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The Series 8 Halo action figures have been available from various retail outlets for a couple of months now, but if you want to support Bungie’s plans of world domination, you can buy two of them (a Spartan with a popcorn Flood and a minor Jackal) at the Bungie Store, as of yesterday. Thanks to…

Before you leave High Impact Halo, swing by this news post – it describes a trick that’s been waiting to be completed for years… that the HIH community finally pinned down. Uzny was the guy who finally made it happen – but it was a community effort, through and through. The video’s pretty fun -…

Over at High Impact Halo, Ducain pointed out a new tribute vid created to pay homage to the Halo Speedrunners, that group of fans that does their best to make it from the start to the end of a level in as little time as possible. It’s long (17 minutes) – but a pretty impressive…

A month ago, Next Generation ranked the top 100 Games of the 21st century, based on sales volume – and the Halo franchise came in second. last week, they did the same for PC Games – and Halo PC came in 20th. Not too shabby! Thanks, Phan7om.(Louis Wu 22:06:36 UTC)

Helveck painted a great Master Chief bust on his garage wall… what a wonderful way to spice up your garage!(Louis Wu 22:02:35 UTC)

QuickTactical has whipped up a basic guide to using Audacity, a cross-platform audio program that lets users record their voice – useful for machinima makers who don’t want to record dialogue over XBL. He posted it on Halogrid.com – and we’ve put up a local mirror for posterity. Give it a read!(Louis Wu 10:41:40 UTC)

TheGarbageMan has released another bunch of piano variations – some really nice work! Grab the downloads from his forum post, in either .wma or .mp3 format. (Louis Wu 10:37:36 UTC)

DropShock Episode 22 has been posted – bit over an hour. There’s Halo content, this time out. (As always, this one is not even remotely G-rated.)(Louis Wu 10:24:36 UTC)

Sep7imus noticed that there’s a bunch of Halo stuff with clearance prices over at Hot Topic – including the Mister Chief t-shirt, which went on sale for the very first time less than 4 months ago. That’s like straight-to-video DVDs… poor Frankie.(Louis Wu 12:55:06 UTC)

Stuntmutt uses up all his accumulated goodwill at Bungie with a single One One Se7en. Way to go!(Louis Wu 12:21:57 UTC)

Chris Simpkins sent us a link to a Halo-inspired trance song he’d created called ‘808 Guilty Spark’. 8.2 mb in MP3 format… starts slow, speeds up!(Louis Wu 10:52:57 UTC)

Masta Chef noticed a couple of new Halo action figures available for preorder at DieCastExpress.com – a Blue Spartan with a flag (and a large stationary gun), and the Halo 2 Weapons Battle Pack – lots of extras for your existing figures. (You can also grab the Red Spartan with white striping and a Covenant…

Sigafoos let us know that WikiRiot 14 (34 mins, 13.7 mb) is now available. Master Chief fights… Batman?(Louis Wu 17:02:13 UTC)

Last summer, Bungie’s Damián Isla gave a talk at the Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Entertainment Conference entitled “Dude, where’s my Warthog? – From Pathfinding to General Spatial Competence’. We don’t have audio of the talk – but the slides were pretty fascinating in their own right. If you’re interested in the techniques Bungie uses to…

Matt6908 sent us a music video for Pillar’s ‘Frontline’ – the MPRRS liked it, for the most part. Some fantastic action shots, and cinematic eye candy. Check it out! Available in both WMP9 format (37.1 mb) and QuickTime format (41.9 mb).(Louis Wu 11:02:39 UTC)

A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned a Halo sighting in the current issue of Wired Magazine – for those who don’t actually READ Wired (you should, it’s chock-full of good stuff every month), you can see this online at Wired’s site. Thanks to ChrisVioxxx for reminding me of this (which made me go check…

PlasmaFire pointed out an episode of the webcomic ‘This Side Up’ that takes a subtle (okay, not so subtle) jab at Halo 2 recently. Give it a read!(Louis Wu 10:41:21 UTC)

Over the past month or so, a whole bunch of people known mostly for their presence in the Halo fan community have gotten jobs at Bungie Studios. For a lot of people, going to work for Bungie is a down-the-road goal, but the number of people hired from the fanbase has been meager for a…

Over at Halo3Forum.com, there’s a thread started by someone working at a military base in Kuwait – he’s looking for donations of used controllers and copies of Halo 2 (the conditions there are such that controllers don’t last long). Swing by and read the details – and help out if you can! Thanks, QuickTactical.(Louis Wu…

For those of you who like tribbles, we’ve put a higher-res version of Pinkuh’s Mister Chief pizzaboy in her gallery here. If your brain was warped by the medium-sized version you saw last night… don’t look at this.(Louis Wu 19:17:18 UTC)