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.

As here on Rampancy, some features require free registration.

Paul Ryan, an editor at AceGamez, wrote to let us know they've reviewed PC Halo. They've also got a review of Halo for the Xbox there, for comparison's sake, if you're into that sort of thing.

They gave the PC version scores of 8, 9, 10 and 8 in the categories of gameplay, graphics, sound and lifespan, with a rating of 8/10 overall. The Xbox version received a perfect 10.

HaloMods let us know they've opened a Halo server at 204.251.80.250. Currently it's running the Banshee Wars mod we wrote about earlier.

In addition, version 2.0 of the Halo map editor, SparkEdit, has now gone into testing, with support for PC Halo maps as well as other improvements. Thanks Grenadiac.

Louis Wu at HBO noticed two articles, one at Inside Mac Games, and the other at MacGamer, placing the ship date of Mac Halo as December 3. Both quote an official press release from MacSoft, publishers of Halo on the Mac platform. Both mention a reference in that to resolutions of "1600 x 1200" pixels and "beyond".

Steve at Forerunners.org wrote to let us know that Forerunners.org was not "down for repairs" as we wrote earlier, but was down in order to be moved from one server to another.

Two more PC Halo reviews today from Blue's News: LoadedInc and DeadAlfs. DeadAlfs (DeadAlves?) bemoaned the lack of co-op support (and invoked the all-to-common by now comparison to Serious Sam), giving the game an 8 out of 10 overall score.

Brian at Halo.ibonk.com writes that they've named three new moderators to help out with the site: Shaft, BradLee and Alx. Everybody drop by and say hello.

In the last couple of days, two Halo sites: Forerunners.org and Break Point Halo, have both had to go down for repairs and have come back up. Everyone applaud.

OK, normally we don't go around willy-nilly pointing at people's petitions. But this one is politely worded, and is a reasonable, and I would imagine not too onerous, feature to request. Gary Williams has put up a request to add a logging feature to the Halo Dedicated Server and the PC Halo client, to aid in creating statistical analyses for player ratings and ladders, as well as other things. If you think it's worthwhile, why not take a look.

SketchFactor writes at Bungie.net that they're holding a Halo-Ween pumpkin carving contest; carve up a Halo-themed pumpkin, take a photo of it, and email it to feedback@bungie.com before October 31, 2003. All standard image types are acceptable (JPEG, BMP, TIF, GIF). If you want to snail mail a photo, use this address: