Took a LONG time (one of these pictures is a week and a half old), but the One-Shots page finally gets an update (and an upgrade). 6 new pics… and some new searching and sorting features to go along with them. Check it out!

The Halo-to-Starcraft conversions continue – Alan Wu sends along Arrival, based on the first part of the Halo mission. (All we need now are in-game screenshots, for those of us without Starcraft…)

Cesar Berardini, of Team Xbox, has put up a review of the X VGA Box (an Xbox-to-VGA solution). If you’ve been dying to play Halo on your computer screen… check this out.

Having trouble dealing with huge quantities of Flood on the higher difficulty settings? protexts suggests trying ‘Bait, Retreat, Attack’ in this forum post. (Yes, once there’s a Gameplay Tips section, this’ll go there.)

PCDestroyer has come up with some League Play rules/guidelines that might be useful if you’re organizing large groups for Halo. It’s available as a 56k Word document, and covers everything from game types to schedules. Check it out!

Mirror, mirror, on the net… halo-game.com (in France) and That Weasel Television (in the US) have both stepped up to provide Hogball mirrors – and That Weasel also created a much smaller version, for those on slower connections – screensize is 160×120, but filesize is only 6 megs. Grab ’em while they’re hot! Update: Two more mirrors: Mr. Zarquon and The Repertory both house this puppy now.

Play Ball!… Hogball, that is. javacool and benjammin’ have created a new multiplayer gametype… and the 20 mb, 3 and a half minute movie they created to show it off is simply hilarious. Check it out! (Sympathy goes out to banjammin’… who seemed to die a LOT.) The website link contains both the movie and a FAQ about how to play. (Movie mirrors, of course, are always welcome.)

Dug up another 17 Halo reviews around the net, and have added them to the Reviews database. Total is now 107 – the average score still hovers around 95%.

Draikin sends in a nice desktop image based on the OXM mural in the January issue (with a few additions…). Check it out in our Wallpaper section.

Whoa.

Thanks to Nick Rolfe, who sent along this link from the European Leisure Software Publishers Association – for the week ending 16th March 2002, Halo was second in total software sales of ALL games, in ALL formats; this is astounding, given that it was released 2 days before the week ended. Not too shabby!

Mr. Zarquon points out that his Halo Movie Mirror page has been updated with much of the new Halo material out there – if you’re having trouble with some of these movies, spread the download weath!

[WD]Machine drops us a line about his Halo clan site – World Domination. Check it out!

First Blood Gulch, then Sidewinder, now Battle Creek – Alan Wu sends along another Halo-inspired Starcraft map. 95k – check it out!

We’ve added the 33 screenshots that go along with the Legendary Walkthrough posted a couple of days ago at Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site to our Screenshots Database. Needless to say, some of these contain spoilers. (However, some are simply astounding.)

Doh! I hate busy weekends, in terms of what they do to this site’s timeliness. On Friday, we got word that Drunkgamers.com had put up the second part of their Multiplayer Pointers series, which contained a nice, short, insanely busy (for 2v2) 1-minute clip… and before we had time to post about it, Part 3 went up! This one shows a pretty incredible sniper shot – and also shows why playing 2v2 is good for snipers. 🙂 (With 10 players and up, the sniper would have been dead 30 seconds before he ever got around to taking that shot…) Check ’em both out.

Yesterday, we told you that Halo HQ was offline for a bit – today, Pacey Dre tells us it’s back up.

More weekend reading – 3 more pieces of Fan Fiction have come in. Sarge turns in the second chapter of Banserki’s Journal, The Wraven drops off Chapter 1 of Halo: Siege of the Rings, and Steven Crowley gives us Chapter 1 of Halo: Protect the Homestead. Whew! More updates (not ff, but other stuff) coming later.

PmanC sketches a Grunt… and sends it to us. It’s in the Miscellaneous Art section.

The guys at Socket Error have turned in another desktop image – you’ll find it in our Wallpaper section.