EBGames.com is hosting a Halo 2 sweepstakes – go register wto win lots of good stuff. You must be a US resident to enter, and you must enter by November 9. Thanks, HALOChat.

Gamespy has kicked off its weeklong Halo 2 coverage with a great interview of Bungie.net’s Frankie. Some clear discussion on why items got pulled, stuff about XBox Live, and more. Go read! (And stop back every day this week for more good stuff – that first link lists what’s coming each day.) Thanks, John Keefer – and dozens of others.

M3XGhost39 found some odd ‘screenshots’ over at MSN Entertainment. They’re pretty tiny, and they’re a mishmash of already-released shots, shots that WILL be released in the next few days (but are currently under embargo), and shots I’ve never seen before. To top it off, they’re in the ‘Celebrity Photos’ section (I guess there’s no ‘screenshots’ section there). Go look. (No spoilers – at least none you’ll recognize as such.)

beetlecrazy12 found an interesting latex mask on eBay – unfortunately, I didn’t get this posted last night in time for folks to actually BID on it. Still cool to see. I’ve put up a static (no links) local copy for when this auction rolls off eBay.

Once again, a night not posting Halo news has generated a few dozen notes about a new clip over at nilerogers.com – it’s called Impend. This time, it seems like there’s a a small error in the page code; the copy-and-paste from Heretic, Hero wasn’t fully converted. Browsers that use the Object definition (like IE on Windows) will get the flash animation… those that use the Embed parameter (pretty much everything else) will see a white box. I’m sure this will be fixed soon – but in the meantime, you can at least grab the music snippet itself… it rocks. First heads-up was Julien LeBlanc, about 12 hours ago.

Halloween Love Now here is a woman who cares about her man. LadyRziha created a Master Chief costume for her husband – it’s not as polished as a Nightmare Armor suit, but there’s a whole lotta love there. Check it out! (More news tomorrow – too much trick-or-treating tonight.)

Stuntmutt pointed out a nice little contest over at Game Revolution – Enter, you’ve got a chance to win some cool Halo schwag.

A quick reminder – HBO Coerce is going offline at midnight EDT tonight. (That’s about 7 hours from now, for folks who can’t do the math.) Go play some last minute Halo CE!

Biography of Master Chief, Part 1, at Newgrounds. Wronchi takes liberties. Thanks, Blade.

Stuntmutt, too, has gotten into the spirit, with a special holiday One One Se7en.

Yesterday, Sep7imus mentioned that the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly contained an article about Halo 2. He couldn’t scan it, though. Today, Finchmeister found an online link for the same article – no scans necessary.

ONI_operative_343 found a new Halo 2 action figure mini-pack (it doesn’t seem to be advertised on Joyride’s site). You can see it (and buy it) at DieCastExpress.com.

Kevin Ryan made a Halo 2 Halloween comic last winter – Red Leader suggested now is a good time to remind people. You can find it at Black Arts Studios.

Alex Barnes noticed a commercial on Spike TV for a show called ‘Halo 2 Ultimate Gamer’. (We posted the casting notice for this a couple of weeks ago.) If you want to watch – check out showtimes. (Coming up this Thursday and Saturday.)

mecka wrote to say that he works for a company that is putting up large Halo 2 posters in public transport shelters across Melbourne, Australia – and he snapped a pic (164K) of one of these babies before pasting it up. It’s about 1.8 m (6 feet) tall. Pretty!

There’s a Dutch site that’s hosting

Sean Kelly pointed out a new clip on the MTV website promoting this week’s Making of Halo 2 video (showtimes are here). Once again, it’s XP/IE only. Some websites suck.

The Melbourne (Australia) Herald Sun had a short article on Pete Parsons, the ‘man behind Halo 2’ (that’s a direct quote) and a previous Melbourne resident. There’s a followup next week. Pooston sent us a digital photo of the article (229K).

A few days ago we mentioned a page on the I Love Bees website that discussed a closed invite to a ‘training session’ in 4 large cities – as of last night, that invite has been opened to several hundred people per city. Go visit the page, and if you’re in the area, follow the instructions and get yourself included! Thanks to Major Hellion Youngblood and weephun for sending word.

Mostly working on pumpkin stuff today (the number of entries nearly doubled overnight), but there’s other Halo news. In an attempt to staunch the flood of emails about the new Official Halo Soundtrack clip over at nilerogers.com, I’ll post that now. It’s called ‘Heretic, Hero’, and the snippet is 1.1 mb (1:10 long). As always, preferred listening method should be the Listening Station at the website. There are now 11 clips to listen to. The first heads-up came last night, from Hunt3r.