MLGPro.com will be ramping up the coverage, both written and via their Video on Demand service, for this weekend’s Halo Nationals 2 event in Philadelphia. You can read all the details on this page – but remember, Video on Demand is only available to Windows XP users. Thanks, 3Suns.

Wow, timing – we just got mail from Sid Garrand, of Nightmare Armor; there’s news of their work in 2 upcoming movies (2006 and 2007, he says… intriguing!), but also new shots of their armor [deleted] Update: I’m not sure I would have posted these pictures had I known that Nightmare Armor has been served with a Cease and Desist order from Microsoft, with various legal followup pending, for unauthorized use of Halo intellectual property. Not sure how this is going to play out – but it sure seems like there might be problems! Update 2: Nice. Now I’ve been threatened with legal action from Sid for putting up this post. The pics are gone – I guess this is the last time Nightmare Armor will be mentioned here. Folks, remember – we’re a fansite. We’re really not interested in getting in the middle of your legal troubles… if the news you send is is going to cause you (or us) headaches, do us both a favor and don’t send it.

Swing by Briar’s Armor for some new shots of chest plates – brown, blue, red. Lookin’ great!

Captain Spark dropped off another 29 dialogue snippets today – brings the total up to 1532 in our Dialogue Databank, 83% of which were first submitted by him. Wow! There are some pretty hilarious ones in here – they’re all Stacker, and they were all collected with the IWHBYD skull. You can also grab these as a unit from his (new) website.

Wow… this is one of the odder Halo-related sites I’ve run across. Jim Sinicropi pointed us to WannaPartyUp.com, a site devoted to collecting Halo 2 postgame lobby conversations from Xbox Live. They range from run-of-the-mill insultfests to really bizarre comments. Everything’s in mp3 format.

A new machinima series kicked off recently – so far, there are only ‘test’ vids for download, but they’re worth keeping an eye on. Go take a look at Pumahog.com for another Red vs Blue-inspired team!

Mintz wrote to point out that his Halo for PSP site has been updated again – newest content includes the Auto-Update article from B.net and the Str8 Rippin interview from MLGPro.com.

Sigourney Weaver’s lawyers called – they’re suing One One Se7en for defamation of title.

Silent_Pea posted a series of pics created with Jet Set Radio Future’s graffiti creator – it’s impressive what you can do in-game, with just an Xbox controller to draw with! (I added the local jpegs so that if somebody stumbles on this post in a year or two, and the larger photobucket pngs are gone, they can still see the work.)

TheGhost, amused by the fact that folks thought he was faking, created another small clip of his MC Ballerina – this one’s on Sidewinder, and has shadows turned on. Available in WMP9 (3.3 mb) or QuickTime (2.5 mb). Very graceful!

Overswarm has sent along another batch of articles for his No So Common Sense strategy guide; you’ll find pieces on Offensive and Defensive Strategy in the Articles and Extras section, as well as a new article on Movement Techniques in the Advanced Combat Techniques section. He’s also added several questions (and answers) to the FAQ. Go read!

Another MPRRS passer – Purebredbrute, of Halovids.com, submitted Episode 9 of the War series; the reviewers loved it. He wanted feedback, rather than hosting – so we’ll point you to his Videos page; you can start at the beginning, or you can jump in where most of us did. (The series to date eats up almost 250 mb… so if you decide to watch the whole thing, be gentle and do it over time.) Episodes are all in WMP9 format, and range in size from 13 to 60 mb (Episode 9 is 20 mb).

Father Hartley sent us a note about Lightbearers’ Tournaments, an online (Xbox Live-based) Halo 2 tournament series – you can find details at their website. The first tourney is actually today, at 2 pm Pacific time (about 3.5 hours from the time this is being written)… it’s a 2v2 Slayer event. Get on by and read the rules, so you can be there in time!

Yet another MPRRS passing vid – this one was created by Chubark, of Hollywood Halo, and has been available on halogrid.com for almost a week now (though it was only uploaded to us for review/hosting a couple of nights ago). It’s called “All These Things That I’ve Done”, and its a music vid – it’s a Halo-based enactment of the Killers’ song. Timing is astoundingly good. There were a LOT of shots put together for this one – check out the camera angle changes! You can grab this in WMP9 format (45.6 mb) or QuickTime format (51.1 mb)… it’s a fantastic example of how far you can push the head-bouncing thing.

Hehe – TheGhost posted a short film (3.2 mb in WMP9 format, 2.8 mb in QuickTime format – smaller because I didn’t bother to include a blank audio track) showing some pretty funny animation. A couple of forum regulars called ‘foul’ (Mig and Steve both suggested that this was rigged elsewhere, and overlaid over a Blood Gulch background, instead of actually being recorded in-game)… but whether it’s real or not is irrelevant when you’re deciding if it’s funny (which it is). Go watch!

Patriarch917 continues his musical rampage – the latest parody on his Music page is ‘Plant it in the Base‘, a send-up of Snoop Dogg’s ‘Drop it’s like it’s Hot’. He was a little worried that it wouldn’t come off right – but I say, any rap song that needs 7 footnotes can’t be all bad! 6.1 mb, MP3 format.

crazedweasels noticed a new update over at Halogen, the C&C Generals Total Conversion. Looks like there’ll be some pretty big updates coming soon – this was just a warning.

Skie has put together a nice collection of photos of the Comic-con Elite costume we mentioned a couple of times (here and here) – each pic has a source tag, showing where he found it. (Skie would love to commission the costume’s creator for a project, but cant find a way to contact him. Skie can be reached via email.) We also got mail from cappy, who took a whole PASSEL of photos at the event – there are a half-dozen that cover the RvB guys, Halo, and the Elite; they start with this pic, then hit ‘next’ until you get to some apes.

Today’s VG Cats pokes fun at the whole ‘discovering sex buried in video games’ issue – Halo gets a couple of nods. Several people sent this along – looks like William McDonald was first.