18 new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section today – go read. That’s the end of the news posts, I think – UCDI: Special Forces starts pretty soon.

Braxton Colongione made a life-size model (140k) of a plasma pistol – always great to see Halo fans expressing themselves!

It’s taken me forever and a day to get these posted… but they’re worth seeing, so post them I’ll do. Miguel Chavez took a bunch of hi-res pics of the Halo 2 prototype action figures (as well as the now-on-sale Series 4 figures) at E3 this year; we’ve made them available for viewing. There are 640×480 versions for casual viewing, and gigantic 2048×1536 versions for up-close examination. Give ’em a look!

The Bungie Weekly Update this week can be found at the forums on the Major League Gaming website – there’s lots of good stuff, but what killed me was that Sketchfactor was in New York this week, and didn’t call. I would have bought him pancakes! (There’s boatloads of more exciting stuff – go read.) Heads-up, surprisingly, came from Frankie. (Usually a fan beats him to the punch.)

Red vs Blue Episode 37, Dealer Incentive, has been posted for sponsors – and it’s a whopper. 60 mb in high-res, any flavor. 6:27 worth of totally incompetent negotiations… and other stuff. Some of it’s optional.

Halo Babies has updated their comic, and asked a question that’s puzzled many a Halo player over the years. There’s also some new vectorized fan art. Go look!

One One Se7en shows that ODSTs were never the sharpest tacks on the seat…

Halo: Resolution puts our heroes in some pretty grave danger…

In an attempt to dominate the HBO front page, Dolbex sent around a bunch of news about Halo50k3, coming up at the end of July. First off, MLG ran a contest on XBConnect that gave free entry to the whole XBC team, an XBC pro account, and some MLG schwag to the person who could guess the 8 winners of the FFA the closest; this was won by Buu from team SA. Second, Registration is open now (and $40/person for only 3 more days) on the MLG Pro site (check there for hotel info, as well). Third, rapture interviewed dolbex about the event over at Gotfrag. If this isn’t enough info for you, the entire collection of details has been written up in an article on the MLG site.

Dolbex got a poster he won after E3 back from the framers yesterday – you’ll find some cool pics in this forum post. Yeah, those will likely be sold by Bungie/Microsft at some point. No, you can’t have Dolbex’s. Update: Sketchfactor chimed in to say that the licensing arm is close to making a deal, and that as soon as they know these (or posters like them) are available in stores, there’ll be a post on Bungie.net. Nice!

The last of the enormous miscart backlog is now posted – you can find another 24 items in the Miscellaneous Art section today. Predictably, there are already NEW items in the queue – but hopefully, I’ll be able to keep up on them a bit better.

Hehe – pretty cool. ThinkGeek sells a green laser pointer, and accepts ‘Action Shots’ – the combination led one Halo fan to send in this very slick shot. Thanks, Troy Conrad, for letting us know!

Chronomaw writes to point out that Halogen, the Halo mod for C&C Generals (last mentioned in February, though that website no longer works) will be releasing a new render every day. Swing on by to see their progress!

Noah Hofmann, who used to go by the name ‘Shrike’, but now goes by ‘Ultrash’, has turned in a third piece of Halo Fan Music. (The first two can be found here.) This one is called ‘Halo The Miracle‘, and is an 8-minute-long, 9.2 mb mp3 which is great to listen to. Ultrash is happy if someone wants to use this in a fan work – just contact him.

Dave Writz pointed out the new bumper sticker on his mom’s car…

Today’s Calvin and Halo shows why you should never play games with sneaky tigers. (Or sneaky game documentarians, either… Just ask Dan Chosich.)

The second batch of Miscellaneous Art is now posted – 32 pieces, covering authors beginning with C through P. There is some truly spectacular stuff in this batch; look at ALL of it, but certainly don’t miss work by DC, Gruntsbane, Iatro, and NeoFreak. (The first batch, if you missed it, was posted yesterday. The last batch will be posted tomorrow.)

20 new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section – after I deleted the garbage. It’s becoming less and less fun to manage this particular subsection of the site…