Truth & Reconciliation has had a couple updates today, beginning with an interview with Rob McLees. Some may be unfamiliar with his name, but McLees is a veteran Bungie employee who has contributed many art and story elements to the company's fantastic game library.

Matt posted an item in HBO's forum about the impending reopening of the Bungie Store, as well as the Halo Soundtrack:

TeamXbox is reporting that the IGDA (International Game Developers Association) has announced the nominees for their 2001 Game Developers Choice Awards, which will be awarded March 19 - 23 in San Jose, CA.

Halo was nominated for Game of the Year as well as for excellence in Audio and Programming categories. Halo was conspicuously absent from the visual arts category.

Another gaming site I had no idea existed before now, Four Fat Chicks, has posted a Halo review by Dan Benge. Here's what Benge has to say in conclusion:

By now you've certainly seen Randy Glass' Warthog launch video and may have even attempted to emulate his performance yourself. Without instruction, this may be more difficult than you would expect.

Bungie has posted No7orius's walkthrough of Pillar Of Autumn on Legendary difficulty at Truth & Reconciliation.

HBO has finally finished setting up its press scans section, which features scans of forty magazines from all over the world. The press scans basically serve as an archive of older Halo material, such as previews and reviews, so they don't get lost in the void of time.

It's Cortana Day over at www.bungie.net. The first item of interest is an interview with Jen Taylor, voice of Cortana. Head over to the Truth & Reconciliation site and you will find that the storyboards for the X60 cutscene (which feature Cortana) have been added.

Randy Glass has put together various clips of him messing around with Halo's physics in the hands-down funniest video on the Internet. I'm at a loss of words, so I'll just provide you with links to the video:

Skeletor noticed over inthe HBO forum that the Truth and Reconciliation site has been updated; specifically, voice outtakes for the Grunt characters by Joseph Staten as well as a new Bungie Soapbox Rant by the same, entitled,

There has been an awful lot of talk about playing Xbox (and other console) titles on a VGA monitor. So, to save you the trouble I've rounded up at least three solutions which may please you... even if little Timmy may not be able to get his braces this month. Funny how these things have a way of adding up, idn't it? ;-)

Or.... some would say that you could just wait for the Mac/PC version to get VGA play. Maybe, but can they avoid being spoiled to death before that time? ;-)

This also in from ConsoleWire: The NPD Group has just released information on the top-selling Xbox titles.

NeoBob pointed out to us that awhile back the promised Jason Jones Interview went online at the Bungie.net Truth and Reconciliation site.

Louis Wu has reported another Halo review over at HBO. This one's by Phil at XboxGate, yet another Xbox site we didn't even know existed until now.

As for Halo, well, they liked it: