The third Frontline interview (this time with a Grunt) is posted over at ‘Frontline with Suzie’. Thanks, Viper the Mighty.

The Spoof has interviews the Master Chief, who’s living, apparently, in Billings, Montana. Who’da thunk it? Thanks, Walshicus.

A couple of days ago, Owl created a pretty huge standalone Halo 2 logo. Yesterday, Fury Three posted a standalone rendered version… and BOLL posted his own stuff (extracted from the official site’s content). Between these, you should be able to find a version you can use for your web creations…

G-Force points out that the July issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly mentions the possibility of a Halo title for Nintendo’s Gameboy Advance (page 70). Funny if this turns out to be true…

Wow. XBC player Scars has put together a film (you must be registered on the XBC forums to view this thread) called ’50 ways to nade things to you in Hang ’em High’ – and that’s exactly what it is. 11:45 long, 30 mb large, WMP7 format, it shows you many, many different ways to get weapons to you using grenades on Hang ’em High. Where to stand, where to point your reticle before you throw… that sort of thing. 50 of ’em. Pwn your neighbors. Thanks, Smunchy.

Gamespot has posted its Best of E3 2004 awards. Halo picked up a ‘Top 10 Trailers of E3‘ award for the press conference demo, and was a finalist in the Best Shooter and Best Xbox categories (beaten by MechAssault 2 both times), but was otherwise passed over. Interesting counterpoint with other gaming sites. Thanks, Jay.

Lots and lots and lots of you noticed the Fan Fiction section was broken yesterday; I accidentally allowed a story with illegal characters in the series name through the screening process. Sorry about that! Fixed now, though. That’ll teach me to put up a last-minute post before leaving for the day (without checking the link first).

20 new entries for you in the Fan Fiction section. Go read.

Dancing banshees? Bizarre. Read, watch, enjoy.

Wow. Now THERE’S a fun fan. Spideroptics received a keychain countdown timer for ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ at the movies yesterday; with a bit of printing and cutting, he turned it into something pretty cool. Nice!

SanchezTheLlama wrote to say that Nerdstock 2004 got cancelled for lack of attention. Anyone who was planning on coming, though, is invited to a big LAN at his house; free entry. You can’t beat free Halo, can you?

Couple of new IGN articles of interest: They’ve put up their Xbox Best of E3 awards, and Halo 2 picked up Best Xbox Live Game, Best Shooter, and Xbox Game of the Show. It also picked up a Runner-Up award for Technological Excellence. (Thanks, Nathan Wall.) There’s also an Insiders-only article on Fran’s Show picks – and yeah, Halo is among them. And oh, yeah, did we mention that Halo 2 took their overall Best of Show award (all platforms)?

The Bungie Weekly Update is on our forum again this week. Frankie said they owed us because nobody believed that last week’s was real. Personally, I think the naked pictures of Divine I slipped him at E3 were what tipped the scales. It’s a pretty darn good update… there’s animation stuff, slow-mo effects, vehicle physics, and the return of some of the material from the Halo Announcement Trailer. (Reinforcements are on the Spoke… so what’s this about a pickle?) Check it out!

Homelan Fed has put up a short impressions article of the E3 demo. Thanks, ash.

Tom’s Hardware Guide has put up a Best of E3 article, and Halo 2 took the Xbox category. w00t! (They did pick a rather unusual choice for best FPS, though…) Thanks, EA6.

Dan Chosich wrote up a great piece on the Fanfest weekend; good text, good pics, and a nice little movie to give you flavor. Check it out!

Roger Wilco has posted a note on our forum, explaining some of the backstory behind Special Delivery; if you liked the movie, go read what he has to say about it! He’s also updated his random renders page to include some shots from the movie. I simply cannot imagine rendering a movie like that on a 300 MHz Celeron processor… I think he must have drawn the frames by hand.

BigBoy7791 found another CNN article (this time on CNN Money) from E3; it profiles 6 games to watch, and Halo 2 is the first. As BigBoy says, it’s great to see video games showing up more and more often in the mainstream press. Halo 2 will likely have a ‘first weekend’ that rivals many movies, in terms of gross sales…

One One Se7en bounces back with new jokes. Okay, Old jokes.

Halo: Resolution finds an interesting box today…