The Halo 2 juggernaut moves on into the first full weekend of XBL action. Here's the latest:

• 1UP has updated its Halo 2 Strategy Guide, which includes sections on Campaign and Multiplayer modes. Obviously one expects to see spoilers, especially in the Campaign section. Editor's Note: Their Campaign guide, for reasons passing understanding, is based on the Normal difficulty level, and as such probably will be little help at Heroic or Legendary. Plus, there seem to be some random inaccuracies; they list the Magnum's zoom capability as being "reduced" which to me seems a strange way of saying "nonexistent".
• GameSpot also has a Halo 2 campaign guide. Thanks KP and Louis Wu.
• Part Four of the Xbox.com Halo 2 Readiness guide tells you to pick your dirty underwear up off the floor before you play. Good advice.
• The HBO forum is back. Please mark spoilers.
• Bungie's SketchFactor has responded to some of the problems fans have noticed, including some interface-related problems and dirty disc errors, long matchmaking waitsand is working on a fix.
• Flashmeister BOLL reviews the SmartJoy FRAG. Thanks Louis Wu.
• The Bungie Weekly Updates are being transformed into reader Q & A sessions. SketchFactor has posted Q&A #1 for November 12, 2004 by Frankie. It includes this interesting phrase, in response to a question about Halo 2's surround sound:
  

  You have not seen the last of the audio content for Halo 2 however...

  Editor's Note: Downloadable updates?And, of course, the burning question on the mind of anyone who has finished the game: Will there be a Halo 3?
  

  As for Halo 3, Bungie is in the process of discussing and planning its next projects. No decisions have been announced at this time. Man, I even annoyed myself with that response.

• Maybe the Master Chief should write an autobiography; Random House notes that the Prima Strategy Guide for Halo 2 was their biggest seller since Clinton's autobiography.