Thirty new dialogue snippets for the Dialogue Databank, including a bunch of Monitor sayings and some pretty rare Sgt. Stacker quotes. (Before anyone gets on my case, there are some that are pretty similar to existing quotes – but they differ in small but substantial ways.) Thanks to Captain Spark and c0ld vengeance for this lot.

Lion pointed out that the FTC movies were mirrored on his Truth and Reconciliation site, so we decided there were enough mirrors to actually create an FTC Mirror list. Any future additions will be added to this list. (There are QuickTime versions available, if anyone needs them – but nobody’s complained about the DivX versions, so I haven’t posted them.) Update: One more – Bungie.de has them, too. These have got to be the most mirrored vids in a long time! (Thanks to andrew for the heads-up.)

Can you tell that today’s One One Se7en was written soon after E3 this year?

Another 25 snippets for the Dialogue Databank from BlackWolverine – and I’ve added some extra code to allow for more accurate display of found results. (Like, for example, just those results submitted by a single person…) Check these out – there are some great ones. Update: It just doesn’t stop – another 11 from Captain Spark (including two great versions of a specifically-requested snippet).

Whoa. I almost missed this… it seems that Gearbox has fixed (or is fixing) many of the glitches folks have discovered in multiplayer Halo… but it’s unclear to me how many of these will affect some of the more enjoyable exploits in the single-player game, as well. (I fully understand the need to close some of these holes for internet multiplay; I just worry that some of the best single-player tricksterism will be inaccessible on Halo PC.) The relevant thread on Gearbox’s forum is here; thanks to CobaltNova (through Battleground: Halo) for the heads-up on this.

Mythica continues to crank out gigabytes for you folks… so what the heck, let’s add to the load. This one’s called Fight Until We Learn To Love, and it was created by LeadHead. It’s gameplay mixed with cutscenes, set to pretty appropriate music, with some nice timing. 3 minutes long, 18.8 mb big, QuickTime format. Sample and enjoy.

Dust and Echoes: Adult Detroit League is hosting a 2 vs 2 tournament in Plymouth, MI on July 26th. If you’re in the area, you might just want to jump in! Cost is $20/team, winnings get split 50/50 between the winning team and the League fund. Check out the page for more details!

Gamespot has posted a massive video interview with Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford and Bungie’s Michel Bastien for Complete members… 6 minutes of discussions about how Halo PC rocks. (I was amused by Bastien’s comment that the new multiplayer maps ‘leverage some of the environments in the single player maps’ – Death Island takes huge chunks of Silent Cartographer lock, stock and barrel, from what I can see. This is definitely NOT a bad thing; that’s a map that should have been multiplayer-capable from day one.) The discussion about mod support was extremely promising, as well. This puppy (along with last night’s 5 multiplayer movies) might just be worth the $6 a one-month subscription to Complete costs!

Doug Radcliffe, the author of the upcoming Official Halo PC Strategy Guide, has returned to our forum, and this time, he’s soliciting game tips from veteran gamers – so if you’ve got some good stuff… send it to him! (He prefers email, since he’ll be checking it more often, but you can reply to this forum thread, as well.) Guidelines on what he’s looking for, and how you’ll be credited, can be found in the post. Help make this guide the best it can be!

Seventeen more dialogue snippets for the Dialogue Databank, including the first batch of Crewmen lines. Check ’em out!

Gamespot has put up a Halo PC preview, with 11 new screens (heavy on the Banshees in multiplayer) – this game is looking mighty impressive! Go read the details. Thanks to KP on our forum, and an anonymous emailer for the heads-up.

The Cananimators, the two Canadian animators on the Halo 2 dev team, have decided that they really don’t have enough to do, so they’ve set up a new feature; Ask the Cananimators. It’s a database where you can ask these guys whatever you want. (There are some rules at the bottom of the news article that will help you stay off the blacklist and improve the chances of your question being answered.) And whatever you do… don’t ask ’em why they’re not animating more.

