Mintz writes to point out the new content at Halo: Portable, which now supports the iPod and PocketPC in addition to the original PSP content – you can find Wedow and Vinny Jones’ montage, in multiple portable formats, Bungie’s interview with Burnie Burns, and a truly annoying welcome to Funkmon, who’s joined the staff there. Go look. (Well, not at that last one. Especially if you’re prone to epileptic seizures.)

Peptuck found an interesting clip of a remix of ‘Under Cover of Night’ – read his forum post for more details. The full version can be purchased as part of a remix album.

Halomaps.org has upgraded the functionality of their Halo CE Server list – you can see full map lists (to make sure you have them before joining), gametypes, uptime, and so on. Great stuff! If you’re playing HaloCE online, this is invaluable.

It’s April 7th… which means it’s time for… that’s right, another 7 on the 7th contest! (Yeah, as though we’ve been doing one of these every 7th.) Anyway, this one is fun; grab some Halo action figures, pose ’em up nice (keep it clean, we’re going to toss entries that are obscene), write a funny caption, and send it along; if you’re one of the top 7 entries, you’ll win a fresh copy of the Halo 2 Original Soundtrack Volume 2, due in stores on April 24! What’s more – these will be autographed by Marty O’Donnell! There’s one twist; the theme of your picture needs to fit a track title from one of the three Halo soundtrack volumes. (If you need a list of titles, you’ll find a link on the contest page.) Go read for a complete list of rules and regulations… and get to composing those figures!

Captain Spark dropped off another 19 dialogue snippets – you can grab ’em in bulk from his site, or browse ’em in our Dialogue Databank. There’s one that’s unintelligble to me – and Spark didn’t even try it, so he clearly couldn’t hear it either. (If you can tell what the brute is saying, let us know.) And yes – there are still a TON of snippets from other submitters in the queue; once again, Spark’s stuff jumps to the front of the queue solely because processing takes me a couple of minutes, instead of a couple of hours. I’m really sorry. Update: Marty clarified the full quote for us – it looks like the sample we’ve got is missing the first couple of words. Pretty funny quote, though!

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What’s worse than random speculation about Halo 3? Random puns about it… go read One One Se7en.

A megaman Master Chief? It’s Photoshop Phriday at Something Awful – thanks, Michael M.

Sixteen new stories in today’s Fan Fiction update… what are you waiting for?

Narcogen adds still MORE to his ‘rampant speculation’ about what’s next for the Halo series over at Rampancy.net – Part III looks at potential alliances and future actions. Go read!

Over at Bungie.net, you’ll find a new Community Spotlight; Frankie got a bunch of information out of Iain ‘Dalteth’ Nelson, a Warhammer/Halo fanatic. The pictures in the article are the same as the ones you’ll find in our Miscellaneous section (we actually have more of them) – but the interview material is pretty interesting stuff. (In fact, I’ve added a link to Dalteth’s page here.)

Today’s Carzorthade combines Halo with what might just turn out to be the worst movie evar. Funny stuff, though. Thanks, Eric Lundequam.

Narcogen continues his rampant speculation about what might be coming in the next installment of the Halo story – whenever and however that shows up. Some very solid logic in there; reading it might spark some interesting connections for you. Give it a look-see!

Podtacular Episode 57, looking at Halo 3, is now up – thanks, Fr3d-105.

If you’re in New York state, about an hour north of the city, there’s a tourney at the Hudson Valley Mall in Kingston this weekend (Google maps), hosted by True Skill Gaming. Details (and an email contact) can be found in this flyer. A significant chunk of the HBO staff will be there – not me, unfortunately, but Ding, KP, and probably Count Zero will be in attendance. Check it out!

Devastator sent along a link to another bunch of pics of him at I-Con in a Halo costume recently – check ’em out!

MLG PwnCast posted Episodes 7 and 8 yesterday – go grab ’em from their website! Interview with StK pn SHIBBY in Ep 8, lots of news updates in 7. Tons of new bandwidth, too.

This Spartan Life has both a new episode, and a new website, online at this point. No more massive Flash! Today’s news post contains information about Malcolm McLaren, the latest interviewee on the show; you can grab the episode itself from the Episodes section. Interesting stuff!