The reviewer for 3DAvenue liked Halo pretty well. They gave it an 87 rating, and said it "defines FPS action."

Scimitarex also gets props for pointing out a Halo Guide at GameSpot (free registration appears to be required). I'm not sure if this is an entirely new Guide, or if they had one for the Xbox version, but this one mentions new weapons like the flamethrower, so it's clearly geared for PC Halo players.

Randy "DuvalMagic" Pitchford of Gearbox says that lots of player-requested features are going to be in the next update, due out soon. Thanks to Scimitarex in the HBO forum.

There's a note at HaloMods that says that SparkEdit is being modified to support PC Halo maps as well as Xbox maps. More info is in their forum.

Blue's News points us today to a German-language review of Halo at YiYas. According to the squishy yellow fish that starts wars, they missed co-op mode and don't like Chill Out much. Like many other reviewers, they wondered why the port took so much time compared to the amount of new material (no new single player levels, for instance).

The latest version of Qtracker, a game originally created to do matchmaking for online matches of Quake or Quake engine games, has added support for Halo. More information about the latest version and about the program itself is available from the Qtracker homepage. Thanks Louis Wu.

Some more additions to the ranks of PC Halo reviews today courtesy of Blue's News: GameOver and JIVE Magazine.

GameOver wished Halo had been over sooner, calling it "mind-bendingly, stultifyingly, dull and repetitious". But they liked the multiplayer and eventually rated it 83%.

More additions to the PC Halo Demo Mirror list, courtesy of HBO's Louis Wu.

We've updated our PC Halo Demo Mirror List, and given it a permanent place in our Files category.

There's an interview with Gearbox's Randy Pitchford over at Adrenaline Vault, focusing primarily on performance issues, what they describe as "choppiness at resolutions above 1024x768". Incidentally, that's twice the dimensions of Xbox Halo's, and requires your videocard to push about 3x as many pixels.

Louis Wu posted in his own forum that Bungie should soon have a few demo servers running for those who are downloading the PC Halo demo. They will be identifiable by the string BNG-Demo in their names.

Fresh on the heels of putting one of their journalists in the hot seat at EGM for a day spent playing Halo, CNN is carrying a piece by Gannett's Marc Saltzman on the PC port of the Xbox's award-winning shooter. It does a once-over on the history of the game's development as well as talking a bit about the new additions for the PC version. Nothing new for the hardcore fans, but a nice primer for the uninitiated.

XtraMSN, a gaming site in New Zealand, has a short article up about PC Halo and the servers they plan on running. Thanks to Michael M. in the HBO forum.

Mirrors are cropping up all over. We've added a few more, thanks to an item over at Blue's News. Other additions are courtesy of Louis Wu at HBO. The complete list is:

PC Halo Demos
• Rampancy removed due to excessive bandwidth usage
• 3D Downloads
• 3D Gamers
• Boomtown (Denmark)
• FileFront
• FilePlanet (registered users only)
• Filerush.com
• FileShack.com (registered users only)
• GameGossip
• GamerClans
• Gamer's Hell
• GameSpot (registered users only)
• GameTab
• Halo Central
• HaloCity.org
• Halo Orbit (Germany)

Exclusive or not, it seems that IGN Downloads is off the mark first with the PC Halo demo. Go get it.