Shacknews has added Halo PC to its ShackReviews database. This means you can write a review for it there. Go make your opinion known. Thanks to Ash for the heads-up.

New ladder system for Halo PC gaming, over at Total Assault Gaming. They claim to be the first out of the gate with this.

New movie from BOLL over at HaloMods – Xbox footage of some really, really, REALLY fast vehicles. So fast that control is the major challenge. (Outrunning Wraith blasts is pretty simple…) Thanks to SourceGuy for the heads-up.

Yesterday’s One One Se7en guest strip is followed up by ANOTHER one from Devilmingy, in the same theme; this time looking at the Sidewinder Saga (which has also folded). Such is life.

Benny, from Xbox Ottawa, has put together a pretty dang funny Flash animation that seems to be the first stop-motion footage using the MC action figure I’ve seen to date. (Visit the site for details on its making.) Thanks to Marc Sutherland for the heads-up.

PVB CROUCHELLE writes (in a way that is truly painful to the eyes) about a new site devoted to a Red vs Blue spinoff called Pink vs Brown. There are no vids yet… but I guess they’re coming. Update: this news item reminded halo fan about RedvsBlack. Maybe those spinoff One One Se7ens aren’t so non-topical after all…

Simpsons Rule has put up a new site containing images for forum flames. (That is… images you can tack onto a forum thread to let someone know you’re unhappy with what they’ve said.) It also has other artwork of his. Take a look.

If you have a machine capable of running the Perl Object Environment, EmmEss has just released a Halo client component for it; you can query basic server info and detailed player/rule info with it. There’s an example page showing the stats you can get from it here, and comments about it can go to this thread in the Gearbox Forums. The geek in me drools…

Hehe – didn’t take long… the first PC mod has been released; it’s a 5.3 mb download, and it’s a modified version of Blood Gulch. Some of the vehicles have new skins, and the LAAG fires unlimited rockets. This sort of thing will be much easier once Sapien is released… but it’s nice to know that folks are already on the case. Thanks, [[[-X-]]].

Viper, over at Battleground: Halo, has written up an article about starting up a gaming clan. Pretty topical, given the number of new Halo PC clans springing up these days… go check it out!

Yesterday’s Ctrl+Alt+Del comic looked at the addictive quality of HPC yesterday. Thanks to Djof for the heads-up.

Spartaco and CCR have put together a movie called ‘A Trip To The Library‘ – content is pretty obvious (a runthrough of the Library 🙂 ). It’s recorded in DivX 5.05, and weighs in at 16.1 mb. They’re hosting it themselves. For folks who haven’t yet PLAYED the Library, this movie contains spoilers.

Speaking of comics… today’s Guest One One Se7en comes from Devilmingy, and looks at a (now-abandoned) Red vs Blue spinoff series. Oh, the problems with non-instant release of topical material!

Thanks to mrsmiley, who points out that Halobabies.net has been updated with a new comic.

Griffon points out that PC Gamer UK covered Halo in its latest issue; it’s a 4 page review that calls Halo ‘one of the greatest first-person shooter single-player games of all time’. They gave it a 91% – which they said would have been a 94% had co-op been enabled. Scans will be added when the issue is off newsstand shelves.

Inside Mac Games got a chance to play the beta version of Mac Halo recently, and has written up a 3 page preview. If you’ve been waiting for more news of this version, check it out! Thanks to Blackstar for the heads-up.

Oops – another tournament, this one Xbox-based, and starting today. The ‘Master Chief Mayhem’ Xbox tournament takes place in Cyclone Skatepark in McKinney, Texas. A pre-party happens today until 11 pm (about 2 hours from now), then registration for the full tourney ends tomorrow morning at 10 am. $40 early registration, $50 at the door, with a top prize of $600. They sent a flyer.

SeeMePlayMe is running a series of online tournaments, starting this Monday. Visit their Halo Tournaments page for times and server names… and see what’s what!

A new news site is up and running – Halo HQ (no relation to any site with that name in the past, for oldtimers) will be adding to the content that’s currently up. They’ll be looking for newsies, as well; if you’re interested, drop pyro a line.

Missed this in the hubbub yesterday… but Shishka has written up a Halo PC Gametype FAQ and posted it over at Subnova. Some of Halo’s gametypes are different from what PC FPS-players are used to; I saw this firsthand yesterday, when I was killed several times by teammates who had no clue what the rules were. If you’re at all unclear about Halo gametypes, read this document.