Shamelessly skimmed from the halo.bungie.org forum: a new website, Halo-Net, is poised to enter the Halo website scene. They're suggesting that it's going to be a pretty big launch... worth keeping an eye on.

Sigh, another webmaster fallen victim to the wankah who refuses to release www.halo.net... now if he was doing something with it, I wouldn't be quite so cranky about it... grumble...

But I didn't need to do a news post to tell you that... just taking advantage of the lull to fiddle with the updater (hence the post) and catch up on some work. Apologies in advance for any lost forum cookies...

With the new information available over the last two days, I've updated the FAQ with around half a dozen new questions and updated a few older entries. Remember to mail in any good questions you'd like to see answered for addition.

Following up the previous news item, Banzif took the time to transcribe and send in the text of the PCGamer Halo preview, to appear in the October issue. It can be read in a nice, generic text file here:

• PCGamer Halo Preview

Pardon any spelling mistakes or typoes. Now, we just need to get the October issue and see these new screenshots...

Banzif writes with this tantilizing information:

There is an article on pg 40 of the October issue of PC Gamer that is about Halo. It includes some new screen shots and more info on the setting of the game.

Is this issue out yet? I need to check the store... keep an eye out for this one, folks! This could even be the beginning of the Halo exclusives in the gaming magazines (glory!).

Kudos to Blackbeard and CalBear, who both pointed out an interesting article at Thresh's FiringSquad about NVIDIA's new GeForce256 accelerator. Mouth watering in its own right, the article is even more interesting for its inclusion of a section concerning Halo running on the GeForce256. Definitely worth checking out, even if there are no new images for us...

Obitus pointed out that Halo is now at 18% of the vote in the PC Paradox poll, and still climbing. I guess seeing the number one item makes new people check it out and instantly fall in love...

We were wondering what she was up to, and now we know! After damaging my old Myth:TFL CD in a horrific car accident, I ordered a new one, and just today received it (despite the best efforts of the local post office staff). Throwing it in the drive, I noticed that it was a version 1.3 CD, obviously part of a new run.

The good, suspicious Bungie follower that I am, I immediately fired up the Find File and searched for invisible files. Suffice it to say I wasn't disappointed when I found this in a hidden text file aptly named Cortana :