Part 10 of The Valley of the Forerunners has been released over at the Halo CE Chronicles website. The battle rages on… and Sergeant Roberts makes a tough call. Availalbe in WMP9, QuickTime, and streaming Flash, as usual.

He couldn’t help himself – Stuntmutt saw yesterday’s Penny Arcade, and HAD to comment; check One One Se7en for a special Tuesday Edition.

Over at MLGPro.com, you can find a Player of the Week feature on AYB Fonzi – go learn about this top player. Thanks, 3Suns.

Prometheus notes that Major.Dump continues to update his gallery page at The Halouvre – check the bottom few images. Every time I visit that gallery, I’m impressed by the amount of work that must go into composing those shots – and he really has a knack for it. Killer stuff. Go look.

How long will this keep up? Today marks 77 weeks since Halo 2’s release. And the number one game on Xbox Live, according to Major Nelson? Yep. Halo 2. Wow.

As noted on Bungie.net, Xbox Live will be down for most of today – in theory, they started maintenance a couple of hours ago (2 am PDT, 9 am UTC), and it will continue for the next 12-14 hours. This means no Halo 2 today. Don’t bother Bungie about this – it’s not their maintenance. Thanks to Skywalker DSP for the reminder.

PsychoDikdik (a community member over at Red vs Blue) put together some hilarious pictures of Halo/Homestar Runner hybrids. I LOVE these!

An Op-Ed piece in the Windsor (Colorado) Tribune takes churches to task for using Halo 2 as a tool for bringing kids into church. Someone who isn’t happy with the ‘whatever works’ philosophy…

Heh – Today’s Penny Arcade puts Halo 3 in perspective. Thanks, Stuntmutt.

Another article about girl gamers and how the stereotypes are changing, focusing on one of the founders of the PMS clan – give it a read. They like to play Halo.

So there was a fuss a little bit ago, after Joe Staten revealed, at a talk at NWU, that three levels had been cut from the end of Halo 2 (we knew material had been cut, just not how much) – Stuntmutt puts it all in perspective in today’s One One Se7en.

Elnea has whipped up an alternative Halo track called ‘Blood Gulch 120’ – it’s a melding of the Red vs Blue theme ‘Blood Gulch Blues’ and the Halo theme, all cranked up to 120 beats per minute (she needed a workout tune). OboeCrazy’s Oboe adds a great touch! You can grab it from Elnea’s .Mac space, but we’re hosting a copy as well, because it’s not really polite to bring down someone else’s webspace. Go listen! (MP3 format, 4.6 mb.) Thanks to HavokBlue for pointing it out before I read it in Elnea’s RvB journal.

MLG PwnCast has released Episode 14 – Flying with McGavin. Go listen.

I’m not really sure what it means… but Halo 2 IS on the list of games offered for the WCG 2006 season – but it’s listed under ‘Terrestrial Games’, which maybe means US-only? I can’t tell. Anyway, they’ve got Blizzard down as the Developer, so who knows.

If you’re near St. Louis, MO, check out this Gamecrazy Halo 2 tourney at the LANetarium, coming up on May 27. Thanks, GotFrag.

Who’da thunk it? One One Se7en turned three years old today – nicely timed with the use of artwork on the first HBO shirt. Stuntmutt took advantage of the announcement to show off one of my favorite shirt designs (that we passed on, because it required more colors than we could afford) in a special Sunday Strip. He also wrote up a blog entry which mentions the shirt (along with a TON of other related stuff) – definitely worth a read. Go read, go laugh, go buy a shirt.

Digikid sent us mail about Portent, a HaloCE map; you can grab a video promo (33 mb, WMP9 format) to see how it looks, or just download the map file (right-click and save-as). Check it out!

Z pointed out another fun montage at Halo2Forum – it’s Reid18’s Montage 4. The guy gets some amazing cross-map sticks… it’s a little heavy on the effects, but it’s pretty entertaining. 146 mb, WMP9 format.

Slacker Entertainment has done a major overhaul on their website, to make content more accessible – and they’ve switched to a RoosterTeeth-like model for distribution of their Heretics & Heroes series; if you become a sponsor (for $10), you get access to high- and low-res versions of all of their content (plus bonuses, like mp3 versions of the music) as it comes out, while the low-res versions of all episodes will be available a few days later for free. Right now, Episode 5: Operation Clenched Bowels is up for sponsors – and it’s a doozy. There’s still humor – but this is a pretty serious episode, and the battle directing is quite good. I’m loving the dialogue – both human and Covenant – and I’m loving the cinematography. If you’ve got the $10, you should shoot it to these guys.