Author: Louis Wu

Hawaiian Pig is back in the RvB Movie Poster business – he’s made a few different versions in honor of the upcoming start of Season 4. His first try was in this post – then he messed with fonts to get the image in this post… and finally offered up the image in this post.…

Father Hartley writes with news of another Lightbearers Tournament – the tourney will take place on Xbox Live on the 13th (that’s this Saturday), and will be a 2v2 skirmish event (CTF, Assault, Oddball, KOTH, the works). They’re only accepting 2 man teams, but there’s a place on their forum to find a partner if…

Must be the day of women Halo artists, or something. I was digging around DeviantART, and I found a great image of an elite, colored by Tina Leyk. The original artwork, with a gorgeous double energy sword, was drawn by her friend callyfin – and callyfin did her own colored version… but then offered the…

A few days ago, we mentioned a video available at halo2forum – it was created by Xpl0d3r, of Clan HollywoodHalo, and it looked at some lessons than can be gleaned from playing Halo 2. (Well… sort of.) He submitted it to the MPRRS, and the reviewing crew liked it – so we’re making it available…

Over the past few months, a community member named Kelli Washburn (but better known as Pinkuh) has released various bits of Halo-related fan art, generally to thunderous applause. There’s enough of it these days that it deserves its own page… so that’s what it’s got, now. If you haven’t seen this stuff before, take a…

Thanks to Deimos, the Seeker is back – sort of. Its spidering capabilities are offline, so new content can’t be added… but the existing database is pretty substantial, and searching is fine. (In a couple of weeks, spidering will come back, too.) We’ve re-added the link to the sidebar. Enjoy!

CNN has an article about video game music – it uses Video Games Live (the live concert tour) as a jumping-off place, but touches on the advances video game music has made over the years. Halo gets a mention, of course, since the Halo 2 soundtrack has sold 100,000 copies. Thanks, ICDedPpl.

Midnight Carnage submitted a video called Spartan Team Zulu, the opening episode of a machinima series based on Relic. The MPRRS liked it, overall. The intro’s pretty good, but really – hopefully, like the RvB intro, it’ll be in the first episode and no others. It’s available in WMP9 format (26.8 mb) or QuickTime format…

On a happier note, we finally have today’s One One Se7en online for you to read. I didn’t get the joke, at first, because I didn’t recognize the guy. Stuntmutt, I guess, thought I was kidding when I told him that, because he didn’t clarify. This requires me to admit to you that I own…

I’m not going to comment much, past pointing you to the info: Jordan R put a note on our forum pointing to an 80-minute interview that ChatterBox (“Video Game Radio”) held with Jack Thompson – it’s an amazing listen. Have you ever shouted “OMGWTF!?” at the radio? I have, now.

XerxdeeJ posted his weekly Tied the Leader update on our forum – there’s a reader poll asking for the cleverest in-game taunt, a look at a potential wedding ring (congrats, btw, XerxdeeJ!), a reader poll looking for reasons why Halo is as popular as it is, and semantic study of onomatopoeic utterances, among other things.…

GamersHell has written a review of the Multiplayer Map Pack – “the perfect addo-on for multiplayer Halo 2 fans.” Give it a read!

Microsoft Game Studios is looking for your feedback about the Multiplayer map pack – visit this survey and fill it out by August 17. Thanks, Cybrfrk.

Last week, Frankie said that if nobody found the Hi Ben egg in Halo by this Friday, he’d reveal the details. krakho pointed out that over on the Bungie.net forums, M0N3y 5H07 laid out how to find the egg, on the level Regret. (There are screenshots in that thread, if you want to hunt for…

Whee – looks like The Art of Halo is selling nicely – Eric Trautmann mentioned on his blog that he received his first royalty check from Del Ray, and he thanks the Halo fans who bought this game. Nice! (Thanks to Rampancy.net for noticing so quickly.)

Black Six wrote to let us know that today’s Mac Hall (guest-drawn by Jamie Noguchi, whose Angry Zen Master comic we mentioned a couple of months ago) has some pretty cool Halo content in it. (The beginning of that story arc started a few comics ago – you might want to look there first.) w00t!…

Funkmon points out that he’s now helping out at halomachinima.com – and that he’s mirrored all season 1 episodes of the Halo CE Chronicles there. (Some people have trouble with the HCEC downloading mechanism; this is a bit more straightforward.) He’s also added tons of older movies – poke around and see what you find!

MLGPro.com has posted Part 2 of their MLG Philly writeup – Dyslexia takes a look at the Halo 1 play. Great fun! Thanks, 3Suns. (There are also over 300 pics from the event, in their gallery.)

SketchFactor and Frankie wrote up a fascinating piece on Bungie’s experiences at G-Phoria, the awards ceremony that showed on G4TV last night. (It was recorded a couple of weeks ago, and we announced the results then – it was just that it didn’t make it onto television until yesterday.) There’s also a page full of…

Z sends word of a couple of new vids available at halo2forum.com – Ripoff’s Montage can be found here (warning, this one might bug some people – 3 minutes of the 7 minute film are intro and final credits, and the rest is super-fast cuts, heavy on the editing, hard to tell what’s going on);…