Rampancy

There's a Guest Strip explosion on Stuntmutt's blog as Louis Wu clears out the stored strips. Stuntmutt just asks that unmodified AutoMagic strips be posted in the HBO forum instead.

Another weekend, another news roundup!

• Major Nelson points out a revised version of the Halo 2 Stats worksheet for Excel 2003.
• A troika of heavy-hitting articles at MLG today: an interview with girl gamer Xena, a how-to on surviving Halo 2 without losing your Significant Other, and lastly a piece on the policing of XBL. Thanks Dolbex.
• rapture at Cooked Gamers notes the ongoing search for Halo 2 Super Weapons. If I only had a super weapon...
• XTournaments is announcing their 2005 event schedule, starting with the North East Coast Halo 2 Tournament on February 12, 2005.
• I have no idea what you'd do (and probably don't want to know --Ed.) with a life-size replica of the Master Chief, but if you enter this contest, you could win one. Thanks Sector7.
• Louis Wu at HBO sends word about the opening of the Halo 2 Dialogue Databank, with over 200 submissions from Captain Spark.
• BOLL has discovered a shirtless Jason Jones in a Halo 2 cutscene. (We kind of hope this one's not true. --Ed.)
• Ars Technica diverges from its usual PC focus to review Halo 2, the cult game even grandmothers ask for by name. (It's a great look from someone who wasn't all starry-eyed about the first game. --Ed)

SPOnG today reports that updated Xbox 2 developer kits are shipping to developers. Like the old kits, the new ones are based on Macintosh G5 computer. The new kits feature R500 graphics cards and are planned to replace the older kits over a span of two months.