bTV’s Thursday broadcast is now up for downloading at http://www.bungie.com/btv/archive says Joseph Staten (Bungie Software) in our forums. Thanks Joe and thanks also to peapon. Pax

Dead Glory informs us that his Winamp skin Halo AMP has been updated. It’s called Halo AMP tru7h. You can download it from his page here. Pax

bungie.org have posted a few more Macworld Bungie Booth pics. One is a big pic of of Halo music guru Marty O’Donnell of Total Audio. Check out that face! 😉

Major kudos to JosephAW for posting Bungie TV’s 3rd telecast on his new Mac.com web site at http://homepage.mac.com/josephaw/. Joseph has both Day 2 and Day 3 archived. Go watch that Halo movie! 🙂

David Rodgerson of Halo Central reports that they have just posted 14 screenshots from today’s bTV coverage. Check’em out. Nice one guys! 🙂

First Bungie TV Halo shots just in! Major kudos to Justin Garcia for sending in five shots from the new Halo footage shown on Bungie TV less than an hour ago. Take it away Garcia. 🙂

Kudos to Mark Levin for posting a description of the new Halo footage shown on Bungie TV a few minutes ago. You can read it here.

Who’s climbing, who’s sliding on the Halo SETI team. The 24 hour stats reveal all.

Noted earlier this morning on the Marathon’s Story page and on our forums by Forensic EtherLife have a great Halo related comic today. Pax.

Kudos to Lodurr for pointing out that pc.ign.com have also posted the new Halo screenshots.

Then there were two! Kudos to Nijhazer who points out on our forums that Gamespot also have a new Halo screenshot. Check out that close up detail on the Covenant. Gamespot also have the same marine screenshot as Incitegames.

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.