The Se7enth Prophet found a tab for Incubus’ Follow on powertabs.net, and transcribed it on our forum. (The original is a Power Tab Editor file.) If you’re a guitar player, give this a shot! Update: He’s added the Halo and Halo 2 themes, and Blow Me Away from Breaking Benjamin.

Yesterday, Captain Spark released 44 new dialogue snippets on his website; it’s a 2 mb zip download to get them all. A day before that, we got mail from KaworuNagisa, containing 19 new snippets of his own – most of them from the Prophet Regret (including his sermon, in pieces). Some really good stuff here; both groups are full of interesting things. You can peruse the entire new batch in our Dialogue Databank, or just look at KaworuNagisa’s stuff, or just look at Captain Spark’s stuff. Oh, the choices you have!

Jumping vids seem to be all the rage these days. Synide’s put together a nice one for MLGPro.com; if you’re a Video On Demand subscriber, you can watch a direct stream of this, and if you’re not, just connect to MLG-TV and wait for it to come around in the rotation. (It’s not ALL jumping; it’s a general Zanzibar Tips vid, with suggestions to improve your gameplay. Check out the death-by-coconuts bit at the end!)

Today’s Calvin and Halo takes a look at the more mature gamer… and what might happen occasionally on XBL.

Thanks to Cody Cress, who pointed out that there is a new jump session at http://www.jukesbox.com/. This one focuses on slide jumping… wow. 9.5 mb, WMP9 format. Go watch. And come back to this news post later today.

The stats analysis options continue to improve – Tom Mathews has upgraded his Halo 2 Statistics Browser (screenshots show how powerful this is – here and here).

Black Six pointed out that the Bungie Store is having a closeout sale on a number of items – visit if you want stuff at reduced prices. (The Titanium Eclipse Tumbler is under $10 now. Not bad!)

GRAH! I’m an idiot. Yesterday’s One One Se7en followed Tuesday’s Outskirts on Legendary Walkthrough release SO beautifully… but I forgot to post it on time. Wow – it’s been a while since i screwed THAT up. Go read it now, though. It’s funny.

There’s a bunch of Halo 2 news that popped up last night, too… again, I doubt this is a comprehensive list, but it should lighten the mailbox just a little.

• MLG posted a writeup of the DC event that took place last weekend; thanks to Dyslexia for the text, and Dolbex for the heads-up. This contains a very nice counter-argument to the folks who yell that Halo 2 is for noobs… and lots and lots of great pics. Full bracket standings are also there.
• G4TechTV has posted a ‘Halo 2 Tips, Tricks, and Strategies‘ article, a somewhat random collection of stuff. Fun read.
• TalkXbox has posted Week Twelve of their Strategy series – Burial Grounds Team Slayer. (Thanks, TricKy.)
• Another bit over at MLGPro.com – Grudge Matches Begin. This is sort of like Bungie’s Halo Humpday Challenges… except it’s 1v1, and the COMMUNITY decides who fights, not the players. Go read about it.
• Arizona State University’s school paper has a story about how it’s not a contradiction for a church group to organize a gathering around Halo 2. (This one turned up on Google, but ICDedPpl found the same thing at a different link.)

Again, there’s probably plenty more out there today… but this makes a dent.

Man… you can’t take a night off around here, things just move too fast. Okay, while I was sleeping (and other stuff), we heard:

• Ripp0n’s Montage got another pair of direct download mirrors; a bunch of you have gotten it via BitTorrent, but for those who can’t, HALOChat has put it up via HTTP, and there’s another copy at That Weasel Television. Check yesterday’s news if you don’t know what this is about.
• Sharkface217 created a Halo PC Tribute Video, and released it at the Gamers Alliance. I’m not sure I get it, completely… but there it is. 31.5 mb, WMP9 format. (For me, personally… if I were a new HaloPC player and this was the first thing I saw… I’d probably pick a different game.)
• Devin Olsen released his own Halo 2 Montage vid – just under 19 mb, WMP9 format. Lots of Killtaculars and above. (Some good footage showing the potency of the plasma pistol/magnum combination… I love the Colossus ‘attack while in the air, kill before you land’ kill.) Update: this one, too, is having trouble – Devin asks for mirrors. If you can help him out, drop him a line! Update 2: Yayap to the rescue!
• Craven47 posted a short (43 second) ‘Dance Movie‘ (3 Spartans jumping around on Lockout) on Putfile. Just over 5 mb, WMP9 format.
• That Weasel, always around to help, has mirrored a whole bunch of OTHER recent movies, besides Ripp0n’s – The Codex Trailer, Vehicular Pwnage, and the Sleeping player are all there now.

