One One Se7en shows that ODSTs were never the sharpest tacks on the seat…

Halo: Resolution puts our heroes in some pretty grave danger…

In an attempt to dominate the HBO front page, Dolbex sent around a bunch of news about Halo50k3, coming up at the end of July. First off, MLG ran a contest on XBConnect that gave free entry to the whole XBC team, an XBC pro account, and some MLG schwag to the person who could guess the 8 winners of the FFA the closest; this was won by Buu from team SA. Second, Registration is open now (and $40/person for only 3 more days) on the MLG Pro site (check there for hotel info, as well). Third, rapture interviewed dolbex about the event over at Gotfrag. If this isn’t enough info for you, the entire collection of details has been written up in an article on the MLG site.

Dolbex got a poster he won after E3 back from the framers yesterday – you’ll find some cool pics in this forum post. Yeah, those will likely be sold by Bungie/Microsft at some point. No, you can’t have Dolbex’s. Update: Sketchfactor chimed in to say that the licensing arm is close to making a deal, and that as soon as they know these (or posters like them) are available in stores, there’ll be a post on Bungie.net. Nice!

The last of the enormous miscart backlog is now posted – you can find another 24 items in the Miscellaneous Art section today. Predictably, there are already NEW items in the queue – but hopefully, I’ll be able to keep up on them a bit better.

Hehe – pretty cool. ThinkGeek sells a green laser pointer, and accepts ‘Action Shots’ – the combination led one Halo fan to send in this very slick shot. Thanks, Troy Conrad, for letting us know!

Chronomaw writes to point out that Halogen, the Halo mod for C&C Generals (last mentioned in February, though that website no longer works) will be releasing a new render every day. Swing on by to see their progress!

Noah Hofmann, who used to go by the name ‘Shrike’, but now goes by ‘Ultrash’, has turned in a third piece of Halo Fan Music. (The first two can be found here.) This one is called ‘Halo The Miracle‘, and is an 8-minute-long, 9.2 mb mp3 which is great to listen to. Ultrash is happy if someone wants to use this in a fan work – just contact him.

Dave Writz pointed out the new bumper sticker on his mom’s car…

Today’s Calvin and Halo shows why you should never play games with sneaky tigers. (Or sneaky game documentarians, either… Just ask Dan Chosich.)

The second batch of Miscellaneous Art is now posted – 32 pieces, covering authors beginning with C through P. There is some truly spectacular stuff in this batch; look at ALL of it, but certainly don’t miss work by DC, Gruntsbane, Iatro, and NeoFreak. (The first batch, if you missed it, was posted yesterday. The last batch will be posted tomorrow.)

20 new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section – after I deleted the garbage. It’s becoming less and less fun to manage this particular subsection of the site…

One One Se7en looks at a recent Bungie Weekly Update – MC shows that you can dress him up, but you can’t take him out.

Bah. I hate forgetting. It’s still today… for a little while longer. Today’s Halo: Resolution has the cardboard box meeting up with… trouble.

Wow. NeoFreak posted some pictures of a Master Chief bust he made a while ago out of Sculpey – I’d find a spot for that in MY home! Beautiful.

Wow. It’s been a LONG time since the Miscellaneous Art section was updated. I decided it was time to stop putting it off… I process 86 entries today. Neither the server, nor folks on slower connections, can handle that kind of load, though, so I’m going to release them in 30-image batches. They’re currently sorted by author (first name, because many people submit with just a one-name alias), not submission date (it was too much work to figure out what came from where) – so if you’ve submitted Miscellaneous Art in the past 3 months, and your name begins with A or B, your material is up now. Tomorrow I’ll post C through P, and Saturday will be R through Z. It’s going to be so nice to have an empty queue! Apologies to EVERYONE involved. This batch is primarily sketches – go see what’s there!

Okay, I wasn’t going to add yesterday’s mini-update to the Weekly Bungie Update Archive… but it turns out Frankie even created new Mister Chief artwork… how could I pass it up? The (tiny) item is now part of the official record. Sheesh. (Thanks, Jager.)

Eric Trautmann has updated his blog with the information that he won’t be involved in any future Halo projects for Microsoft. As he says,

“…it feels reaaaaaally weird to know that things like hypothetical novels or comics or whatnot will happen on someone else’s watch.”

Trautmann has been a guiding force on Halo novels and the like from the beginning; for the fans, too, there will be a shift. We’ll miss you, Eric! (Thanks to Narcogen, at Rampancy.net, for finding this.)