Brandon has posted at COERCE that the HBO-COERCE dedicated server for PC Halo is back up.

In addition, the RSS feed for news from COERCE now seems to be working, so we've added their feed to our newsfeed page.

Rapture over at COERCE is asking for input on what game types players would like to see on the HBO-COERCE Halo PC Dedicated server.

Brandon "vector40" Oto has submitted the third in his series of articles on Banshee tactics, Banshee Handling III: Applying Reality. If you haven't already, make sure you read part one and part two first or it won't make much sense.

The Inquirer is reporting that the SDK for Microsoft's next generation Xbox is being released to developers. And it's running on a Mac.

Several years after being purchased by Microsoft and becoming a studio that developed games for MS' largely PC and Windows-based technology underpinning the Xbox, could Bungie be coming full circle, soon to be working primarily on Macs while they develop games for the PowerPC-based Xbox 2?

Only the Shadow knows.

TCLN-Zenn has written a piece on Team Killing in Halo at BGH; it seems to be one of their favorite topics of late. This one is after the new anti-TK features in the 1.03 release.

I think he's on-point on part, but off the mark elsewhere; a full response is in Problem Is Between Chair And Keyboard, the latest of Narc's Retorts.

PfhorSlayer let us know that work on version two of Aquaduct, the Mac OS X Xbox tunneller, is still ongoing:

Things are progressing very well, and we are gearing up for some internal testing and hopefully release in the not-too-far future.

Aquaduct can now tunnel games between Xbox users who have a Mac running Aquaduct and Windows users who have Xbox Connect; word is it will "probably" be out before Halo 2. Let's hope so.

Grenadiac has put up version 3 of the PC Halo level editor SparkEdit up at HaloMods. Also, earlier this month, somehow it escaped our notice that another Halo editing app, HMT, is being ported to the Macintosh at MacHaloMods.

Doobie writes that Dustin "Dc80s" Charest and the PS clan are going to hold a Myth: The Fallen Lords tournament next month. Read his post or the tournament page for the complete details on maps and game types.

Over in the HBO forum, RunningRiot voiced the common-enough question: why in-game and out-of-game pings to Halo servers often don't match up. Botman from Gearbox stopped in to provide the answer:

Steve at Forerunners.org writes that a three-level demo of the upcoming Marathon & Beyond scenario for Bungie's Marathon shooter. It is available from the Marathon & Beyond page. Right now it seems that the scenario is about one-third complete.