Red vs Blue has created a new promo for the SpikeTV Video Game Awards. If you’re a sponsor, it’s available now for download on their forum. (If you’re not, it’ll be out for the masses sometime later.) It’s great. Thanks to P_40E for the heads-up.

Nukedude pointed out that he has hosted all 5 of KORHAL’s movies, in one place. If you’re interested in what KORHAL’s been up to, here’s a decent place to start. (If you don’t know who KORHAL is, you can just watch the movies; it doesn’t really matter.)

Ferret pointed out a video (shakeycam) from AGP3 – StK vs TDT. 35 mb, WMP8 format. You’ll have to register on Spartanzclan’s site (free) to download. Dunno… lotta camping going on, you ask me.

A Guest One One Se7en, written by… One One Se7en? Hmm..

The Spike TV Video Game Awards were given out last night in Las Vegas, and though they won’t air on Spike TV before tomorrow night, GamerFeed has announced the winners. Halo 2 was up for ‘Most Anticipated Game’ – it won. Halo PC was up for ‘Best PC Game’ – it won. (It was also up for ‘Best First-Person Action Game’ – but lost to Call of Duty.) Watch the details on Spike TV tomorrow at 9 pm! Thanks to Jesper Nielsen for the heads-up. (Apologies to anyone offended by the early notice.)

Lion got around to writing up his experience at AGP3 last week. Check it out here.

Not mine, actually – Morningstar’s. (The tribute, that is. I wasn’t – oh, never mind.) The MorningStar decided there was a missing feature here at HBO – a way to read stories written by forum jester Skavenger, without having to search through the archives. (Skavenger has never opted to submit his works to our Fan Fiction section.) Star figured that while he was compiling this list of jewels-in-the-rough, he might as well polish them up a bit; clean up spelling, punctuation, that sort of thing. In theory, with his help, this section will continue to be updated, if new stories are added to the forum. Without further ado, I direct you to the Skavenger_s7 section of HBO; may you find a laugh or two.

progamerz stopped by our forum to point out three new sites at HaloCity, all modding-related; check out SomeRhino’s Domain (nice shots of an in-progress map), Skin Deep (shots of racing stripe skins for hogs, among other things), and Digital Adrenaline (no real info yet, just a Flash intro).

In the ‘too much time on their hands’ category, Hikaru-119 takes home the golden penguin for his Munitions count on all campaign levels of Halo. Gah.

A monster collection of Miscellaneous Artwork for you today (17 pieces), due to the fact that the last update was about 2 weeks ago. Everything from misplaced comics, to pencil sketches, to animated mini-movies… a real grab-bag. Go check it out.

Stuntmutt revisits the mystery at the top of 343 Guilty Spark in today’s One One Se7en. Dunno why… I was expecting a ‘Can you hear me now?’ joke instead…

Poll smash; Gamespot wants to know what 2004 release you’re most looking forward to? Halo 2 is currently on top; if you can stomach the enormous ad to get in, help make sure it stays there. (Thanks to Alucard for pointing it out.)

Noobs – you gotta love ’em. Halo: Resolution shows you why.

Another mirror has appeared for the Making Of Halo 2 vid – WorthPlaying has put up copies on all its servers. (Three are in the US, one is in Sweden.) Don’t miss this one! Update: Halo Orbit, in Germany, has put up a copy, as well. Check the mirror page! Update 2: and 6 MORE mirrors, from Gamers Hell. We’ll keep adding mirrors to the page, as they come in; just keep checking back if you haven’t gotten it yet! (No more updates here, though – this entry’s gonna get too long.)

In honor of the release of Halo: First Strike in bookstores today, Bungie has put up a brand-new wallpaper (in four sizes), using Lorraine McLees’ gorgeous cover artwork. Check it out!

Wow. Dave Mertz, lead designer on Halo PC for Gearbox, resigned as of yesterday. Details can be found in this forum thread on Gearbox’s forum. Hmm… I wonder what this means for the 1.03 patch, or the Editing Tools package? Thanks to progamerz for the heads-up.

For those interested in the AGP Fall Halo Championship, rapture has rounded up a bunch of links for you. Good stuff!

Woohoo! My Red vs Blue DVD came in the mail today… and man, this thing rocks. I’m not gonna get very much work done in the next bit here… All I can say is, if you haven’t already ordered one of these, go do it. It’s worth the bucks.

Back in September, an interesting documentary was shown at the X03 event in France. It was a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Halo 2, created by Film Oasis, the company behind ‘Inside the Xbox’, a documentary shown on the Discovery Channel last summer. Unfortunately, the only version available has been a shakey-cam piece filmed at the show by a French journalist – better than nothing, but still unsatisfying. If you had access to a Best Buy in the United States, and were willing to spend $19.99 for a new controller, you could get a bundled DVD that contained the hi-res version of this film… but it wasn’t available on the net. Until now. Thanks to Jim McQuillan at Film Oasis and the legal eagles at Bungie, we’re able to bring you this video, in all its hi-res beauty. There are two versions; for the big bandwidth folks, there’s a 100 mb, 640×480 copy, and for folks on smaller pipes, you can grab a 38 mb, 320×240 version. We’ve put up a pair of copies of each (on files.bungie.org and mythica.org) – but we’re always happy to spread the bandwidth pain; if you’ve got the space, grab a copy, and send us the link, we’ll add it to our Mirror page. This one’s worth seeing. Update: Two new mirrors for each size – Coerce.net and Subnova have both tossed their hats into the Bandwidth ring. Thanks, guys! Update 2: Brian Towne has put up BitTorrent seeds for both large and small versions – grab these if you have the client; not only will they be faster, but they’ll be less strain on our mirrors. Thanks!

Today’s Guest One One Se7en strip comes from Traumatised Marine – and points out the soldier Bungie managed to overlook when they populated the Pillar of Autumn.