Kudos to Corum Jhaelen Irsei who points out on our forums that Incitegames have a new Halo screenshot. Direct link to pic is here.

Kudos to JosephAW for making Bungie TV’s 2nd telecast available from his new Mac.com (Apple) web site. You can read the details on our forums here.

Check out those Macworld Bungie Booth pics courtesy of bungie.org.

We take a break from reporting from Macworld to bring you the latest Halo SETI 24 hour team stats. Go wild!

More Bungie Fanfest details at the Marathon’s Story page. Can you dig it?

Bungie underwear! Can anyone say “Trow boxers”?

Robert Cox seems to be the first Halo webmaster to take advantage of Apple’s iTools offer, by moving 100% HALO to Apple’s server. Early adopters get the worm… or the disk space. Pax.

Kudos to SiliconDream, who added a slew of details to the info below. (And shame on him for not introducing himself.) Who else was there last night?

MacWorld Helps Unveil Some Storyline

Freewill threw a party at Club-I on Wednesday night, and lots of Bungie folk showed up. One side benefit for Halo fans: a goodly chunk of the backstory got fleshed out. Kudos to Xzzy for the synopsis, since I actually didn’t make it there in time to hear it firsthand myself. (Any errors should be assumed to be mine. Too much wine tonight.)

Humans and the Covenant meet by accident in open space, while on expansion missions. The Covenant conquest line heads directly for Earth, so humans decide to try and stop them. There is a huge space battle, in which human forces are decimated. One human ship survives, and its commander, a woman, decides to send her ship off on a random course, to confuse the Covenant. Her people go into stasis for the journey, and come out of stasis in the Halo system. Another space battle ensues, and the human ship is destroyed. Humans eject in the hopes of saving their lives, and find landfall on the Halo, in disarray. You play a highly advanced cyborg trying to turn the tide of a mountain of Covenant soldiers.

Jeff Campen points out that the Robocam has gone from Bungie’s main page. Thanks Jeff.

Kudos to the Marathon’s Story page for noting that Bungie’s bTV schedule has been changed to feature Bungie’s CEO Alexander Seropian rather that Matt Soell today at 1.00pm PST. The bTV webcast begins very soon.

Can the Halo’ites catch the Diablos? Check the 24 hour team stats to find out who’s crunching d’em units. Join us in the battle of the teams.

Inside Mac Games report that Gamelinks.net have a short Halo preview.

Thanks to Forensic, who posted to our forum that Etherlife has a new Halo-related comic. (For those who can’t find it, because we’re so tardy reporting this, the actual strip is here. Worth checking out the whole site, though…)

Another strange message from the Nether Legion:

 :::Recent update on Halo quadrant 25::: 
recieve waystation four  
identify transmission type: Mjolnir comm laser  

begin:  We are...ving fire from sever...too...falling back to regroup--some 
kind...alien...attacks com...from all around...  
end.  

advise: units 3 and 4 not responding  

223.43.213.01 7.7.7..

Again, The digits at the bottom could be interpreted as an IP address, but do not resolve. Continued mystery…

Good news the Halo SETI team page now shows all 146 members rather than the top 100. Who are the invisible 46? The Jjaro Difference Engine grinds SETI bones. Who swithed that baby on again? Check the Halo SETI 24 hour team stats for the tru7h and nothing but the tru7h!

Then there were two. According to a Core news item Rob Swenson (aka Noctavis) will be working with Tyson (aka Ferrex) “for the foreseeable future” on the Core site and other sites to come. Noctavis was responsible for the Halo News interview with Nathan Bitner.

Seeing is believing. Alan Stott reports that HALO-NET has had yet another update. Nobody here believed him until we looked. Alan also reports that FREESITE will be online soon offering free web-space without any adverts. Halo web site maintainers to your engines!

Halo Network is offline for a rebuild. Not sure what was wrong with the original design.

Keep checking those new main page graphics at Battleground: Halo. Somebody is keeping busy.