In today’s One One Se7en, Stuntmutt points out some of the advantages that the Mac MC has over the PC MC. (Note that Macsoft will honor no promises made by a comic strip on a fansite.)

The PoA is a tad bigger than it might look – certainly bigger than Halo: Resolution noobs can grasp.

Yesterday, DaChameleon sent a note to our forum announcing a HBO/HPC nickname list. You can use this to learn the HPC handles (and in some cases, the real names) of your favorite HBO forum regulars. (This was originally put together by Ben Roth, and posted on our forum. This version now has a permanent home.)

The guests have gone, the cleanup is mostly finished, and I came down to look at the Fan Fiction queue, knowing that the last time I did so was 3 days ago. Gah… 35 new pieces! (And that’s after rejecting the ones that shouldn’t have been submitted…)

• A Spartan’s Path- Chapter 2, by Myth
• A Spartan’s Path – chapter 3, by Myth
• The Second Ring (Part 1), by Jason
• Emperor’s Children:Battle for the Icarus:Hangar Warfare, by Forever Forerunner
• Halo 2: The Forgotten-Part One, by draGUN_man03
• Of Harvest and Horrors, by D
• Merick’s Journal’s Episode 4: John Finds Out That For Every Reaction, There Is An Equal and Opposite, by John Kitchen
• A Series of Wierd Events-[Mainevent]-, by Mainevent
• Neverland: The First Patrol, by SOS.Odin
• Charge of the Grunt Brigade – Part Four: Grunts, by Walker
• The Fall of New York: part 4, by hunter_elite
• Fall back! (Halo 2: Chapter 13), by Shadowrunner
• Galaxy 07 – Part Five – Escape, by Jillybean
• Halo: The Recovery: Part 4, by witelancer
• Halo: The Recovery: Part 5, by witelancer
• Halo: The Recovery: Part 6, by witelancer
• Halo: The Recovery: Part 7, by witelancer
• Fight fo New Tatley (Chapter 4: The Survivors), by CoLd BlooDed
• Fight of Flight: Chapter Two, by teemus
• [revielle], by Marshall Purewal
• the reach for victory, by Dean Albury
• the serch for spartans , by Dean albury
• Marooned Chapter 6, by Steve Ollett
• Death (part 3), by Duckfoot
• Closing with the Enemy Chapter 4 Covenant Advance, by monitor101
• On A Pale Horse: Assault, by Silent Hunter
• The Nobody Saga – Ch. 1, by The Listener
• Last of a Dying Breed [part 2]-A Brief Respite, by hornet34
• Rebirth – A Simple Plan, and the Confusion of the Forerunner, by KnightmareWolf, Shadow, Archangels_Blade, Spartan415
• Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, by CoLd BlooDed
• A Marine Named Peters: Night of the Living Dead, by GLADIATRRR3000
• First To Die, by BlackValkyire
• Shell Shock-chapter 5, by Myth
• Shell Shock-chapter 6, by Myth
• The End, by CovieKilla

I guess you’ve got some reading to go with your digesting, this evening.

We’re gonna take most of the Thanksgiving holiday off; lots of family, Halo can wait. Before we go, though – here’s a Thanksgiving strip from Stuntmutt, to fill in today’s One One Se7en quota. Enjoy!

It was discussed so many times on our forum, I didn’t really notice that it didn’t make our front page… but I want the flood of email to stop, so hear ye, hear ye, be it known that the Red vs Blue Season 1 DVD is now on sale over at redvsblue.com. Now can I go back to sleep?

The mini action figures ordered from The Bungie Store a while back arrived today. Maybe, one of these days, I’ll actually have time to set up something fun with them. You never know…

Not really Halo news, but it’s certainly in the holiday spirit, so… Penny Arcade is working with the Seattle Children’s Hospital and Amazon.com to bring games to sick kids. They call it Child’s Play, and the details can be found at the bottom of their front page. (It’ll be there for the next month or so.) In Gabe’s words, let’s give newspapers a different kind of story to write about gamers. (Thanks to Rayme for the heads-up.

