Red vs Blue Episode 26 has been released for sponsors – three versions this time around. (QuickTime, DivX, and WMP). Seems like a setup episode.

One One Se7en ran into a snag today – I hope we’ll be seeing the MC again…

Go two days without an update, face 25 pieces. Such is my Fan Fiction lot in life.

• Halo Wing: Chapter Three – Information and Betrayal, by Ermac of VGPro
• Halo: The Battle Within. Chapter 3, by Bryan D. (A.K.A. B-Man)
• Halo2: The Covenant Wars [part 1], by Thomas Harper
• The Seige of Zion Base; Part Three: Revelation – Chapter 11, by Scimitarex
• Evolution: Chapter 1- The Recruits, by Firestorm
• The Raptros Saga: ch.2:, by Raptros-v75
• Neverland: On the Way Home, by SOS.Odin
• The Iron Hands of the Prophets (Part 2): Secrets, by MadJackal
• Spartan III Chapter 3: The Hunt, by Winters
• Prodigal Son: Part 2, by Scott Devary
• Halo:The fate of earth Chapter 1 The beginning, by MetalGhost
• Chapter One – A New Foe, by Ermac of VGPro
• Defending The Beaches (Part 1), by MT
• Defending The Beaches (Part 2), by MT
• Alpha Platoon: The Best of the Best, by retardedmonkey
• ODST Lead the Way Chapter 3, by Helljumper
• Even In Death, by JJiggssaw
• The Strive to Survive (Chapter 4: An Unexpected Heroine), by CoLd BlooDed
• In Chaos and Despair: Escape to Earth, by Maraxus6
• First Contact – Part One , by Lord Spark
• Part 2: Retaliation, by Jagged
• Subit Sepulcrum Titan Ipsi- Chapter 1, by Sage Scorpion
• Battle for the Norah: Part Fifteen, by Sterfrye36
• Untitled, by CoLd BlooDed
• Halo: The Aftermath Pt. 5/5, by Matthew Buzas

What are you waiting for? There’s more coming.

Today’s Halo: Resolution looks at what happens when Spartans get fired. It’s not a pretty sight.

Spartan-287 points out a comic he’s done. I must say, I don’t get it.

There’s a new Subzero Rivalries comic posted – it’s pretty funny. Go take a look! Thanks to MarkHawk for pointing it out.

Xhzjang has created a new tool – HMMM, the Halo Map Meta Modifier. It’s a patcher program for Halo Map files, but it works by modifying the individual meta files, not just making hex changes. This means you can make patches for multiple maps at one time. Nice! Thanks to Reppyboyo for the heads-up.

Hehe – this is a nice twist. J Squared has submitted a Halo Dot Game; download this image and print it out, and you and a friend can play this classic pencil-and-paper game with a twist. Connect the dots to close off boxes… but this time, there are Covenant forces inside some, and you get bonus points for capturing them. 372 kb jpeg, suitable for printing at 8.5 x 11 at 300 dpi. Enjoy!

The Xbox Ottawa website has been updated with public versions of FTC 11; there’s a 39.9 mb DivX version, and a 30.6 mb QuickTime version. It’s nearly 7 minutes long, and a lot of fun to watch – these guys do GREAT things with mods. We’d encourage you to use the BitTorrent link if you can – but there are http-downloadable versions if you must.

Halobabies.net has been updated – comic 29 is now available to the public. In addition, there are 5 new concept sketches – Halo Babies vehicles! Check ’em out.

Do a search for BOLL in our news archive, you’ll come up with almost 100 hits. The vast majority of those are for cool toys – games, images, animations… the man’s a producing machine. If you’re interested in how he thinks, TheBeast, over at Levels4you.com, has interviewed him. The focus is on modding… but there’s some general info, too.

(GT)Juggler has posted Halo GT Video 7 over at their website; it’s a modding vid, showing off lots and lots and lots of different mods. 35.8 mb, 4:49 long, DivX-encoded .mp4. He’s started a thread on our forum, if you’d like to comment.

Crisply Spartan posted the third Weekly Update for the First Strike mod; some fantastic concept art, a new weapon, new sound stuff… go read it!

Today’s Guest One One Se7en comes from MasterTJ of Dark Halo. If you don’t get it, move on. If you do, we don’t want to know about it.

New Calvin and Halo from Blackstar today… you know, this would be funnier if I hadn’t been cleaning peas off the window last night for half an hour.

XLNC has posted a rather extensive guide to Halo PC Hacking for beginners. The main thrust is to help people take cool HUDless screens like the ones he’s been releasing for the past few weeks… but it’s a good basic guide to applying patches in general, and a summary of the tools available. It was originally posted last night on our forum, but it’s useful enough that we’ve given it a permanent home in our Miscellaneous section. Check it out!

The Gamespy Title Fight between Halo and Goldeneye 007 has another 9 or so hours to run – and as of right now, Halo is leading with more than 6000 of the 10,000 votes cast. Doesn’t make it a lock, though… Update: Round one is over – and Halo won it handily; 10,021 to 6434. Halo moves on to Round two, where it will meet Quake on March 17. Get ready!

DocOctavius continues with his rendering – this time, it’s an elite with a glowing energy sword. Nice!

Legend, from Halo Orbit, has put up a column about the coming of Halo 2, and Bungie in general; Google’s translation services do a pretty awful job with the German, so it’s hard to give you a better idea of what it says. If you read German, go check it out!

Two new Halo songs (three songs altogether) have been uploaded to SexyJosh’s website; one is called XBC Halo, the other is Josh’s take on Nico’s Red vs Blue theme. Go get ’em!