Author: Louis Wu

A month ago, we mentioned a team tournament in Madison, WI. Today, Poocho reminded us that the tourney happened last weekend; results and gaming impressions can be found here.

SketchFactor has put up a massive article at Bungie.net describing how things are going on the way to next week’s fanfest, and what the fan at home can expect to see (and get) during this time. Lots of cool stuff, but here are a couple of tidbits. There’s a Fanfest Q&A database that Bungie.net users…

Bungie has posted the names of the finalists in its America’s Biggest Halo Fan contest – congratulations go out to Paul Gelardi (who posts on our forum as Elan Sleazbagano), Geoff Fink (gfunk over at Red vs Blue), and Jeremy Roos. See you guys in LA!

One One Se7en continues with MC speculating on the relative benefits of various armor…

Thanks to Jota Rota, who noticed a One on One with Glenda Adams over at IMG; there are a couple of brief mentions of Mac Halo. Worth a read!

CobaltNova wrote to let us know that planning is underway for the Halo: Running Riot Invitational 3, the”third edition of the wildly popular series pitting 4-man teams against each other in the now universally copied NO ELIMINATION format that has drawn teams from as far as Texas, Colorado and even Ohio.”More details can be found…

Gamespy.com mentioned a couple of days ago that next Monday it will have a complete rundown on Halo PC – a ‘massive world exclusive preview no gamer should miss.” Sounds good to us! Thanks to Professor Card for the heads-up.

Fan Fiction is light today – only 5 entries: The Road to Zaxheoa: Chapter 2: Extraction, by Nike Truth and Reconciliation, by Andrew The Fall of Fate: Aftermath , by ‘Nosolee Halo: The Arrival, by Colianknight The Devil’s Brigade Prt. II, by SpinksRead ’em while they’re hot…

Wishin’ you had another chance at the multi-thousand dollar first prize from Halo50K? Well, Game City is gearing up for a 4-man Halo Nationals event coming up in early July in Orlando, FL – if they get 50+ teams entered, first prize will be $5,000. Swing on by and check ’em out! (Thanks to Bungie.net…

Two snazzy (but rather large) banners from Luke Harrison – check ’em out in our Banners section.

BOLL has updated his HALOrama collection with 15 new images, from both campaign and multiplayer levels. We’ve split the page up a bit to decrease loading times, and also made a more obvious link to his own nifty rotating Flash viewer. Check out the new stuff!

Whoa. Randy Pitchford, of Gearbox, is looking for Halo PC testers. It might be a bit late; it was posted last night on Blue’s News – but you never know! If you’re in the Plano, TX area, read the rest of the requirements, and see what you can get in on! Thanks to The Night…

Okay, that’s it. My brain has officially exploded. Finn and mnemesis have tagteamed on the latest Story page update; in the past 24 hours, there have been ANOTHER 13 entries added into that rapidly growing database of knowledge. Read and be wiser.

Eep – life got too busy yesterday, and I forgot to mention that another episode of One One Se7en went live. Check it out – Master Chief learns a hard lesson from Sam Fisher.

Everybody and their brother has written to tell us that Entertainment Weekly has rated Halo #16 in the Top 100 Video Games of All Time in their May issue. Okay, it’s posted. Can I go home now?

Roger Wilco has updated his ‘Temporary and Miscellaneous’ collection of Halo-inspired vehicles/weapons/whatever to include .max format models of several of the most popular ones. If you want to do your own messing, go visit and grab the model you want! (He’s also said that amenable to releasing other formats, as time permits.)

In the midst of a horrendously stupid forum thread, Achronos dropped an intriguing little hint this evening… Looks like Bungie.net might be getting a facelift soon. Update: A news item on Bungie.net clarifies that the update has to do with Truth and Reconciliation moving to its own subdomain.

SketchFactor let us know that although the America’s Biggest Halo Fan Contest was supposed to have been decided today, they’re running a bit behind, and plan to make an announcement sometime in the next day or two. Be patient, folks!

Quick followup on a tidbit from last week: Eric Trautmann popped into our forum to clarify that ‘Halo: First Strike’ is a working title for the next Halo novel, and will most likely not be the final name of the book. Looks like someone at Del Rey was just trying to clear their inbox a…

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