Site updates...

Have you seen the article for the Battle of the Bay? It's worth a look even if you're not headed to the San Francisco area this weekend.
Our Desktop section is worth a listen this week with the addition of a new section : Sounds. If you have a Mac or a PC with a bland or nonexistent sound scheme, head over and turn your computer into a veritable Halo foley machine.

The Maw 700, Part Two

Claude writes in to say:
The Maw 700, Part Two, concluded Friday... visit the http://halo.bungie.org/misc/maw700/contest2.html for details! The winning entry definitely showed some major
Sack... but there was NO contestant without merit - all the films are
worth a viewing. Visit the Maw 700 page and see
how that drive should be done!

Something just for the fans

Hey, we've added a new section to the 7th Column web site: Propaganda!
If you're thinking of hosting a 7th Column event and need some printed materials, you've come to the right place, muchacho.
While you're here, follow the link for the top story and hear what Miguel Chavez, Bungie's #1 fan, has to say.

Legendary walkthrough continued

Good stuff coming your way- wander on over to the Legendary Walkthrough and take a look-see at our best take on how to approach the second level of Halo on legendary difficulty.
While you're here, also take a look at the Seventh Column site and see the new stuff we've cooked up there.

Login/Acct Creation Fixed

Update: Okay, everything should be working fine now. If any more issues come up, be sure to message me so I can get to them immediately.

There is an issue with account creation and sometimes logins as well right now. Blank pages and incorrect errors are being returned. Some users will not be able log in or create an account. I am working on the problem.

Find your Friends!

Everything is back in working order, and we have a new feature for you. The People Finder will allow you to do searches for individual users based on their logins or where they are located.

3rd Party Myth II Server!

Spire just wrote in to tell us that www.mythwa.com's and www.mythmaps.com's Myth II game server is up and running and ready for testing. That's good news indeed! Head to Mythmaps.com for more info and log in instructions.

Gone on Vacation

I'm going to be away on vacation from tomorrow until the end of the month, but I leave you in the more than capable hands of Bungie's Online Team. I'll be checking the site occasionally, but if you need a problem addressed please contact one of the other staff members. Thanks.

Maw 700 Contest 1 Results

Claude writes in to say: "Over at halo.bungie.org, Contest 1 of the Maw 700 closed today - and the winning time was an amazing 2:43.90. Congratulations to all entrants - anything over 2 minutes is pretty impressive - but most of all to Frogblast, who once again went where nobody else had. Full details (including Honorable Mentions) can be found at the Contest 1 page. Now it's time to gear up for Contest 2!"

More Eye Candy

This week we bring you more desktop wallpaper. These ones are nice, dark, outer space shots. The perfect thing to compliment your computer's appearance. We've also added new concept art for the human forces.

Marty playing requests...

You asked for it, Bungie's own Marty O'Donnell has made available the sheet music to The Siege of Madrigal. It's short, it's simple, but oh-so-powerful. Click here to get the notation.

New Chapter For Founders

I've created a new chapter, Chapter Founders, meant as a gathering place for those of you who run your own chapters. Right now you have to ask to join, but if people like it we'll automate things so that all founders are members. If you're running your own chapter head on over, join up, and participate!

New LAN Poll

There's a new Bungie.net poll up, this time asking if you've been to a Halo LAN party.

According to our previous poll 6 out of every 10 of you belong to a Seventh Column chapter. Those of you that answered "What's the Seventh Column?" should read this. Those that can't find a chapter in their area should try searching by location. If there's not yet a chapter near you then keep an eye on the New Chapters list on the Seventh Column site (I just made it display location). Those of you without an Xbox have our sympathy. And for the rest, those that are afraid of people they meet on the Internet or that simply don't like people, you need to get out more!

New Job Opening

If you head over to Bungie.com and check out our [url=/Inside/Page.aspx?section=Jobs&subsection=Main&page=1]jobs page[/url] you'll see we have a new opening for a producer. You'll also notice we still haven't filled our 3D environment artist position yet, so if you think you have the m4d sk1llz it takes to be a Bungie employee, swing on by.

Short Outage

At approximately 4:15pm Pacific time www.bungie.net will be unavailable for about five minutes. The support site at support.bungie.com will also go offline, but it will be down for a longer period, maybe as much as an hour.

New Poll Up

We've posted a new poll, this time asking, well... go see for yourself. Our resolution poll ended with 44% of you setting your resolution to 1024x768, 16% to 1280x1024, 13% to 800x600, 12% to 1152 x 864, 7% to 1600x1200 and 5% to 640 x 480.

New Marius.net Accounts

Conner has stated on the Marius.net site that they'll be accepting new registrations for this weekend only. If you've been itching for a real account on their server then this is your opportunity. Don't blow it!

New Chapters Approved

Looks like we had a backlog of new chapter submissions. Sorry about that. I've just gone through them all and approved a ton, if you had one waiting go check it out.

HBO Interview Database

Halo.bungie.org has added a database of all Halo Interviews. I was surprised to find my old HaloPlayers interview on there, from way back when we thought Halo would have Internet access. Jeez, things do change! Anyway, it's a great resource, be sure to check it out.

New Feature: Game Reviews

UpdateThank Cpt_Canuck for this idea, it was his suggestion.
I've forgotten who suggested this, but it seemed a fine idea so I went ahead and created a Game Review database type for chapters. Use it to post reviews and have members rate console games, PC games, board games, drinking games, whatever!

Extreme Close-ups & More...

This week on Tru7h & Reconciliation, we thought we'd try something new for our screenshot section: Extreme Close-ups. Some are easy to figure out, others may take a bit more work. We'll leave that up to you. ;o) Also we've added a new section--by request we've created a Desktop Section for customizing your PCs with all kinds of Halo goodness. This week, halo logo art, including the elusive gamestock splash screen.

Seventh Column Motto Revealed

Total Codex just reminded me that I never announced the official choice for the Seventh Column motto. Whoops. The official motto (currently being worked into a pretty friggin' cool shirt design) is "Tru7h. Carnage. Bungie."

New Feature: Site Change Log

It's a little odd to post news about every minor bug fix or change to the site to the top level on this site, so we've created a new home for these posts over on the left, beneath the poll. If you're looking for up to date news on known bugs or bug fixes or even minor feature additions for Bungie.net or your Seventh Column chapter sites then this is the place to go.