water…

Uriel points out that the Leipzig Games Convention website already has a Best of Show page up… and guess what took ‘Best Xbox Game’? Go on… guess.

Hehe – d3fault_dot_xbe has taken one of Roger Wilco’s concept models and begun to insert it into Halo CE. Nice! Heads-up goes to MasterGrief, who found it on the Gearbox forums. Remember – Roger Wilco created those models more than 2 years ago. Wonderful!

Wow. I’ve seen sleazy before, but this is pretty audacious. Some slimeball on eBay was selling a digital copy of Zoe’s farewell wallpaper; he removed Zoe’s signature from it (though not the bungie.net watermark), and was selling it (in DIGITAL FORM, it’s not even a print) as his own work. (He cancelled the auction this…

Art Vandelay found a nice thread over at the TeamXbox forums (though it would have been better if he’d actually added a link to the original information) – AcidSnow spent some of his precious playtime in a recent Halo 2 event TESTING the game, rather than just playing. Biggest tidbit: laying a plasma grenade on…

VALENCE has taken Adult Swim soundtracks and Halo CE video and put together a film called Aqua Chiefs Hunger Corps. Decide for yourself whether it works. Video is WMP9 format, 7 minutes long, 9 mb large, hosted by Halomods.

Trigun sends word that a new Halo on Vacation comic is up at The 7th Revolution. Maybe it’s me, but it seems like Halo: Resolution did that joke. A few times.

Dolbex writes from Downpour, the MLGPro tourney happening right now in Seattle. The big news? THey’re currently hosting the World’s First Public Halo 2 Tournament. That’s right – Halo 2 is there, and being played, for money, on the floor. Go read about it on MLGPro.com! If you have a Video On Demand subscription from…

Devin Olsen points out a movie he and Gil made that’s being hosted by Halomods – tricks and sniper kills. WMP format, just under 2 minutes, 9.3 mb. Take a look.

GhaleonEB pointed out an article in the New York Times (registration required – free) in which the Times suggested that there will be a $5.99 monthly fee to play in Halo 2 tournaments online. Before anyone grabs their pitchfork and heads for Redmond… there is no additional fee to play Halo online; what the NYT…

Demden, from Halo Orbit, sends word of another shakeycam vid from the Leipzig gaming event, this time filmed (and hosted) by Game7. Again, screen glare is a major problem, but they did a decent job of showing many of the options available in this build (as well as showing off some spectacularly bad gameplay in…

The recent Action Figure Megabattle pics have spawned a NEW type of submission – one I want to discourage, because the potential for total picture overload is super-high… but there were a couple of shots that made me laugh, so I thought I’d share. Nedus took some pics of his own action figures; these aren’t…

Ducain continues his ‘I’m-gonna-get-hogs-EVERYWHERE-on-SC’ campaign, with a movie showing how he managed to get three (THREE!) warthogs across the Shaft in Silent Cartographer – along with himself and a marine. WOW. (He started, nicely, with a teaser, letting people guess how he took the pic – but I wasn’t around until the entire shebang was…

Falcon Zero made another megabattle pic, this time using the New Mombassa map… and if you ask me, he might have gone a little overboard. Just a little.

IGN has posted a writeup from the Leipzig Halo 2 playfest yesterday – there’s nothing really new in it, but it does make you want to play… thanks to LaMuerte for the heads-up.

Frankie’s back, and so is the traditional Bungie Weekly Update – interesting mix; on the one hand, stuff is getting finished at phenomenal paces, on the other, folks are working absurdly long hours and see no end in sight (well, other than the obvious one, of course). Great read, though. So go do it. It’s…

mnemesis wrote yesterday to point out a small (but powerful) update on the Halo Story Page – the downtime this morning kept it from being posted before now. Go read… but be warned, the theory it discusses is LONG.