megadude139 found another video of a high school group playing Halo music – this was Klein Oak High School, in Spring, Texas, with the orchestra ensemble playing Halo and Halo music for a variety show in 2005. Pretty nice work! (YouTube, the vid itself is about 13 mb.)(Louis Wu 15:41:19 UTC)
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Satisfy your Halo Vid Thirst
Shrek writes to let us know about Halo Videos – a new Halo video site containing a pretty impressive collection of montages, gameplay, and humor vids. This is a great source of Halo 1 gameplay vids from back in the day!(Louis Wu 15:24:32 UTC)
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WikiRiot Ep 7 – and a new website
WikiRiot, the podcast from the Halo2Wiki crowd, has its own website now – and episode 007. More room for show notes, and more. Go listen – 23 minutes, 9 mb.(Louis Wu 11:55:33 UTC)
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Recreating the LAN Party Online
We have yet another Game Developers Conference talk for you today – this time, it’s Chris Butcher and Bart House, in 2005, talking about ‘recreating the LAN party Online‘. Fascinating, with tons of info about how Matchmaking works, along with lots of technical details about Halo 2 networking. Slides and audio are available.(Louis Wu 11:47:44 UTC)
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But is it space-capable?
Bry posted a number of images to our forum – a nicely customized X-Plane jet. Can you just see Frankie in the doorway of that thing?(Louis Wu 11:37:31 UTC)
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Pinkuh’s on a roll.
Never say Pinkuh doesn’t respond to her fans. Her last image, showing the Master Chief without a helmet, spawned a surprisingly long forum thread, many people loving her interpretation, but others feeling that the Chief should never look this happy. (What a depressing view!) For the latter crowd, Pinkuh sketched a revised Chief – this guy is DEFINITELY not happy. If you find that to be a downer, though, swing by THIS forum post – and turn that frown upside down! Both images have been added to her gallery here (revised chief | disco halo).(Louis Wu 11:31:30 UTC)
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More Hide and Seek
The Se7enth Prophet decided to copy c0ld vengeance and create a series of Hide and Seek pics – these are on Outskirts, as well (because his disk is scratched) and the pics are photographed off the screen (which makes them a little hard to interpret) – but as of now, they’re not all solved, so go look! KP was first – but he cheated.(Louis Wu 00:05:53 UTC)
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A flatulent wasp relaxing in a rusty tin can
Frankie’s in an up phase, I guess – tonight’s Weekly Update takes potshots at Marty (what else is new?), discusses Comic-Con, coming up next week, looks back at FPS’s in history, and provides a Mister Chief I never really needed to see. You can read it on Bungie.net, or you can read it in our Weekly Update Archive.A flatulent wasp relaxing in a rusty tin can
Frankie’s in an up phase, I guess – tonight’s Weekly Update takes potshots at Marty (what else is new?), discusses Comic-Con, coming up next week, looks back at FPS’s in history, and provides a Mister Chief I never really needed to see. You can read it on Bungie.net, or you can read it in our Weekly Update Archive. KP was first – but he cheated.(Louis Wu 00:01:34 UTC)
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Bungie Weekly Update
This week not much is revealed about Halo 3 (shock!) but lots of details on next week’s ComiCon and a look at the First Person Shooter games that have influenced Halo from days gone by.
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Working Vacation
After wrapping Season 4, everyone thought it would be a good idea to take a short break from production and recharge the creative batteries. However, once the break started, a couple of really interesting opportunities came up and that kind of got thrown…
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RT: Go Outside!
This is just a friendly warning that the website you are currently viewing will be offline most of this weekend. We are going to be taking the site offline for some extended maintenance in order to improve overall site performance. If I had to describe…
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Montages Up
Couple of new films to watch over at Halo3Forum.com – thanks, Z. There’s DaY & EXP10S1ON’s DualTage – a mix of two players, a mix of Halo and Halo 2. And there’s a trailer for HANXU’s upcoming montage – some really long-range sticks. WMP9 format for both (135 and 17 mb, respectively). Go watch.(Louis Wu 19:58:33 UTC)
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Miller Pack, Installment 2: In Too Deep and Winning Isn’t Everything.
WIE: 4:36 minutes, ITD: 6:21 minutes.
Mike Miller is a great Halo player. Over the years, he’s put out five of the most memorable Halo videos, and we, at Halo: Portable, have decided to release the whole set.
Winning Isn’t Everything, Mike’s second movie, is great in every way possible. Excellent timing, good music choice, lots of “wow” segments… this is a perfect ten. You can’t get a movie any better than this. Also, for those of you unfortunate enough to have never seen the infamous “Megg,” it makes an appearance at the end of the film. Pallor would be proud.
In Too Deep was the movie that introduced Mike Miller to the world. With lots of humour, some appropriate sound clips, good music choice, great footage, and the subtitle “Things to do in Halo when you’re bored,” this was, and maybe still is, one of my favorite movies.
Winning isn’t everything:
PSP – 21MB 
Pocket PC – 12MB 
iPod – 14MB 
In Too Deep:
PSP – 27MB
Pocket PC – 15MB
iPod – 19MB
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Halo Buddy Kit
Knuxchao created a Halo Buddy Kit – a collection of sprite parts you can put together to create your own images. Link’s at the bottom of his forum post – pretty nice work!(Louis Wu 17:21:35 UTC)
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There you are, turtle-man!
Captain Spark
his dialogue snippet queue – there are 27 new Brute bits in the Dialogue Databank. As always, you can grab the lot from his website, if you don’t want to browse.(Louis Wu 17:21:58 UTC)
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The Days Of Good English Has Went.
In anticipation of more entertaining ‘Whaaaaamulance’ stories in tonight’s Weekly Update, Stuntmutt has put together a short guide to proper formatting of your ban protest. Go read today’s One One Se7en… and then write up those emails for Bungie!(Louis Wu 14:51:51 UTC)
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7 on the 7th… what happened?
So the deadline for the latest 7 on the 7th contest is coming up in a couple of days… and we don’t have any submissions yet! If folks have been waiting until this weekend to create their lawn-based masterpieces, cool – but if you’ve forgotten, now’s the time to think about it! C’mon… lots of you mow your lawns every week anyway; why not, before you start, cut something cool into the lawn, snap a photo, then go back and finish the job? You get cool schwag for almost no work! (If you’re running into trouble with this one, and it’s something we screwed up on this end, please – tell us.)(Louis Wu 13:01:51 UTC)
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Friday’s Fiction
Twenty-three new pieces this week in the Fan Fiction section – busy week! Go read.(Louis Wu 12:57:31 UTC)
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Prophecy – the official trailer
We usually put up just a couple of copies of movies that pass the MPRRS (a QuickTime version that’s generally compatible with versions 5 and up, and a WMP9 version) – but yesterday, a vid passed that simply didn’t want to re-encode. Lordstemplar1 submitted a trailer for Prophecy, an upcoming machinima project, in H.264-encoded QuickTime – but attempts to convert it were unsuccessful. I did, eventually, get it into our standard formats – but because I had so much trouble with it, I’m making the original available as well. You can read more about Prophecy on their official website – and you can grab the trailer from us in QuickTime 7 format (26.2 mb), QuickTime 5+ format (25.4 mb), or WMP9 format (19.8 mb). (Louis Wu 12:24:53 UTC)