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Stuntmutt continues his riffs on Halo Wars in today’s One One Se7en. (Louis Wu 15:09:53 UTC)

Whoa, bizarre. Gamasutra has this week’s sales records through yesterday in their Saling the World column… and Halo shows up a few times (which doesn’t really surprise me), including at the number one spot in Japan – with the original Halo (THAT surprises me). Again: the number one-selling Xbox game in Japan this week… is…

Evan Ryan, of Krad Productions, let us know that Terminal Dogs, Part: 1 is now up at both Machinima.com (hi-res) and YouTube (low-res); as you might guess from the title, it’s a Halo take on Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs (RD’s dialogue, Krad’s video). I love that film… time to go rent it again, I think.…

Back in March, there were reports of a couple of different Halo mods for Myth II – this one, at PlayMyth.net (thanks, Chris Arthur) which also led me eventually to this one, at Project Magma; it’s unclear whether either of these went anywhere after March, or whether any actual files were released… but the screens…

PhaLanX submitted his 8th montage (composited by EphruM) to the MPRRS; for the most part, they loved it. He doesn’t actually need hosting; the WMP9 is being hosted by HaloBoards… but since it made it through our system, we’re making a QuickTime version (91 mb) available for those who need it. Great gameplay, really nice…

Heh – very cool, and almost TOTALLY off-topic. Zugy found a video showing live-action Space Invaders; this is one of those things that shows up in your email inbox and (usually) puts a smile on your face. I get to post it because they decided to use the shield recharging sound effect at the end…

23 new pieces in the Fan Fiction section this week. Sounds like a lot – but a number of submitters released 2 or 3 chapters at a time this week. Anyway, lots to read. Get started.(Louis Wu 10:14:08 UTC)

Still more pro picks at MLG – Cpt. Anarchy predicts his top 8 teams (with some nice reasoning). Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 10:05:19 UTC)

Heh – cool; ‘spu7n1k’, in Singapore, drew a nice Master Chief in chalk outside his door – just watch that dog! Thanks, Ryan -117.(Louis Wu 10:03:19 UTC)

Gamasutra has posted a Q&A with Andy Babb, the Senior VP of Marketing for In-Fusio, the Mobile Portal people. There are some clarifications on cost (the portal is technically free, but you have to buy at least one credit in order to access it; you then USE that credit to buy content), and more info…

Bungie has posted the second Halo 2 Vista Developer Diary – Matt Priestly, H2Vista’s producer, discusses the state of development in areas like performance, UI, and the keyboard-vs-controller debate. Their preferred screen resolution is 1920×1200… and they have it running at 60fps. Nice! (I wonder what sort of stats your PC has to have to…

Wow. Paul Maestri ate a few too many mushrooms, and came up with Halo Heads 15. My brain hurts.(Louis Wu 20:24:42 UTC)

The last three years, around this time of year, you’ve been able to take a knife to a member of the cucurbit family (maybe you know it better as a pumpkin), and win cool stuff from us. vshields asked if we were gonna do it again – the answer was ‘yes, of course, we do…

KeyboardKiller, of Pothole Studios, submitted ‘Totally Random SV 1 – Attack of the Clones’ to the MPRRS a LONG time ago. (For some reason, our reviewers have stopped reviewing.) It finally made it through the system today, with a passing grade. ‘SV’ stands for ‘Short Video’, and it is that… and Totally Random. Quite nicely…

3Suns points out a feature at Kotaku – an interview with Keiji Inafune, a longtime Capcom bigwig who’s currently working on Lost Planet. “I really wanted to do something as cool as Halo. I’m a big Halo fan, but not well know in Japan. It’s very interesting, but very American. But we wanted to do…

ImmortalThree writes to let us know that Podtacular Episode 83 is up – with guest hosts Damian and Fyb3roptik, from This Spartan Life. They’ve also got a new Myspace page up… check ’em out!(Louis Wu 17:41:44 UTC)

Next Generation has posted an article about how important trailers have become to the marketing of videogames – as they are for the marketing of movies. Halo 3 is held up as a prime example of how to do it right. Thanks, LegendaryMark.(Louis Wu 17:37:15 UTC)

Trevor Chesler sent us another batch of pics of his Mjolnir armor construction – you’ll find them here. Work progresses!(Louis Wu 14:56:16 UTC)

Pinkuh posted an… interesting rendition of Cortana (probably not fully safe for work) on our forum – it’s “the first officialy unofficial artwork for the Zune” (whatever that means). We’ve added it to her Gallery, as well.(Louis Wu 14:29:30 UTC)

Wow, neat. Rooster Teeth sponsored a shuttle bus at the Gamestop Manager’s Conference… and tricked it out something fierce. I wanna ride on that! Thanks, Tex.(Louis Wu 14:24:50 UTC)