More screenshots and renders to add to galleries today:

• New images in the dolbex gallery
• New images in the BOLL screenshots gallery
• MereCatFish gallery newly created

HBO forumgoer 'Nosolee went to the MGL event in Philadelphia this past week and reported back on his experiences. Basically he found a bunch of people far more serious about Halo than he thought he'd find. Thoughtful replies were offered by many, including godsownantisonofabitchmachine, Miguel Chavez and XLNC.

[image:6888 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]Dolbex of Been Mawed has also been doing some very nice HUDless shots lately. We've added a dolbex mini gallery to the community gallery for his shots.

[image:6924 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]XLNC has been wowing them in the HBO forum for quite some time with the series of HUDless screenshots he's been producing. For awhile he was recreating some of Bungie's own shots, but at higher resolutions, and he's gone on to do some really well composed original ones.

So now we've got a special treat: XLNC's previous shots have been archived in his own special XLNC Gallery; what's more, we've put up a separate mini-gallery of never-before-seen XLNC HUDless Halo screenshots in our XLNC Series Two Gallery. Check them out!

This tidbit popped up on the web recently on the page of a game development studio called Pi Studios LLC in Plano, Texas:

David MertzPi is thrilled to add David's experience in game and environment design to our team. David's most recent project, Gearbox Software's Halo PC, topped the best seller lists this season. In his spare time, David collects and paints lawn gnomes.

Lawn gnomes? Yikes.Pi's Projects page doesn't list anything yet, but perhaps soon it will.Thanks to Steve at Cortana.org for this tidbit.

The results are in from the Major League Gaming Philly Eastern Regional. Here are the results from the Halo events:

Halo Free For All:

• 1st Place: Ogre 1 (Danny Ryan, NJ)
• 2nd Place: Ogre 2 (Tommy Ryan, NJ)
• 3rd Place: Saivan (Ryan Danford, NC) & C2 (Chris Collins, WV) - tie

Halo 4 vs. 4 Team Competition:

• 1st Place: Team StK: Ogre 1 (Danny Ryan, NJ), Ogre 2 (Tommy Ryan, NJ), Stragepurple (Doug Fabrizio, NJ), Clockwork (Kushik Dutta, WA)
• 2nd Place: Team AP: Acer (Chris Hoover, TX), Anti (Josh Crahan, TX), KillerN (Nick Urso, TX), Shizz (Paul Baffi, TX)
• 3rd Place: Team Shoot Back: Csquared (Chris Collins, WV), Damien (Justin Thomas, WV), Nistic (Kevin Colvin, OH), Zyos (Matt Leto, TX)
• 4th Place: Team DM: Deeter (Pat Danford, NC), Gestapo (Scott Moore, NC), Ryu (Ryan Moore, NC), Saiyan (Ryan Danford, NC)

Halo 4 vs. 4 Tournament MVP award:

Zyos (Matt Leto, TX)

The Philly Eastern Regional was held this past weekend at the Downtown Marriott in Philadelphia, PA, was sponsored by Nokia and had over 400 participants and more than 350 spectators.

Devin Olsen has put up a modification of the Blood Gulch level for PC Halo; it features several new base areas, some floating midair, and constructed out of logs. There's a post in the HBO forum where you can get the download details (and a server address where they'll be playing it), and another where you can view some screenshots.

TCLN-Zenn has written a piece on Team Killing in Halo at BGH; it seems to be one of their favorite topics of late. This one is after the new anti-TK features in the 1.03 release.

I think he's on-point on part, but off the mark elsewhere; a full response is in Problem Is Between Chair And Keyboard, the latest of Narc's Retorts.

DocOctavius made a nice 3D rendering of the Master Chief, from models and textures extracted from Halo and some freeware rendering tools. He posted it over in the HBO forum and gave us permission to add it to our community art gallery. He promises poseable versions soon.

A few bugs in the 3.0 release needed fixing, so now there's SparkEdit 3.01. Don't spend the .01 all in one place, guys, and check HaloMods for the latest version. There's also a promotional video for the program.

Grenadiac has put up version 3 of the PC Halo level editor SparkEdit up at HaloMods. Also, earlier this month, somehow it escaped our notice that another Halo editing app, HMT, is being ported to the Macintosh at MacHaloMods.

Major League Gaming has sent a reminder that this weekend's Philly Eastern Regional is set to be the biggest US Halo tournament to date with 300 participants and a $16,000 purse.

Over at Bungie.net, SketchFactor has put together an excellent summary of the goings-on at the Halo PC World Championship, the tournament sponsored by iGames beginning last fall and culminating in the showdown on February 17 in Gardena, California. Top honors went to Jonathan "BEAST" Finglass of the UK; Sketch's article contains the final standings for the top 19 players. The US representative, Noah "Chummp" Evans, finished 5th.