he inimitable Freewill, unstoppable with that digital camera, has posted damning photo evidence of the Carnage on Deerfield Lane – stop by Bungie Sightings and check out the setup!

Eep – posted this yesterday, forgot to mention it here. The promised Carnage Report from the second HBO Junkies lan party can be found on our forum. Bottom line – it was a LOT of fun. Go read the details.

Kellen Squire sends in a Fanfic based on Jericho VII, a planet lost to the Covenant in 2535. Ground fighting from a jarhead’s point of view… check out ‘Jericho VII‘ in our Fan Fiction section.

The MacGamer crew has put up its Editor’s Choice Awards for 2001… and Halo wins ‘Game That Most Qualifies as “Not Worth The Wait”‘. Ouch… maybe they need to rent an Xbox for a weekend… Thanks to *Ar-Isildur for the heads-up. Update: Skeletor points out that we should also mention that Halo tied for the ‘Thing We Most Look Forward To‘ award, as well… schizophrenic bunch, that MacGamer crew…

Oops – this came in a couple of days ago, but I managed to pass over it – Halo Online has come… well, online. A nice looking, muted site – don’t bother with Netscape, you’ll get source code only. Check it out!

Battleground: Halo has put up a new feature: their Halo Script page. Currently, it contains the scripts for the first three levels of Halo, with more to come. Helpful, for anyone who missed some dialog along the way!

Got a new Halo site to put up, and need a good domain name? Halocentral.com is up for sale at eBay. Bidding starts at $9.99, with no reserve. souja gets the nod for the heads-up.

Gasmask turns in another couple of incredibly short Fan Fictions – one ends the Journey of the Doomed series, the other starts the Training Day series. (They’re SO short, in fact, and they come so frequently, one wonders why he doesn’t just send them in when the series is complete – each of his completed series make a nice little 2-page or less fanfic… but every author is different, I guess.) You’ll find them in our Fan Fiction section, and if you’d like to read them all in one go, use this link.

How many places can you shoot a flood and knock parts off? Some thought it was just the arms and head… but Skeletor points out that the abdomen is another piece. (In fact, he took a picture.) We’ve made it local, to avoid loading problems with Geocities images…

Even with the additions of new members Donguido (3772 units) and beamanm (120 units), among others, the Halo SETI Marines can’t catch a break from the Berkeley boys. Total units crunched these past two weeks: 3333. Total units brought in by new team members: 3918. Total new units registered by the SETI server: 3510. OUCH! The team’s position at 62 remains constant (though less than 150 units separates the Marines from the next team up). Check all the ugly details on the 14 day stats page.

Whoa – a misstatement, or is something big coming? Jay Weinland (known on our forum as Jay the Younger) dropped off a clarification of what was recorded (and what was released – two different things, apparently) but what caught my eye was this sentence:

ow if you want to hear some classic s**t just wait until we can get some of the outakes onto the halo.net site. Have some nice ones already edited just ‘a waitin for ya…

Halo.net? Last we checked, that was held by a mobile communications company – and it still is. Likely Jay means ‘the Bungie.net Halo site’. 🙂

Apologies for the low number of updates yesterday – the HBO Junkies had a LAN party yesterday, at HBO headquarters (here), and at its height, we had 11 marines on 4 Xboxes battling it out to the death (and what a lot of death it was). There were, in fact, 6 Xboxes (and 5 TVs) present… but multiplayer was just too much fun to break up into smaller groups, or play other games. Anyway, things will be getting back to normal soon, and of course, a report (or three) will be forthcoming.

Halo won the Team Xbox Viewer’s Choice Award for Best Game of the Year. Pax.

SpAder writes to say that Halo-World, which we’d listed as an English Halo page, is actually available in both English and German. (In fact, the English version isn’t even there yet – but the German version is.) We’ve adjusted our Links page to reflect reality.

Andreas den Hertog AKA Pacey Dré writes to say that his FTP problems are over, and HQ Halo is back up and running, with an entirely new design. Check it out – soothing and easy to look at!

More fan fiction for the masses – another couple of stories from Gasmask, and another installment of Uriel’s ‘Beyond the Paradise‘ series. Check the lot out in our Fan Fiction section!

A few days ago, GameSpy put up its Game of the Year Awards… and Halo was voted Xbox Best Action/Adventure Game. (We reported this last week.) It lost out to Madden NFL 2002 for Xbox Game of the Year, though… and was overlooked for a number of special achievement categories (Best In-Game Cutscenes, Best Sound, Best Artificial Intelligence… though it did receive a runner-up award for Best Force Feedback). Today, the people speak… in GameSpy’s Gamer’s Choice section, an astounding 59.2% of fans voted Halo the Xbox Game of the Year. Who’s right, the GameSpy critics or the fans? You decide. (Thanks to RedFoxTX for the heads-up.)

Though it will keep coming up, Marty O’Donnell, Halo’s Audio Lead, makes a very clear statement about the existence of a certain curse word in Halo:

the “f” word is never used by anyone or anything in Halo. It is however used by players stuck in the grav lift room of the T&R on legendary…

I can vouch for that second part, for sure.

Inside Mac Games has put up their 2002 predictions, as part of a 2001 Year in Review article… and Bungie gets a pair of mentions. The first one is serious (and seems quite possible):

Destineer will ship Halo for the Mac. Period. (OMG, the BEST GAME EVER WILL SHIP! Wooohoo!)

The second… well, not so serious:

Bungie’s Jason Jones will be knighted by the Queen. He’ll now answer only to Sir Jason.

Thanks to Red Hot Ryan for pointing the article out.

Heh – Mr Bill Jr V asks on our forum, ‘Is there too much Fan Fiction?’ Half an hour earlier, though, he submitted ‘The Awakening‘, a sequel (of sorts) to his earlier ‘The Spirit‘. You can find these (and many many more – too many?) in our Fan Fiction section.