Deimos Fawkes from Subnova heard over in HBO's IRC channel, #HBO, that Cananimator BentLlama of Bungie is auctioning off a Limited Edition 2004 Xbox with a bunch of goodies, including orange and red prototype 'S' controllers, a DVD Playback Kit and Halo emblems for the 'S' controllers. Check it out!

Halo and Halo 2 are in two polls right now; one pits Halo 2 against other upcoming Xbox games at XboxNation, who are asking what the most-wanted new game is. Halo 2 is currently romping with over 800 votes, with only Fable and Full Spectrum Warrior breaking 100.

For users' convenience, we've created a zip archive of all 12 pages of the Enough Dead Heroes transcription by Spencer "Poop Scoop" Anunsen.

Rapture over at COERCE is asking for input on what game types players would like to see on the HBO-COERCE Halo PC Dedicated server.

To follow up on the transcription of Enough Dead Heroes from yesterday, today a guitar tab for Halo's opening theme, dome by XbShadow, went up at HBO.

Spencer "Poop Scoop" Anunsen spent some time awhile back transcribing Enough Dead Heroes from the Halo Soundtrack by Marty O'Donnell into sheet music for a string quartet. We've made the transcription available, in 12 one-page PDF files, in our new Sheet Music section.Also, this is the only version of this sheet music that we have-- please don't ask Poop Scoop for other pieces or other arrangements.

With 21 teams registered so far, there are 11 spots still available for CPL's Halo PC tournament this summer (the one with the $50,000 prize purse). Thanks cookedgamers.

Flexibility in gaming has been an often-discussed topic for quite awhile, but this is extreme: you show up for this LANfest on Long Island, and they lock you in so you can't leave until ten hours later. That's extreme, which is why they call it an X Tournament, I guess. The day after the LANfest, there's a tournament. Thanks Louis Wu.

HBO's Louis Wu pointed out a Halo multiplayer strategy guide by Kris Hull, who apparently knows a secret or two about Marathon, if the URL is to be believed. At the end of the guide is an interesting little glossary; I think Mulganistan borders Kazakhstan somewhere. They only play Counter Strike.

GameSpot has come up with the stunning revelation that Halo is, in fact, one of the top ten all-time first person shooters, ever. How do they come up with these?

BGH pointed out an article at Halo Phenom documenting how, as has been done to countless PC-based shooters before it, modified maps, models and textures are being applied to PC Halo to give players what might euphemistically be called an unfair advantage. Cheating, that is.

The article contains URLs to some pictures that show such modified maps, models and textures.