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Wow. A couple of years ago, we helped Bungie auction off a bunch of cool schwag, with proceeds going to help Katrina victims. One of the items was a Halo 2 poster, signed by the majority of the Bungie team. Final price was $1736.70. It’s back up on eBay again, this time with a starting…

Sodagod’s Inside Halo series continues with Episode 6 – it’s on YouTube right now (thanks, Major Silva), and will eventually be downloadable from machinima.com, though it doesn’t seem to be posted there yet. Ten minutes long, it highlights some of the better machinima releases in the past couple of months, discusses general Halo news and…

ZZoMBiE13 brings back a pair of popular characters in today’s installment of Another Halo Comic Strip – it’s immature humor, sure, but it’ll make you laugh.(Louis Wu 14:45:19 UTC)

PFG pointed out an auction he’s running on eBay – it’s for a rare, unreleased Joyride action figure. Check it out!(Louis Wu 14:38:00 UTC)

Wow – this is the first I’ve heard of this. InformationWeek points out that while Microsoft did a nice job of bumping up weekly sales to finish the last three months of 2007 with 4.3 million units sold… that’s actually LESS than they sold in the same timeframe the year before. So even WITH the…

Xbox360Fanboy has posted a bunch of pictures of the McFarlane action figures… packaged. We already told you about some of these a few weeks ago – but X3F’s collection contains more shots.(Louis Wu 14:28:20 UTC)

On our forum, there’s a pretty interesting discussion about the Halo story (the overall story, rather than the story from any one game), and how good a job Bungie did in getting it across to you in-game. It touches on the interaction between storytelling and gameplay, on the relationship between realistic and reasonable, on subtlety,…

Xorian noticed yesterday that Arby ‘n’ the Chief Episode 3 has been posted at machinima.com; see what Recon armor can do? Funny stuff.(Louis Wu 14:02:32 UTC)

Heh – a couple of guys worked out a script that calculates the amount of time you spend waiting to respawn in multiplayer, assuming an average 5 second respawn. Gives you pause… Thanks, BuckHijo.(Louis Wu 20:07:05 UTC)

A bunch of recent One One Se7en episodes have contained Halo 3 story spoilers. Today’s does, too. Pretty nice zinger, though.(Louis Wu 17:30:15 UTC)

The Halo Wars website has been updated again, with a new piece of concept art, and some rationale behind its creation. Go read ‘What’s behind a concept…’ on the front page now. Thanks, Marcus-626.(Louis Wu 17:27:49 UTC)

Zaam pointed out a school philosophy project he created using the Halo 3 engine – it’s called ‘The Philosophy of Control’, and it looks at various forms of government, and some problems each might face. It’s in two parts, on YouTube (One | Two). I don’t know what grade it earned.(Louis Wu 17:15:41 UTC)

Halo Action Figure Theater #119 has been posted – there’s hope! Well, sort of. Things rely on Spartan 212 and his team… and that might not be a really good thing.(Louis Wu 16:51:39 UTC)

1UP.com sat down with Brian Jarrard and Tyson Green and talked for a LONG time about what worked, and didn’t work, in Halo 3. There’s a huge amount of information, covering what happened at the end of Halo 2, how they made decisions about Halo 3 content, why they’ve chosen some of the things they’ve…

It’s been a while since you’ve heard from Madda Cheeb, the trash-talking action figure that lives at Xbox Ottawa. Looks like that might be because he’s been globetrotting. Swing by the site for a huge collection of photos of Madda Cheeb, all over the world! (Andrew says he got some pretty odd looks taking some…

Deekor let us know that he’s released a trailer for his upcoming film ‘Infected’. It’s short, nicely filmed. (No real content.) Take a look.(Louis Wu 15:12:42 UTC)

If you live in Europe (well, some parts of Europe), Microsoft wants to see what you can do with the Master Chief. They’re looking for “short movies that show the unseen adventures of Master Chief and the Halo crew.” Send in a movie – you might find yourself in Hollywood for a 4-week Film School.…

bryboy remix wrote to let us know that the Create-a-Hero contest being run by Halopen Films (we last mentioned it in November) has had its deadline extended until February 25, 2008. Check the contest page for full details.(Louis Wu 14:51:14 UTC)

Halo Babies’ mrsmiley sat down with DigitalPh33r, the machinimaker behind Arby ‘n’ Chief, Deux Ex Machina, and a number of other projects. Go read about what makes him tick!(Louis Wu 13:40:42 UTC)

Quiet week in the Fan Fiction section – only five new pieces. Go read!(Louis Wu 13:37:58 UTC)