Cybrfrk has written an article entitled ‘Halo: Extreme Tactics‘, looking at the phenomenon of game engine exploitation. It’s an interesting read – visit Team Xbox and read it!

New wallpaper from Kyle Hovenkotter. ‘The Daily Grind’… sounds about right. Check it out in our Wallpaper section.

Fanfic Fest – A new poem from Ryan, a new Renegade Marines chapter, and a new Operation False Prophets chapter. The Fan Fiction page bulges…

Link action – halo24.de is now listed correctly on our Links page, and Silent Halo has been added. German Halo action and… some rather strange pictures, respectively. Additionally, we got word from Cal that he’s started a new Xbox portal site, to help people find Xbox-related sites. We decided a long time ago that we weren’t going to include Xbox sites in our Links section (there are too many of them, and this isn’t an Xbox site, it’s a Halo site) – but if you want to check it out, look at Xboxx.org.

Continued Fan Fiction submissions – Jehkoh sends in another poem (‘Death of a Soldier‘), and Tursas ramps up again with a new series – ‘Effusion‘. (This one’s a bit… odd. Has me wondering where it’s going. 🙂 Spoilers, though, for anyone who hasn’t finished Halo.) Check ’em out!

f·p·p · h·a·l·o, a Polish Halo page which had existed at some time in the past but had made it onto our Dead Links page for being, well, dead, has been resurrected, and once again has current Halo news. We’ve moved it to our regular Links page. (Vector40 noted this about a week ago, but I was ignoring him.)

The poetry continues – Jehkoh sends in ‘Legion‘, to be found in our Fan Fiction section.

Danish Madness: Yesterday, we posted a note about a Danish Halo review. Otizz offered to translate it… I told him it wasn’t really necessary. Sippan decided to send in a translation anyway – so we thought, we might as well post it. (It comes with commentary.) Then, Paladin sent word of ANOTHER Danish review – this time at Game Reactor. They gave it a 92%. Seems okay. Again, it’s in the Reviews Database, if you can read Danish.

This week’s Weekly HBO Review is longer than usual – thanks in large part to a lot of Bungie employee contributions. If you missed any posts this week, or just want the short version, check it out!

Short on ammo? Got a big gun, but don’t know what to use your limited shots on? brad has discovered a pretty cool exploit – in a coop game, if one player is reloading at the time that the other player passes a checkpoint, the gun that is being reloaded will have infinite ammo. Don’t manually reload, or switch guns, or the glitch is lost… but as long as you keep that one gun up, and don’t hit ‘x’ (which means no vehicles, either), you’ve got as much ammo as you can fire! Very nice.

At 12 noon UTC today (six and a half hours ago), Contest 1 of the Maw 700 closed – and our crack team of Halo experts huddled together over the final entries. After some rigorous debate (and not a few fisticuffs) a winner emerged. Our congratulations go out to ALL contestants… but especially to Frogblast, whose winning time of 2:43.90 was sufficient to carry the day. Full details (including Honorable Mentions) can be found at the Contest 1 page. Time to gear up for Contest 2!

Drunkgamers.com has started a new feature – It’s a section with multiplayer pointers, accompanied by movies. The first one shows a nice flag recovery in a game of CTF Pro – and some damn good pistol shooting. guS, of drunkgamers, says to expect regular updates with more movies and pointers in the coming days. Worth a look!

Otizz sends word of a Danish Halo review at the Danish MSN site. It’s in Danish, so I have ZERO idea of what it says – but they rated it 6/6 butterflies. We’ve added it to our Reviews database, even though we don’t know how to translate the quote we used. (Hopefully, it’s clean.)

Jaywhit10 drops off part 2 of his absurdly-long-titled fanfic – you’ll find it in our Fan Fiction section. Enjoy!

More fun with frozen stuff – Bonk has an interesting movie showing what happens when a Banshee crosses a loading zone without you… and Frogblast discovers a CLOSED (but flyable) Banshee. Wonga!

Heh – a Halo lan fest with some heavy drinkin’ goin’ on…

A pair of One-Shots from NeGat1vEzEr0 – dead guys and high spots. Check ’em out!

Woohoo! Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site is updated again – this time with human concept art (bittersweet to see a female engineer) and more wallpapers (though the Longswords are mislabeled as Longbows – which, in retrospect, might be a more appropriate name for them anyway). Last, but certainly not least, Marty has kindly made the sheet music for Siege of Madrigal available for download – this one’s for you, Psyrixx. Credit for the heads-up this time goes to kayas (who’s supposed to be taking a break from Halo…).

A pair of new releases for the Fan Fiction section – Jehkoh turns in a very meaty second chapter to his Order of the Seraphim series, and Ryan drops off the first chapter to a new series, ‘Well Enough Alone‘. Get to readin’!

Ooh, very nice. Not that anyone will actually read it… Matt Soell has set up the Rumor Control Database over at Bungie.net. It does its part to debunk the worst of the internet rumors about Halo – the infamous Halo 1.5 rumor, misconceptions about cheats, and (of course) the “Halo isn’t coming to the PC” rumor.

QÊ  Is Halo an Xbox-exclusive, or will it ever ship for PCs/Macs as originally planned?

A There WILL be Mac and PC versions of Halo. Go back and read that sentence again. Notice the clarity and straightforward nature of the answer. Note that this answer comes directly from Bungie, the makers of Halo, and is posted on our official site.

That last bit (a note, written by Bungie, posted on the official site) should go a long way to shutting down some of the silliness. Anyway, check out the rest of the database – there’s some good information there!