[image:8656 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]dogchow has produced an illustrated list of the available emblems in Halo 2. Check them out and pay particular attention to #8 and #29.

Since Major Nelson has (quite obviously) had access to Halo 2 for awhile now, he's been able to post links to his own stats RSS feed over on his blog.

It looks like one of the features I personally had hoped to see when Bungie.net became integrated with XBL is coming to fruition: RSS feeds for individual stats. Right now an XML button for an RSS feed of "recent games played" is visible on the Stats page of Bungie.net users that have linked their gamertags. It looks like the button only appears on your own Stats page, so to get the feeds for other players you'll have to ask them. As I haven't been able to play any games yet, I don't know what kind of information is in the feed, but still, the idea is pretty sweet.

For those of you who administrate a 7th Column Group at Bungie.net, you'll notice a new set of links there now that allow you to link up to seven (appropriate number, no?) different clans to your Group. It can be a clan that includes your members, or an allied clan, or even a rival clan. Links to those clans' statistics pages will appear on your Group's pages.

Verdafolio reminds us that HBO-COERCE is going down. Really.

Looks like Bungie.net is getting ready to open their Stats section (Editor's Note: Still down as of this writing) in preparation of Halo 2's launch on XBL next week; after a short downtime, today the site is notifying users about their new Privacy Statement,

Slashdot today discusses a Washington Post article on teens coping with video game addiction.