While the Rampancy newsies were off this past weekend getting drunk, there was news happening, and people not off getting drunk noticed it.

Here's a quick rundown:

• Latest PC Halo update from Michel Bastien
• Halo Timeline finally shows up again at Xbox.com
• Multiplayer PC Halo movie at Gamespy goes public
• FiringSquad previewed PC Halo; so did Gamers Depot
• Mac Halo status progresses to Alpha
• The Dialogue Databank got updated with 30 new clips
• PC Halo was leaked
• The UK World Cyber Games completed
• Eric Trautmann provided some info on the next Halo novel

All news courtesy of HBO's Louis Wu, who is almost never drunk when we are. It's a timezone thing.