Goodness. Remember Battleground: Halo, the once-proud but in recent times mostly dead Halo fansite? Whodathunkit, they've gotten a visual revamp and started posting news again. Go check 'em out.

First off, Matt just marked his seventh year, seventh month and seventh day at Bungie; yes, it's Matt's Bungieversary; he posted it himself at Bungie.net.

And seemingly as gift on this occasion to the ranks of rabid Halofen, he's offered a few words of encouragement in the HBO forum. In response to demands that the Halo Updates be resurrected for Halo 2, he said:

Well, I don't know if they strapped him down to a slab of gold and aimed a laser at his private parts, but somehow Ryan Mhaddy Matthews over at The Junkyard was able to make him talk: they've done a spotlight on Louis Wu. Among the tidbits:

This struck me as slightly ridiculous but pretty cool... chigiri posted to the HBO forum about a recent Halo endeavour of his... he's created a WAP-enabled Halo information site. No real content yet, but it's on the way. Hmm...

Everybody say hello to Funky Caribou, Rampancy's 500th registered user.

Rumor has it that Forerunners.org will finally open on July 7. Stay tuned.

Steve Campbell of Bungie.org fame has put a notice on his new site, Forerunners.org, that it is close to opening: