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urk highlighted Wombats Funtage, a combination Halo 2/Halo 3 montage made by a bunch of friends. Good times, good times…(Louis Wu 09:53:23 UTC)

A new tidbit from the Operation Chastity set – Pete Cooper stopped by with pics of a modified Toughbook to be used as a prop. Nice! (Louis Wu 09:53:03 UTC)

The latest Breaking In article at Bungie.net focuses on Dan Aldridge, Network Engineer. What got him where he is today? Elephant MUDs and sausage stew, apparently… go read. (Louis Wu 09:52:33 UTC)

Due to an upcoming plane flight, the standard Friday Fan Fiction update is a little bit early; even so, there are six new pieces this week. Go read!(Louis Wu 09:51:11 UTC)

Chris101b pointed out a YouTube vid he posted last spring, showing off a glitch you can trigger in Forge that might have potential for Machinima makers who want to have a bunch of people die spontaneously. (You could probably do this by having them quit out of the game… but this glitch also gives you…

According to the February Matchmaking information Bungie posted a couple of weeks ago, This week’s Double XP Weekend was supposed to be Team Flag. According to profhalo (and others), what we ACTUALLY got was Team Melee. I’m guessing that means Team Flag is next week… but for now, go beat down some people.(Louis Wu 19:59:46…

Penguin Ninjoid found a funky little place in Avalanche where the lighting… behaves oddly. Check out his post for pics. (Links lead to larger versions housed at haloscreenshots.net.) (Louis Wu 19:52:44 UTC)

GrimBrother One noticed a new piece at IGN on the Halo Wars storyline – videos seem to be mostly cutscenes (both from Halo Wars and Halo), text gives you a bit more info. Take a look!(Louis Wu 19:52:16 UTC)

Podtacular Episode 180 is up – this one is called ‘Halo Wars Demo-lition’, and focuses on (can you guess?) the Halo Wars Demo. 39 mb, xx mins. Thanks, Samus 117.(Louis Wu 19:51:40 UTC)

More goodies at Bungie.net – a link to a trick-jumping video from Resix the one (“Intrepid”), and another montage from Halo 3 In the Work Place (“Screams and Splats Montage”). Lots of stuff to watch!(Louis Wu 19:51:15 UTC)

Another vid, courtesy of the Bungie Blog – this one is week two of Major League Driving’s Top 10 series. THis one focuses on vehicle-based mishaps. Things with engines weigh a lot… stay out of the way!(Louis Wu 18:17:40 UTC)

Bungie’s got word of a Dualtage put together by sTaTic HAZARD, using gameplay from FrosTyy ShoTz and Eyce Pickk. (Thank goodness for cut-and-paste; I’d get carpal tunnel syndrome trying to keep up with the capitalization there.) Great gameplay!(Louis Wu 18:11:21 UTC)

The newest MLG/ESPN Top Ten (#15) is live now (thanks, backflip10019) – some amazing gameplay shown here. Go watch!(Louis Wu 14:08:23 UTC)

The Catfish let us know that 2501 Episode 17 is live – check it out for some backstory!(Louis Wu 14:07:05 UTC)

DHalo noticed that the Sumthing Digital website has a promo for two free bonus songs off the Halo Wars Original Soundtrack – unfortunately, the code they’ve used seems to only work in Internet Explorer. Never fear – DHalo has provided you with a link that will work in most (all?) browsers. You’ll have to download…

Lando Griff1n sent us a few links you might be interested in. First was a music comedy video recreating Andy Samberg’s SNL short ‘I’m on a Boat’ – it has the same naughty words as the original. Then there’s a trailer for an upcoming montage by Hazmat v2, featuring NeoFlux jp. Matrix style pulled off…

Yesterday, Bungie updated the Favorites collection with the second batch of files from Facility B5D – and talked to Mini Waz about one of those files. Check it out!(Louis Wu 13:47:30 UTC)

Two more tidbits of press about the Mythic Map Pack surfaced yesterday – MSNBC did an in-game interview with Lars Bakken and Dan Miller (thanks, urk), and Gamespot posted a video preview of the three maps, using footage they’d recorded themselves (thanks, Kibbles). Check out both films – they’ve got some great footage and info!…

Richard Windsor, of Aeropause.com, wrote to say they’re running a Halo 3 tourney this weekend – 60 spots total, simple elimination tourney with the bottom player after each round eliminated. The top 12 competitors will duke it out on a custom map, multiple rounds, with a sniper round, a rockets round, and then a mystery…

Interesting – a journalist who had a dim view of videogames (and the effect they had on her sons) had her opinion changed a bit after playing Halo with the boys; she concluded that “maybe [she] should be a little less hysterical about them.” Go Halo! Thanks, Anton P. Nym.(Louis Wu 20:16:17 UTC)