Apparently, someone’s making a Halo movie… using Legos. You can find details (including pictures and a teaser poster) in this thread on Brickfilms.com – a trailer is coming soon. Thanks, Steve Davies.

Random 15-Year-Old has posted a PSP-compatible version of Episode 58 of Red vs Blue over on FileFront – if you’d like to watch this on your handheld, grab a copy! (16.5 mb)

A radio station in the Phoenix AZ area is hosting a Halo 2 tournament on September 17 – first place is $1000 in cash and prizes. Unfortunately, A note is up on the page stating that all contestants have been selected already – but who knows, maybe there’ll be cancellations. Thanks, Cybrfrk.

ÜberChief points out that the newest issue of Resolute is up – if only the MC was that damage-resistant in the game we play!

ChairLeg Productions continues with their Nephrons series; ‘Nephrons – Minus Four’ passed the MPRRS last night. Hugh is still insane, Mike is still in prison, the Blues are still better at insulting than the Reds. The reviewers liked the quality, the jokes (except for one reviewer, who found it ‘quite boring’ but passed it anyway), and the plot (except for those who didn’t get it). British humor, you know. Or humour. Or something. Available in WMP9 (38.3 mb) or QuickTime (36.7 mb).

pkrut sent us email about a Halo 2 tourney at CyberZone, in the Neshamiy mall near Philadelphia. It’s 2v2 slayer, MLG Rules. Entrance fee is $30/team. I couldn’t find any info on prizes. There’s no age requirement – the only caveat is… it’s today. Get on down! Update: Oops – the tourney is tomorrow, Sunday, the fourth. Sorry about that.

Over on GotFrag, there’s a story on Team 3D, and how they’re dealing with their surprising loss to TmG in Philadelphia. Sounds like they’re looking forward to MLG Atlanta, coming at the end of this month, where they’ll get a chance to face these rivals again! Thanks, James Schneider.

A few days ago, we mentioned one fan’s plan to raise some cash for Katrina victims – BoneKin was going to give one dollar for each kill he got in a series of 7 games (with a minimum of $117) to the Red Cross. Those games were played, on schedule, last night, and Mintz was kind enough to summarize the results – BoneKin will be sending $139 down! (There’s a movie coming at some point, too.) Nice work! Update: There’s another post on our forum about disaster relief opportunities, this one from Max Power – it looks like EB Games has agreed to match donations made through their stores (to a maximum of $50,000 companywide) – drop off $10, $20 heads to the Red Cross! Cool. Update 2: We’ve heard from a fan auctioning a Dell LCD monitor on eBay – 100% of the final sales price will go to the Red Cross. We may have to start a Katrina-only news page if this keeps up…

There’s a major story up on Bungie.net – ways you can help with the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. First up – the T-shirt we mentioned earlier today. Go read WHY you should buy one (or several – they’ll make great presents!). After that, there’s a little bit of information for an upcoming charity auction – we’ll be working closely with Bungie to sell off some truly amazing fan items, and in the process build up some cash to send south. (Every penny made in the auction will be going to disaster relief – this one isn’t even ‘100% of the profits’, this one is ‘100% – period’.) Finally, there are some comments pulled from a recent thread on Bungie.net about people either directly affected by the disaster, or people doing what they can to help – check it out, get inspired!

This Spartan Life has kicked off Episode 2 – module 1 (Opening and extended monologue) is up now. 28 mb in QuickTime format, 22 mb in WMP9 format. (The WMP9 link is actually not active on their site yet – but you can grab it from the GearboxGameZone website for now.) Hey – who couldn’t love a talking shotgun? Guests in Episode 2 will be The Ill Clan (a machinima crew that has been making cool vids for years with the Quake engine(s)) and Marty O’Donnell from Bungie. Lance returns! (These folks aren’t in this module – as with Episode 1, this episode will be broken up in to several modules, for ease of downloading.) Go watch.

Speaking of Stuntmutt – it seems the man has figured out a way to keep his betrayals down to a reasonable number. Check today’s One One Se7en for details.

Okay, this one takes some explanation. A couple of weeks ago, vshields ash started exploring what happens when you overload the Halo engine during the fight with the Prophet of Regret. The first thing he discovered was he’d spawn new prophet chairs after the overload kicked in – he got up over 100 chairs before things broke down. (This thread documents his progress.) Then he went outside – and things were a little… empty. He described it – and then Duelies made a vid of the final cutscene. However, Duelies hadn’t gone quite as far in the object overload field as Vern did – the Covenant cruiser, for example, was still around. Vern wanted everyone to see a TOTALLY empty scene – so he sent me a tape to digitize. You can grab it in QuickTime or WMP9 formats – roughly 10 mb each. Stuntmutt must get the credit (or the blame) for the music.

Captain Spark posted another 25 dialogue snippets on our forum today – all are from Marines, and some are PG-rated. Some hilarious stuff in there! You can grab the batch in one chunk on his website (if it’s up), or you can browse the entries in our Dialogue Databank.

Mintz posted another few articles for your PSP over on his website – swing by and see what’s new!

SiegWarheit pointed out a rather odd-shaped HaloCE map created by NiTrOuSoXiDe of the H2CE team. Um… yeah.

Bungie has posted a new T-Shirt on the Bungie Store; it costs $20, and $15 of that will go directly to the Red Cross for distaster relief. (There’ll be more on this subject from them later this afternoon, but tag-goody71 noticed the shirt in the store this morning, so we figured we’d let you get a head start on it.)

Another vid passed the MPRRS yesterday – it’s called ‘Taking one for the team’, and it’s Obie Brown’s take on a sad, underappreciated job in Halo 2 multiplayer. It’s pretty funny, with great musical integration. Obie is part of ‘Lost Youth’, a clan of 22 and up “geezers” that have seen one too many montages and wanted to do something different. You can grab a copy in WMP9 format (31 mb) or QuickTime format (31.9 mb).

Over at Halo Babies, the humor gets sort of dark… I want my teddy bear! (They’ve also finished up their RvB cartoon contest, but the winning strips aren’t online yet. I was going to hold off announcing this until they were – but it’s unclear when that will happen.)

You gotta love the horn-self-tooting… a new Halo blog focused on machinima, The Halo Theatre, asked me a few questions about the subject… it may or may not be worth a read. (There is not a single shot taken at KP, so some of you might decide to skip it.) Lucky for me, comments don’t seem to be enabled – you’ll have to find other ways to take snide potshots at me.