What Count Zero said recently was true – I’m pretty much out of touch right now, and database updates are gonna be hard. However – I’ve found the time to add a couple of submissions to the One-Shots page, as well as a collection of images to the Tips and Tricks section. Yes, there are more coming. Soon, I hope.

Posting this is probably futile, but it’s been a slow day… Yet again, a confirmation of the PC/Mac version of Halo has been posted. Perhaps a secondhand report from some random forum poster (no offense, Jager) will satisfy those who will not believe the official statements from Bungie.

Another mirror for Siva(W’rk)’s movie with the really long name has appeared, on the Subnova Satellite. I’ll set up a page to gather the mirrors soon(tm).

Mirror update: What Goes Up has appeared on Forerunners.org HL, and Bravehamster has had to pull Warthog Jump after 8,000 downloads and 160G. Thanks to everyone for the help!

Anyone who has submitted a gameplay tip/trick or a one-shot image may be wondering why it hasn’t been posted yet. Louis has been slowly converting the site to a très swankèy database setup that’s a vast improvement over the old applescripts-and-BBedit platform we used to run. The downside is that second-level grunts like me don’t have access to the new stuff, which includes the tips’n’tricks/one-shot section. Rest assured that all submissions are still in the queue, and will be posted as soon as Louis gets back from his trip.

There’s yet another HMV in town: Siva (W’rk) has made a fast and furious video named “How I Learned to Stop Playing and Love the Halo”, set to the heavy sounds of Napalm Death’s “Incendiary Incoming”. Mirrors have sprung up here (thanks to Mr. Zarquon) and here (thanks to the Psyjnir Complex). (I’d been holding off on posting this one until I could verify that one of the mirrors worked, but now that there are several up it’s become a moot point.)

Frogblast has posted a short video of a neat trick for taking out Banshees. Major Sack on that lad…

A new mirror for What Goes Up has gone up (heh) at Rampancy.net’s web site, to complement the copy on their Hotline server. All the mirrors so far can be found on our WGU Mirrors page.

This was spotted on the Marathon’s Story forums. I’m speechless.

More mirrors are appearing as What Goes Up hits Hotline on our mirrors list.

The fan fiction continues to roll in as dyoung92 sends in Part 3 of his take on possible events in Halo 2.

Need something to pass the time until the Bungie Store reopens? How about voting for what you want? Remember that Bungie browses these forums…

Another mirror for Warthog Jump has surfaced, hosting both the low and high-rez versions.

The fruits of the Halo video revolution are beginning to bloom… Aikidoka and Halorigin have put together a piece named What Goes Up, featuring more Warthog tomfoolery in the style of the original Warthog Jump (although these guys claim prior art with this post). But, since the movie is 35MB, we have the same problem as last time, and are forced to put out the same call for mirrors. Any more benevolent bandwidth barons out there? UPDATE: The first mirror for this movie has appeared. We’ll be collecting them here.

Just a heads-up… I’m headed out of town for a bit. Count Zero’s on the case… but please don’t get on him if things take a bit longer than usual. Good help is SO hard to find. I’d hate to lose him because you folks chased him off…

Some good stuff over at the Halo Story page… even the homework assignment. Eep!

The One-Shots page gets a shot in the arm… or 4. Check it out.

Vector40 passes along another Warthog Jump mirror – it might not last long, but Electric Fuzzball is up right now. We’ve added it to the Warthog Jump Mirrors list.

A plethora of pulchritudinous parables… the Fan Fiction coffers runneth over. Gasmask continues his Strange Tale with ‘Return to Halo‘, Corbantis turns in the third segment of his Tides of War saga, and Vector40 sends us… something different. Go read up in the Fan Fiction section!

The Japanese Halo Release has been announced: April 25th is the big day. (It says that here, in the press release on the Xbox Japan site… but it’s in Japanese.) Cover art isn’t up yet… but word from Gothmog (Halo product planner) is that it’ll be different than the US/European box. Not quite in time for the Xbox launch there… but not too far off!