Recovery from a three-day holiday here this week has sapped whatever resolve I had left for keeping up on news, so here's a collection of interesting items:

• THQ will distribute Stubbs in Europe.
• Eric Trautmann notes that Art of Halo apparently got a Quill award nomination he didn't even know about. It didn't win, unfortunately.
• GamesFirst calls Stubbs the Zombie undoubtedly a cult hit.
• L30N1DAS did a Halo-themed dock icon and soundset for the Mac OS X instant messenging program, Adium.
• Bungie lost (predictably) to their own playtesters in the last Humpday Challenge.