Mothergoat writes to point out that mothergoat.net is finally open – all of his Halo-related videos and music (including the previously unreleased-by-itself piano portion of Hail 117 Anthem) are now available to download. Plus, he says there’s a Halo-related contest coming today! Keep your eyes open.

Gah. I got so busy I forgot to come back and post Blackstar’s Thursday offering for Calvin and Halo. I’m really sorry about that. Even more so because if you’re in school, you might have been able to use this today. Such is life sometimes.

Wonga. Get thee hence to MLGPro.com, and read the details about how you could get yourself into an elite group of 50 people who get the chance to play the final build (shipping version) of Halo 2 multiplayer – 5 days before the rest of the world. Before you get TOO excited: You must be 18, and you must be able to get yourself to Times Square in New York City on November 4. GOGOGO!

Trunks points out a new Halo-related Trunks and Soto, a webcomic. (If it’s not yet viewable from the front page, you can go there directly.)

The New York Times Technology section has an article today (registration required, free) on The World Cyber Games – and competitive gaming in general. Major League Gaming gets a nice mention, and Halo champion Zyos is the article opener. Good read! Thanks, Dolbex. Update: Dr. Nick provides an easy way to see this.

Hmm… is Halo 2 going to be playable at Ubercon IV next week at the Meadowlands in New Jersey? It’s certainly listed on the LAN Gaming page… thanks, insaneidiot432. Update: this seems to be a random claim by a random group… Bungie, officially, has no plans whatsoever to show Halo 2 at Ubercon. Maybe they’re gonna show a movie?

mottpees points out another giveaway for Halo 2 headsets – 12 of them this time, at XBL Primetime, a subsite of Xbox.com. Go sign up! (Sweeps link is on the right.)

Looks like Forerunners.org is giving away all 6 Master Chief action figures – just sign up and you’ve got a chance to win! This was apparently posted on B.net a week ago, but I missed it until Littlebigman pointed it out on our forum. Sorry!

Will H. points out that there’s a news item on the Breaking Benjamin website (three from the top right now) discussing their contribution:

Breaking Benjamin have contributed a BRAND NEW song entitled “Blow Me Away” that will be featured in the upcoming Halo 2 video game and soundtrack. Both will be released on November 9, 2004. The song will featured via a full stream on the official Halo 2 site soon.

Keep your ears open!

Gamespy, clearly short of material to write about, has put up a ‘Top 10 Game Boxes of the Season‘ article. Halo 2 came down with Number 7. Thanks, Bored_Dude.

A number of stories came out last night about the Halo 2 preorder issue; apparently, rather than being an UNDERestimate (as I thought), the Seattle Times’ value of one million preorders was an OVERestimate; official counts put it around 750,000. Oops! First clarification report I read was at Gamespot.

NiTrOuSoXiDe sends word that the Halo CE Zanzibar mod is far enough along to release screenshots – and you can find 3 of them in this thread on the Gearbox forums. Dang, that looks nice!

I’m beginning to think Tim Buckley is looking for hits from Halo sites or something… today’s Ctrl-Alt-Del is Halo-related, again. I gotta give him credit for nailing the attitude of an awful lot of us, though… Thanks, Bonekin.

GBase, a Swiss gaming site, has posted ash.

Rockslider has added a few more enjoyable activities to his Bad Cyborg site; check the October 6th bullet in the Recent Updates list. This is a great site; content reigns supreme, but display isn’t unpleasant or awkward. No pics – just stuff to do. Fast.

This may or may not be relevant to you – but it’s pretty darn relevant to me. The Miscellaneous Art section has been moved over to nikon.bungie.org, a far more capable server than what it was on before. All old links should work without any intervention on your part; the only real difference to you, the user, is that the section should be available far more often. (During busy times, it should be faster, too.) Wallpaper won’t be far behind.

Hehe – Koolice sent us a screenshot (108K) of his MSN Messenger client from last night – looks like Anim8rJB (John Butkus, one of the Bungie Cananimators) was on XBL, playing… what? How could that be? Is it done?

Hehe – look where the Master Chief is showing up these days… (Full article is here.)

Mr Chubster submitted (a LONG time ago, it seems… sorry about that) a movie called ‘Sniping Made Easy’ – some really, really nice shooting. 4:36 long, 480×360. There’s a QuickTime version (26.3 mb) and a WMP7 version (29.8 mb). There’s a multiple killtacular at the end that I would have HATED to be on the other side of…

Nice… redeemermatt points out a few of the ads running for Halo 2 on msn and other places… I like.