[image:4113 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]The HBO news page today notes a follow up to the Fanstock coverage put up by HomeLAN Fed: the upshot is, they're still very much looking forward to the game's release:

While our beta version had several of the game’s multiplayer maps available they were only available in a LAN for this build (of course the PC version of Halo will have Internet support as well) but the truth is we had a lot of fund just playing around with the many, many different options that Gearbox has given to players to make their own gametypes based on the base modes that are available out of the box. It should make for some interesting gameplay combos that neither Bungie nor Gearbox could have realized. Of course, the extra levels and the new multiplayer weapons and vehicles will add to those combo possibilities.

Thanks Louis Wu. The article had three more screenshots, which we added to the PC Halo Gallery.UPDATE: Louis Wu wrote in to let us know there was a fourth screenshot with that story; we added that, too.