Mike Miller continues his Legendary Walkthrough of Halo 2; up this time is Quarantine Zone. Like the previous level, Sacred Icon, mostly he just runs right through it, and wonders why, with air transport available, the Covenant don't think of that themselves:
I guess there's no point in wondering why the phantom didn't just drop us off here to begin with. The Covenant probably execute their officers for asking questions like that.
Nick at HaloDev has announced Prometheus, a map editor for Halo engine games. The editor isn't quite available yet, but information about the upcoming application is available at HaloDev; the team says they expect to provide updates on their progress at the site about twice a month.
Big update with screenshots at H2CE, bringing some old maps to the new game. Thanks Katana at demented puppy dot com.
Frankie's Weekly What's What Update is mostly about what Bungie is doing to deter cheaters and how close they are to releasing the fixes they've been working on. Very soon now. There's also a mention of the DLC-- just that it will be announced well in advance, and be made available to users of Xbox Live and other Halo 2 owners as well.
Penny Arcade's side of the Humpday Challenge debacle is up now; responses come in both verbal and visual forms. Tycho thought that Bungie's triumphant victory would make up for their initial review of Halo 1..
The last in the series of Bungie Fundamentals (and the 77th strip overall) is up at Halo Babies. Thanks mrsmiley.
In a surprise move, the identity of this week's Humpday Challenge opponents was revealed in the latest Penny Arcade comic. As Gabe and Tycho feared, Bungie did indeed want to play Slayer, and ended up schooling the Penny Arcade duo and their friends, winning all three games with kill ratios of about 2:1. Frankie's writeup is up at Bungie.net now.
Robert Valdes has written a Halo 3 Wish List for the Games section of Stuffo, a part of the HowStuffWorks website.
WaLKa pointed out the results of StK's grudge match against Check 6 in the MLG Houston event over in the HBO forum. There's no results on the official MLG site yet, but it should be soon. Thanks Louis Wu.
Xbox's Major Nelson asks Do You Skype and reveals his SkypeID, unsurprisingly, is majornelson. (You need your browser configured so that Skype handles callto:// URLs for that link to work --Ed.)
Katana at demented puppy dot com notes that IWTPH2 has come up with an "unexpected" Halo CE map release. It's called Chop Chop, and is custom-made for close-quarters sword combat with DocOctavius' sword mod. See this thread in the Gearbox forum for screenshots and download links.
synide writes at MLG that the finals are now underway; the story has Video On Demand links.