A couple more mirrors for the Fanstock screenies – Sector 7 has put them up, and so has Tec[H]noGeeK. They’re spreading… this is a good thing, for bandwidth reasons.

Gearbox has put up a new screenshot on their Halo Project Page for your viewing pleasure… some banshee dogfighting goodness. (It’s a bit like this shot, posted by Gamespot about a month ago… except bigger. And better framed.) Thanks to illuminati`FoOKz for the heads-up on our forum.

Hehe… Hamid Djangi points out a Suzuki concept car that sort of resembles… a Grunt? Bizarre.

Whoa. Has it really been that long? Stuntmutt’s One One Se7en celebrates a milestone, of sorts – episode 50 is posted today. Say hello to his little friends…

Check this out – Wraith has added another (the last?) vehicle to the list of pilotable craft. (The Longsword is still a holdout, but I’m doubting there’s a real model of it in the game… well, maybe in the final cutscene.) Original movie is his – I just made it small. Too bad its gun doesn’t seem to be controllable!

lol – I BET they didn’t get Bungie’s permission for this one. (If you can’t see it, it’s because they yanked it – drop us an email.) Thanks to WortroW for the heads-up.

Pyxl writes that the Master Chief action figure is beginning to show up in some locations. “Some stores in West Virginia had them as of yesterday and those of us with ‘Suncoast Video’ stores will probably see them at the end of this week or early next.” No word on other action figures, or the Warthog, though.

The Junkyard’s Spotlight series continues with a view of Matt ‘mrsmiley’ Dunn, the man behind the halobabies.net website and the (as yet unposted) Halo Fanfest Documentary. Check it out!

Wow… these costumes are great. Cosplay.com has put up a bunch of pictures from Comic Con International, held last month in San Diego… and one group came as Halo characters. Nekomusume has kindly linked to all four relevant pictures in this forum post.

13 stories for you today in Fan Fiction:

• Halos and Rings – 1, by Jillybean
• RedWireDew – A Halo Comedy, by Dispraiser
• Longsword Landing, by xitWOUND117
• CORRUPT [3], by GLADIATRRR3000
• At ONI…, by xitWOUND117
• Spartan III’s, Part I, by FOrunnER
• An Officer Named Starblade: SPARTANs Awake, by Hunter_Killer
• Long time gone part 3, by grylsy
• Survival or Death: Episode I, by Sergeant B
• Bunker on the Beach, by Steve
• The 7th Column Part 1, by The 2
• SNIPER, Part Three, by Vege7a
• The Seeping: Tales of 2 Pilots Pt. 2, by Gruntar

It don’t stop…

Hehe – what happens when you swap the wartog model for a pelican one, instead? You give Foehammer a smoke break. (The 4.1 mb QT movie is mirrored by Break Point, as well, if c0ld’s bandwidth is running low…) It’s pretty funny how the marines don’t like it much…

One One Se7en’s guest strip for the day is by nof… and holy moley, I think that’s ME he’s making fun of! Nah… This might be a good time to mention that while guest strips for One One Se7en are welcomed (Stuntmutt’s tickled by the interest), you should send them HERE, not directly to Stuntmutt. His poor Yahoo account can’t handle the overload. We show him everything before it goes live; he’s gotta approve the guest strips. (This isn’t directed at nof, who posted this particular strip in our forum… it’s a general comment.)

Three new mirrors of the new screenshots we posted yesterday have popped up – Rampancy.net, BPHalo and TruthandReconciliation.com. Always nice to have the bandwidth hit spread around! Update: And another one… Cortana.org puts up their copies.

Hehe – almost didn’t notice… firestorm225’s Fanstock writeup has gotten a new, more prominent home; it’s now an official IGN PC article. (As of this writing, it’s not Insider-only.) Take a look!

The participants of the Halo PC Fanstock event held last week at Gearbox have posted their thoughts, and possibly pictures taken during the day… but we all promised you new screenshots, and now, thanks to Gearbox, we can deliver. Check our Fanstock Screens page – there are 12 gameplay shots, 14 hi-res GORGEOUS shots of the new levels Gearbox has created, and 12 shots of the new Rocket Hog in action (including one side-by-side shot with the LAAG Hog). Whew! Update: They’re up at Subnova now, as well. Other sites coming soon! Update 2: Blackstar, of Blackstar Productions, has also put these up. (No, he wasn’t there. Yes, we’re thrilled that they’re being mirrored.) If you have trouble viewing them here, try there.

Jamirus99 sent in a scan of a full-page Halo print ad that appeared in the September issue of Maximum PC. We’ve added it to our Halo Ads collection. You can also see it by itself; Jamirus99, unwilling to wait for a front-page mention, also posted it in our forum.

BIGwooly writes to point out that the project he started several months ago, Halo@LightningSpeed (first mentioned by us back in November), is fleshing out nicely. The 7th Column chapter devoted to the project (getting through Halo, level by level, in as little time as possible at Legendary difficulty) now has database entries for every map in solo – and many in Co-op, as well. If you’re interested in contributing to this collection, stop by to read the guidelines, and get to playing!

Pulser writes about an online tournament being held over XBC on August 23rd. The catch – you have to be a resident of California, Arizona, Texas, or Nevada. Check the web page for more details.

FilePlanet has posted a large (158 mb, zipped) ‘Exclusive Halo [PC] Single-Player Gameplay Video‘ movie. (Quicktime format.) It may or may not be worth your time, downloading… it’s basically just single-player gameplay on the level Halo. Because it’s 640×480, it doesn’t really show off much of the new graphical goodness of the PC version (you could get a movie like this off a hi-def connector on the Xbox). If you’d like to see some more multiplayer footage, Dinky has posted a third part of the footage he collected at GenCon last month – you can find it in the movies section of HaloJuggaloProductions. Quality’s not as good… but content is more interesting.

Dispraiser points out his Command and Conquer mod – you can see the latest models on his webpage.