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Mister Froggy pointed out that Halo, Articulated #45 is up. That Arbiter seems pretty resourceful…(Louis Wu 15:22:01 UTC)

Wow – two Fan Fiction contests announced in two days. Yesterday, we mentioned one at Halo Wars Heaven – today, we’ve got news from CommanderTony, of Halopedia, who points out a fan-run one there. As far as I can tell, there aren’t any prizes – but jus…

This is interesting – sawnose, over at Bungie.net, has posted stats of the number of unique product keys of Halo PC (and CE) that have played online in the past 30 days. 4 years after release… and there are still nearly 150,000 people playing it? Wo…

Heh – I’m not sure this won’t cause a rush to find these outfits before they get pulled off the shelves… but Kotaku has a story about a Master Chief-looking costume for sale in K-Marts in Australia. It sure doesn’t look Microsoft-sanctioned… but w…

GameDaily has a rant up today about how Microsoft seems to be trying to kill PC gaming – and Halo 2 Vista is Exhibit One. Ouch! Interesting read, though.(Louis Wu 14:51:52 UTC)

Apparently, NO GOOD TV, “the world’s largest producer of uncensored celebrity news and entertainment programming” is going to host an event in which celebrities play Halo 3 before release – with the matches televised by NGTV. Um… okay. More in the p…

Cybrfrk dug around and found yet ANOTHER Halo-branded item – Halo Trading Cards. According to the TFAW page they’re on, they’re due out at the end of August – looks like Topps wants in on the Halo cash cow.(Louis Wu 21:28:25 UTC)

PsychoRaven found a page at the online store for Things From Another World for Uprising #2 (the second of four Marvel Halo comics coming this summer). It shows the cover of this issue – something that Marvel’s page for the same issue does not. Pretty …

Kotaku’s Halo 3 Beta t-shirt contest is nearing its end; they’re down to the final 7 contestants, and looking for help from you, the public, to help with the voting. Thanks, madcowjim.(Louis Wu 17:47:44 UTC)

Last week, Bungie posted an article about the audio for Halo 3 (see here) – it started off with a description of Jay Weinland’s hunt for specific sounds. Stuntmutt has an idea about where some of those sounds might be coming from… check today’s One …

Narcogen used the discussion between two journalists last week (parts 1|2|3) as a jumping-off spot to explore the ease with which beginners can get into Halo multiplay. Interesting read!(Louis Wu 16:22:06 UTC)

Toby Allen wrote to point out an auction on eBay.uk – It’s a Halo 2 cardboard cutout, the kind you’d find in a game store. Looks to be in pretty good shape. Starting bid is £19.99, almost 10 days left on the auction. Check it out!(Louis Wu 16:17…

Z pointed out that over at Stats Reloaded, they’ve compiled full stats for the MLG Charlotte tournament – it’s pretty interesting to compare teams this way! (As far as I know, this sort of statistical analysis isn’t available anywhere else – including…

The Seattle Times has an article asking what all the hoopla is about – go see if you agree!(Louis Wu 15:54:34 UTC)

Last month, we mentioned a Halo trailer that had been created from clips from other movies; since then, Lt. Tuma has gotten quite a bit of feedback about his film, and he’s gone and recreated it. Go watch!(Louis Wu 15:25:57 UTC)

Back in early April, we mentioned a teaser for an upcoming ‘Halo 2 Challenge’ that was found in Trixie’s blog on Xbox.com. The Thurmanator noticed that an info page is now up at Xbox.com – go check it out! Cool prizes, 15 days to play (starting, proba…

Yesterday, John_117 posted a note about an article in his local newspaper – the Toronto Sun. Our policy with newspaper scans is the same as our policy with magazine scans – we will not link them until the issue is no longer available on newsstands. (I…

watchwood stopped by to point out a new fan fiction contest at Halo Wars Heaven. Submit a story by July 15, win a shot at some cool Bungie schwag. Go read their page for full details.(Louis Wu 14:44:34 UTC)

DS noticed a Halo 3 Countdown Dashboard widget for OSX users – the page it’s on also has a few Halo 3 icons for your folders. (They have to be pretty big to be nicely viewable, in my opinion – but they’re well-done.)(Louis Wu 14:38:09 UTC)

Action Trip looked over Halo 2 Vista, and found it to be fun, but (under Vista) a resource hog. Well… Vista was the hog, apparently, but since you can’t play H2V on XP (yet), it comes down to the same thing in the end. Give it a read. Thanks, Ure Pau…