Mintz dropped us a note that Halo:Portable has a boatload of new content again this week – if you’ve got a PSP, go grab your stuff! MLG articles, music, Podtacular summaries – there should be plenty of stuff to keep your daily commute to school/work from getting boring.

That poor 360 – it’s the butt of EVERYBODY’S jokes today. Even One One Se7en takes a shot.

Go visit Halo Babies today – you’ll finally understand why there’s a shortage of Xbox 360s to buy!

Ten new pieces in the Fan Fiction section today – have you read you Halo allotment yet?

Empire, a British movie site, talked to Guillermo Del Toro a couple of days ago about his upcoming plans. Sounds like Hellboy 2 is definitely his first choice for next project, with Halo not TOO far behind… but if push comes to shove, he’d pick Hellboy over the Covies. Bottom line – there’s STILL no definitive news about a director for the Halo movie. Thanks to Mike Smith for the heads-up.

Finn’s taken a break from his insane academic schedule (I’d have blown a fuse months ago) to clear out some of the choicer nuggets in the Halo Story Page mailbag. Intriguing stuff – check it out!

Over at Geezer Gamers, there’s an article describing the Pentathlon, a 5-game (duh) tournament “where you don’t really care who wins, but you’re just a better person for just having played in it.” Sounds like a blast! Go read.

Heh. In the midst of a thread that wondered whether Team Ninja had gotten access to either the Halo movie script or a script for Halo 3, Frankie managed to both shut down speculation about what a particular passage meant (the material Team Ninja worked with to put Nicole together was created specifically for them by Bungie) and announce a new Halo Humpday Challenge writeup on Bungie.net (Bungie won, for the first time in a long time). Not too shabby! Read the thread, read the writeup. Feed the people. Stay alive.

Andrew, from XboxOttawa, has released another Halo-based Flash game – this one is called Madda Cheeb’s Retro Hop’n’Bop Challenge, and your job is to keep the flood from thawing! It’s a cross between Mario and Halo, and it’s pretty fun. If you’re playing it on a Mac, be sure to use Firefox – it’s painfully slow on anything else. (Works fine on Windows.) Good stuff!

Qbakies looks at some of the possible silver linings that might come with the cloud of fewer players on Halo 2’s XBL multiplay. Personally, I haven’t seen a drop yet, but he’s right – it’ll come eventually. He let us know on the forum.

Gamespy’s Gamer’s Choice voting for Xbox Game of the Year 2005 is up… and the Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack is in the running. Heh. Go vote! Thanks, Halo Planet.

Over at MLGPro.com, there’s a great photo-essay of the Eastern Conference Championship – telling the story of the weekend in pictures (and words). Good stuff! Thanks to Eastern Bureau Chief 3Suns for heads-up.

Podtacular has released Episode 36 – they discuss the playlist updates, 360 madness, and some web resources. Thanks, Foo Mo Jive.

The latest missive on the Tied the Leader blog is a look at the changes to the Halo 2 playlists on Xbox Live. Nice read! Thanks, XerxdeeJ.

Narcogen looks pretty deeply at the videogame-as-art issue (can a videogame be art? Can the story told by a game be as rich as the story told, say, in a novel, or by a film?) in his latest Retort at Rampancy.net. Go read – but prepare to think.

Davidgojr submitted his montage, Click-Boom, to the MPRRS yesterday – they loved it. (The music, some felt, was overused… but sometimes you just have to go with a classic.) Great organization, some very fun techniques. A seven minute montage – and no black screens anywhere! Grab it in WMP9 format (87.7 mb) or QuickTime format (89.6 mb). Boom!

One of the rumors floating around last week was that someone other than Bungie was working on Halo 3. Stuntmutt speculates on who it might be in today’s One One Se7en.

Eight new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section today. What are you waiting for?

Some cool MLG content, again courtesy of 3Suns – there’s the new Gallery, with some pretty darned slick organization, there’s the newest Player of the Week piece, focusing on Walshy, and there’s a blog spotlight on Xena (warning: Here There Be Pinkness). Check it out!

3Suns (who’s still angling for a site rename, it seems), points out this article at Gamespot, which has a neat way to compare the graphics on the Xbox vs the 360. (Yes, they use Halo 2, so it’s relevant.)