Gamertag Radio created Episode 68 at MLG Orlando – lots of big Halo names came by to say hi (a list is in the news post there). Go listen!(Louis Wu 22:11:29 UTC)

Mike Hill wrote with word of a new project – he’s working on a Halo comic. He sent along one of 35 or 40 frames he plans on using – this will be ‘a little adventure the Chief and a squad of Pelican-bound ODSTs will embark on’. Amazing detail – check it out on his gallery! He also mentioned that he’s revamped his website (check out this work-in-progress bike… I want!), and that there’s a pretty cool article that was recently published in Imagine Magazine that included some great text and (Halo) pics from him. And while I was poking around the site, I found two other Halo-related images (which have been added to his gallery here) – a spectacular Forerunner-dominated landscape, and a 3D Warthog render – or the beginnings of one. Keep an eye on this guy!(Louis Wu 03:26:19 UTC)

QsKGlobal put together a collaboration montage – footage from four different players. It’s 10 minutes long, and weighs in at 116 mb (WMP9 version) or 128 mb (QuickTime version) – the MPRRS said they liked it, so go watch!(Louis Wu 03:22:48 UTC)

Mintz found a Halo-related episode of the webcomic Digital Double from earlier this week – not the first time this particular joke has been done, but hey… (The episode after this one is part of the same arc.)(Louis Wu 01:22:27 UTC)

ZuP posted a note on our forum about Trinity, a massive (46 minutes, 380 mb in hi-res) tricking video, mostly showing vehicle launches in Halo 2 Campaign mode. There are a significant number of hosts, at this point, apparently… if you swing by this post by forevercha0s, you’ll find a pair of load-balancing links – medium and hi-res – that will direct you to the next host in the queue (thanks, TheGarbageMan). Low-res links can be found in that first post by ZuP. A labor of love, for sure!(Louis Wu 01:17:55 UTC)

Brian Haworth sent in pics of a keychain fobs he made recently – it measures about an inch across, and is made from blue and yellow translucent acrylic, with a piece of 1/16″ polycarbonate sandwiched between to hold them together. (yellow side | blue side) He made a similar, but much larger, version for his girlfriend last fall – that one is 5 inches across, and she keeps it in a display stand on her dresser. (No pics, sorry.)(Louis Wu 17:53:30 UTC)

3Suns came back from vacation to the realization that we hadn’t mentioned news on the MLGPro website since he left. (A lot of the time, we rely on you, the fans, to point out where the interesting stuff is – we just provide a one-stop shop for finding it.) There’s quite a lot – there’s an article about pros switching around to different teams, a retrospective of Storm Ventures’ recovery, an interview with ShooK On3 Gaming, a pro gamer’s predictions about MLG Orlando, a preview of MLG Orlando, a spotlight on Scion Player of the Year nominee Ramby, and an overview of the standings going into MLG Orlando. That should keep you busy!(Louis Wu 17:42:59 UTC)

Just a small thing… Psychophan7 noticed a tiny detail about the recently released Halo 2 Vista screenshots; there’s been a change in the motion sensor. Other players still show up in red, or yellow, depending on whether they’re friend or foe… but now there’s also a directional aspect to the symbol. Again – a small thing, but a good example of the level of detail and care taken by the Halo 2 Vista team. Pretty cool!(Louis Wu 14:16:26 UTC)

Sigafoos points out that WikiRiot Episode 13 is up – 35 mins, 14 mb. Minimal Halo content, because of technical difficulties… such is life sometimes.(Louis Wu 13:21:51 UTC)

The Bungie Weekly Update is posted – info about PAX (a cool gaming expo happening right now in Seattle which would have been cooler had I been able to go), info from SketchFactor about Leipzig, and the demo of Halo 2 Vista there, and more teasers about Halo 3 (Frankie is a master at describing things without telling you ANYTHING). Oh, yeah… and a truly disgusting picture. I feel cheated that last week’s Mister Chief, created by Pinkuh, didn’t make a showing. Read it at Bungie.net, or read it in our Weekly Update Archive.(Louis Wu 01:32:46 UTC)

Last week, Frankie mentioned (in the BWU) that Halo 3 has “lots of feel of the original Halo” – in the sense that you spend a chunk of your time exploring, for the sake of exploration. Many websites jumped on this comment as some sort of evidence that Bungie was admitting that they liked Halo better than Halo 2. Stuntmutt has his own take in the situation, in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 18:18:58 UTC)

Okay, it’s the Marathon symbol… but it’s in Halo too, so it’s relevant. Check out Spartan Jag’s latest creation.(Louis Wu 17:45:39 UTC)

_Wheels03 posted a couple of pics of his new Halo prototype faceplate, courtesy of Bungie – congrats again for winning the faceplate contest! (For what it’s worth, this has got to be one of the fastest prize shipments I’ve ever heard of. Frankie saw the faceplate in the outgoing mail queue last NIGHT – and _Wheels03 lives halfway across the country.)(Louis Wu 16:48:52 UTC)

IGN has some more Halo 2 Vista footage from Leipzig – they call it ‘off-screen’, which either means ‘filmed with a video camera pointing at the monitor’, or ‘filmed directly off the screen’. (The audio is clearly live, but the video’s quite good; doesn’t look very ‘shakey’. Audio sync on the Midship clip is AWFUL.) You can’t see the huge improvements in detail that you’d see if these were, say, 1280×960 vids… but you CAN see the cool smoke effects, and in a few places on Lockout you can see the great level of detail improvements at a distance. (Gameplay is… well, sort of lame. But again, remember, none of these people have played Halo 2 on a keyboard and mouse before.) Thanks to HaloPlanet for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 15:45:52 UTC)

Largest Fan Fiction update in a while – 22 pieces. Go read!(Louis Wu 15:03:24 UTC)

New content over at Dead Man’s Hand – highlights include the Playlist Psyche feature on Team Carnage and the 22 Questions on rapture. Thanks, Dweezle!(Louis Wu 14:17:57 UTC)

TheGarbageMan transcribed some of the work he released a couple of days ago – grab the jpegs if you want to play these!(Louis Wu 13:34:21 UTC)