When lacking content, create your own. Inspired by a discussion on the halo.bungie.org forum, I punched out a sort of introductory article for people new to Halo, Bungie, and Marathon:

Sure enough, I have returned to find my cookie eaten and the forum rife with unmarked new messages. A pox on all your houses. A few interesting items in there, though. Bungie's Matt Soell comments on console compatibility, contributing to a long discussion of the merits of console versions of Halo, and Butcher offers an interesting post on community building.

An interesting note from Bungie's Matt Soell at halo.bungie.org's forum, regarding Bungie's presence at MWSF in January:

Kudos to Christoph Schmidt and halo.bungie.org, who have conspired to post a four page Halo preview from the German December edition of PC Games. Makes me wish my german was a little bit better. Anyone want to attempt a translation, or pick out some interesting tidbits for those of us who can't understand much more than Panzerfaust ? ':)

Despite being a very promising game in its own right, Bungie's upcoming title Oni has been overshadowed in the eyes of some by Halo. Funny to think that a company can actually have too many anticipated products.

A good turnout this week. Asked what they thought of the possibilty of Halo coming to consoles, such as the Playstation2, over two hundred voters participated in a fairly close poll:

Oh yes, there is only one thing scarier than truckload of misguided youths driving around with a potato gun and a sack of ammunition: the person who inadvertantly armed them but takes the time to update a website before heading out to keep them from getting arrested.

Enjoy your Halloween, all. And keep it legal... we'll have plenty of time for anarchy on New Year's Day. Cheers!

Gary Simmons, the Battle Cat to many, sends word of a new site open for business at bungie.org, The Big House: