I decided to mosey on over to Haloplayers to see if they'd returned from oblivion. Server outages and related difficulties happen to the best of us, of course, and I hadn't been able to raise their site for several days. This is the response I got today:

I had fired off an e-mail to EB World shortly after they stopped taking Halo preorders. Electronics Boutique's well-known e-commerce site was claiming that Halo will only be coming out for the X-Box. (A claim that Matt soon refuted in typical Soellar style ;-) I described the problem to EB World, the response from Bungie to their claims, and asked when they would correct the matter on their site. The response was a bland one:

After a slight delay, Halo.bungie.org has posted the latest of Matt's Halo Updates. Here are some of the more interesting tidbits, but this particular update is pretty meaty and well worth a full read.

Isn't Matt's Halo update supposed to be back on schedule? Sheesh. ;-)

In all seriousness, Matt stated in the HBO forum that he's already sent in the update:

Actually I emailed it to HBO hours ago. Kinda wondering myself what happened to it.

The thread continues and it's mentioned that Louis is ill and resting, so the update should be posted after he feels better. Hope you get well soon, Louis!

The German Halo site, HaloNetwork.de has been updated with a goodly bit of new information. If you're a German-speaking Halo enthusiast on either side of the pond, then this would be a good site to turn your browser to. We're a little bit later than the other sites in reporting this because I wanted to take a better look, and as HBO reported there were some difficulties that have now been cleared up.

About a month ago in private discussion R.net proposed a sharing of Bungie's updates to a number of other sites, and it looks like HBO is the first to do something about it. They've launched a Halo update database that includes all of the weekly updates in searchable format. Yet another good resource for Halo enthusiasts.

BGH reports that they are hiring, and have launched a jobs page with the expectation that they will be expanding. GameSpy has already had haloplanet.com forward to BGH's page.

Halo Center also posted that they were hiring a day or two ago. And today they announce that their page's menu organization has undergone some alterations.