[image:8656 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]dogchow has produced an illustrated list of the available emblems in Halo 2. Check them out and pay particular attention to #8 and #29.

UPDATE: The direct link to #8 seems to be broken... so we've put up a complete emblem gallery of our own, and added notes for some of the recognizable logos: zero, eight, thirteen, twenty-nine, and thirty.

Since Major Nelson has (quite obviously) had access to Halo 2 for awhile now, he's been able to post links to his own stats RSS feed over on his blog.

It looks like one of the features I personally had hoped to see when Bungie.net became integrated with XBL is coming to fruition: RSS feeds for individual stats. Right now an XML button for an RSS feed of "recent games played" is visible on the Stats page of Bungie.net users that have linked their gamertags. It looks like the button only appears on your own Stats page, so to get the feeds for other players you'll have to ask them. As I haven't been able to play any games yet, I don't know what kind of information is in the feed, but still, the idea is pretty sweet.

For those of you who administrate a 7th Column Group at Bungie.net, you'll notice a new set of links there now that allow you to link up to seven (appropriate number, no?) different clans to your Group. It can be a clan that includes your members, or an allied clan, or even a rival clan. Links to those clans' statistics pages will appear on your Group's pages.

In order to link a clan, you have to be a member of at least one clan (which you need to do in Halo 2, not on Bungie.net) and have your Gamertag linked to your Bungie.net login. Once you've done so, Halo 2 will display a Bungie.net logo behind your gamertag during matchmaking.

Thanks rapture for the heads-up on cookedgamers.

Verdafolio reminds us that HBO-COERCE is going down. Really.

Looks like Bungie.net is getting ready to open their Stats section (Editor's Note: Still down as of this writing) in preparation of Halo 2's launch on XBL next week; after a short downtime, today the site is notifying users about their new Privacy Statement, Terms of Use, and Code of Conduct. In order to keep using the site, you have to agree to all three.

You can, of course, read all three in detail if you like; but since it's not open to negotiation and I'm sure you all want to see your XBL stats on Bungie.net... looks like it's time to go clicky-clicky on the Yes button.

Slashdot today discusses a Washington Post article on teens coping with video game addiction. One thing I had never heard before was an organization called Online Gamers Anonymous, founded in 2002 by Liz Wooley, whose son Shawn committed suicide that year following depression and EverQuest.