Comrade_Max sent us a whole bunch of dialogue snippets – we’ve added them (all 200 or so) to the Halo 3 Dialogue Databank. Some of them are pretty funny – go listen!(Louis Wu 17:23:36 UTC)

Kornman00 just won a couple of eBay auctions for signed stuff (one of them ended two weeks ago, but he was given a second chance because the winner never paid), and realized that he’d never shown off the shwag he got when he visited Bungie Studios on Halloween – here’s a pic. (There’s a cookie on the right he simply couldn’t eat.) He’s loaded, now!(Louis Wu 17:20:40 UTC)

Game Informer has posted their list of their Top Ten Most Anticipated Games for 2008 – Halo Wars made Number 5. Thanks, Planet Halo.(Louis Wu 17:13:36 UTC)

Remember that suicide we mentioned earlier this week? Same guy did this one, too. Dedication…(Louis Wu 17:10:43 UTC)

Last week, we mentioned that 411mania had posted nominations for their Working Title awards – and that Halo 3 was up for several. Results were posted today, and the only one they went home with was the ‘King Leonidas’ Manliest Badass Character Award’. So it goes…(Louis Wu 17:09:20 UTC)

Stuntmutt’s 25-day Advent calendar is now complete; if you missed any days, you can access all of them from yesterday’s page. As for today, he’s back on his regular schedule, and the latest episode of One One Se7en is a combination holiday wish/groanmaker. Go read!(Louis Wu 17:47:34 UTC)

Bzerker let us know that Outpost: Isil Episode 2 is now available at the Treeskunk website (or on YouTube). You know… if the Covenant really worked this way, the war would have been over a lot sooner. (Louis Wu 17:27:27 UTC)

CG Society ran a 2007 Retrospective on the best uses of CG in the past year, with decisions being made by community voting. Halo 3 is on the Top 20 list! Not too shabby. Thanks, CHAOS1212.(Louis Wu 15:41:24 UTC)

lAbsolutel whipped up a cute little Halo 3 short entitled ‘I Spy’. Swing by YouTube to watch it. (Louis Wu 15:37:42 UTC)

Spartan 501 created a standalone comic (in the ‘filter a screenshot’ style) telling the story of a lone ODST Helljumper. The text is a little hard to read… but there’s a lot of work here! The entire series is hosted (41 images, over 150 panels) at Photobucket. (Louis Wu 15:36:36 UTC)

The_Eliminator stopped by with some pics of a shirt he made in art class – nice work!(Louis Wu 15:34:08 UTC)

Looks like a recent issue of Entertainment Weekly published a feature called ‘EW 2007 Fansites of the Year’ – and the EW website posted some supplementary entries. And we’re one of ’em. Nice! Thanks, xupaosso. (Louis Wu 15:30:28 UTC)

While we were offline, Elnea was busy – she posted both Episode 105 and Episode 106 of Halo Action Figure Theater in the last couple of days… and the tragedy of Steve has taken a turn for the bizarre. At least he’s not dead…(Louis Wu 15:20:48 UTC)

This older clip (from early November) showed up in my Google Alerts yesterday – very nice example of how cool Saved Films can be. True karmic justice!(Louis Wu 15:17:11 UTC)

Leader of Blind let us know that Abyss Studios has released RHC Apocalypse – you can watch it on their site, download it from Mythica, or stream it from YouTube. It’s five minutes of tiny clips (plus two minutes of credits) – many are silly, but they’re all short, and some are pretty funny. (The ‘Will It Blend?’ parody made me laugh.) Go watch!(Louis Wu 15:15:09 UTC)

As usual, we’re taking Christmas off – the final day of Stuntmutt’s Advent Calendar will be up on the One One Se7en page at noon, EST, but beyond that, we’re spending the day with our families.

We’ll be back updating on Wednesday, the 26th.

Grunts R Us has put together a complete guide to the Halo 3 Meta Game – the point-scoring option for Campaign play. Swing by for point values (and multipliers) of every enemy and activity in the game! There’s even advice about which skulls to use for getting to those meta achievements. Check it out! Thanks, oriol.(Louis Wu 12:21:08 UTC)