Dolbex writes that details of the 2004 MLG Season Championship are now up on the MLG site. Prizes for the Halo 4x4 tournament and the Halo FF competition. $50,000 is at stake; gaming is indeed big business these days, and not just for the companies that make them.

Looks like the new Rooster Teeth Productions website has gone up, with neat new features, a slick new design, and information on Red vs Blue as well as new productions like The Strangerhood (machinima using the Sims engine). Thanks Rams at Halo Planet.

Fun taunting Halo 2 fans shows up in today's Ctrl+Alt+Del cartoon; thanks goatrope who pointed it out.

mrsmiley sends word of the latest update on the Halo Babies site: new fan art, Halo furry art by Tina "Jaxx" Leyk, homework by Gruntsbane, and a thread of 3-D art.

Fuhrman has put up a batch of photos from Louis Wu's latest LANfest, Crisp Death.

[image:8110 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]Not to be outdone (or, perhaps, simply to underscore the degree to which we've been outdone) the Rampancy Cave hosted a CANfest-- that's Couch Area Network-- late on Sunday evening, featuring snacks, beer, and Halo until 2 AM.

UPDATE: KP has a writeup of the Fall Foliage (Crisp Death) LANfest over in the HBO forum, complete with the Mister Chief art Frankie gave him. Somebody named Clarksbrother has put up a Crisp Death photo gallery and a writeup. Note this photo in particular, showing Wu pwning Shishka. Thanks Blackstar for the heads-up.

MORE UPDATE: dizzy now also has a writeup.

[image:7695 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]It seems that Stuntmutt opened up his own blog last Monday; we've added its RSS feed to our news page and a link to it in our links collection under Halo.

One of the very first things he put up was this item on the lost One One Se7en cartoon-- well, not lost, really, as we had it here at Rampancy; but despite a couple of clues, nobody ever pointed it out. But, at least now that Stuntmutt has let the cat out of the bag, we can finally post it here for everyone to see.

Most Halo fans have probably seen it already, but if not, head on over to HBO and check out the prizes and rules for the 343 Guilt o'Lantern contest Bungie.org is running this year. Last year Bungie.net ran a similar contest.

This year's Rockets On Prisoner movie awards are being done differently, without judges; instead, fans will vote themselves. Go check out the nominee list and vote. Thanks for the news from Fluffy at Halo Planet.

bobindashadows over at Mac Halo Development points out Boardndave's new hex editing tutorial that talks about making the Warthog faster. Editor's Note: You need to register to see the tutorial.

Part six of skeifer's series on realism in Halo is up at the Junkyard. This time, skeifer and "Captain Roy Luthan" take on 343 Guilty Spark. This time, the beef is with the end of the level, where Foe Hammer makes you wander through the jungle to 343's tower before coming in to pick you up:

But after all that and finding the new elevator up to the ground level, I would have called in the pelican no matter what, since going out there with the Flood swarming the jungle is suicide. Fog and foliage my ass, since the pelican doesn't use a propellar and has armor on it, just simply knock down any tree that gets in your way from picking us up or have us blow it down with a couple of grenades, but DAMN IT, you're picking us up right outside that structure.

Have to admit he has a point there. Thanks to Ryan "Mhaddy" Matthews for the heads-up.

The big news in the latest weekly update by Frankie is that, barring any serious bugs, Bungie is essentially finished with Halo 2. They've sent the game out to be certified ready for production.

While short, this update is full of quite a bit of interesting information about clans, about XBL, and even a tidbit about single player:

As for single player, I am getting my ass handed to me by Legendary. I got to a spot, about ten minutes into the game normally, and have spent three hours trying to beat it. I am not kidding. I foolishly wasted some weapons early on, and now am paying the price. I may start again, take a deep breath and hit it more strategically.

That would seem to backup MSN's comment about legendary being "adamantium hard".

We missed it, but earlier this month Doobie at MariusNet made an announcement of an app called MythChat, created by Capital and Nae'blis. It runs on top of a Java Virtual Machine and allows users to connect to MariusNet's game servers and chat with players without loading the Myth game program itself. Neat idea!

PMABlades has posted up at PlayMyth what FlyingFlip Studios been up to lately (besides playing Fable):

The most noteworthy of these things is a Linux port of the Myth III world editor Ballistic. During the last few months we've been making several updates to Ballistic and work continues in that regard, but a few of the more curious amongst us thought it might be cool to try to get things working in a Linux environment.

There is also a thread with screenshots. Of course, Myth editing on Linux without Myth playing on Linux is a bit silly... but it sounds like something may be in the works on that front as well, as far as Myth 3 is concerned.