The reviewer for 3DAvenue liked Halo pretty well. They gave it an 87 rating, and said it "defines FPS action."

HaloMods sends word of an Xbox Halo mod called Banshee Wars by Iron Forge; the original Banshee has been turned into a bomber, and a second type of Banshee, a Jet, has been added. Several weapons have been modified to fire homing projectiles.

Matt "Zyos" Leto from the Dream Team competed in the World Cyber Games in Seoul, Korea and went undefeated, earning the gold medal. Thanks to Dolbex at Been Mawed for the heads-up.

Scimitarex also gets props for pointing out a Halo Guide at GameSpot (free registration appears to be required). I'm not sure if this is an entirely new Guide, or if they had one for the Xbox version, but this one mentions new weapons like the flamethrower, so it's clearly geared for PC Halo players.

Randy "DuvalMagic" Pitchford of Gearbox says that lots of player-requested features are going to be in the next update, due out soon. Thanks to Scimitarex in the HBO forum.

There's a note at HaloMods that says that SparkEdit is being modified to support PC Halo maps as well as Xbox maps. More info is in their forum.

The angryzenmaster gives a lesson in physics today, explaining angular momentum and magic numbers and how they can be used to launch the Master Chief into the air. What I want to know is how this forces the player below the mesh...

Blue's News points us today to a German-language review of Halo at YiYas. According to the squishy yellow fish that starts wars, they missed co-op mode and don't like Chill Out much. Like many other reviewers, they wondered why the port took so much time compared to the amount of new material (no new single player levels, for instance).

The latest version of Qtracker, a game originally created to do matchmaking for online matches of Quake or Quake engine games, has added support for Halo. More information about the latest version and about the program itself is available from the Qtracker homepage. Thanks Louis Wu.

Some more additions to the ranks of PC Halo reviews today courtesy of Blue's News: GameOver and JIVE Magazine.

GameOver wished Halo had been over sooner, calling it "mind-bendingly, stultifyingly, dull and repetitious". But they liked the multiplayer and eventually rated it 83%.

More additions to the PC Halo Demo Mirror list, courtesy of HBO's Louis Wu.

We've updated our PC Halo Demo Mirror List, and given it a permanent place in our Files category.

There's an interview with Gearbox's Randy Pitchford over at Adrenaline Vault, focusing primarily on performance issues, what they describe as "choppiness at resolutions above 1024x768". Incidentally, that's twice the dimensions of Xbox Halo's, and requires your videocard to push about 3x as many pixels.

SketchFactor has put up a little mini-update on Mac Halo, providing links to the recent interviews with Peter Tamte of Destineer and Phil Sulak of Westlake Interactive (both at HBO), as well as adding new comments by Al Schilling, the General Manager for MacSof

Halo Babies this weeks takes a look at the problems caused when the only available babysitter... is a Hunter. Thanks Mr. Smiley.