Louis Wu at HBO passed on word from RavenEA that this week's MacGamer Giveaway features five copies of Mac Halo; the subject of the contest is creation of an image of the Master Chief on vacation. The five funniest win.

An Anonymous User popped into our forum to remind everybody that the iGames Regionals for Halo for Windows are coming up on December 7. (Hey, register for an account so we can thank you properly.) Full details in the forum post.

Louis Wu writes on HBO that the one month for the Great Halo Scavenger Hunt has come to an end. A page with the solution is now up.

Bungie.net has posted the winners of the Halo-Ween contest, where fans were asked to carve a Halo-themed pumpkin. Oddly enough, the 1st place winner was not a 343 Guilty Spark, as a lot of us thought, but a rendition of the Halo 2 EGM Cover. The full list of winners is posted at Bungie.net. Thanks SketchFactor.

...on November 6th at 6 p.m. UTC. There have only been 5 winners so far, which means a lot of prizes are going to go unclaimed. Thanks SketchFactor and Louis Wu.

Lorraine "mehve" McLees has put up Part Two of her report from the Anime Reactor convention over at Bungie.net.

dolbex writes that CarnageReport is running a clan website contest. 1st place is $30 gift certificate to the Bungie Store! Submissions need to be in by November 10; winners will be announced on November 15.

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.

As pointed out by a few disappointed HBO forumgoers, there's a minimum age of 18 for the PC Halo World Championship. Bungie Studios' SketchFactor noted that these aren't Bungie's requirements, but that many states have laws that govern the participation of minors in competitions, and that is the reason for the minimum age. FYI.

Well, if you want to be the worldwide Halo champ on Windows, you've got between now and November 15 to register for this tourney, to be held at iGames locations. Prizes are from Gateway, ATI and Alienware.

Hmm. Well, just like Durandal before her, it looks like Chelsea's getting a mite impatient with the cyborg brain's predilection towards gunplay over logical thought. But at least you enjoy the killing, right? It's all about the killing. Thanks Louis Wu at HBO.

Representatives from Microsoft, Bungie and Gearbox will participate in an IRC chat in the #CPL channel on October 29 at 5 PM PST to answer questions about Halo PC and the Winter Championship. Thanks to kappa in the HBO forum, via Louis Wu.

With only 3 of 28 prizes claimed so far, Louis Wu at HBO is admitting that it may be harder than anticipated... but it is still possible. Keep looking!

Enemy Down and Europe: ClanBase are adding Halo ladders for players in Europe. Thanks Louis.