Grenadiac has squashed a few new bugs (and added a new feature) in SparkEdit – v3.02 is available for download now at Halomods. Thanks to Narcogen, at Rampancy.net, for the heads-up.

Forum newcomer Mills has tossed up his own collection of HUDless screenshots – and there are some doozies in there. Go look. They’re cool.

Dr. Nick has created a replacement deck for the standard Solitaire game that comes with Windows; you can see a screenshot of the installer, and have access to download links, in this forum post.

Red vs Blue has put up another Sponsors-only vid, in honor of St. Patrick’s Day; it’s short (1:14), and small (7.3 mb), and only available in the RvB forum at the moment… unfortunately for c0ld vengeance, credit for this one goes to Ross Mills, who noticed it and posted on our forum.

Whoa, it’s a close one. With about 11 hours left in the voting in today’s Gamespy Title Fight, Halo leads Quake by a pretty thin margin; 300 votes (out of a total of almost 9000 cast so far). If you haven’t voted yet, go do so now, and make sure that Halo advances to the finals!

For the first time in almost a year, HBO’s Movie Database is up-to-date; thanks to the help of Deanero, KP, and Mythica (especially Mythica), the number of movies recorded is almost double what it was yesterday. I’m sure there are mistakes, and oversights… but an awesome amount of work went into this, in an attempt to catalog films released to the Halo community; if there’s something you wanted to see, but didn’t know where to find it… this is the place. Enjoy!

There have been several examples of people getting out of the Maw near the beginning, but goatrope found a new one. Check out the small vid (3 mb) linked in his forum post – thanks to KP for the hosting. (1:11 long, DivX format.) Update: this has been mirrored at Rampancy.net, which is good, because it swamped KP’s net connection last night.

There’s a poll over at XBN’s website, asking ‘What is your most wanted Xbox game right now?’ Halo is leading strongly, with 47% of the almost 1900 votes at the moment… but you never know. Thanks to Battleground: Halo for the heads-up.

One One Se7en takes a shot at Frankie today. Methinks the MC needs to clean that gun… it would misfire less.

Keyes drops a bombshell in today’s Halo: Resolution. I, for one, didn’t see it coming.

Wow. Ducain has come up with what I think is a brand-new trick; he’s put himself, and a Warthog, on top of the Light Bridge support structure underground in the level Halo. In single-player mode. He says it took him about 40 hours – but then, in reality, it’s taken more like 2.5 YEARS. Very nicely done. 6 mb WMP9 file, with a QT version coming as soon as I get the hi-res content. Update: the WMP9 version has been mirrored at Rampancy.net – thanks, Narc! Update 2: We’re now hosting copies locally (the original 6.5 mb WMP9 version and a 6.8 mb QuickTime version).

The HBO-COERCE Halo PC server is BACK! The new IP address has been added to the top of this page, for status checks. It’s hard to tell, yet, but I’m guessing there’s a new mapcycle, as well. Go play!

The HUDless screenfest goes on. zarrel40 put up a few (one with a pretty cool transposition of the Threshold hologram), and MereCatfish continues his own posting spree. Nice stuff!

The next Halo-related round of the Gamespy Title Fight starts today at noon, PST; Halo goes up against Quake in The Abandoned Base bracket. (The winner faces TIE Fighter, Super Metroid, or GoldenEye 007 – that last a game beaten soundly by Halo in round 1, but back with an extra life.) Don’t forget to vote!

MC117- has posted a note in our forum about a 2D game he’s working on. There’s a screenshot up at Halomods, if you’re interested in providing feedback.

Sector 7 has posted a couple of items they wanted us to mention: there’s an article on the expansion of the Halo universe (via books and fan creations), and there’s a ‘comic parody‘ section, in which popular Halo comics are spoofed. Take a look!

Halo Universe is giving away a new Xbox crystal edition (PAL format), 2 controllers, and a copy of Halo. You need to answer three questions, and mail them to the address listed in this contest webpage. Because the content is an image, and so is not translatable by web translation resources without a lot of transcription work, we’ll post the English translation of the questions here (sent to us by Halo Universe):

1. Who is responsible for the soundtrack of Halo and Halo 2?
2. Who writes the german version of “Halo – The Fall of Reach”?
3. What age is No. 117 when he was conscripted into the SPARTAN II project?

Go visit the link, answer the question, and who knows – you might win! Closing date is April 4.

Mrs. Doublefire has posted new screens of his Halo 2 Battle Rifle, reproduced for Halo PC. Very, very nice. Thanks to Devin for the heads-up.

Sedgr has posted a small app that can more easily build init.txt files for Halo PC dedicated servers. It requires .Net to run. A link is here, in our forum; some screenshots were put up on Gearbox’s forum. I had some problems actually SAVING the file (apparently, my .Net configuration disabled that particular function in this app)… but it SEEMS useful. Take a look! Update: turns out my problem was due to the fact that I wasn’t running it on a local drive. If you have a .NET-related problem, try ensuring that the application is running locally. Works very nicely!

That Weasel Television is running a new poll – who’s your favorite Red vs Blue character? Stop by and vote!