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Clay Bratt has put together a new Flash Halo logo… you can see it here. (Thanks to Clay for the heads-up on our forum, and to •Mimer for the corrected URL.) Pax.

MacNN has news of a new SETI@Home client… 3.0. Currently available for Windows98/95/NT, MacOS, MacOSX, and Unix, the new version adds pulse and triplet detection to signal analysis, faster FFT routines, and better multitasking. All versions are available from SETI@home’s Downloads page. Grab it today, and increase your searching abilities! Find the Covenant before they…

The second chapter of Role Reversal, a Halo fan fiction-in-progress, arrived this evening. The action’s heating up! Elmo warns that this will be the last chapter for a few weeks… life getting in the way, again. You’ll find it on our Fan Fiction page… enjoy!

Good to know that even when real life gets in the way of updates, fans keep on top of the good stuff. Island Four (otherwise known as Nathan Bitner, former Producer of Halo) is back on the forums, spouting Neruda, Blake, and his own feverish rantings. A line from an R.E.M. song comes to mind:This…

Thanks to Diogo Barbosa, who submitted a fully hand-done version of the new Marine… you’ll find him in our Miscellaneous Art section. Diogo’s not happy with the arms… but he says he’ll get back to them. Take a look!

“Halo-Online” writes to say that a new Halo fansite is up and running in Germany… halo-online.de. German speakers, check ’em out! Pax.

Thanks to Christian Ytterström, who sent in a newly colored version of the original Marine. You’ll find it on our Miscellaneous Art page.

Thanks to Aaron Sommer, who spotted an article about Cannibal Harry’s online woes at UK-based The Register. Definitely worth a read.

The Halo SETI Marines gain another 6 recruits this week, and remain firmly in 43rd position in the Battle of the Teams. DarthFlounder again outcrunches the competition, and Trux (a new recruit last week) leapfrogs over 48 team members to garner the Frogblast award. The most interesting movement, though, is the second-place cruncher this week……

Seen at Battleground: Halo – Speedy3D has an article comparing Black and White, Team Fortress 2, and Halo, discussing how they redifine their respective genres, and dreaming about how sweet it would be to see these in time for Christmas. Aside from the wholly unrealistic estimate of release dates, it was a fine article, at…

David, an Australian fan, sent us this note:This is David from the Australian Music Group Seventh, one of our fans made up a video Music Clip using Halo footage. The song in the clip is “I’m Gonna Fly” we recorded the track ealier in the year with Halo in mind.The song won the Australian Triple…

StarHawk sends word that IntelGamer has a new Halo preview up. It’s nice to see new people excited about Halo, even if some of the info is out of date or just plain wrong. (All the pictures in the article use the old-style, outdated screenshots, Larry Niven is named in connection with the storyline, and…

Thanks to Elmo, who submitted the first of what should be 8 chapters for a new piece of Halo fan fiction.I really want to get some feedback from fans. I’ve taken a few creative liberties with the story before they arrive on the Halo but i want some feedback on how well this works. Read…

Interesting. Seems the Xbox is going to have a VChip-like parental controls, according to Alex Kotowitz (Xbox’s Senior Director of Sales), as reported by Game Informer. Parents will be able to restrict what games are played on the Xbox, based on game rating. This gives everybody (parents, regulators, adult gamers) what they want… except the…

Battleground: Halo puts up another episode of “Retaliation”, a fan fiction in parts by Patrick Palmer. Pax.

Wow. Seems the nVidia movie has caused some major problems… R.net has a story that every Halo fan should read. Cannibal Harry, a Bungie fan with a big heart, now has a big (whopping big) ISP bill to go with it. From the outside, it sounds like Earthlink (his ISP) was either astoundingly ignorant of…

Thanks to Diogo Barbosa, who mailed us two pieces of artwork: a modified Halo logo for our Logos page, and a new desktop for our Wallpaper page. Take a look!

Put a tiger in your Halo! Jesse Keenan sent us a modified Halo Marine, wearing camo stripes. Check him out on our Miscellaneous Art page.

Halo marine in early Oni movie? Some say yeah… some say nay. The Marathon’s Story page has a shortclip of a rare Oni movie seen briefly on the web in ’98. It shows what looks like a guy in aHalo marine helmet. It has been discussed before on the Oni forumsbut some Oni folk didn’t…

Interesting tidbit… the Marathon’s Story page notes that a letter written to Macworld 4 years ago, condemning Macworld’s judgement that violence in video games decreases the games’ worth, was authored by a Matt Segur… a name shared by a current Bungie programmer working on Halo. Coincidence? Or was Matt simply standing up for a company…