Author: halo@bungie.org

GameDaily has written up their impressions of the new maps; short, but mostly they liked ’em.(Louis Wu 16:11:55 UTC)

There’s tons of new content up over at MLGPro.com; you might just want to browse the video index to see what you missed. Highlights we haven’t mentioned yet: there are two video interviews with Shockwa…

Fourteen new pieces for you in this week’s Fan Fiction update (back to multiples of 7…), including a piece that has its own soundtrack. There was some confusion about the originally-submitted

Over at H2Vista, rapture noticed that Gametrailers has put up new Halo 2 Vista footage; multiplayer (including the new maps) and some single player (Gravemind and Cairo Stati…

Devrous stopped by this morning with Weekly Update 5 for FS2H, his Freespace 2 Halo mod. Music, user interface examples, tweaks – check it out!(Louis Wu 13:58:06 UTC)

Shotgunchief took a sharpie to his Guitar Hero 2 controller – the result is pretty cool! Take a look.(Louis Wu 13:55:55 UTC)

Kotaku posted a (sort-of) review of Halo 2 Vista – except for the nausea, I think he enjoyed it. Go read. Update: And

IGN has another Play and Tray review – and since Halo 2 is the first Vista game to USE this feature, they’re looking at Halo 2 Vista while they test. I have to say, I’ve never really understo…

Over at MLGPro.com, they’ve posted their own review of the two new maps – and while you’re there, there’s an interview with Final Boss after their win…

Sean Mortensen sent us two new midi themes – both are rather martial. One, Ashes, is based on the Halo main theme (and Sean gives props to Marty once again). The second,

IceWeasel found a nice shirt at Stylin Online – grunty goodness!(Louis Wu 22:07:00 UTC)

Stuntmutt has his own commentary about the two newly available maps, in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 21:24:59 UTC)

Over at GamingTV, you’ll find an interview with CROSSFIRE, of Blood Signature Films. Interesting read!(Louis Wu 21:16:02 UTC)

The new maps have been out for a day… and already, they’re being ripped apart. Certain Affinity decided to get around the Superbouncing problem by building insta-killzones into the roof of both maps – but as Ducain points out, folks have already found exceptions. (Dry Ice also found a bizarre little glitch that might come…

Morpheus pointed out that the next installment of Gamespy’s Top 25 Video Game Cinematic Moments is up (we mentioned page 1 yesterday) – and again, Halo takes two of the five spots. At 19, Return To Sender is called ‘easiliy [sic] the most memorable scene from Halo 2’, and at 17, the Starry Night Halo…

There are a couple of reviews of the two new Certain Affinity maps online – Fyrewulff wrote one for The Platformers, and there’s another one up at TeamXbox. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 13:50:13 UTC)

Xbox.com is running an All-Nighter this Saturday, April 21; play Halo 2 during the night (“it starts when the sun goes down and ends when it comes back up”), look for select members of Clan PMS and some Xbox Ambassadors (gamertags for all involved are listed on that page), and tell xbox.com what you thought!…

Voodoo Extreme says Halo 2 Vista has gone gold – they know, because they have a final review copy sitting on their desk. Plenty of time to duplicate these puppies!(Louis Wu 22:13:21 UTC)

Monty Oum released a pretty cool vid last year – had a bit of Halo content, so we mentioned it. (He’s done quite a bit of other stuff, too.) He’s just released his latest work – Haloid. It’s not what you think. And even if it IS, it’s got stuff in it you simply must…

Wow. Someone has created a life-size wax mould of the Master Chief, and is planning to create ‘a museum quality bronze statue’; Buy It Now price on eBay is just under $8,000, but you can make an offer. Statue will ship by June 7. Thanks, BARBARIC RAGE.(Louis Wu 19:20:25 UTC)