Forum regular Wado has pieced together the clues dropped by Bungie, and laid out the actual Halo storyline. They jazzed it up a little bit for the final product… but the basics are all there.

I was watching the boob tube and figured I’d give the premiere of that new NBC comedy, Coupling, a look-see. Guess what opens the third act? Two guys playing Halo and chatting about sex. 🙂 It was only for a few seconds, but there ya go. Nice.

For anyone going to the CPL Halo Winter Championship this December, the official rules have been posted. Read ’em through, soldier!

Mini-update at the Halo Story page – these guys haven’t figured out what sleep means.

Grenadiac points out that SparkEdit, his Halo map viewer (Xbox only at the moment) will be available to the public as of tomorrow. Check out more details at HaloMods.com! (Note: this is useless to you without a modded Xbox. Please don’t mail us asking how to mod your Xbox. Thanks.)

Today’s Guest One One Se7en comes from Adrenaline… another warning about modded netplay. I hate it when that happens…

Gamers Pulse has put up a Halo PC preview – they, like most reviewers, are looking forward to it. Thanks to Blue’s news, by way of Narcogen at Rampancy.net.

TARS writes to point out Halo2World, a new Halo 2 site. It’s mostly a forum… but there are a few other sections, and room for growth. Check it out!

8 Fan Fiction pieces? 8? Somone submitted an extra without permission!

• Halo: The MCconto Chronicles Part 9 and 10, by JCDenton
• Halo’s Ballad, by Gasmask
• The Gunback’s Part 1, by Anrew Harrison
• Retaliation: Chapter Three, by Blue Jaguar
• A Series of Wierd Events, Part Nine, by Hunter_Killer
• The Death of Earth:Guilt of a Spartan, by Sim McGaulkin
• CORRUPT: EndgamE, by GLADIATRRR3000
• Survival, Chapter Five: Chaos, by Agent Shade

Read, read…

Not to be outdone by a Canadian mountain man connected to the internet via baggie twist-ties and a 9600 baud modem, mnemesis has gone through the Halo Story mailbag and picked a few gems out. (It took him a bit longer than expected, because he had to wash the grit and cobwebs off his arms when he was finished…) Check out the results on the HSP News page!

The Shadow Clan (or, specifically, member ShadowOryan) has submitted a new movie called ‘Tactics 101’ – it’s available in WMP7 (13.2 mb) and QuickTime 5 (11.8 mb) formats. It’s 320×240, just over 3 minutes long, and shows some sneaky tricks that can be used in multiplay. Some have been seen before, some haven’t – but as a whole, it’s a nice collection. Visit Tekkomix for more details on The Shadow Clan.

Massive infusion of new snippets for the Dialogue Databank – 85 in total. Some real classics; ‘We are the Champions’ from a victorious grunt, and ‘Next one who dies gets it in the rear from ME!’ from Sergeant Stacker are a couple of my favorites. (That last was in the Outtakes section of Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site, so we checked; Marty tells me he’s surprised it was left in the game… but it was. It’s pretty rare, though.) Thanks to Captain Spark and Electric Monk for the submissions this time around!

What do you do when the voice in your head starts telling really bad jokes? Well, obviously, you start drinking to drown out the noise… unless that voice belongs to a holographic representation of an AI. One One Se7en peeks at this nightmare.

Ten Fan Fiction pieces for you today…

• The UNSC Sigma Octanus-part-2, by Alexander_Valient
• The Cortana Run [H&R 10], by Jillybean
• Halo 001, Part One, by Hunter_Killer
• A Series of Wierd Events, Part Eight, by Hunter_Killer
• Sons of Sparta, by SOS.Odin
• The Final Conflict: Chapter 1, by Blade
• CORRUPT [4], by GLADIATRRR3000
• Homeworlds XIV, by Mainevent
• Forerunners, by Alpha Lance
• Halo Trilogy: European Road Trip ( Chapter V ), by Alpha Lance

Wow, that’s fewer than usual.

Shishka points out that The Silent Cartographers website is now online. (TSC are a mapmaking group formed recently to create killer content for Halo PC.) Go take a look!

IGN put up 12 new Halo PC movies last night – they’re all solo play. They’re available in streaming format for the general public, and downloadable .movs for Insiders. Thanks to maxmidget and The Burninator for noticing.

The Sybex Official Strategy Guide for Halo PC is now out. You can grab a copy from Amazon for $14 – remember, this puppy contains a boatload of info not in the Xbox guide from Prima, including Halo Bible material and spotlights on the fan community. Check it out!

Another bonus for folks ordering Halo PC from CompUSA – if you order before October 15, you’re automatically entered in a drawing that will send you to the CPL Winter Event in Dallas (including airfare, VIP pass, the works), plus some pretty sweet schwag. Check the details on their contest page. Thanks to CobaltNova for the heads-up.

Phil Sulak, president of Westlake Interactive, took some time out of his insane schedule to answer a barrage of questions about Mac Halo and where it stands. It’s been a long time coming… but it won’t be much longer. Go read the details!

Though stranded in the wilds of western Canada (though not FAR west enough to actually find civilization again), Finn has managed to update the Halo Story page with a couple of choice tidbits. The man’s a monster.