Annihil8or sent in a few adjustments for the Weapons Respawn list – always good to have folks double-checking.

12 new snippets for the Dialogue Databank, thanks to Captain Spark. We’re up to 220. I still haven’t found time to re-record the Loony Toons signoff.

Continuing the trend of posting 3-month-old screenshots, Gamespot put up 12 new pics yesterday, as well. They’ve all been seen before – but some of the Prophet variants they put up are larger than any alternatives posted to date. Worth a look, if you’re an avid collector. Ross Mills was the first to notice on our forum.

Looks like a bunch of US servicemen stationed in Iraq organized a Halo tournament over the Fourth of July weekend… not a bad way to spend it! TeamXbox has the details (and a nice pic). Thanks to Caligula Caesar for the heads-up.

Dylan Velasquez writes to tell us of a recreation he’s made of the Halo map Longest for the Half-Life engine (for use in Counter-Strike) – check out this preview (105K). Lookin’ good!

Nine Fan Fiction stories for you today.

• A Marine Named Peters: Move Out!, by GLADIATRRR3000
• The first of Johns woes, by jellis186
• On A Pale Horse: The Esteem, by Silent Hunter
• Forsaken Forefathers part IX: Defection, by AlphaBravo343 and Havok
• A Marine Named Peters: Fly Away Home, by GLADIATRRR3000
• Its Just One of Those Days (prologue: 2), by Elfster
• The Fall of Fate: Escape, by ‘Nosolee
• The Virus Part 5, by monitor101
• Buried Treasure(3), by Frensa Geran

Read, blast you!

Okay, so Mythica’s been back online now for 44 hours. In that time, it’s served 260 GB of movies to you greedy bastards. What are you trying to do… kill it? Well, fine. Chew on THIS. It’s a 12.4 mb QuickTime version of a movie released by MaverickJ back in late June (originally in both WMP9 and MPEG formats). All three versions are still available on the Project Spartan Forum (and the WMP9 version can be grabbed from their Video page, no registration required) – this is just a mirror for folks having trouble over there. We’re also mirroring the QuickTime version (7.9 mb) of the followup first-person version, showing how the tricks were done. (All three flavors of the followup vid can be found at the Project Spartan Forum, as well – and there’s also a FAQ written up by MaverickJ; again, you’ll need to register to see these.) Both of these movies show some pretty cool Capture the Flag tricks. Stay tuned over the next couple of days for still more movies in need of bandwidth, and new, never-before-seen movies. Just don’t kill the goose before you get that golden egg.

Wow. That didn’t take very long. About 20 hours ago, I posted a note about a contest sponsored by gwdp….to, involving getting in to the separated room on Chill Out. Almost 2 hours ago, Macegac posted a movie (with BOLL’s hosting help) showing the completion of that challenge – and this is something that folks on our forum have tried to do, on and off, for almost a year. Guess sometimes it just takes cold hard cash to motivate the hardcore. Nicely done, all around!

Devin Olsen has created a Mountain Dew parody – you can find it on Lion’s Truth and Reconciliation site. It’s just under a minute long, and weighs in at 7.7 mb. If you haven’t seen the original it’s based on, don’t fret – it’s included. QuickTime format.

Captain Spark has turned in another 39 snippets for the Dialogue Databank. Along with the bits submitted by Jamirus99, Gholsbane, and Wraith yesterday, these bring the total up to almost 210 samples. There are some good ones in there! (If you choose to record – do your best to get clean samples, without a lot of background noise. Makes it easier to hear what’s being said!)

ToTheGame has ALSO put up ‘new’ screenshots; again, these are pre-E3, and most have been seen before. However, the first shot (a Brute model) and the last (a nice shot of the new Warthog) are really new. Check it out! Thanks to Eclarap, of Halo-Game, for the heads-up.

Team Xbox has put up 7 ‘new’ screens from Halo 2 – actually, they’re digital versions of some images posted in the June issue of the Official Xbox Magazine. (Three have appeared online, in a slightly smaller form, already – check our Screenshots section for details.) Thanks to CuBaNo for the heads-up.

gwdp….to went on a movie-posting spree last night; he was kind enough to organize all the links in one post. They’re all pretty small (none of them are over 7.5 mb) and show a variety of things. Descriptions can be found in the thread that post resides in, if the movie’s not self-explanatory enough for you.

In the continuing process of clearing out the Movie queue, we’ve got a 14.7 mb QuickTime for you of the second episode of Salmon vs Teal, the first Red vs Blue parody. It’s 4:3 long, and ranges from hilarious to totally incomprehensible. Take a look! (This was released on the RvB forums almost 3 weeks ago – but it wasn’t until now that we could help with hosting.) If all goes well, there’ll be another movie released later today.

Darksage was playing some Rockets-only Race with a bud, who tags him first, but then Darksage gets revenge with a pretty amazing shot. It’s 22 seconds long – the first 15 seconds are only there to prove that the shot wasn’t set up ahead of time. It’s only 1.4 mb – check this out for a grin.

dolbex reminds everyone that early registration for Halo50K2 ends this Saturday; if you register now, you save $100 on the team’s fees. If you’re gonna be there, think of all the beer you can buy with $100!

Do you consider yourself a Halo god? Could you stand to be $20 richer (in shwag)? guy who doesn’t post…too often has a challenge for you – get a live Master Chief into the separated room, behind the glass, in Chill Out, and he’ll pay you for it. Read the details in this forum post.

Hehe – you knew this would happen, didn’t you? Today’s One One Se7en shows pretty clearly why the MC needs to get his sorry self back out on the battlefield… pronto. I blame Jason.

Well, Mythica’s up to 18.2 Mbit/sec (35 gigs in the past 11 hours), so what the heck – here’s another movie for you. This one hasn’t actually been released anywhere, yet. It’s called ‘Hall of the Sidewinder King‘, and it tells the story of a red soldier (well, pink) getting the flag. Set nicely to Edward Grieg’s Hall of the Mountain King, this one tells a story we’ve all lived through. It’s in QT5 format, and weighs in at about 8MB for a 2:23 long film. Team Sexy gets the creation credits.

Sam writes to point out a Halo tournament in the Kansas City area, at the National Video Gaming League on August 2. Top prize is $500. More information can be found at Team Viper’s Bungie.net chapter.