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Jonathan Rivas noticed another batch of new stuff at the Bungie Store – you can grab an H3 Laser Etched Microfiber Fleece Jacket for $50, and a ‘No Scope to the Dome’ long-sleeved T for $18. The Halo Graphic Novel and the Art of Halo books are both back in stock. What are you waiting…

KillerN was removed from the top-tier team XiT WoundZ right after their loss in Las Vegas last month – over at Amped, you can read an interview with him, getting his side of the story.(Louis Wu 16:44:09 UTC)

This came in yesterday, but I forgot to post it. Over at the website for the Fox affiliate in Houston, there’s an article about a doctor who’s used input from gamers to design a better sort of radiation treatment system for cancer patients – in his words, they’ve gone from “a shot gun, where we…

The Weekly Update went up at Bungie a couple of hours ago. In it you’ll find taunting comments about Halo 3 online (Bungie/MS only for now), info about the commercial coming Monday, tidbits about what’s happening in the studio right now, and apologies for the loss of Team SWAT. Read it at Bungie.net – or…

Paul Maestri writes to point out Halo Heads 30 – looks like there’s a dark side to Viva Piñata…(Louis Wu 20:33:20 UTC)

You might think, from the title of today’s One One Se7en, that it pokes fun at Nintendo’s newest console. You’d be vastly overestimating Stuntmutt’s maturity level, though…(Louis Wu 16:26:31 UTC)

14 new pieces for you this week in the Fan Fiction section – check ’em out!(Louis Wu 16:11:10 UTC)

You can find an interview with Karma over at MLGPro.com – go read about the guy who walked away from the Las Vegas championship with almost $40,000 in his pocket (not bad for a weekend’s work!). Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 15:36:17 UTC)

LordGideon and friends have kicked off a new site, called ‘Halo Everywhere’. The premise is simple: insert Halo content into everything you see. It’s a contest – you’ve got 30 days to come up with cool pics, and there are some nice prizes at the end (details forthcoming) – so swing by the site, check…

Boxer noticed a new Halo 3 backpack (along with some previously-discovered items) at the Bungie Store – nice grey look!(Louis Wu 14:03:26 UTC)

Earlier this evening, while some of us were out gallivanting around irresponsibly, KP was keeping down the number of international heart attacks, by clarifying a point about the upcoming Halo 3 beta that was incorrectly stated in today’s MS Press Release – this beta will be open to people all around the world, not just…

We’re still waiting for confirmation from Bungie on some of the more controversial pieces of this… but a Microsoft press release sent out this morning suggests that the Halo 3 beta next spring will be limited to North America, and that it will NOT be all-inclusive.Beginning Monday, Dec. 4, by visiting http://www.halo3.com, gamers in North…

If you visit live.xbox.com, you can see what the people on your Friends List are doing, if they’re online. There were some odd entries this morning, from a couple of Bungie employees… now I’m nearly 100% certain that nobody’s actually putting time into building a Pimps at Sea game, fun as it might be -…

Whoa. Over at Bungie.net, you’ll find a screenshot from the upcoming Halo 3 ad, airing this Monday night on ESPN. If you don’t have access to ESPN, you’ll be able to see a 720p version on Xbox Live Marketplace soon after. (If you don’t have a 360, I’m certain a version will be on YouTube…

Over at MLGPro.com, you can find a blog entry from Karma, discussing Carbon’s success this year – interesting read. There’s also a teaser for Episode 4 of the MLG Pro Circuit show coming up this Saturday.(Louis Wu 17:34:16 UTC)

Over at the Halo CE Chronicles website, the final episode of Static has been posted – Alex gets clear of the Hunter, finally, and a surprise twist makes lots of things clear. It’s double-size – 60 mb in downloadable WMP9 or QT, 36 mb in streaming Flash format. Nice end to the story! (Louis Wu…

Dojorkan found a pretty fun pic.(Louis Wu 23:07:48 UTC)

Not long ago, we released Pie Chapters 1 and 2, from Machine Enema – both were fantastic examples of Halo machinima. Recently sodaGoD completed Pestilence, set in the same universe as the Pie stories, but on a different tack. As before, cinematography is excellent, storyline is strong, voice acting is top-notch. I loved this film.…

Compton noticed that the XBL Playlist changes we heard about a couple of weeks ago are now in effect – if you log into Xbox Live to play Halo 2, you’ll find a much smaller set of available playlists. Team SWAT is dead… long live Team SWAT. (I’m happy that the last game I played…

Last week, our forum was awash with complaints that the Halo screenshots released recently looked more like Halo 2 with a spit-shine than ‘next-gen graphics’. The folks voicing their opinions didn’t want to hear that these shots came from an alpha build of Halo 3, or that some of the textures used right now are…