Well, at first we thought perhaps the Halo Updates had finally run out of steam, but as it turns out there was still enough for at least one more-- and a good one, at that. It's over at Haloplayers this week.

Besides including a note from Chris Butcher that crewmen in Halo 'fight better than BoBs'-- damning with faint praise if I ever heard it-- there are some other AI improvements as well:

Just saw on Blue's News that Xbox.ign.com has posted six Halo screenshots from the official XBox Magazine teaser publication, and unlike the versions of these shots that have appeared elsewhere, they aren't scans of reprints in Next-Gen or PC Gamer.

Go to IGN's Halo Preview and scroll down to Current Media and you'll see the shots there.

Ready for a HUG? No, not like that. I mean some Halo Update Goodness. Because this week it's at Battleground: Halo. As he mentioned last week, Matt says that the development process is coming to a point where there aren't many things he can talk about without spoiling, and the things he can talk about just arent that interesting (bug fixes).

OK, I actually noticed this one myself earlier today, but Louis beat me to the punch posting it at halo.bungie.org.

Matt could tell us what they are working on... but then he'd have to kill us. In response to some complaints at the halo.bungie.org forum about the recent lack of new screenshots, movies, or juicy update tidbits, Matt Soell has piped in on why mum is now the word:

Read it at HBO: