Last Friday’s Weekly Bungie Update (over at Sector 7) has now been added to our Archive. Did you know that this update is the third time that Frankie’s mentioned Alta?

One One Se7en admits the obvious… again.

Halo: Resolution finds a… new toy.

Halomods.com is back up (well done, Grenadiac!), and one of the more impressive new releases comes from BorgScooby; it’s a reworking of the central underground area on AotCR, and it’s called ‘The Chasm’. A lot of thought went into this; you can get a decent sense for the level in the movie in this thread, and you can download the mod itself in this thread (both on the Halomods forum). Check it out! (Thanks to DrLime, over at Battleground: Halo, for the heads-up.)

Thanks to the lots and lots and lots of people who pointed out the mistake I made in yesterday’s Nightmare Armor news post. That’s not a Grunt mask, it’s a Jin-Roh helmet (from the Japanese animated movie of the same name). My bad. First correction came from TigerHawk, on our forum. You can stop writing now…

Nice find by Ross Mills – Yomary Cruz, the voice actress for Sheila the Tank in Red vs Blue, has a website up, and on it is a movie containing all the Sheila lines in one place. Nice!

MasterNeoChief has created a mod called Halo Elite Battles; you play as an Elite, and your job is to wipe out the Human forces. (There’s even a destructible Pelican mod.) A trailer can be found in this thread, the mod itself in this one (both at Halomods). If the links don’t work, try again later; they seem to be up and down. Check it out… it looks pretty cool!

A month ago, Project Halo closed its doors as a Halo-related game. They didn’t dissolve as a team, however; they’re now working on a project called ‘Supreme Conflict: The Enna Wars‘, and have recently put up a new forum for discussion. They’re hoping to have a Halo-based mod of their game at some point, even. Comments can go into this forum thread.

Whoa – bunch of new stuff at Nightmare Armor… Easter Egg helmets (hehe), and some pics of NEW work; a Grunt helmet? I want, I want! (Also, a very nice pair of shots of the Rocket Launcher. Coming along!) Thanks to {SS}Zag1 for the heads-up. Update: AAAA, I’m jealous. Dolbex visited the Nightmare Armor guys this weekend, and just posted a writeup of that visit (complete with some awesome pics) on his Been Mawed site. Go read it – and check out some really unique images!

Tina Leyk has been busy recently… we’ve got a bunch of new stuff from her. On the Fur-Lo comic page, you’ll find a new pair of single-panel strips, ‘FETCH!’ and ‘Mission Invisible’. On our general art page for her, you’ll find two new doodles (I found them both quite funny), and a pretty awesome plushy she made (spoiler warning, if you’re still watching for these). I want one! (The new stuff is all at the bottom of the page; just scroll down. Yes, a better search mechanism is STILL coming.) Nice stuff!

Updates will be light today, due to the fact that it’s Easter… but we’ve got a couple of things, at least. First off, Stuntmutt turns in a new Sunday One One Se7en strip (which also, nicely, works as a Holiday strip… not bad). Apologies to the poor MC, who found the WRONG person to rile up.

Webshift dropped into our forum to point out a couple of pretty cool things over at the Nightmare Armor site… first, there are photos of the blue armor, in all its glory, worn on a deck in the beautiful backwoods of Georgia – pretty snazzy! Second, there’s a new raffle going on, this time for a helmet, fully painted and with F/X lighting and fans. Tickets are $10 each, but you’ll get two for one if you buy $50 worth (or, put another way, buy 10 and they’re $5 each). All the details, and mailing instructions, can be found on their front page right now, and will be on their Fan Appreciation page until the contest ends, on May 10. Go win yourself a smashing product!

Looks like you can get your hands on one of those Halo 2 calendars without doing anything except filling in your name… Forerunners.org is giving away 5 of them, as well. The catch? Some browsers can see the page… others get an error; 500 has been seen, as has 1060. All I can suggest is that you try another browser – it’s not that the site is down, because I can continue to load the page in one browser, while a second says ‘it’s broke’. Thanks to Battleground: Halo, where I found this tidbit. (And remember – you can still enter our Win a Date with One One Se7en for ANOTHER chance at one of five of these, right here at HBO. THEY’RE EVERYWHERE!)

There’s a pretty cool new page over at Red vs Blue – a history of the group, as written by the resident psycho, gFunk. It’s a sad tale of loneliness and betrayal, but with an uplifting message at the end. Or maybe that’s just the alcohol. Credit for the find goes to pilotelite, who seems far more interested in getting mentioned on this news page than actually bringing you the information…

Devin Olsen and Gil27 have completed work on The Reactor Room – a multiplayer level based on the Maw’s Reactor Room. It’s downloadable at Halomods.com. Check it out!

Gustav Larimore writes to say that Effervescing Blue Productions has a new movie posted, as well – a Warthog Jumping Tutorial. (You might remember that there’s already one posted here at HBO… but more info is rarely a bad thing.)

Icetiger writes that he’s posted 3 new Halo movies on his website, Icegames; they show footage recorded on the HBO-COERCE server. Check ’em out!

Yesterday, we mentioned an article in the Wall Street Journal about the Red vs Blue team. We couldn’t post the article itself, because we don’t post print articles that are still for sale on the newsstand. (We did give you an online link that works for non-subscribers, so reading the content itself was doable.) It’s gone today, though, so we’ve put up downloadable copies, for folks who like to archive stuff like this. Thanks to typ993 and Black Six for providing the content!

It’s been since Monday that a Fan Fiction update has been posted. My bad… now there are 28 stories to read. I’m sorry.

• Halo 2: Operation Dream Knife (Chapter 1: Hallway), by System Failure
• Chapter 4, Hell’s Bells, by The Silver Spartan
• The Spartans On Reach: Part 1 , by SpartanFortyFour
• Fall of Rye: Chapter 5: Beginning of a Suicide Mission, by teemus
• Halo:The Critical Strike, by Scott H.
• Retaliation, by Blue Jaguar
• The Third World, by Michéal Douglas
• The Blood Gulch Gig – Part Two, by Jillybean
• Beckoning to Doom: Prologue, by Nick Kang
• Halo: Lost and Found pt:II , by Riley217
• Death of the Cheif, by MASTERC
• From Darkness, by MT
• Battle of New Lexington, by Noah610
• Defending America Chapter 1, by romac1991
• A Jackal named Bird (comedy), by someone that you dont know
• Mysteries Part 5, by Horror
• The Strive to Survive (Chapter 7: Survivors), by CoLd BlooDed
• The Fury Of Earth’s Children, by Conrad Lauf
• Halo 2: Chapter 7 ; Part 1, by Mark Lieberg
• Halo 2: Chapter 7 ; Part 2, by Mark Lieberg
• Halo 2: Chapter 7 ; Part 3, by Mark Lieberg
• Pirates: I Only Work for Prophet – A Parcel of Rogues, by Ross Becalick
• Operation: Stingray Ch. 3: –Desperation pt. 2–, by Nick Kang
• No Ither Alternative Part 3, by Watsaru
• Halo 2: Part 1, Taking Over, by BlueChief
• Homeworlds XXVI, by Mainevent
• Today and Tommorow, by Br Wells
• The Wrath Of Earth’s Children, by Conrad Lauf

I’ll do my best not to let them pile up like this again.

One One Se7en, as well, was passed over… and that’s a sad thing, because it iMC is back.