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Whoa. You don’t have much time – but if you’re interested in Master Chief armor, Briar’s Armor (search our news if you’ve never heard of them) has a red set up on eBay – with just under a day left in the auction. What a great after-Christmas present for that special Halo fan in your…

Stephen Loftus has been busy again – this time, he’s taken a close look at the Bumblebee-class Lifepod. Everything from design considerations to statistics to known passenger rosters have been covered – as usual, the depth is astounding. Go read.

CliffyB, an outspoken developer known for the Unreal series and now Gears of War, has put up a new blog entry at 1UP.com, talking about ‘Clarity of Experience’. He’s discussing how some games make it really hard to know what’s going on – who you’re fighting, who’s on your team. His example of a game…

I’m not sure what’s going on, but in the past week or two, we’ve gotten a whole bunch of requests to publicize threads on the Bungie.net forums – and the only thing these threads have in common is that they’re complaining about certain features of Halo 2, and they’re asking Bungie to ‘fix’ the problem(s).…

Stuntmutt gets a little help (is that what we’re calling it these days?) from Pinkuh in today’s One One Se7en. Nice Dickens reference, too.

Yoozel, over at Bungie.net, points out IGN’s Best of 2005 article – the Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack won Best Xbox Downloadable Content and Best Xbox Live game. Nice!

Halo: Portable has resumed posting again, after a short hiatus – and you can grab a collection of 17 wallpapers for your PSP there right now. Go gussy up your portable!

Wow. Over at High Impact Halo, there’s a link to a new Jump Tactics vid focusing on Over Jumping – a new kind of jumping that doesn’t involve any aided jumps (no rockets, no grenades, no other people), getting its participants to pretty ridiculous places. If you’re a fan of jumping, you’ve got to go…

Hellion points out a video at Youtube showing Nicole, Spartan 458, in action in Dead or Alive 4. 7 minutes long, 17 mb big, Flash format (it’s Youtube, after all). Quality is a little shakey (filmed off a TV screen, looks like, but you can get a decent sense for how the level looks, and…

An inauspicious beginning for 2006… down for a day with stomach flu. Seems like it’s over, though, so here we go again! To start with, Eegs002 posted a note on Saturday about a comic his friend does, called ‘Unfortunately Sober’. The December 28 episode was Halo 2-related. Go read!

I had meant to post this a few minutes before midnight, but festivities here at home prevented me from doing so. All of us here at HBO wish all of our friends and family the very best for a bright and fruitful new year. In what I would like to consider a tradition started back…

Over at Red vs Blue, their annual New Year’s video has been posted for sponsors – should be up for everyone later today. (I’d guess before midnight, Central time… but hey, I’ve been wrong before.) Made me laugh – though I don’t think it encouraged any actual resolution-keeping… Go watch! (Thanks, SaBoT.)

Interesting. Slith points out a ‘Covenant Mystery Ship’ from the bridge screens on the Pillar of Autumn; there are representations of two types of Covenant vessel, and one looks similar to the CCS-class cruiser (the Truth and Reconciliation is of this class). The other is… squatter. The T&R-style ship can be seen in this in-game…

Pinkuh has updated her Lost the Lead comic – and this one is Halo-related! YAY! (There’s no way to link directly to the comic page… this link will get you there, until she posts another one, and then it won’t any more. But if you’re visiting after this post went live, you’re looking for the…

Eep – I meant to post this yesterday, but it got lost in the pre-New Years Eve-planning. Z, over at halo2forum.com, announced a new montage contest a couple of days ago – and this one has what none have had before: cash prizes for the winners. There’s a thousand dollars on the line; at least…

Late last night, a new comedy passed the Movie Peer Review Rating System (submissions are WAY off, so we haven’t been hosting a lot of films – are people just not making them any more?) – it’s a re-enactment of a Chris Farley bit from the movie Tommy Boy. You can grab a copy in…

BiGmAc2121 has a new montage coming out soon – the trailer for it was edited by MikeMan27, and can be found on Halo2Forum.com. 19 mb, WMP9 format. Short, sweet, action-packed. What more do you want?

A couple of tournaments were announced on our forum yesterday – there’s a 2v2/4v4 Halo 2 event in Pittsburgh, PA, on Sunday January 8 (forum post was here, with a tourney flyer here), and a Halo 1 event in Groton, CT, on Saturday January 7, with details in this post. Next weekend looks to be…

If you don’t like puns, don’t read today’s One One Se7en. (Then again, if you don’t like puns, you’ve had 418 chances before today (not counting Sunday, Holiday, Guest, or Archive strips) to learn that lesson… so you do what you need to do.)

Well… it’s the second week of experimentation with the submission process for the Halo Fan Fiction section, and clearly a number of submitters haven’t bothered to glance at the submission guidelines. Several stories were rejected for lack of basic formatting for readability – if you want to ensure that your story is archived here, you…