Lorraine "mehve" McLees has put up Part Two of her report from the Anime Reactor convention over at Bungie.net.

Blood Gulch Chronicles, the popular webseries by the group Red vs Blue, using the Halo engine running on the Xbox and set in the Blood Gulch multiplayer map, has taken three prizes at the Machinima Awards 2003: Best Independent Machinima Film, Best Writing, and Best Picture. Congratulations to the Red vs.

Louis Wu notes at HBO that their own PC Halo dedicated server is experiencing some downtime, and Subnova has put up a server as a substitute.

Mat "MSN" Noguchi, tools programmer at Bungie, posted a blog entry on performance issues in PC Halo. That, and the comments following, are definitely worth reading, along with this forum thread at HBO that prompted him to write the blog.

UPDATE: There's a second part to this piece up now.

There's another review of PC Halo up at WorthPlaying. This one gives the game an 8/10 overall, appreciating the deep storyline and the impressive AI, even if they admit the graphics are "not as impressive" as they were two years ago. People are so jaded, sheesh. Thanks Blue's News.

Well, after five unsuccessful attempts, the September giveaway at Forerunners.org has a winner. Donald Dalton of Oklahoma gets a nice collection of Bungie and Halo swag including action figures, a strategy guide, and copies of Oni and PC Halo. Congrats Donald!

The man who must be, by now, the single most-interviewed human on the Internet, Randy Pitchford, is at it again, this time dishing to Tycho from the newly-opened Halo Ops site. Thanks Louis Wu at HBO.

[image:6441 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]Pressed up against the lens of the Bungie Webcam today is what looks like a Halo action figure box. But instead of the Master Chief, Cortana, or an Elite (the only figures I've seen before) this one looks vaguely like a Jackal.

According to SourceGuy and Grenadiac at HaloMods, the newest version of SparkEdit is out, and supports PC Halo maps and loading multiple BSP sections of campaign maps.

dolbex writes that CarnageReport is running a clan website contest. 1st place is $30 gift certificate to the Bungie Store! Submissions need to be in by November 10; winners will be announced on November 15.

Mr. Smiley writes that Halo Babies has a new comic up; go check it out.

MSNBC has a story on machinima that touches on Red vs Blue. They also mention Lenny and Larry Lumberjack, who apparently have a new film out. Always wondered what had happened to them.

The article also mentions that Half-Life 2 is supposed to have "special tools" specially designed for making machinima.

Four new Halo reviews today listed at Blue's News: Armchair Empire, PC Gameworld, Gamehelper Newswire, and VideogamesLife.

Nvidia has put out a new, non-beta, version of drivers for some of their GeForce cards called ForceWare. Sounds like a Windows product.

dolbex wrote to tell us about his new site, www.carnagereport.com. In addition to Halo news and forums, but that's not all. From the site:

So you may be asking yourself, what is CarnageReport.com? Simply, we are a site dedicated to tracking sophisticated HaloPC statistics on individuals, providing a location for clans to meet and challenge one another, and supply general Halo news. These three elements are what make CarnageReport.com.

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