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Rune Of Red has been reading the Halo novels, and has decided to elaborate on what, for him, makes the Master Chief special. See if you agree!(Louis Wu 15:13:26 UTC)

Heh – Mid7night found a cool video showing Johnson getting an Overkill on the last level of the campaign… unfortunately, all four deaths were players.(Louis Wu 14:53:19 UTC)

nomis78 posted links to three new panoramas he’s created – the first couple have some funky effects! Check ’em out.(Louis Wu 21:48:45 UTC)

Customers Rock!, a website devoted to pointing out customer service and its results, has issued its Top 3 Customer Rock Stars for 2008… and Bungie pulls in the number one spot for their handling of Ragingterror’s ‘wiped’ Xbox. Tell us something we didn’t know, Customers Rock! (Just kidding – that’s pretty cool.) Thanks to Hawty…

Schedonnardus let us know about a short clip on the Xbox LIVE Dashboard, viewable by visiting the ‘Spotlight’ section. For those without access to that particular fount of goodness, we’ve put up 720p versions for download – both QuickTime (90 mb) and WMP9 (106 mb) formats. It’s under 3 minutes, and consists of stock footage…

Bored? Feel like playing with Bungie.net’s tagging system to find cool FileShare content? The latest example of urk’s tutorial series shows off some pretty sweet hammer pics.(Louis Wu 20:56:15 UTC)

Another fun highlight – Rast07’s Equipment Emporium, where you can buy anything you need to augment your battle fun, at discounted prices! (Louis Wu 20:51:07 UTC)

Bungie’s blog pointed out Real7alk’s Podcast #6 – a farewell to a site founder, and interview with a montage master, and a discussion with the moderators of halotech.org – 92 mb, 110 minutes. Go listen. (urk warns that you might need a bathroom break. Or something.)(Louis Wu 20:49:20 UTC)

Over at HaloGAF, Kibbles pointed out a pretty interesting YouTube vid… I’d love to know how this happened. (Minor spoilers, I suppose, for those who haven’t played Halo or Halo 2.)(Louis Wu 20:31:20 UTC)

ManKitten is working on an assault rifle – he’s even started up a facebook profile to keep track of progress. Check out his forum post for a link, and a pic of the progress so far.(Louis Wu 16:26:58 UTC)

It’s Monday – so TTL Demag0gue tells us about Reclaimer 132 – wherein Ferial gets a surprise. (Louis Wu 13:24:05 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy ran across a video which gives you a nice (hmm… maybe the wrong word) snapshot of Halo 3 voice chat on Xbox LIVE – people are pretty random, aren’t they?(Louis Wu 13:23:45 UTC)

Yesterday, Major Nelson released a list of the Top 20 LIVE Games of 2008, based on unique users… and Halo 3 came out on top of the pack. Impressive feat, given the competition! Thanks to many – first seems to have been LostSpartan987. (Louis Wu 13:23:23 UTC)

Apologies – the normal Fan Fiction update for Friday never made it out; life here’s been a little topsy-turvy. It’s up now, though – four new stories for you to read. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 13:22:32 UTC)

deadly alive stopped in with word of ‘Friction’, a machinima about a soldier who discovers that not all is as he thought. It’s pretty long – almost 26 minutes, in two parts – but it’s well-done, and has a few twists to keep you interested. Swing by the post for download or streaming links! (Louis…

Molten Slowa was the first to let us know about the return of Spriggs… sort of. (It’s a Spriggs Short.) Good stuff! (Louis Wu 22:53:53 UTC)

FireDragon04 wore some Spartan armor today – and filmed it. Video is on YouTube, photos are on MySpace. (Louis Wu 22:53:33 UTC)

ODST Sarge let us know that Dispatch Films podcast Episode 1 has been released – you can listen to it at blip.tv. (Louis Wu 22:53:07 UTC)

Lord Dark Numchuck has a webcomic called ‘My Life as an Evil Genius’ – and today’s strip has a Halo reference. Give it a read! (Louis Wu 22:52:49 UTC)

The Sri Lanka Sunday Times put up a ’10 Hottest Games of 2009′ list… and two Halo titles are on it. Not too shabby!(Louis Wu 22:52:23 UTC)