Stuntmutt, tired of the constant sniping he puts up with in the forum, has taken his OWN shot – at the Mac version of Halo. Dang, if it didn’t make me smile, I’d have to smack him. Go read One One Se7en today.

Halo: Resolution looks at how hard it can be to ditch an AI…

ASPMaster showed off a cool little Flash Animation in which the MC is built, top-down. We’ve added it to our Miscellaneous section (1.4 mb).

Grenadiac stopped by our forum to point out a new movie for download at Halomods.com; the MC has been replaced by a Grunt. Great music choice. 8 mb (.rar-compressed), WMP7 format. Dance, boy!

Nice find by Ross Mills; there’s a Special Edition Halo Soundtrack now for sale, from Sumthing Else Music Works. It comes with a bonus DVD that contains trailers and videos of Halo 2, plus Surround Sound versions of new music. (This is the soundtrack Marty mentioned about a month ago, during a Music 4 Games interview.) Grab it now – Amazon’s selling it for $14 (though they say they’re not shipping for a month…)! Update: Thanks muchly to Adam Leyland, who points out that the ‘Buy‘ link at Sumthing Else points to the original soundtrack at Amazon.com; it doesn’t appear that the new one is available yet. You might want to wait to place that order…

We mentioned the new MacSoft Halo page a couple of days ago, and others have pointed out the Games page over at Apple… but travis brought to our attention that Halo is not confined to gaming pages any more. On a page devoted to extolling the virtues of the G5’s video capabilities, the screenshot at the top of the page is (once again – remember 1999?) a shot from Halo. We’ve archived it here, in case it gets switched at some point. Yep – when you wanna show how powerful the new G5 really is… Halo is the testbed of choice.

Missed it when it arrived, but SeeMePlayMe is hosting a kickoff party for its new Platinum Plus Gamer account. They’ll be giving away 5 lifetime gold accounts, 2 lifetime Platinum accounts, and one 1-year Platinum Plus Gamer account. This newest account not only allows you to set up a custom server on the fly… but that server will be open to the public (not just those that know its IP address). (More details on the account are here.) The party happens this Friday, November 28th, at 7 pm Central time. There’s also a bunch of other giveaways planned. Check ’em out!

Couple of Blue’s News-reported reviews for you: AllOutGames gave it 89% (though the front-page mention was quite a bit harsher, and even the reviewer made it clear that the 89% was because 90% is their cutoff for a ‘stamp of approval’), and Ferrago gave it 84%, complaining about the clunky console-born interface and the ‘stuttering framerate’. Ah, well…

Last week, a bunch of HBO regulars (and some new friends) got together at nof’s place to celebrate the second anniversary of the Xbox (and Halo) with 14 hours of lan play. nukedude filmed the whole shebang. This isn’t your standard lan footage; the actual gameplay takes a back seat to the event itself. (It might not be for everyone.) 34 mb, 9:15 long, WMP9 format. Again, nukedude is hosting it. And speaking of nukedude, a few people asked if a QuickTime version of the Pillar of Art fest film he put up a few days ago could be made available; the quality’s not quite as good as the WMP, but for those who can’t SEE the WMP, it’s certainly watchable. 32 mb, at Mythica.org.

GreenMJOLNIR’s Guest One One Se7en strip was written a couple of months ago… but the joke’s still there.

AGAIN with the updates. Finn, this time, picks out some of the juicier morsels from the Halo Story mailbag (and a forum post or two) to peel another layer of mystery from the onion that is Halo. Go read.

Bungie.net‘s transfer over to .NET (and the use of .NET Passports) is complete. If you have a Passport already, simply log in, then link your existing Bungie.net account to your Passport. If you don’t have a Passport, create one, and link it. Finally, you can link your Passport to a new Bungie.net account. Existing functionality doesn’t change very much… but future stuff will be pretty impressive, I’ve been led to believe.