Author: Louis Wu

A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned a pretty cool charitable act – BoneKin was going to let his XBL performance decide how much money he was going to contribute to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. Last week, apparently, this story was picked up by the San Antonio Express-News – nice! Thanks to N1NJ4, who…

It’s been a little while since I went through our Uploads folder – partly, this has been out of fear. There were over 300 items in it this time around (it’s been roughly 45 days since it was last cleared), and that meant a lot of downloading, and a lot of processing. Amazingly, very few…

Over at Team3D.net, F13ND has conducted an interview with Ogre 1 – it’s a look back at the WCG win last week, and a look forward to Singapore in November. Always fun to keep up on the top pros!

Eep – I missed this a couple of days ago! After the success of the sale of a blue version, Briar’s Armor is selling a green Master Chief outfit. There are only 4 and a half days left in the auction – starting bid, again, is $1500. Give it a look!

Over on the Bungie.net forum, pro_duece2 posted a series of pictures of some rapid-prototyped models of Halo pistols (both the original, and the Halo 2 magnum). (Rapid-prototyping is a technique for creating 3D models from computer drawings – these are made from plaster/epoxy composite.) On the off chance that his links die, we’ve mirrored the…

We don’t normally post news verbatim from press releases, but this one was good, as-is. It came from the good folks at machinima.org:The annual Machinima Awards (“the Mackies”), presented during the 2005 Machinima Film Festival is nearing its submission deadline. The awards, honoring the best in Machinima, include the following categories:Best Picture Best Direction Best…

Yesterday, the IMDB entry for the Halo movie was changed – with the inclusion of Uwe Boll as Director. This caused no small amount of uproar on Halo forums around the net – even sites like Joystiq speculated on whether this was true. It’s not true. Joseph Staten, Halo 2’s writer and the Bungie employee…

Red vs Blue Episode 61, ‘Fair Competition’, is up for sponsors right now. (This means it’ll be up for the general public sometime tomorrow night.) A new character is now fully part of the cast… and I’m thinking, cross between Scooby Doo and Strongbad. With added odors. Fun stuff! Thanks to Keyes for the heads-up.

The Rockets on Prisoner Awards Ceremony has been delayed for a while now – but That Weasel dropped into our forum to point out a Preview video – nothing’s been cancelled yet! Check it out.

Dyslexia has written a review of MLG Seattle – fun writeup of a tourney near the end of a tumultuous season. Give it a read! Thanks, 3Suns.

Friday’s Halo Babies went live sometime recently – SBZ told us about it just a little bit ago. I always wondered about that stuff…

The Bungie Weekly Update has been posted – it’s a report from the floor of the Tokyo Game Show, filed by none other than Frankie. It’s completely devoid of Bungie-related material – but then, the folks back in Kirkland didn’t do much except move in and hold their annual Pentathlon (which will be covered NEXT…

The Codex Series, a popular machinima series, has finished its first season, but is still seeing serious amounts of web traffic. (One of the news posts on their front page right now talks about numbers – they’re pretty high.) To recoup some of their investment, they’re offering sponsorships – there aren’t any episodes to see,…

I nearly missed this yesterday, but Scott Vieth stopped by our forum to point out the next round of Hao tournaments to be held at Game Junkie, a video game store near Cincinnati, OH. FFA and Doubles, a week from this coming Saturday, entrance is $15 before the 21st, or $20 after that. Check the…

Last week, the new playlists (Multi-Team and Team Snipers) went up on Xbox Live, and some folks complained immediately that the matchmaking system was breaking their teams up all the time – even when they went in as a group of three. As Stuntmutt points out in today’s One One Se7en… that’s not ALWAYS a…

I meant to follow up on this when the auction ended – but the last couple of days have been really, really busy. Last week, we mentioned that Briar’s Armor, one of the fan-created Halo 2 costumes we’ve been following, went up for sale on eBay. THe auction closed Wednesday – a few people were…

Seven new pieces for you in today’s Fan Fiction update. Ooh…

Wow. Remember that cool box the Limited Edition of Halo 2 came in? The Inquirer has a story this morning about a company in Denmark that’s suing Microsoft for stealing proprietary information about a metal DVD container, then passing it along to the rival company that ended up manufacturing the boxes. (Microsoft says it did…

After a pretty long down period, Outpost: Coagulation has another episode up for download. Episode 9, ‘Two Betrayals’, is a long (10:09, 83.9 mb, in WMP9 format) piece, following ostracism of the Juggernaut Elite, and his subsequent capture by the Humans. There’s one more episode left in season 1, and then they’ll start filming Season…

Coolness. ManKitten posted his Halo coloring book a couple of days ago – today, psychophan7 posted a step-by-step ‘how I colored it’ article at LiveJournal. As someone who can’t draw his way out of a paper bag, but loves to watch others do their stuff… I find this kind of thing fascinating.