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.

Do you find yourself using our forum without actually figuring out whether your time would be better spent checking for the answer in FAQs first? c0ld vengeance is working on a new site feature that might help.

Derek Tick points out a link to Evolution Gaming’s Summer Leagues, a Milwaukee, WI Halo-playing group. They list full stats for each member of each 3-man team (there are 8 of them) – it’s not clear what all the acronyms are, but it’s for certain that they’re serious about ranking their players. Check it out!

Man, only 15 new stories in the Fan Fiction section today. You guys are slacking!

• Battlefield 2552: Back to Hell, by John Morris
• Oblivion chapter 1, by Reclaimer
• On A Red Horse: Chapter 3, by Diamond Dog
• Its Just One of Those Days (Prologue: 1), by Elfster
• Battle for Norah: Part Three, by Sterfrye36
• The Fall of the Chief, by The Scribe
• Rise and Fall of the Flood Chapter 3, by BlackValkyire
• pt1.1-Injustice-Halo2, by Spartan Construct-117
• pt1.2-Injustice-Halo2, by Spartan Construct-117
• Halo From the Flood’s Point of View: The Harboring Mist (Part 1), by Simpsons Rule
• Halo from the Flood’s Point of View: The Harboring Mist (Part 2), by Simpsons Rule
• Spartans in NYC Chapter 4, by Chief-117
• True Purpose(13), by Frensa Geran
• Halo: Journey to Earth: Part 1: Arrival, by Zeta
• Buried Treasure(2), by Frensa Geran

Just kidding. Read ’em before someone prints them out and hits you over the head with the resulting ream of paper. Don’t worry – there’ll be more tomorrow, you can hit ’em back.

Devin Olsen and Goatrope submitted three new maps to the Weapons Respawn Times chart in our Miscellaneous section. This leaves only Boarding Action and Chiron in the completely untested column. Nice going, guys!

Captain Spark turned in another 25 dialogue snippets – we’ve added them to the Dialogue Databank. I’ve also added some sorting functions – you can see new material by simply sorting the full page by date, reversed. Update: Jamirus99 has added 4 new Marines quotes – they’re listed at the bottom here. Update 2: Two more, from Ghôlsbane (extracted from Randy Glass movies, actually). Again, sort the Marines section by submitter. In order to keep this particular news item from taking over the page, this is the last ‘update’ we’ll add; if there are more submissions today, I’ll put up a status update tomorrow.

Woohoo! Mythica.org, which has been down since June 19 (that’s just short of three weeks ago, for you movie-starved folks), is back up and running! We’re going to be attempting to clear the rather substantial movie backlog over the next week or so… we’ll start with the longest-waiting movies. First up: Too Many Vehicles, a film put together by Darksage and released on June 25 on a friend’s server. You can read about it here. If you’ve already grabbed it, be patient – we’ll release another one in the next few hours. Whoa, I feel the chest loosening!

The Bungie Jobs page has gotten another entry – they’re looking for a Contract Graphic Artist/Illustrator to help with the upcoming Bungie.net facelift. There are definitely some HBO community members with the skills for this one… Thanks to SketchFactor for the heads-up.

After a 4 month hiatus, the Bungie Comics page gets an update, thanks to mehve… I’m not sure I’d want to be in that bar after that last frame.