Okay, time for another call to arms, Halo fans. Gordon Freeman and Half-Life by Valve Software are up over John 117 and Halo by Bungie Studios at this point in the first round of the Mushroom Kingdom championship bracket.

However, the rules of the game are now changed; you must login with a GameSpy ID in order to vote because of abuse detected in earlier matches.

Wraith has produced a mod for Halo PC that you can get at HaloMods that allows you to use the Fuel Rod Gun the SpecOps Grunts use in the level Two Betrayals. He wants his gold star.

Andreas "BOLL" Aronsson has written an academic paper analyzing Halo according to a theory of Game Design Patterns put forth by Swedish scientists Staffan Björk, Sus Lundgren and Jussi Holopainen. Louis Wu has put it up in HBO's miscellaneous section.

TURBO in the #HBO IRC channel pointed out the new Halo Editing Kit screenshot over at Cortana.org. It appears to be showing what we can only assume is shot of a Halo level being edited in 3ds Max.

Viper, with the help of FlyingV, saddles up and packs some orbital bombardment for all the stupid people in the latest Battleground: Halo mailbag.

Halo beat GoldenEye for the second time in the Gamespy Title Fight to claim lordship over the Abandoned Base bracket. Both games got fewer votes this time around, but Halo received almost 1500 fewer than in its first round victory over Bond, and GoldenEye got about 400 fewer. Looks like there was much less urgency felt by Halo fans everywhere over this matchup. Next up: Half-Life on April 1.

VideoMannumbuh1 writes in the HBO forum that the Fortress Gulch mod, which places a huge wall in the middle of Blood Gulch (among other things) has been released.

Pfhorslayer writes on the Postpose Software website that the development of Aquaduct Two, the Macintosh-based Xbox tunneler, is proceeding nicely:

Blackstar of Blackstar Productions got a treat from a friend living near Bungie HQ-- an extra-wide poster advertising the Special Edition Green Console version of the Xbox. He put some pics of it up in the HBO forum.

HHHT has been updated to version 1.40, and fixes some bugs as well as adds some new features. Thanks BOLL. Go to Omnight.com to download the new version.

Dispraiser reminds everyone in the HBO forum that Halo is up against Goldeneye (again) in the GameSpy Title Fight, starting Thursday, March 25. This will be for the championship in the Abandoned Base bracket.

[image:7191 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]We've put up a gallery of CuBaNo's excellent HUDless screenshots.