Well, mere hours after we heard that the new Bungie.net site is up, the Halo portion of the site, called Halo: Truth and Reconciliation is also online, replacing the cryptic graphic we noted before.

The new Bungie.net site seems to have (at the moment, at least) three major areas.

The first is Seventh Column, described as the Official Bungie Fan Club and Underground Army. There are already five clubs listed in their directory, including one called Rampant (although the site reports they have been disbanded. Hmm).

It seems that with the new Bungie.net site also comes a new edition of Letters to the Webmaster. Go now!

Mordia has announced that the new Bungie.net site is now up. Yeoren, the Bungie Webmaster, has posted this note about the site:

mad.max posted a link in our forum to a piece at Salon by Wagner James Au, which talks about the image of Microsoft and the Xbox in the console gaming market. He's come to the conclusion that Microsoft has failed to deliver on its promises:

Louis Wu at HBO has posted a notice that there's an interview with Bungie Community Guy Matt Soell at HomeLAN.

Not much to say other than Seventh Column has updated with:

Your browser is incompatible with this site. Please upgrade to Internet Explorer 7.

Yeah, right. Keep watching the site.

Netshade at Brainrazor has put up his account of the Halo Launch Party in Chicago earlier this month. And just to warn everybody, there's a fair amount of profanity and humor at the expense of Bungiefen, so everybody don your asbestos. As for Halo, he liked it:

no7orious was kind enough to write not one, but two great reports covering his experience at the Halo launch party. The first report covers the span of the entire launch party, describing who did what, who played what, and what was played. The party started with an on-screen Halo drill sergeant getting people in line:

Louis Wu has reported over at HBO that the recent exposure of the Halo launch party on some of the larger Xbox fan sites has generated a deluge of RSVP responses; about three times the number they can actually withstand. Matt Soell has also posted in the forum about how they will handle the situation:

Harry pointed out that since the Bungie Store reopened in July there's been an opportunity to join Bungie's mailing list register to win the Juan Ramirez Covenant Elite statue.