I’m sure there are/will be more over the course of the day – but I’ll make a new post later. And the bandwidth just keeps going up, up, up, up… (none of this is ours, though.)

Okay, that’s it. We killed another account with Ripp0n’s Montage… so I’m doing what I should have done at the start… and putting up a BitTorrent seed for it. If you wanted to get this earlier today, and couldn’t… get it now.

Bizarre. SirDougOfUsbek made a film in which one of his party members just… fell asleep during gameplay. Proximity voice let everyone nearby hear the guy snoring… they messed with him for a while. Mantis posted a link on our forum; nof has mirrored a director’s cut (somewhat longer). Take this as a warning; fall asleep during a game, you WILL be ridiculed, publicly. (6500 people have downloaded this film from putfile.com; I don’t know how many mirror downloads there’ve been.)

Tourney in Wayne, NJ, this coming Saturday; 2v2 Team Slayer, $500 cash prize. Details in this forum post.

Holy… so there are tons of skill vids out there, and as I’ve said before, there’s ALWAYS someone better than you… but this was pretty amazing. Ripp0n posted a link to a montage vid he put together from his XBC (Halo 1) gameplay, and man… that guy can stick. There are some grenade throws that will make your jaw drop. Vid quality is… well, crappy. Certainly good enough to see what’s going on, though. Vid is 6:23 long, 50 mb, WMP9 format. Hosts are (apparently) spotty. (I had no trouble grabbing the file from the first mirror, but someone else in the thread last night mentioned they were both down.) Composition is quite good; the whole thing suffers only from low video quality. This is certainly Halo gameplay at the peak of its form. (It’s a fantastic example of why n00bs don’t really enjoy playing on XBC… guys like Ripp0n make you feel really… inadequate.) Update: Bah, that was quick. Vid is down again. If anyone’s got a chunk of bandwidth they want to devote to this, drop us a line. (It’s a big video, and it’s making the rounds, sitewise, so if you’ve got less than 50 or 100 GB of bandwidth to offer, it’s probably not worth it.) Thanks! Update: Thanks a million to linus, who’s provided another mirror for this file. Get it while it’s hot!

Whoa – more awards possibilities. The Game Audio Network Guild is hosting the 3rd Annual G.A.N.G. Awards, to be held this year on March 10 during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Halo 2 is up for:

• Audio Of The Year
• Best Cinematic/Cut-Scene Audio
• Music Of The Year
• Best Live Performance Recording
• Best Interactive Score
• Best Original Instrumental Song (for “Earth City”)
• Best Original Vocal Song – Choral (for “Ghosts Of Reach”)
• Best Original Soundtrack Album
• Sound Design Of The Year
• Best Dialogue

WOW! Thanks to Music 4 Games for the heads-up.

Randomhero has started an Art contest; entries can be almost anything (as long as they haven’t been seen before), and you’ve got until Feburary 28 to submit. Full details, including a prize list, can be found at his 7th Column Group.

We mentioned a couple of movies yesterday that have updates in availability… lessee. DementedPuppy has posted a QuickTime version of Vehicular Pwnage; it’s about 17 mb. (The WMP9 version is, of course, still available.) And HALOChat has put up a copy of the DivX version of the Codex Trailer – it’s always good to have extra help with hosting! If you missed either of these yesterday, go grab ’em now.

A week or so ago, we mentioned the Interactive Achievement Awards – they were given out yesterday. Halo brought home 4 of them; of the 6 it was nominated for, it missed only Game of the Year (to Half-Life 2) and Outstanding Achievement in Game Design (to Katamari Damacy). Not too shabby!

Last night, we posted links to a trailer for The Codex, a new machinima production. Their server melted. They moved to a new host, and the links are back online, with smaller downloads (which means more people can view them)… and to make sure it doesn’t happen again, we’ve tossed up mirrors on mythica.org and files.bungie.org.

• DivX (12.0 mb): Home Site | mythica.org | bungie.org
• QuickTime (12.2 mb): Home Site | mythica.org | bungie.org

Go grab ’em!