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  • Halo-enabled Bible Study – update

    TruthPastor GBG let us know that the in-game Bible study he was doing (we mentioned it here back in August) has moved – if you’re interested in joining, here’s a page with all the info.(Louis Wu 14:22:22 UTC)

  • New machinima around the web

    AvatarAang mentioned a couple of machinima links you might be interested in – if you’re a Rooster Teeth subscriber, you’ve got access to a pair of clips that were cut from the Reconstruction DVD, and the Running Gun crew has whipped up a project called ‘Paint the Line’, as part of a 48 Hour Machinima…

  • Bungie Community Spotlight – Mjolnir Battle Tactics

    Bungie’s posted another Community Spotlight, with corresponding new goodies in the Bungie Favorites section – this time, they’re talking to Mjolnir Battle Tactics, a Bungie.net group. Go read about ’em, and check out their favorite maps/files! Thanks, Avateur.(Louis Wu 21:29:53 UTC)

  • Halo Blackberry Theme

    Hawty McBloggy pointed out a new theme for your Blackberry 9000, courtesy of Halcylon. Nice work!(Louis Wu 19:17:21 UTC)

  • Discovery

    Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked Episode 42 is live – it looks like storylines are coming together.(Louis Wu 19:15:29 UTC)

  • Halo 3 and the NXE – Things to Know

    Over on the Bungie blog, there’s an interview with Mat Noguchi about how Halo 3 uses the Xbox 360 cache features, and how this affects you with respect to the new ‘copy to disk’ feature of LIVE’s NXE (which is now available to all LIVE subscribers). We’ve discussed this recently – but this interview provides…

  • Green and Red: Your Help Needed

    Taco Power is looking for help with ideas for his Green and Red stop-motion Halo Kubrick videos – you can watch the first three (they’re each just a few seconds long, and they’re just him playing around with the technique), and then suggest plotlines for him!(Louis Wu 14:56:25 UTC)

  • BTS: What is the Bump?

    Over at the Rooster Teeth website, Burnie’s posted a video that shows off one of the weird glitches in Halo 3 that they (and really MOST) machinima creators need to work around – and some ways of doing exactly that. Education can be entertaining!(Louis Wu 14:44:22 UTC)

  • Halo Zapping

    zukan pointed out a video on YouTube – ‘Le Zapatabadou’ is a French machinima version of Adult Swim’s ‘Robot Chicken’. As he says, even though the dialogue is in French, it’s not hard to figure out what’s going on most of the time – and some of the sketches are quite funny. Take a look!(Louis…

  • Insanity, Not Rampancy

    TTL Demag0gue let us know that Reclaimer 113 is live – the Reclaimer meets two more members of the Cavalcade.(Louis Wu 14:06:24 UTC)

  • Str8 Rippin Captain gets Star Treatment

    According to the New York Times, Tom ‘TSquared’ Taylor’s mug will appear on 175 million Dr. Pepper labels starting in January – the MLG Pro’s deal is the label’s first sports promotion with national distribution. He’s bigger than the Dallas Cowboys! (They only got regional distribution on Dr. Pepper labels.)(Louis Wu 13:35:01 UTC)

  • Real Men Go Commando

    Episode 2 of ODS Steve is now live at Hawty McBloggy’s – DeepCee’s hapless Helljumper proves he has trouble reading (or at least processing).(Louis Wu 13:34:32 UTC)

  • Custom Armor Variants at B.net

    Metalingus627 pointed out a thread at Bungie.net that contains a series of artist renditions of new armor perms (fan-made) – some interesting stuff in there!(Louis Wu 13:34:12 UTC)

  • Heroes vs Nemesis WP

    Linken91 posted a series of ‘Heroes vs Nemesis’ wallpapers, to commemorate a machinima series – if you like your wallpaper with lots of words, check these out. (Louis Wu 13:33:53 UTC)

  • New Campaign Panos

    nomis78 stopped in with six new panoramas – gorgeous work. Take the time to look at these. Update: looks like radiant penguin has posted his own, today (reminded by nomis78). Some great ones here, too!(Louis Wu 13:31:45 UTC)

  • Ultra Kill? Really?

    Ross Mills noticed an article at Maxim entitled ‘The 7 Greatest Faceless Announcers in Video Games’ – Halo’s Voice of God renderer makes the list. Some of the ‘memorable lines’ attributed to him, though, might make you wonder. (Louis Wu 13:30:39 UTC)

  • Top 10 Halo 3 Moments of Season 2: Episode 14

    Anoj108 has posted Episode 14 of his Top 10 Halo 3 Moments series – this one is just a highlights reel from ‘Season 2 (Episodes 8-13). Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 13:30:16 UTC)

  • Halo Wars Art, Hands-on Pieces Continue

    More Halo Wars coverage – The Halo Wars website mentions writeups at Joystiq and Xbox360Achievements.com, in addition to the stuff we mentioned a couple of days ago (post 1 | post 2). Planet Halo points out one at TeamXbox, too. And Wired has put up its own piece. On top of this news, the Halo…

  • XerxdeeJ – He Works for Them

    Bungie.net’s ‘Average Joe’ series of interviews grew yesterday when a discussion with Tied the Leader’s XerxdeeJ hit the front page (thanks, Bryan Simon). deeJ isn’t your average ‘Average Joe’, as far as Halo community members go – but he’s modest enough that you’d almost think he wasn’t really responsible for the success of TTL if…

  • Tobias Buckell in the hospital

    Aaron Spuler was the first to point out a blog post over at Tobias Buckell’s website – the author of the soon-to-be-released ‘Cole Protocol’ novel was admitted to the hospital recently with heart trouble. Here’s hoping this all turns out well! (Louis Wu 13:27:44 UTC)