CobaltNova has put up their third Public Service Announcement, this one on paranoia about cheating in PC Halo. Definitely worth a read.

As part of CobaltNova's new image, they've added a section with three (soon to be more) essays on PC Halo. Two are on teamkilling... well, scratch that, they're all about teamkilling.

SketchFactor has put up a guide for Halo PC players, focusing on such key elements as knowing which game you're playing, CTF, Oddball, Race, or, heaven forfend, Body Cou... I mean, Slayer (F that).

Fluffy has posted at Battleground: Halo that as of January 1, they will end their Halo Beta ladder and start the official one. More information is available at TCLN: Halo.

Brandon "vector40" Oto has written a tutorial on flying the Banshee called Banshee Handling in our Halo Articles section. Maybe this will help me a bit; frankly, I've been on the side of the argument that says that Banshees are unbalancing Halo multiplayer, but that may be because of lag... or lack of skill. Yeah, definitely lag... or lack of skill.

SketchFactor has put up an admirably detailed account of the Cyberathlete Professional League's 2003 Winter Championship held last weekend in Texas. 35 5-man teams competed in the Halo event. Team [xeno] battled back to win in the championship game of Assault on Blood Gulch against Demise, the same team that had bumped them into the loser's bracket in an earlier round. Team [xeno] took $9,000 of the $30,000 prize pool.

A poster named accident at the Hardfought forum (registration required) has claimed to have used a working Halo aimbot. The article contains no proof-- no movies, screenshots, or URLs-- and don't ask us where to get it, because even if we knew (which we don't) we wouldn't say.

The post also claims various other cheats exist, including a banshee pilot program. We're a bit skeptical of that one.

[image:6581 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]The newest version-- SparkEdit 2.5-- of the third party Halo editor is available from HaloMods.com. Thanks Grenadiac.

Several IMG reader reviews, as well as the IMG review itself, have listed as a con that FSAA (full screen anti-aliasing) is broken in Mac Halo. However, a quick turn around the forums at Gearbox that ported Halo from the Xbox to the PC will turn up the fact that Halo does not support FSAA.

According to SketchFactor, there's another edition of Ask The Cananimators up at Bungie.net; I think this is the third installment. It's about bacon again. And hockey.

SketchFactor has posted at Bungie.net that in response to some "issues", the Halo PC 1.03 patch is itself... going to be patched. The patch will cause users to lose saved checkpoints within levels.

SketchFactor sauntered into the HBO forum and laid down links to three high res screenshots suitable for wallpaper-making. Thanks Louis Wu at HBO.

A site called IceTeks (Technology Made Cool, for those who aren't advanced students of sloganology) has reviewed PC Halo and concluded it to be one heck of an awesome game. Put the accolades on the pile over there, boys, and the bar is around the corner. Welcome to the party. Thanks Blue's News.