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Wow, I hate it when news posts are eaten by the site gremlins. GameSpot is running a Halo 3 CTF tournament – registration begins tomorrow, runs for 5 days. Winning team gets a $200 Best Buy card. Swing by for more details.(Louis Wu 18:23:52 UTC)

Check out the Bungie.net Jobs page – there are three new jobs (Port/Emulation Specialist, 3D UI Designer, and Animator/Dance Choreographer) you might be qualified for. Sort of makes you wonder what they’re working on, doesn’t it?(Louis Wu 17:15:36 UTC)

Z pointed out a new Halo 3 montage from ipwnt, Sargoth, and Zanster – you can download it (all 180 mb of it) from Halo3Forum.com. I found the editing to be pretty distracting – but if you like funky cuts, this one’s for you.(Louis Wu 17:11:23 UTC)

Wow – chargeorge pointed out a friend who recorded Halo 2’s Rememberance on an accordion. You can hear it on his Facebook page. Will it spark interest in this?(Louis Wu 16:21:10 UTC)

Over at the 405th Forums (nice makeover, btw), there’s a sad tale of Microsoft heavy-handedness – the Legendary Armor crew has been served with a Cease and Desist notice. Sorry, guys!(Louis Wu 15:41:01 UTC)

You may remember the name ‘El Mayimbe’ – he works over at LatinoReview.com, and breaks a lot of movie stories. He showed up here in 2005, when he reviewed the original Halo movie script. I’m not sure April 1 is the best choice of ‘days to break interesting news’… but if you swing by LR.com,…

The timing is unfortunate, since a lot of people will assume it’s false – but we’ve added a team member to our Halo Story Page crew. Welcome to UNSC Trooper, who hopes to help bring the section out of hibernation – he’s already posted his first news bit!(Louis Wu 15:15:43 UTC)

In sad news, it looks like High Impact Halo has closed its doors – visiting the site shows a domain parking page, so I guess Ducain let the domain expire. I knew he was starting to get tired… but I hadn’t realized he was ready to hang it up. We’ll miss you, man.(Louis Wu 14:27:25…

gunluva created a fun video he calls ‘Sounds of Foundry’ – music is where you find it.(Louis Wu 14:24:09 UTC)

Due to a complicated sales manouver by Microsoft, players of Halo 3 in Europe and Africa have caused an intriguing pattern to be created on Bungie’s Players Online map (visible both on their website and in the Matchmaking lobby on Xbox LIVE). It’s unclear how long they can convince these players to stay online (and…

The massive Inside Job, a four and a half minute cutscene weighing in at about 200 mb in HD, is now up for downloading in the Halo 2 Cutscene Library. From a story standpoint, this one can’t be missed. From a gorgeousness standpoint, this one is up there with the best. Go watch! Thanks, as…

Ducain forwarded some interesting news from laser – looks like someone’s trying to bring Halo maps into Goldeneye 007. Check out the Hang ’em High movie!(Louis Wu 21:11:16 UTC)

A couple of months ago, someone (I can’t figure out who) pointed out this picture at Renderosity.com – a very nice render of a Halo landscape, built in Bryce. I asked for, and received, permission to add this to our Misc Art collection, from Orestes, the creator – but somehow, I never actually NOTICED the…

Hawty McBloggy found a fun shirt at Split Reason – go look!(Louis Wu 19:13:21 UTC)

Next-Gen has an interview with CJ Cowan, Halo 3’s cinematics director – read it for a glimpse inside the studio, a look at how the work pipeline has changed over the years, and a positive spin on Seattle’s weather! Thanks, LordGideon.(Louis Wu 17:46:44 UTC)

RVideo ran across a pretty impressive artist over at Renderosity.com – Ubald has been creating Halo-related images for a couple of years now. I’ve sent off a request to him to be allowed to mirror the Halo content here, for ease of viewing – but you should look through the links RVideo has supplied, and…

A couple of years ago, Cody Miller announced that he’d finished Halo 2 on Legendary difficulty, with no deaths – if you wanted to watch it in a reasonably viewable form, you had to download a two-gigabyte file. A couple of days ago, we were contacted by SPDN p0iz3n0us, who’s now done the same thing…

This has been discussed before, but the inclusion of our planet for scale is a nice touch. Stephen Loftus has used a screenshot from Halo 3 along with some previous reference info to estimate the size of the Ark. That’s one big structure!(Louis Wu 13:15:16 UTC)

I’d like to apologize for a post I made yesterday, tying a UFO sighting to the IRIS ARG. While those images did surface during the ARG, they were shown to be unconnected to the game itself (the only thread I could find on a superficial search was this one). Thanks to DHalo for the heads-up.…

TTL Demag0gue has let us know that Reclaimer Part 38 is now online – Ferial becomes less, rather than more, clear. (The comic has also moved to its own domain. While the old links still work – they’re being redirected to the new site – I’ve updated the links in our news database just for…