Fun pair of minimovies from C-B; new Jackal shields, and an invincible blue Grunt. Check ’em out!

We hope everyone enjoyed yesterday’s Time Travel fun. Today, on One One Se7en, Stuntmutt is going to try his hand at cooking.

Today’s Halo: Resolution brings back an old friend. Well… an old something.

The queue was bigger, but I had to reject a bunch. Fan Fiction for you today:

• Beautiful Death, by ToFu
• The Raptros Saga: ch.3: truth, by Raptros-v75
• As Far As I Could See, by Thomas Harper
• The Sidewinder Tales, by Jojojen
• Evolution: Chapter 2- Training Secession, by Firestorm
• The Iron Hands of the Prophets (Part 3): Eden, by MadJackal
• Prodigal Son: Part 3, by Scott Devary
• For The Better Cause, by CoLd BlooDed
• The Enemy Within-Chapter Six: …And The Cracked Flood Gates Finally Fell, by Mind_Affecting_Parasite
• Derelict, Shadows of Threshold: Prologue, by Steve Geibe (AKA LoneSniperSG)
• Battle for Cryon:Part 1 the begining of the end., by mastercheifsdog
• The Strive to Survive (Chapter 5: Assisting the Evolution), by CoLd BlooDed
• the jackal brothers: parts 2 and 3, by new1nab113
• The Fall of Rye: Chapter 3: Taking the Bait, by teemus
• Battle for Hawaii , by masterchiefs dog
• The Missing Spartan: Prolouge, by Halofreak1991 Halo PC:daniel
• The fall of the covenant part 3(of 3), by Jetboogieman
• Decepted, by Awacar

Folks -remember. Padding your story with garbage to get around the 750-word limit is stupid. Write more REAL stuff. And if you turn in 1000 words with no punctuation or paragraph breaks at all… I have to toss it. I can’t read what burns my eyes…

A tad late (we didn’t really need to wait this week because it was here, after all), but I’ve added Friday’s Bungie Update from Frankie to the database. In 8 months, when you want to find that quote about an intractable problem, we’ll be right here to help.

PH-Hipbyoscott added some map renders for an area he’s dubbed ‘Blood Canyon’ to the recent Project Halo Weekly Update thread in our forum. Looks like rough ground for CTF… but cool terrain nonetheless!

BOLL art + Rapture Birthday = FunFunFun.

Not quite as fast as some would like… but the One One Se7en Archive update for March 7th has been posted. Only 11 items this time around… strips posted in our forum, or other One One Se7en-related materials. Check it out!

Just a quick heads-up: the multiplayer screenshot that can be seen in the latest issue of XBN (and which is floating around the net, in various mediocre scans), is the real deal; another new multiplayer map. We can’t release the scan here yet (our policy is that no scanned print media is posted before the issue leaves the shelves; we do NOT want to contribute to the loss of sales for magazines), but Bungie will be posting a full-sized version on their website in the not-too-distant future. This note is purely to squelch the speculation that the image is faked – it’s a real shot, released to several print sources simultaneously; XBN simply seems to be the first out of the gate with it.

Wow. Chris Bryan (search for his name in our news, you’ll find some pretty cool stuff) has joined the Homefront team (the group bringing Halo to Battlefield 1942) – and his first job is a piece of work! Check out the renders of his newly skinned Warthog in their latest news post. He’s looking to start work on the Phantom next. (While you’re there, check out the new Plasma Rifle, Patrol Boat, and Blood Gulch Base models, too.)

Today’s the day for archived strips to get posted… but that’s later, and there’s still a Guest One One Se7en to go up. This one is from imac, and shows why space marines might have had some trouble with the Flood… Update: Sometimes I’m really, really dumb. There is a Sunday strip today – Sunday strips from Stuntmutt always override guest strips. I’m going to add imac’s entry to today’s Archive posting – he still gets the front-page mention, but I get to put up Stuntmutt’s Sunday offering, a conclusion of last week’s Time Travel fun. Apologies to all involved.

SanchezTheLlama has posted the next Weekly Update for Project Halo on our forum (and over at Halo.Fropco, as well – apparently, our forums aren’t pretty enough for him 🙂 ). It covers such tidbits as progress on the Airport level (seen in early screens last week), new battle sounds, info on their AIM bot, and a request for beta testers. Give it a read!

Xbox Connect 4.0 is now officially released. Lots and lots of new features – read about them in the top news post on the XBConnect website – make this one worth grabbing if you love to play Xbox Halo online. Thanks to Mantis819 for pointing this out.

A couple of days ago, we mentioned Dimentia, an upcoming mod from the Covenant Grounds team. Their website went online yesterday, a chunk ahead of schedule, with the mod available for download… stop by if you want to see what they’re up to!

Today’s One One Se7en is another from Jillybean, and contrary to its title, it DIDN’T get rejected.

Fuzzy reports that he and his friends have found copies of Red vs Blue’s DVD playing at local Target, Babbages, and Toys R Us stores. Not too shabby!

Joyride has updated their website with new shots of upcoming action figures – Flood models, Orange and Red grunts, a white MC with a flamethrowser, the red Elite, and the rocket hog. Some nice stuff coming in May and July! Thanks to Littlebigman for the heads-up.

COERCE has hosted a new vid from Ducain and Nomak; it’s pretty long (6:45), weighs in at 53 mb, and is in WMP format. It’s an exploration vid of AotCR; mostly seen stuff, but some cool tidbits. Lots of explotation of the ‘use a shade to push me through a wall’ technique to get into original locaions. Give it a look!

This week’s Bungie Update was posted on our very own forum; Frankie probably needs to get a new naming scheme for his pictures, so they don’t leak a couple of hours early, but other than that, it’s a rockin’ message. Details about Xbox Live, new artwork, weapons, maps, marketing stuff… there’s something for everyone. Go read!

Falcon16 found a Halo-related strip of Neko Machi (a web comic). Take a look.