dustin kaufman pointed out a model of the Pillar of Autumn, built with the Half-Life 2 mod Garry’s Mod. Funkiness!

Mintz points out a bunch of new content over at Halo: Portable – MLG stuff, but also that Lord of Halo movie we mentioned recently. (Okay, he’s not hosting that – he’s just pointing to the same Google link we did, except telling you to pick ‘PSP’ from the drop-down menu… but hey, where would you be without him telling you that?) Go read. And watch.

Awesome Awards article over at MLGPro.com – the 2005 MLG Pros Choice Awards. Luverly pictures, too… thanks, Dolbex.

This week’s Bungie Weekly Update is a bit different than most – it’s a pleasant discourse on user interface, and what Bungie is doing to make the next one you see from them more useful (and easy-to-use) than the last. (The last was no slouch – so that’s a pretty tall order.) There’s also a Mister Chief self-image, which is pretty cool (as long as you haven’t been dropping acid). Of course, it’s readable in our Bungie Weekly Update Archive, as well. Frankie, as usual, hogs the glory.

HaloBabies took a break for personal reasons, starting a couple of weeks ago – this week, One One Se7en sends them kind wishes and a tip o’ the hat.

21 new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section this week – go read!

TeamXbox has a ‘Most Wanted Unannounced Xbox 360 Games’ article up… and of course, Halo 3 is mentioned. Take their ‘What We Know’ info with a grain of salt.

A.V. Club suggests that the Xbox360 is still too expensive, and hard to find, and puts forth a list of 8 games for the original Xbox that will keep you enjoying the older box until you can afford the new one – Halo and Halo 2 make up 25% of that list. Thanks, Mr Yun.

Til next time, DT points out that Office Chief 102 has been posted. I guess the moral is ‘know your excuse up front.’

If you live in Orlando, FL, this seems like it might be a fun place to visit…

Heh – over on Bungie.net, Frankie points out a new batch of Letters to the Webmaster. (Oh, hey, look, he was first on our forum, too.) For the record, the ‘Louis’ who asked the final question was as made up as the info in the answer.

Last night, the MPRRS failed – by a tiny margin – a submission by our own Cybrfrk. (I think they penalized him for lack of vowels.) I watched the film… and it was silly. Silly enough to make me laugh. I have a soft spot in my heart for the song that makes up the majority of its soundtrack. You can grab it in WMP9 format (10.7 mb) or QuickTime format (10.8 mb). And if you find it silly, too… good. Update: Looks like Cybrfrk had planned to resubmit this, incorporating the feedback of the reviewers. (Whoa – surprise… the guy who RUNS the section actually believes in the ideas behind it!) My bad – he’s going to have a fixed version up soon. We’ll swap it in for this (and make a note of the swap) when he’s done. Update 2: Links are back up – sorry for the delay!

XerxdeeJ has updated his Tied the Leader blog again, this time with a look at sportsmanship, and what it means. Interesting questions – ones that come up quite a lot in post-game lobbies, mixed in with words like ‘cheap’ and ‘camper’… but are the complainers justified… or are they just scrubs?

Z, over at Halo2Forum.com, pointed out a new trailer from Ol Man Makowski – great editing. It’s only 16 mb (WMP9 format) – go grab a copy!

Jay M posted a note on our forum last night – he’s working on a total conversion for Half-Life 2, based on the Fall of Reach novel. Quite a bit of planning has gone into this – read the design document in his post to see where they want to go with it. They’re looking for help; if you’re interested, contact info is all laid out for you!

Rockslider continues to refine his spiral path megabattle on Assault on the Control Room – the current writeup explains how to get 50+ enemies to fight at once, consistently! Check out the link in his post.

Last night, there was a ‘rematch’ between HBO and Bungie, to make up for last week’s… um, matchup. I’ve written up a forum post which explains what happened – we definitely got toasted last week, but it was more on the web than it was on XBL. Things were a little… different this week. KP posted links to the games as soon as they were over, and this morning I wrote the wrapup mentioned above. I can’t wait to see the Frankie Spin on B.net.

Ack! Pete Parsons, Bungie’s Studio Manager for the last 3 years (and a little), is retiring. It’s probably just as well, once folks get a look at the picture that graces his farewell interview at Bungie.net… go read, and get a sense of who this guy is, just before he takes his spectabulous marketing skills off into the sunset (but cover your eyes at the picture). Pete – we’re gonna miss ya.