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Took us much longer than we’d hoped it would… but the thousand entries we received for the Faceplate contest have been narrowed down to a pair of winners. Congratulations to Hawaiian Pig and Wheels, whose faceplate designs win them a prototype Halo faceplate direct from Bungie! Check out the Finalists page to see the final…

Lost: Halostyle has released Episode 7, ‘The Average Journey: Part 2’ – it’s hard to tell which side is more incompetent, but it makes for some pretty funny moments. 7:42 long, weighing in at 48.3 mb (in WMP9 format) or 47.4 mb (in QuickTime format), this one passed the MPRRS this afternoon, and deserves a…

Kooberz is back to work on his Lego Zanzibar model… and he’s looking for help. Check out his forum post, check out the model sa it stands, and see what you can contribute!(Louis Wu 02:51:59 UTC)

Lots of people are asking, so I’m going to post this tonight – we’ve managed to pick our winners, and runners-up, for the faceplate contest… but I haven’t had time to put together a presentation page, so we’ll announce the details tomorrow (well, Wednesday, which technically is today, news-wise) – look for an announcement in…

Vista Week continues at Bungie.net, with an interview of the guys from Pi Studios, the folks creating the tools that will let you create new content for Halo 2 on Vista. Great to see familiar names – Dave Mertz did some wonderful work on Halo PC (and the tools released with HaloCE) when he worked…

CROSSFIRE’s ‘Desolate’ placed in the top 7 positions of movies that passed the MPRRS – making CROSSFIRE the second machinima creator to have two films in the top 7. It’s a sequel to ‘Havoc’ (which came in third on that list), and it finishes up the story started there with a bleak look at the…

Out of Mind Part 4 is now available for sponsors at the Red vs Blue website. If you’re not a sponsor, Episode 3 is available for you. All in all, it’s an Out of Mind evening!(Louis Wu 23:14:08 UTC)

Looks like Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven were talking to Bungie recently, about making games from some of the best science fiction out there. How did we miss this? Thanks, Matt. (Interesting perspective on the whole ‘gameplay vs reality’ thing in there, too…)(Louis Wu 22:22:30 UTC)

Broken Console created a teaser for Endeavour, a spinoff of their ‘Conquest’ series – the MPRRS liked it. You can download it from their website, in either WMP9 or QuickTime formats (and in high or low-res). The full movie should be out later this month or next month.(Louis Wu 22:07:49 UTC)

Pinkuh created a new Halo art piece for Laird – this one started out as a simple sketch of an ODST… then it got inked… then it got colored. The final product is pretty slick! We’ve added it to her gallery here, too.(Louis Wu 21:26:02 UTC)

Aeropause wrote up an article listing (in their opinion) the Top Ten Best Physics Games. Halo came in at number 3. (The article incorrectly claims that Halo used the Havok physics engine – Havok was incorporated into Halo 2.) Thanks, Mr Sprout, for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 20:25:59 UTC)

Team Carnage, the newest XBL playlist, is now online. You can read a description of all games in the list on Bungie.net – but a short synopsis might be ‘anti-hardcore’. These games are for fun; if you try and play them as though you were playing Team Hardcore, you’re going to get frustrated. (The funniest…

We got email from Victor De Leon, farther of LiL Poison, the world’s youngest pro Halo player. They get thousands of requests from people wanting to play LiL Poison on Xbox Live, or just to add him to their friends list; obviously, this isn’t feasible. They’ve figured out a way to get more people the…

There’s a Halo 2 tournament taking place on Saturday, during the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle this weekend – and according to Frankie, Bungie will be participating. They might even be cheating to win. Be there to watch!(Louis Wu 17:40:40 UTC)

Part 4 of Red vs Blue’s Out of Mind series is now available on Xbox Live Marketplace. (It should be available soon for download from the website, as well – but isn’t yet.) Thanks, Apollo Arrow.(Louis Wu 17:33:57 UTC)

Podtacular 77 is out – it’s a monster (apparently to make up for 73 being short), at over an hour and a half. It contains the usual stuff, plus an interview with the guys from Halo2.junk.ws. It’s cohosted by Tinkerbell23, from the Cayote Cavegirls. Thanks, Foo Mo Jive.(Louis Wu 17:29:59 UTC)

Mr Fiddle found a great Homestar Runner Halo parody – check it out on the Homestar Runner Wiki forum.(Louis Wu 16:50:33 UTC)

There’s a really nice progress review of Halo 2 Vista over at Bungie.net – new producer Matt Priestley did the writeup, and really makes me want a machine that can play this game, when it comes out! If you live in Germany, you might get to see it for yourself later this week; it’ll be…

Ninja 0n Fire posted a Matchmaking update on the Bungie.net forum today; details about what’s changing with existing playlists, plus a teaser of the new playlist, now called Team Carnage. Give it a read! And look for the actual update to the XBL playlists sometime later this week. Arachneya was first with a heads-up, via…

Wonga – here’s your chance to see Red vs Blue featured on the BBC website! I just noticed a poll on this page (it’s about halfway down) pointing out that there are 4 sessions at the Edinburgh Games Festival that can be covered, but only one reviewer – so it’s up to the readers to…