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.

Forget about what machines Halo's coming out on, when it will come out, and who owns who. Some people are still-- more than a year after it was first unveiled-- licking their chops in anticipation of the gamer's gourmet meal that is to be Bungie's Halo. Meaning, that there's a new preview up at xbox.ign.com.

To wit, witness the unbridled enthusiasm of self-confessed Halo fanboy Vincent Lopez:

In a forum post over at Halo.bungie.org, community guy Matt Soell responded to a question about whether or not players of the X-Box and Mac/PC versions of Halo would be able to play network games together.

It's been suspected for some time now, but never really explicitly stated. So I'll have to reach deep into Ferrex's deep dark stash of hidden kudos to hand some out to Digital Justice, who pointed out in our forum today a minor revelation from Microsoft on the pages of GameSpy's PlanetXBox today: