Author: Louis Wu

Looks like the Frag Dolls are recruiting – they’re looking for one more member, and will be vetting people at the Penny Arcade Expo this weekend outside Seattle. Details can be found at eToychest – thanks, Rampancy.net.

GameDaily has an article discussing Halo 2’s moneymaking power – almost 200,000 copies of the Multiplayer Map Pack were bought in its first month on the market. (It’s unknown how many have been sold as direct downloads from Xbox Live.) Some of the numbers in the article are suspect; they list 4.7 million total sales…

The World Cyber Games announced sponsors yesterday – and the US National Final will take place in New York in two weeks. 40,000 players competed in the US in preliminary events – 186 are in the finals. Of those, 16 will continue on to Singapore to compete for a $400,000 prize pool in the Grand…

Fourteen new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section today – go read!

Over at MLGPro.com, there’s an interview with IGS (well, half of them), discussing their loss to TmG in Las Vegas, and playing in general. Entertaining read – check it out! Thanks, 3Suns.

Halo Babies has reformatted its site to fit comfortably on the screen of the Sony PSP – go read about this at the main site, or visit HBabies.net to see it! Gotta love it.

A couple of days ago, the MPRRS processed the second episode in Final Supremacy’s Lost Stratosphere series. It failed – because one of the reviewers decided that the download took too long. Since this is an absurd criterion for a failing grade, I’ve overridden the score – and the movie is available to you in…

Dang. In the craziness that was yesterday, I didn’t get around to posting Wednesday’s One One Se7en – which means you missed some classic corn. Apologies.

Got a trick you want the community to know about? Head on over to High Impact Halo. Yeah, that part has been true since Halo 2 was released, and before… but they’ve put a new Trick Review System online, and it has the potential to vastly reduce the clutter that keeps some tricks from being…

Prometheus, the multiversion Halo model manipulator/editor, has a new update online. They’ve lost scripting support (their scripter has left the team because of problems with the CE community), but there’s plenty of good stuff left. Screenshots and descriptions will give you a taste for what’s coming – go read!

retsamolah put together another montage vid; I’m sure it will earn the scorn of TRUE masters, because there are a couple of times when he actually takes 3 shots to no-scope the enemy (and because he uses the dreaded n00b combo to get a triple kill or two), but some of the sticks have to…

Over at MLGPro.com, there’s an interview with TMG, formerly Str8 Rippin, conducted after MLG Las Vegas. They talk about how good it feels to be on top (heh), and focus a lot on the rivalry with iGameSpot, the team they beat to win MLG Las Vegas. Nice read! Thanks, Arachneya and 3Suns.

The Escapist has written up a nice-looking article showing the evolution of Bungie’s FPS space opera from Marathon to Halo. A few factoids left me shaking my head… but all in all, a good read. Thanks to stosh, at Bungie.net, for the heads-up.

And1balla2829 writes to point out (in a post on the RvB forum, registration required) that he’s created an RvB Firefox toolbar – contains tons of mini-buttons for the best movie/machinima/Halo 2 sites, plus news feed menus and a ticker from Rooster Teeth, and more. Here’s a small screenshot to show you what you’d be getting.

Okay, this is weird. Over at Channel 9, a Microsoft programming site, there’s a video series following their mascot (think Jack-in-the-Box, writ large) on the way to a developers conference. The current episode (download is 14.8 mb, WMP9 format) has the 9 guy picking up Sarge, from Red vs Blue – I’d go nuts if…

Stubbs the Zombie is getting some good coverage these days – Gamespot has a video interview with Tim Attuquayefio, Director of QA for Aspyr, discussing gameplay, and an updated hands-on (thanks, Narcogen at Rampancy.net), and CVG has a text interview with Matt Soell, the game’s writer, looking at Stubbs’ origin, some of the ways the…

Got mail from Z, over at halo2forum.com – tons for you to watch. Their Montage Contest 2 videos have been revealed – there are lots of them. Then, there’s a montage trailer from magnum 9er. Finally, there’s some pro-level gaming, wherein the Str8 Rippin crew loses. Go download!

Awesomeness. There’s a great article over at Bungie.net, written by Joe Staten, who’s been pretty off-the-radar these past few months – it looks at the origins of the Halo movie script, and how the situation developed to where it stands today. There’s even a sneak peek at the ‘companion’, a jazzed-up “universe bible/style-guide” that is…

A new article in Variety contains details about the Halo movie deal – the highlights are that Fox and Universal will pay Microsoft $5 million against 10% of the movie’s gross, that Microsoft is “guaranteed extensive consultation on the project, but won’t have approval over any elements”, and that the final product will hit the…

Over at Tied the Leader, XerxdeeJ has recorded a fascinating interview with Steve Downes, better known to Halo fans as the voice of Master Chief. It’s a phone interview, and it touches on many subjects, from Steve’s gaming history to voiceover acting politics to speculation about the Halo movie (and the possibility of Steve’s involvement…