A couple of weeks ago, Stuntmutt forwarded the beginning of a collection of Guest One One Se7en strips, submitted to him unsolicited by fans of the comic. There hasn’t been a lot of time between that day and this… but finally, the first Guest Strip has been posted, courtesy of Loose Cannon. With any luck, they’ll continue to be added. (There’s no schedule for the Guest strips, just as there’s no schedule for the Sunday strips. The weekday strips will continue to be posted every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.)

For the first time in months, the Bungie Research Center Archives has been updated with a new image. Hmm…

C’mon, tell me you’ve never thought about it… One One Se7en goes where most of us don’t really WANT to go.

The last Fan Fiction update was on Sunday – and now there are 24 new stories for you to read.

• Halo- The Fallen Place pt1, by Darth Lord
• All Roads Lead To Sol…Despite What The Map Says: Chapter 10, by S7N
• A Marine Named Peters: Sledding is Fun, Unless the Covenant Are Behind You, by GLADIATRRR3000
• True Purpose: The Sequel, by Frensa Geran
• The Last War, Chapter One: Self-Aware, by Agent Shade
• SNIPER: Part-Two, by Vege7a
• The Sarge, by pooman
• Rampancy Is Character Forming: Part 3, by S7N
• Draco Part 1, by Dispraiser
• War for Earth City [2]: More of an Enemy Then You Thought, by Kancer
• An Officer Named Starblade: Onward to Earth!, by Hunter_Killer
• Search for Chief part one edited, by Legend Player
• The Last War, Chapter Two: Futile Pleas of Help, by Agent Shade
• Halo: The MCconto Chronicles 6: The Phrophecy, by JCDenton
• Halo: The MCconto Chronicles Part 7: The Meeting, by JCDenton
• Rampany Is Character Forming: Part 4, by S7N
• Earth, A Place for Death. Part 6: Helping out the Chief, by FuManChu
• Rebirth – The Ragnarok, by Shadow/Archangel’s Blade/KnightmareWolf/Spartan415
• Chapter 1 – Boot, by Bloodcider
• Marines are fighting this war, not Spartans-Prologue, by Michael Gillespie
• War for Earth City [3]: Not Much of a Friend, by Kancer
• The First Battle of Sol Part One, by Joseph Themann
• Legiment To My Marines, by Spartan117
• The Fallen Chapter 4 Section 4: Power Regulation, by Hikaru-119

I hate writing personal notes in news posts, but the email included with Hikaru-119’s posts bounces. PLEASE: If you’re writing a series, INCLUDE THE SERIES TITLE in your posts. I’m really, really tired of resetting this. (Hikaru-119 seems to be the only author who still doesn’t get it…) If you have a problem, or something doesn’t work for you, write to me. I can’t fix what I don’t know about.

A little late… but nonetheless appreciated! The Weekly Review has been posted on our forum. Fewer nuggets than usual, due to the overwhelming flood of Hacking posts this week… but there was still some good stuff! Check it out.

25 dialogue snippets have been submitted in the past week – apologies for taking so long to process them. New Grunts, Sarges, and Marines… check ’em out in our Dialogue Databank!

Well, dang. Vehicles on almost all Multiplayer levels. (Blood Gulch and Sidewinder left out because they already have vehicles, and Longest left out because “trying to get the vehicles to MOVE was impossible, especially the tank.” (I think I still would have liked to see ghosts in there…)

Hehe… folks have always wondered what’s under the MC’s helmet; the final cutscene shows him removing it just before the camera moves out of range of the window, tantalizing you but not actually showing you anything. c0ld vengeance and BOLL teamed up to build you some X-Ray Glasses… and it’s pretty surprising what you find.

Well, he can’t drive to save his life, but he’s a pretty dang good hacker… Pfhorslayer has made a small (2.2 mb, QT) movie showing warthogs on Hang ’em High. We’ve put up a local copy of it, because his bandwidth won’t hold out. A novelty item for sure! Update: Macegac has provided a mirror, as well.

Gearbox has posted another screenshot – this one of a Load Game screen. Very, very nice – games are now saved by how far into them you are, and you don’t overwrite the last one by starting another. Tasty! Thanks to Uukla the Mok for the heads-up. Update: Very cool – a Gearbox employee explains (on their forum) what the screen is showing you. It should definitely excite some of you… thanks to Uukla the Mok for finding it.

Two more Halo sites for you: Halo Production and Team Kill. And the parade goes on… Update: The folks at Halo Production have run over their bandwidth, but have provided a second link.

Dinky stopped by our forum with some links to Halo PC gameplay at GenCon last month. Movie hosting is provided by the Junkyard – thanks, guys! Update: Dinky has put up new mirrors for part 1, part 2, the single player footage. Also, Jake at the Junkyard points out that they’re only hosting the single-player footage; Dinky’s handling the original multiplayer links. Update 2: No sooner had I written this than Jake wrote AGAIN, saying that there ARE now versions hosted at the Junkyard. So: Follow the original link for the HJP copies, or visit the Junkyard’s Halo movies page for MORE mirrors.

Halo gets a mention in yesterday’s Ctrl+Alt+Del comic. Thanks to Spenser for the heads-up. Update: S7N points out that there are many Halo-related Ctrl+Alt+Del strips – like, for example, this one from January. Browse the archives for more!

eXentric has created a Map Editor for editing hacked Halo maps (to create the sorts of fun toys folks have been posting for the past few days). Some rather draconian rules had to be laid down on our forum recently, covering what is, and is not, acceptable to discuss in reference to this topic; luckily, eXentric has set up a forum for discussion of Cartographer (the editor) over at Xbox-Scene. Check it out!

Been a week since we put up any desktops – here are 16 that have been submitted for the Wallpaper section. There’s still a bunch of art in the queue, but it’s going to have to wait…

For those who didn’t remember, there are several dozen iGames centers around the US that will be hosting a 2v2 Tournament (it’s a Summer Games Divisional event) on August 16. Thanks to Nick the Roadie, who wanted more people to come to the one in Buffalo, NY.

You people all remember Bungie’s Caption Competition – come up with a cool line, and Bungie would include it, as an egg, somewhere in the game? Well One One Se7en took a look at it today…

Skavenger_s7 continues his tale of mayhem with She can have the TV… a funny read, especially if you know something about our forumgoers. (Part 1 was here, part 2 was here, if you missed them.)

Interesting in winning an Alienware Area-51 Ultimate Gaming Machine PC… or some cool Halo schwag? Stop by The Gamestop/Alienware Sweepstakes, and enter today! (Prizes to be awarded in 2004.) Thanks to Strato for the heads-up.

Bummer. MIssed this yesterday – thanks to Blade for the heads-up. Sidewinder Saga, an ongoing story from Halogamers.com in the genre started by Red vs Blue (but with a different focus), has closed its doors. Dave writes that he’s just bored with Halo. And so it goes…