Eurogamer had representatives at the Fanstock event, as well… and have posted a preview of Halo PC. In general, they were very, very happy with what they saw. I wish I could say I was good enough to spot this on Gearbox’s Project page… but it took the sharper eyes of Tankramp, over at BGH, to do that.

I take the day off… and Weekly Review decides to post on time. Nice. Go read it… does a nice job of summarizing last week. And then some.

End of a long, long day… no Halo PC shots yet, but hey – we’ve got the next episode of One One Se7en for you! Interesting take on a tactical choice…

Okay, so today it’s a good bet that we’re going to receive screenshots from Gearbox to go along with our Fanstock writeups. Unfortunately for me, I’m out all day today. I’m writing this note so that my mailbox doesn’t fill up with dozens of ‘D00d – wHERe @re THe 5Cr3En$hoT5?’ messages. You can find them, likely, at any of the other sites that have writeups. And they’ll be here, tonight. Just not right now. Thanks for understanding.

9 stories for you today in the Fan Fiction section:

• The WildKats chapter 1: Casualties and Prep, by Vindicare_Assassin
• New Recruit – Part I, by Chumley
• The Plaza, by The Scribe
• A Sieries of Wierd Events, Chapter One, by Hunter_Killer
• Draco Part 2, by Dispraiser
• Buried Treasure(7), by Frensa Geran
• In Light of Destiny Part V: Reine, by Jinkaiden-XI
• Last Fortress – Deep Strike (Chapter One), by Mike
• The Last War, Chapter Four: The Survivors, by Agent Shade

Read, till you can read no more!

bikeman704 has begun work on another Counter-Strike map; it’s not a replica of a Halo level, but it IS inspired by Halo. Check it out!

Another Halo PC article – this time from Gamespy (hey, these guys I remembered to mention!). Nice writeup – absolutely worth a read. Plus, there are 25 1024×768 screenshots – some the same as the CVG shots released yesterday – from the first 4 single-player levels (but all of Gamespy’s come without a watermark). Go read!

Once again, BOLL delivers the video madness. His latest vid is called ‘Bah’. It was created as an accompaniment for dmauro’s ‘How to make a Warthog Fly‘ tutorial (down, now, but the basic content is here), but it took longer than he’d expected. Worth the wait, though… 3:15 long, 320×240, available in DivX or QuickTime. You can grab his original QuickTime (20.8 mb) or the DivX version (21.6) from his forum post… or you can conserve a bit of his bandwidth, and grab a re-encoded QuickTime from us (same quality, 6 mb smaller). The Ghost battles have to be seen to be believed.

Wanna see the new Rocket Hog in Halo PC? Go visit Gearbox’s site. (Okay, it’s not a great pic for seeing the new details… but forget that, because it’s a pretty awesome pic all by itself.) Thanks to CobaltNova for the heads-up.

Doug Radcliffe, the guy working on the Halo PC Strategy Guide, stopped by our forum for a ‘home stretch’ request… he’s now looking for multiplayer map tips. (He’s especially interested in tips for the smaller maps; Blood Gulch and Sidewinder are already nicely represented.) Tips should be mailed to him, because time is of the essence.

The Invisable O points out Echo 413 (huh?), a new Halo site.

The ‘write a guest strip for One One Se7en’ craze continues – Aginor tosses his hat into the ring. Literally. (There are now enough guest strips that we can run One One Se7en daily for the next couple of weeks.)

HomeLan Fed’s John Callaham stopped by Gearbox’s offices during last Saturday’s Fanstock event – you can read his impressions in this article. My bad for forgetting he was there!

If you’ve been playing along in the iGames Summer Season, it’s time for the Regional event. Competition takes place on August 30; check the list for the location nearest you. Thanks to Ernest Miller for the heads-up. (Early registration gets you goodies – worth a look!)

Simpsons Rule reminds us of a website called Halo Attack – it’s a forum-based Halo RPG. Not for everyone… but if this sort of thing interests you, stop by and join in!

Computer and Video Games has interviewed Randy Pitchford; the man’s amazingly consistent. (I mean that in a good way – I HATE it when what I hear, off the record, from someone and what I read in a public interview don’t match up.) There’s some interesting stuff in there – Randy’s left the door open for a bot patch, and he’s pretty much closed the door on a PC port of Halo 2 (at least as far as he knows)… but mostly it’s worth reading because he loves his work, and it shows when he talks about it. There are also 20 new screenshots – mostly Pillar of Autumn and Halo, solo play, but they’re awful sharp… Thanks to Dan Chosich for posting a notice in our forum.

Better late than never, right? HBO’s official coverage of the Halo PC Fanstock event is now online. It’ll be updated over the next several days with screenshots… and it’s possible that the text will be tweaked, but it’s up now. Hopefully, it’ll provide you with a little info that didn’t make it into other writeups.

It’s been mentioned several times now, but 2 cents just reminded us that we’d never put it on the front page. The September issue of the Official Xbox Magazine contains the E3 Demo Trailer on its companion DVD; if you haven’t seen it in 5.1 Surround Sound goodness, here’s your chance!

In a record fourth straight day of One One Se7ens (the guest strips are coming fast and furious, so this record might get broken tomorrow), Stuntmutt finishes off the 3-parter started Wednesday. (I’d like to apologize; Stuntmutt submits several strips in series of three, which makes sense, since the strip is posted three times a week. Somewhere back in the early days, I screwed up… and instead of starting on Monday, they start on Wednesday, which wreaks havoc on the continuity. Apologies to everyone.) For those who don’t get this one, hit the ‘prev’ link to see the setup.

Fan Fiction has been building a bit, since nobody was around to post it while I was in Texas. Here, then, are the 13 stories from the weekend.

• The Last War, Chapter Three: Reinforcements, by Agent Shade
• For the Ancients, by xitWOUND117
• In Light of Destiny Part IV: The Art of War, by Jinkaiden-XI
• Shay’s Rebellion: Boarding Action, by Mainevent
• Back to Jevan: Part 2, Streets of Jevan, by SpartanMX
• On A Pale Horse: Last Resort, by Silent Hunter
• The Rise and Fall of the Flood Chapter 5, by BlackValkyire
• Last Fortress – Introduction, by Mike
• First Contact; Chapter 5: War in Space, by retsamolah
• Stranded at Home Part 4, by Dispraiser
• The Martinez Tales, Part I: Martinez, by stan
• The Rise of Humanity: Chapter One, by The Master of Disaster (Kaboose)
• Episode Four- Things Get Harder, by Spartan117

Get to reading!