2old2play has put up 2old2type episode 11, their latest podcast. Discussion of their tournament software, lan info, speculation about Halo 1 on the Xbox360, and more. Just under an hour long, 25 mb, mp3 format. Go grab a copy! Thanks, DSmooth.

Stuntmutt continues his adulation of Spartan 458 in today’s One One Se7en. Poor 458…

Broken Console has released episode 8 of The Squadron, in both WMP9 (21 mb) and QuickTime (19 mb) formats. Turf’s in some serious trouble… go watch! As usual, high-quality cinematography, audio, the works.

On our forum, Skie pointed out a post on Shacknews – musician Henning Pauly is also a videogame fan, and two of the songs on his most recent album are videogame-related (including one called “Halo”). He was asked for a snippet for the Shacknews crowd – and Pauly obliged with a 7 minute piece that contains some of ‘Halo’, almost all of ‘I Like My Video Games’, and intros for Shackers. Go listen!

Over on Bungie.net, you’ll find a writeup of the most recent Halo Humpday Challenge… the Bungie guys took on the Halo 2 Test Team. Ooh… what a mistake. They got pummeled. Frankie’s writeup is funny… when you’re not crying for how badly they got spanked. Thanks to Stuntmutt for the heads-up.

I meant to say something earlier today, but forgot… thanks to [HC]D-Man for reminding me. This is just a heads-up that you’ve got 6 days left to submit an entry to the 343 Guilt O’ Lantern 2005 competition – there are some pretty spiffy entries so far, but there’s still plenty of time to put together a killer ‘kin!

Ouch. Stubbs the Zombie has been released for Xbox – at least the NTSC version. And the PC and Mac versions are coming next month. However, if you live in a PAL country… you’ve got a little wait ahead of you. THQ just announced that they’ll be bringing the PAL version to the world… and that the UK version will be released in February. (They say that the PC version will be coming in February, as well… but I’m not sure I understand why that would need to be delayed…) Thanks, eddie m.

The USA Final match for the World Cyber Games 2005 was between Team3D (the Ogres) vs Team3D (TheAlley); if you’re on a Windows PC, you can view this match on the WCG website. (It’s completely incompatible with Macs.) Thanks, Sn0G.

Looks like the Video Games Live concert tour has been postponed – AGAIN. I’m done posting notes about this; I’ve been burned twice now. (I had front-row seats in Boston, and that show was cancelled when the tour was postponed the first time. Then I bought tickets for a Connecticut date when the tour was rescheduled… and today, THAT show was cancelled. Both sets of tickets were ordered through Ticketmaster; there’s been some sort of problem with the first set, and I still haven’t seen a refund (though the show was cancelled 3 months ago), and the second set will cost me a few bucks in non-refundable handling charges, as well. I’m not willing to try a third time. Yeah, i know VGL is not Ticketmaster. Doesn’t change the fact that I’ve had to go through the refund process twice, and am currently out about $250.) So, while it’s possible that the show might be rescheduled next year, and it’s possible that they might, actually, go through with it and PERFORM… we won’t be posting any more news updates about the tour here at HBO. Thanks to Konrad for the heads-up.

PrAy4U writes to let us know about a national Halo 2 event on November 19 to be held at gaming centers around the US, using custom tournament system link software to link centers together – currently 9 states are involved. The technology is called Tunnelvision – looks pretty cool! Swing by and see if you can join in!

Dennis Powers sent along a link to a bunch of frequently-asked questions about his Halo CE Chronicles series – if you’ve been curious about stuff relating to that, swing by and see if your questions are answered!

Podtacular Ep 18 has been released; this one focuses on Waterworks, but has plenty of other content. 8.6 mb, available via iTunes or direct download. Check it out!

Arcadian Flame, of Chairleg Productions, submitted a short history of Machinima to the MPRRS. It passed. It’s pretty funny. We’re hosting the WMP9 (33.5 mb) and QuickTime (28.7 mb) formats, and you can grab a PSP-formatted version on their website. We definitely need more vids like this – great audio, humor… nice work!

According to Yahoo Financial News, VIBE Magazine, Boost Mobile, and Motorola are teaming up on “the First-Ever Hip Hop Video-Game Lifestyle Tour” – hip-hop music and videogames (including Halo 2) to 20 historically black colleges around the US. Details and a schedule can be found in the story.

Gamertag Radio is presenting the First Annual Xbox Community Awards; they’re taking votes for the next few weeks (voting ends November 15), and the audio awards show is on November 20. Apparently, we’re up for an award (Best Fansite Based On A Game), which is pretty cool. You need to register to vote. Thanks, Godfree.

L30N1DAS (or is it Thanatos?) created a new Halo 2 Adium icon – if you get messaged, it gets active. (There’s also a new soundset.) Comments can go here.

Wow. There’s a massive art update over at Halo Babies… some really draw-dropping stuff. Go check it out!

Over at MLGPro.com, Dyslexia wrote up the MLG LA event, covering highs and lows, winners and losers, and all the drama that happens at a major tournament. Great read! Thanks, Dolbex. And thanks to 3Suns, who also mentioned the new Video on Demand content (including a rebroadcast of the entire event) that went live recently.

Cogent’s outage in southern Florida last night (due to Hurricane Wilma, and affecting HBO’s datacenter) coincided nicely with the window of opportunity I had for updates yesterday evening – so I couldn’t tell you about the new story on Bungie.net, about the followup to the Fight the Flood campaign Bungie ran last month. Thanks to you, the fans, the American Red Cross received a check for over $175,000 from Bungie and Sunrise Identity (the guys who run the Bungie Store) for hurricane relief. Wonga!

DOH! I forgot to post this yesterday; it passed the MPRRS on Sunday night. It’s a trailer for ‘From the Oder to the Elbe: 17 Days Through Hell’, and it was created by Roland. Screen format is a very strange 1200×600 pixels, but if that doesn’t fit on your screen, you can watch it at 50% resolution, and it will actually look better. It’s a trailer for an upcoming World War II reenactment. The WMP9 version is 21.7 mb, the QuickTime version is 21.9 mb. Enjoy!