From Blackstar Productions:

Ben Dussault created a great HALO video using HALO game footage and music from the film The Rock . Blackstar Productions provided the compression and hosting. Check it out.

Thanks Blackstar.You can see the new movie at the BSP site.

Matt Soell has posted an article at Bungie.net about the Halo Winter Season tournament being run by a collection of players who felt that there was a wider audience for Halo tourneys than the one served by the recent Halo National Championships.

Michigan State University, Microsoft, and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) are sponsoring a 3x3 Halo tournament at 6 PM Eastern time on November 7th. Cost is $5 per person. Complete information on location, rules and prizes are available at the link above. Thanks to Louis Wu at HBO for the notice.

Posted at Subnova by Psyrixx: Shallow Throat has posted another scoop on Halo 2's story over at the Psyjnir Complex. Check it out. Or not.

Several people (pallor, david) pointed out to several sites (HBO, Subnova) that both Halo and Halo 2 were mentioned recently in Rolling Stone magazine. Trent Reznor, the musician behind Nine Inch Nails and who also wrote the musical score for the original Quake by Id Software, mentioned that he got into Halo just before starting some studio work... which ended up being delayed for a few days. There's a scan of the blurb at HBO.

HBO has put up a page called Random Stats with numbers producted by Halo fan Zachary Hahn and his trusty Timex watch. Some interesting notes: The Spartan II runs about 15.5 mph and throws grenades at a tad less than 51 mph. Guess no World Series for Master Chief.

Hedgehog at Xbox365 has posted a Hands-On article about Unreal Championship impressions from the Xbox Live Boot Camp event, and compared it to Halo:

David Candyman Candland has put up the eighth part of Truth and Reconciliation's Halo Legendary Walkthrough. This one's for the level Two Betrayals, and features many new screenshots.

Matt also posted word that Halo was nominated in three categories and won in two at the recent British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards. Ironically, the category they were nominated for but didn't win is definitely Halo's strongest suit-- audio. Strange. There's a complete story at BBC News.

SpartanII dropped a message at the Junkyard forums mentioning a new project he's working on (and soliciting the community's help for); he's creating a Halo-themed mod for Tribes 2 called Zero: Stolen Property. An intriguing concept. An early site for the project is up.

The Warthog Jump refuses to die.

A contest that the Official Xbox Magazine sponsored has drawn in a boatload of fan-submitted Warthog-jumping videos, which have been collected and now, digitized. And we've mirrored it, just because we love you so much.

It includes a lot of traditional stuff, some of it well-done, some not, and a few truly spectacular stunts. Noted at HBO.

theRanger sent us word that TeamXbox has a new Halo 2 preview up that features some of the newly released screenshots.

GameSpot has posted a whole batch of new Halo 2 screenshots. Some appear to be screenshots from the Halo 2 trailer, but there are also quite a few totally new ones. You'll see some nice captures of the Warthog and Master Chief (still no action shots).

Halo 2 and other future Bungie titles to make it past the Xbox to the Mac and/or PC?

Could be.

Thanks to HBO for the linkage.

In a preview of sorts, Gamesradar has released a medium-sized article revealing some tantalizing Halo 2 facts, quotes, and screens. More is available if you grab a copy of Edge Magazine's latest issue (lots more), but this serves as a pleasant interlude if you don't bother hitting the news stands.

HBO supplied the link.