Bungie has posted No7orius's walkthrough of Pillar Of Autumn on Legendary difficulty at Truth & Reconciliation.

HBO has finally finished setting up its press scans section, which features scans of forty magazines from all over the world. The press scans basically serve as an archive of older Halo material, such as previews and reviews, so they don't get lost in the void of time.

Randy Glass has put together various clips of him messing around with Halo's physics in the hands-down funniest video on the Internet. I'm at a loss of words, so I'll just provide you with links to the video:

Impressive game design or pure coincidence? Xbox.com used NFL Fever 2002 to predict the outcome of Super Bowl XXXVI and the results were nothing short of frightening. TeamXbox writes:

There has been an awful lot of talk about playing Xbox (and other console) titles on a VGA monitor. So, to save you the trouble I've rounded up at least three solutions which may please you... even if little Timmy may not be able to get his braces this month. Funny how these things have a way of adding up, idn't it? ;-)

Or.... some would say that you could just wait for the Mac/PC version to get VGA play. Maybe, but can they avoid being spoiled to death before that time? ;-)

This also in from ConsoleWire: The NPD Group has just released information on the top-selling Xbox titles.

Version 1.081 of XboxGW is now available for download at Xboxgw.com. The Linux, OS X and Win32 ports are still in progress.

The documentation are of the site doesn't have new content for this version yet, so we don't know what has changed.

Louis Wu has reported another Halo review over at HBO. This one's by Phil at XboxGate, yet another Xbox site we didn't even know existed until now.

As for Halo, well, they liked it:

Marcus Lai at Gaming Age has put up an Special about how well Halo lived up to the promise of its first tech demo more than three years ago, and the verdict is that it has, and very well indeed:

Maps of Halo's multiplayer levels are up at Truth and Reconciliation. Overhead views of maps, lots of helpful hints. Hurray! Head on over if you've got nothin' else to do like me! There's also some new human vehicle concept art. Thanks HBO for that last tip.

Icrontic, the web site that's already taken their Xbox apart in hopes of hacking it up to do neat things, has posted an Xbox vs. GameCube opinion piece. The result? Nintendo by a nose:

There's a story at FunXbox that states Microsoft is now saying that 1.1M Xbox consoles have been shipped to retailers (note: this does NOT mean sold ).

One of the things cited as refreshing, if not actually innovative, about Halo is the fact that it doesn't depend on the usual key-door-boss sequence that has plagued the shooter genre since Doom. It seems not everyone feels the same:

It's been lost in all the hype over this holiday season's console wars, but the reigning king of the living room is still Sony and the PlayStation-- both versions, in fact.

IGN has a story that puts sales of the PS2 and PS1 combined pretty close to the numbers being claimed for the Xbox and the GameCube-- not bad considering the PS2 was last year's big winner, and the PS1 is long in the tooth indeed:

Someone named bunnie has apparently already taken Xbox hacking a step further than anyone else so far. He removed the box's surface-mounted BIOS chip and installed a socket so that he could replace it with a standard PC BIOS chip.

Then, he downloaded the contents of the Xbox's BIOS chip and posted them on his web site, along with pictures and instructions on how he did it.