The last Bungie Weekly Update by Frankie, this one in video format and apparently subtitled "Sexy Girls Gone Wild Video Edition" is available for download. HBO has put up a mirror page; there are WMP9 and QuickTime versions, both in BitTorrent and in direct download formats.

Leading up to the impending media blitz that will no doubt be Halo 2's official marketing campaign (all the bee stuff aside) IGN has put up a six-page feature on what it was like to hunt for Halo 2 information through the relatively quiet period from the announcement in August 2002 until now.

One interesting point they mention is about the Weekly Updates, and how the major news sites... well... don't seem to like them much:

CENOBITE posted in the HBO forum that the new edition of Game Informer magazine is advertising that they've got some "exclusive" new Halo 2 multiplayer screenshots and content. I've seen some really low-quality digicam pics of some pages, and they look legitimate, although some of the information CENOBITE cites as being in the magazine sounds a bit specious. As per usual practice, though, we're not going to post them ourselves or link to them until after the edition is off the newsstands.

SketchFactor has posted up two new goodies at the new Bungie.net. (I wonder when we're going to be able to stop calling it the new Bungie.net and go back to just calling it Bungie.net.) The first is a render of a Helljumper, or ODST, and the second is a wallpaper of 343 Guilty Spark.

Some news from Red vs Blue: first, the latest episode, 29, is available for sponsors.

Second, a Wall Street Journal reporter watched them make a recent episode and wrote an article that appeared on the front page of the WSJ's Friday edition. Over at HBO, Louis Wu notes that one Jon Keegan who works for the WSJ has sent a link that works for nonsubscribers for the next seven days, so all the Halo fans can read the story.

Rams, formerly of Battleground: Halo fame but now in retirement, has moved his blog over to Blogger.com, and one of his early entries is a review of Halo TV. The summary is that he applauds the sentiment, but the small size leads to some headache-inducing viewing.

...because you won't need it to watch HaloTV, a new project by the guys at cookedgamers, rapture and synide.

The service streams various Halo movies, and in addition did a live broadcast of the CAL season finals between xeno and Gamers Paradise.

[image:7191 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]We've put up a gallery of CuBaNo's excellent HUDless screenshots.