MLGPro has turned the Pro-Player Spotlight on Tsquared, a 17-year-old signed MLG player. Go read for a taste of what it’s like to be young and a professional gamer. Thanks, 3Suns.

We got a note from Jim Smith that there’ll be a Running Riot tourney happening at the Sauchiehall GameStation (upstairs of the Sports Cafe Glasgow) in Glasgow, Scotland, on March 7th. Registration opens at 7, gaming happens until midnight. There’s a small entrance fee. More details can be had by contacting running_riot@btopenworld.com.

Dennis Powers dropped us a note to let us know that Episode 6 of the Halo CE Chronicles has been released – 3:49, 4.2 mb, in Flash video format. The Spartan takes on the Covenant troops that killed his friend, and finds he’s not just a killing machine. Update: Dennis writes to say bandwidth might be limited at the start; if the stream is slow, try again later. Thanks!

Not long ago, we put up a page detailing the progress Alan James has been making with a new MC suit he’s building. He just sent us a couple of shots of the gun he’s building to go with it – we’ve added them to the page. Great start!

FugitiveSoldier and some buddies played a marathon game of Zombies, and the resultant film is pretty funny; Brain Ninjas is just under 5 minutes of Benny Hill-type humor (complete with soundtrack), zombies chasing a poor living spartan. Latest thread for this can be found here on our forum; the movie is WMP9 format, 20.6 mb. adrenaline786 has tossed up a mirror, and we added a pair more – both for the original WMP9 (mythica.org | bungie.org), and for a QuickTime version (20.7 mb, mythica.org | bungie.org). Update: Chester the Destroyer has mirrored the WMP9 version, as well.

KillR posted a small Battle Rifle Functions video in our forum – stop-motion footage of a White MC action figure and his Battle Rifle. Pretty nice work! I’ve tossed up both the original WMP9 version (1.5 mb) and a QuickTime version (1.9 mb) on local servers, in case his bandwidth runs out.

After War episode 14 has been posted over at Black Arts Studios; the story’s getting a bit difficult to understand, but hang in there. Thanks, Kevin.

Small buildup of Fan Fiction pieces during the time I was gone; 26 new items added today. (There was some talk on the forum about starting to call it Fan Literature, so that searches for Fan Fiction in the news wouldn’t return more than the 777 items written before today… but no, we’ll stick with what works. Consider this the first post in the SECOND batch of 777 fan-fiction-related news posts.)

MrJukes has been busy – there are two more Jump Sessions and a pretty fun flag cap on his Trick Jumping site. Some pretty cool stuff in that new one… go start downloading! Update: oops – I should have reminded people that we’ve mirrored the entire site – if you have trouble getting to the original (like, say, now, when rabid fans like you have brought it to its knees), you can grab files from us.

The Bungie Weekly What’s Update is up, and boy is Frankie mad. Steaming mad. Luckily for us, however, he put aside his boiling rage long enough for another peek into the vast intellectual emptiness that is his mailbox, some answers to some questions, and an old-skool Mister Chief, simple-style.

A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned the Game with Fame event with 3 Doors Down – a couple of Los Angelenos got the chance to play, and G4 filmed it. It was broadcast yesterday on the show Screen Savers for the first time – sorry about the short notice. Never fear, though – it’s on again on Sunday, February 27, at 12am ET/9 pm PT, or your can watch it online (Flash video format) at G4’s website. Check out 3 Doors Down getting schooled by 23-year-old Katrina L. Thanks, TriXie!

Mr Smiley has interviewed CJ Cowan, Cinematic Designer on the Halo 2 team. Where he came from, what he does, what’s tough and what’s not. Meaty – go read, and get inside the head of a Bungie cinematographer! Update: credit for the interview goes to cmwak1, not mr smiley.

The Bungie Store has re-stocked some of their supplies, so if you’re in the mood for a tall, cool drink in a Legendary Beer Stein while wearing the stylish Bucket Hat, go to it. Also available (finally), Drone, MC, White Spartan, and Warthog action figures! Woo!

Hiding… in plain sight? Don’t try it, says Stuntmutt in today’s One One Se7en. Hmm… Maybe the HBO Helljumpers ARE moving forward…

Singapore news site The Electric New Paper has an interview with Brian Jarrard, Bungie’s Community Guy. Will the Master Chief stop the Covenant? Will there be a Halo 3? A Halo movie? Check it out, and see for yourself! (Heh, not that there are many answers, mind you, but there might be a few hints… 😉 Thanks to danbrennan.org for the heads-up. Update: Drat, mnemesis got to this before me… I wanted to also point out a discrepancy in one of their ‘did you know?’ facts. There’s a claim that Halo 2 has sold 15 million copies to date; given that as of January 20 (just over a month ago), they’d sold 6.4 million copies worldwide, this number seems a tad unlikely. I suppose as a TOTAL of all Halo-franchise titles it makes sense (they were at 12 million last month)… [-lwu]

Wow… lots of vids posted to our forum while I was gone. I’m taking them at their word and assuming there’s enough bandwidth to go around. (We have a bunch of stuff in the queue, hopefully that I can get to soon – we’re going to have to let these stand or fall on their own.)

• CollaterHalo – the club scene from the movie Collateral, reproduced on Midship/Headlong. Hosted by Vypers.net. WMP9 format, 22.3 mb.
• Monkeys Gone Wild – a tour of all the trees in Halo 2 multiplayer maps (and how to get into them). Hosted by vypers.net. WMP9 format, 17.9 mb.
• Anti-Cheating PSA – from Rampant Stupidity Productions, a look at cheaters and why they suck. It’s in AVI format, but recorded with the WMV3 codec, so it won’t play on a mac. 12 mb, hosted by Rampant Stupidity. (Update: And here’s a 15.3 mb .mp4 file, thanks to Chester)
• Devin’s GreenRoomEffect – another Devin Olsen montage. Nice work. WMP9 format, 33 mb. Hosted by syeren.
• WaLKa’s Montage – some pretty amazing sniping, and general gameplay. WMP9 format, 24.7 mb. Extra mirrors can be found in this thread on the MLG forums.
• Outpost 2 – the second episode of Outpost: Coagulation. Covenant politics… or something. WMP9 format, 21.2 mb, ALSO hosted by vypers.net. (Here’s hoping they hold up… that’s a lot of vids.)

Wow… will that keep you busy for a few minutes? (Please – if you try one of these links, and it’s dead… you don’t need to mail us. There’s not much we can do about other people’s bandwidth.)

ICDedPpl has started a bonus round for his Halo Photoshop contest; entries are due by Sunday night, voting will be up for 3 days. The winner will get a full year of webhosting with free domain registration or transfer. The catch? Your photo must include a cartoon character. Go read the site for more details!

New strip up over at Halo Babies; Baby Sarge is a little… mature for his age, I guess. (There’s also a nice concept sketch of the newest character – check it out!)

Ducain, over at High Impact Halo, has interviewed FrogBlast, trickster extraordinaire, about what drives him to do the stuff he does. Great read – thanks to both of them! (Ducain pointed it out in our forum.)

Interesting article over at MLGPro.com – Brick Shoemaker lays out why he thinks Halo 2 is no good for 1v1 battles. The main argument is a solid one; Halo 2’s multiplayer focus is geared more towards teamwork and cooperation than solo heroics. Go read. Thanks, 3Suns.