Dark Helmet has added 13 photos to his Fanstock writeup. I’m starting to feel like a slug…

Forerunners.org sister site Cortana.org, which is positioning itself as a Halo PC Map and Mod Database, will have continuing coverage of the Fanstock event from Steve Campbell. Steve’s photos can be found in a Fanstock Photo Gallery over at Rampancy.net – including some photos of the newly remodeled Rocket Hog. (Official pics of this vehicle will be released by Gearbox, in glorious hi-res, in the not-too-distant future… but Steve felt you couldn’t wait.)

Another Fanstocker heard from: Shishka posts his (rather voluminous) thoughts over at Subnova. Lots o’ pictures, lots o’ facts… if I don’t get something written soon, nobody’s gonna read it, because it’s all been said before! (Once again – screenshots of the game in action are coming later; we’ll all have access to them. Everybody’s gonna have updates.)

Mic Fedusenko is working on a CGI Halo movie – a multiplayer match on Longest. It’s just at the beginning stages… but if you check out his gallery, you’ll see a couple of shots of the work in progress. Should be fun!

Dark Helmet has added his two cents (well, more like 75, actually – he wrote a LOT) to the Fanstock Impressions collection. Stop on by Battleground Halo to read it! (Read it slowly… the man’s tossed quite a bit of humor in there, but it’s easy to pass over if you’re looking for Halo PC nuggets…) This writeup has some nice descriptions of the 6 new maps.

I said earlier that the first report from the Halo PC Fanstock was posted on the IGN messageboards… that’s not strictly true. Steve Campbell, of forerunners.org, has put a bunch of info (mostly in thoughtbites) up on Forerunners’ main page. There’ll be a more complete report coming later… but there’s some good stuff there now.

More boatloads of screenshots and movies from BOLL, based on his hacking explorations… there are some amazing shots in here. Check ’em out! Narcogen has made thumbs of all of ’em, over at Rampancy.net, for your easier browsing pleasure. Update: Break Point mentions that he, too, has mirrored the shots (with thumbs).

The first fan report from Halo PC Fanstock has been posted – firestorm225, a forum regular at IGN has put up his impressions in the IGN PC boards. Unfortunately, it’s an Insider-only board… if you’re not an insider, we may have an alternative for you soon. And expect reports from the other participants (including me) soon! Update: firestorm225 has posted a similar report on the AllOutGames forum – no Insider status needed. Check it out! (Thanks to scottws for the heads-up on this.)

Halo Babies #5 was posted on Friday… I missed it for being out of town. Check it out, though… it’s pretty funny. (You won’t get it if you didn’t read Fall of Reach.)

No guest strip for One One Se7en… because we’ve got another Sunday Strip for you from Stuntmutt himself. Yet another way Sarge is NOT like Kenny…

Dan Chosich noticed that Microsoft’s official Halo PC site has 5 screenshots of Death Island, the Silent Cartographer-inspired level in Halo PC. I don’t think I knew there’d be Scorpions on the level…

Another guest strip for One One Se7en… this one from Traumatised Marine. It’s a growing phenomenon…

More Halo PC goodness… Michel Bastien wrote up a ‘state of the game’ bit for bungie.net, and SketchFactor added some interesting tidbits about the beginning of the PR juggernaut; read the whole shebang for yourself! Now I REALLY need to go to bed.

Whoa. It’s almost 2:30 am, local time, and I’m pretty beat… Halo Fanstock started with a fantastic dinner at Randy Pitchford’s house this evening. (His wife has a killer wine collection…) Before I go to bed, though, there’s a new screenshot posted at Gearbox’s site; it’s called The Sniper, and it shows… well, a sniper on Death Island, the inspired-by-Silent-Cartographer net level in the upcoming Halo PC. Thanks to Uukla the Mok for pointing it out on our forum.

News will be slow for the next… well, bunch of hours. I’m headed for the airport, to hop on a plane to Texas and attend Halo Fanstock, a Gearbox/MS event taking place tomorrow. Report, of course, to follow…

We haven’t posted a new movie for you to watch in some time; partly, that’s because bandwidth has been really tight since Mythica went offline in late July (though it should be back soon…), and partly it’s because there haven’t been a lot of submitted movies. However, there was one in the queue from mid-July that never got posted – we figured we’d put it out there now. This was an early effort by Athol Productions (makers of Enter the Matrix, Blair Witch Halo, and other enjoyable Halo vids). It’s called ‘Sir Dan is a Newbie‘ and it has Mike making fun of his brother (who, he says, is actually quite good in reality). It’s 2:04 long, 7.7 mb big, and in WMP7 format. It was a ‘personal video’, but several friends convinced Mike to release it publicly – I’m glad they did. It’s pretty funny, and production quality is quite high. Enjoy it!

CobaltNova has posted the results of the 2003 Rockets on Prisoner Awards for best Halo movies… winners get cash, courtesy of That Weasel, and a Bungie Prize Pack, courtesy of Bungie. As an amusing side note, I voted with the majority in exactly… zero of the categories. 🙂 Looks like I’m outta sync with the Halo movie-watching audience!

Twelve new dialogue snippets added to our Dialogue Databank for you today, courtesy of Captain Spark. Comin’ up on 600 entries…

stan writes to point out a new clan site, The Rabid Lilliputians. (It was up yesterday, but loading times were horribly slow, so I passed on mentioning it. He’s fixed some html, and things work better now.) They’re having an art contest… take a look!

Killtacular.com, a website devoted to the upcoming Killtacular Classic iGames Championship, is back open for business. The event is on for September 27, with $5000 in prizes on the line. Registration info coming soon… check this out!