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Over at Games Are Fun, there’s a summary of what Halo has done for the shooter genre on consoles. It’s a funny article, because the guy who wrote it clearly doesn’t like Halo at all… but still admits that it did a few things right. Give it a look.(Louis Wu 14:13:31 UTC)

Elnea’s posted Halo Action Figure Theater #139 – the pretty blue lady explains how she makes her most important choices. I think it’s a valuable glimpse into the female mind.(Louis Wu 13:48:49 UTC)

Yesterday, we mentioned a Halo theme for Ericsson phones – there was interest in the forum, so Don sent along the theme itself. It’s quite small (30k, zipped); to install it, put it in your phone’s “theme” directory then apply it by going to settings > display > theme. (The theme itself has an underscore…

TTL Demag0gue stopped by with the latest Reclaimer comic – Ferial is being rather cryptic.(Louis Wu 15:32:41 UTC)

Heh – Maluu and MrOllie are back to their old Trick-Jumping ways, with a JumpTactics entry into the MLG Pro Film Festival Contest. It’s short, and it makes extensive use of tweaked damage settings… but it’s beautiful. Go watch. Thanks to RVideo for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 14:33:17 UTC)

Wow. Ducain pointed out this newspost at High Impact Halo – seems a bunch of crazy HIH tricksters figured out a way to get a vehicle into the Index Chamber in Halo 2’s Quarantine Zone. If you’re thinking “yeah, so?” read the explanation of how this came about in grumpy’s post. That’s some pretty serious…

Littlebigman noticed that Toy News International has pics of McFarlane Series 3 figures. He wasn’t very gracious about it, though.(Louis Wu 12:47:42 UTC)

Lordstemplar1 stopped by to let us know about Gray Team Transmission One, a new machinima project from Mindless Distortion Productions, has been released. You can find download links on the 508th Brigade forum. Twelve minutes long. The writing could use a little help… but the battle scenes are fun.(Louis Wu 12:46:44 UTC)

Don has reworked his Bungie/Halo 3 cell phone theme – he built it for his Sony Ericsson W580i, but apparently, it works for a few of their models. Check it out!(Louis Wu 12:31:20 UTC)

Dennis Powers let us know that the Halo CE Chronicles series ‘Shipwrecked’ Episode 4 is out – The Exception shows what happens when you get too hungry.(Louis Wu 12:29:49 UTC)

If you missed the ‘Our Favorite Things’ movie download last week (there aren’t that many of you who have, we’ve served almost 100,000 copies of it, in various flavors), Bungie has made it available (for free, of course) on Xbox LIVE Marketplace. Head to New Arrivals -> Halo 3 to grab it! There are a…

Another Halo Comic Strip shows that Chief’s got more than one talent up his sleeve…(Louis Wu 19:05:55 UTC)

Gah. I hate mornings that get split up. I nearly missed the Tied the Leader update – XerxdeeJ whined mightily about the SWAT playlist (c’mere, boy, I have some lead for your noggin), a TTL-based Xbox 360 theme for a contest has been highlighted, more cool panoramas have been posted, and there’s even some CoD4…

The third map in the Legendary DLC pack has been announced over on Bungie.net – Blackout is a straight-up remake of Lockout. (For all you people screaming that this was going to be Lockout – you were right. Doesn’t make the faked magazine cover any more real, however…) Paul Russell, Dan Miller, Blake Low and…

pooberry let us know about a bit of an old railroad tie that looks sort of familiar… (Louis Wu 18:39:29 UTC)

weephun noticed a UT3 mod that lets Halo 3 run on a PS3…(Louis Wu 18:36:04 UTC)

The Halo 2 Cutscene Library grows by three more HD scenes – Testament, One Way Ticket, and Sorry, Were You in the Middle of Something? are available for download. Clan Infectionist and Wraith-ops are, as usual, helping with the bandwidth. Go watch!(Louis Wu 18:17:40 UTC)

Z asked us to take a look at STA’s Athanasia – a Halo 3 montage with some nice editing. Five and a half minutes long, 126 mb in WMP9 format – give it a look!(Louis Wu 17:55:18 UTC)

Bungie reminds you that the Heroic DLC is now free – there was an issue this morning making them available, but they’re up now. Swing by Xbox LIVE Marketplace and grab ’em if you don’t already have ’em!(Louis Wu 17:00:23 UTC)

The Rooster Teeth crew has released Recovery One, Part IV, with Director’s Commentary (for sponsors) and without (for the masses). It’s the finale of a great mini-series… go watch! (If you’re a sponsor, there are some intriguing hints about what might be coming next…)(Louis Wu 05:05:36 UTC)