The Weekly Upate has been posted over at Bungie.net – lots of stuff about the 360 (problems, and some solutions), plus a major Playlist update (read this if you care about your rank – don’t complain after the fact that you didn’t get to it), plus a little bit of Halo Movie stuff (no, nothing about a director, plus Mister Chief faceplates. What are you waiting for? Frankie, a man who NEVER backs down from a challenge, is waiting to hear your complaints on our forum.

Pinkuh’s Lost the Lead comic finally has its own site – check it out! (Comments can go here.)

I nearly missed this – but the goodies on the table for the Child’s Play Fundraiser Dinner Auction, to be hosted by Penny Arcade on December 13, have been augmented by a number of items – one of which is an intriguingly-titled ‘Bungie Gift Pack’. There doesn’t seem to be anything more complete than that – but this is clearly on top of the Tour of Bungie that’s been on the list for months. NOW are you gonna show up in Seattle in a couple of weeks?

Stuntmutt shows off his knowledge of religious history trivia, and bad puns (was that ever in doubt?) in today’s One One Se7en.

Just six stories today in the Fan Fiction section. Slowdown?

Dyslexia’s written up Part 1 of his MLG Atlanta Review, over at MLGPro.com… powerful piece. Go read! Thanks, 3Suns.

A couple of bits from Z, over at Halo2Forum.com: There’s a new montage from ArKiVe (WMP9, 92 mb, lots and lots of fun sticks), and a new stats site has been launched: StatsReloaded.com. What this has that many existing sites don’t have is room for new members; they’re pretty sure they can handle 25,000 members (it opened yesterday, and they’re already up to almost 800). Nice layout, and it’s free – check it out!

LadyRziha posted a link to a site that sells die-cast warthogs… pretty cool-looking! Check ’em out. At $5 a pop, they’d make great stocking stuffers, wouldn’t they?

Joystiq has a pointer to an article at The Brig.org, looking at the top ten ways you know you’re playing too much Halo. (Yes, there’ve been dozens of these lists on our forum… but hey, this one got referenced by Joystiq, okay?) This one definitely seems aimed at an older crowd.

Father Hartley was the first to point out a short piece over at Dark Horizons – which, in turn, references a post at IESB which suggests that Peter Jackson is talking to Guillermo Del Toro (Hellboy, Blade 2) about directing the Halo movie. If true (and independent info suggests that it very well may be), and if the talks pan out, the Halo shoot might affect the the timing of Hellboy 2, the project that was (is?) next on Del Toro’s plate. More information coming soon…

Eep, almost missed this. IGN’s got an article up about Dead or Alive 4, and the second page includes a mini-interview with Team Ninja leader Tomonobu Itagaki about the inclusion of Halo material in the game. No new screens, as far as I can tell (that haven’t already been released on other sites). Thanks, Wolfy.

Captain Spark has come out of self-imposed dialogue recording retirement to serve up another 11 snippets to the Halo community. These are pretty darn funny. You can grab them from his website, or browse them in our Dialogue Databank.

Podtacular Episode 34 is up – n00b tips, general tips, tips for Foundation (the map of the week) – these are just the tip of the iceberg. (Sorry.) 22.8 mb, 33 minutes. Visit Podtacular.com for more details.

The latest Halo Babies introduces new characters… and definitely moves away from the ‘Babies’ part. Still… it’s pretty funny! Go read.

Heh. Both EvilAvatar (thanks, Target4Hire) and Gamespot (thanks, T3muJin) have picked up on the wording of Bungie’s latest job listing. Could Bungie REALLY be making Pimps At Sea, using the Halo 2 engine? Your guess is as good as mine.

Daniel wrote to let us know that SETI@home, the organization that uses member computers around the world to help analyze radio telescope data in an attempt to find extraterrestrial computers, will be shifting to a completely new infrastructure in 2 weeks, and current groups will have their totals locked. From 1999 through 2002, the Halo SETI Marines participated in the program, looking for signs of the Covenant – and in fact are STILL looking, though we here at HBO no longer follow the search. However, come December 15, the workunit totals will be frozen. It’s been a good run, Marines… thank you for your service.

A few days ago, Dustin Kaufman sent us a link to a movie at break.com, showing an Xbox360 commercial that never got released. It’s not really Halo-related (though you CAN say it’s FPS-related)… and break.com seems to be having some trouble with bandwidth issues, but it’s available on YouTube now, as well. Thanks to Pinkuh, who pointed out this Inside Microsoft blog entry.

Narcogen, at Rampancy.net, has gotten his hands on the script reviewed by El Mayimbe last month – and asserts that it’s credible. Interesting read!

Some great content over at Team3D – an interview with the OGREs about WCG Singapore (where they won $20k) and MLG Atlanta (where they split $6500 with the other two members of their 4-man team, and OGRE2 took another $1200 home in FFA championship money)… and reflections on Atlanta directly from the OGREs themselves. Go read! Thanks, F13ND.

Back in November, we mentioned an article in the South Dakota State University Collegian in which a female student complained that Halo was sucking up time rightly spent with girlfriends. A couple of weeks later, we mentioned a rebuttal, by Lady Rziha. Yesterday, the Collegian posted yet ANOTHER followup, again from a woman, condemning not the attitude of the gamers who responded the first time, but the responses themselves. “In the time it took each person to write a letter about the game, he or she could have donated cans to the food pantry, picked up trash outside of their house, or have been a mentor to a small child.” I gotta wonder… what could Sara have done in the time it took her to write this tirade? Next up – angry words from video game characters themselves, annoyed that people are manipulating them to make social points. It’s a game, folks.