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.

synide writes at MLG that the finals are now underway; the story has Video On Demand links.

Bungie took on Pioneer Electronics in the last Humpday Challenge and won all three games-- and quite handily, too, by the look of it, despite Frankie's show of self-deprecation.

James "Fiend" Schneider of Major League Gaming has interviewed Alfonso "AYB Fonzi" Chartier. Fonzi and his teammates came to the fore with the launch of Halo 2. Thanks Dolbex.

[image:9096 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]Only slightly more than three years have passed since the Xbox brought Microsoft into the console wars, and the next generation, if rumors are to be believed, will be upon us by the 2005 holiday season. Ahh.. Xbox. A console of infinite games... assuming they're all made by Bungie.

Here's a look at recent items about upcoming consoles, as well as goings-on in the Bungieverse:

Bungie manages another Humpday win, this time against HaloMods. (Corollaries to the rules predicting Humpday Challenge results: having Ferrex equals a win, but losing Frankie can also create a win, with or without Ferrex. Thanks to Louis Wu for the idea. Why does the Coagulation game summary show a screenshot from Headlong? Because those are shots of HaloMods mods --Ed.)

A Washington state high school has cancelled a Halo 2 tournament students planned to support tsunami relief efforts on the grounds that "anything we do that even looks like we're endorsing violence is not appropriate," according to a school district representative. Sounds like something deserving a retort.

The Bungie Pentathlon this year-- the important part, that is-- was owned by Middle School. The Old School managed to pick up enough points to win on the more geriatric-friendly portions of the competition, such as Pictionary and Mario Tennis, but the Middle School, led by Brian "SketchFactor" Jarrard and including our own spiritual leader Tyson "Ferrex" Green won the only place it matters: the Halo 2 competition.

Despite a strong turnout, the Bungie team was decidedly massacred by Electronic Gaming Monthly, who spanked them 3-0 on the strength of two no-radar Team Slayer games, and even obliged Bungie in the usual Zanzibar CTF game only to win that 3-0, too.

You want the news? We can't handle the news! Wait, that didn't come out right...

Halo 1 will be one of four "side games" available for play at the DC event at the end of this month; check MLG for details. Thanks Dolbex.

Frankie has put up a new update on how Halo 2 has been doing on Xbox Live, numerically speaking, and it's impressive: Halo 2 is the #1 game by far on the service, dwarfing its nearest competitor by a factor of 10, according to Larry "Major Nelson" Hyrb, Xbox Live's Director of Programming.

There are also a few more sobering items, like the fact that Game Viewer data is being used to catch-- and ban-- cheaters.

Dolbex notes that the registration system for the DC Halo tournament that was expected on Tuesday has been delayed until Wednesday.