Eight stories for you in the Fan Fiction section today:

• Master Gunnery Sergeant Chapter 1, by Chief-117
• Thrill of the Hunt, by Gasmask
• Project: Shadow Spartan, Chapter 3, by Agent Shade
• New strength (Halo 2: Chapter 7), by Shadowrunner
• Oblivion Chapter 3, by Reclaimer
• Lament of Innocence, by Nike
• The Fallen: Chapter 3 Section 3 The Fallen Arise, by Hikaru-119
• The Fallen: Halo 2 Chapter 3 Section 4, by Hikaru-119

Is it just me, or is overall quality improving?

There are ANOTHER 10 entries in the Dialogue Databank – the good news is, these are all relatively unique and hard to hear… the bad news is, since it’s the second DD update today, there’s no easy way to show you just these 10. You’ll have to comb through the 60+ entries for the day to find ’em… sorry about that. (A good way to get familiar with what’s there, though.)

Another film for you – we haven’t seen this style in quite some time, but I felt it was pretty well done. It’s called ‘Can’t Wait‘, and it’s an adrenaline pumper for Halo 2. Made up of stills and clips from existing movies, it’s cut together pretty nicely. (It fills its small niche pretty full, though, so please – don’t send us more like this.) 11 mb, QuickTime format. Created by Yokanabster.

IGN has posted 11 new Halo PC screens (mostly multiplayer) – they’re only 800×600, but they’re still beautiful. (Nobody over there has Dave Candland’s setup skills, though…) They’re available to everyone – check ’em out! Thanks to strato99l for the first heads-up. Update: There’s an article that goes with these, available to all. Thanks to Infininja for noticing.

More mirrors: Blade, of Ice Team, has mirrored the three FTC vids (already mirrored by Mythica a couple of days ago and That Weasel more recently):

• FTC Vid 1
• FTC Vid 2
• FTC Vid 3

If you need descriptions, follow the Mythica mirror link for more info. Remember, these are in .avi format, DivX5-encoded. New mirrors rock – they mean we can continue adding new files to Mythica. (Another movie coming soon, in fact.) We’ll put up a regular mirror page for these pretty soon, since there are quite a lot now.

Halogamers has put up the character intro for their Sidewinder Saga series – go visit their movies section. It’s in two flavors (640×480 QT, 14 mb and 320×240 QT, 4 mb), so both broadband and dialup folks should be able to see this. As described on their front page, Sidewinder Saga is filled with guys that are quite different from those you’d find in the Red vs Blue world… they KNOW how to play the game. Episode one isn’t too far off; go check the Intro Episode now for a taste!

Not to be outdone, IGN has put up a Halo PC preview as well. It’s not 5 small clips – it’s one mongo one, and it’s only available to insiders. It comes in two flavors (400×300 QT, 84 mb and 320×240 QT, 55 mb), and it’s 5:29 long. It’s not all multiplayer footage – it’s about half solo play, with a voiceover explaining why you’re gonna want this puppy. (There are spoilers for those still keeping track.) The gameplay itself is great to see… but the info in the voiceover is also really, really nice. (Minimum specs for PC Halo as of now: 733-800 MHz PIII and a GeForce2. Definitely easily attainable – though don’t expect to see the cool pixelshading effects he was pointing out if you run it on the minimum box.) They recorded this themselves, today – so the footage is totally different from what Gamespot is offering. Thanks to Infininja for the heads-up.

More Winning Isn’t Everything news: The mirror that Blade put up earlier has been yanked (because of a directory name change) – it should be back up by tomorrow. Newly online is a copy at That Weasel Television (who points out that he’s also got the three FTC vids we posted a little bit ago). You win some, you lose some. Update:Much more quickly than expected, the new links for Blade’s mirrors are live again: In Too Deep and Winning Isn’t Everything. (Links have been changed in yesterday’s news item, as well, to avoid confusion.)