Author: Louis Wu

Nirvana pointed out a new feature running on his website – he calls it ‘Interview with a Star’. The first installment is an interview with AnubisUK, one of the team behind Broken Console Productions, whose ongoing project is The Squadron. Give it a read to see where Anubis gets his inspiration, and what he feels…

Captain Spark dropped off another 27 dialogue snippets – you can grab them from his site, or browse them in our Dialogue Databank. Some funny ones in there!

Okinawa Productions put together a music video called Spawn Man, a video about a spawnkiller, and the player who gets revenge on the tactic, set to Soundgarden’s ‘Spoon Man’ (which fits pretty nicely, surprisingly). Fantastic quality, great timing, great cinematics. A low-res version of this vid passed the Movie Peer Review Rating System – the…

The J Nice writes to say that WannaPartyUp.com, a site we mentioned a couple of weeks ago, has added a few dozen new clips, and the ability to rate clips (just click on the number of stars you want to give the clip).

It’s been a few months since we last mentioned Saber-Scorpion’s Halo-based Lego stuff… but he hasn’t been idle. xyc0n noticed a bunch of new minifigs at Brickshelf – check ’em out! (To be fair, Bungie’s agdTinMan pointed out one of them on a random blog last week, but I never got around to front-paging it.)

Lots and lots of movies over at halo2forum.com (which sports a new design, to boot) – Vrbas’ Trailer for Montage 4 and S3X0RC1ST’s Montage 2 can be downloaded from this thread (both WMP9 formats, 24.6 mb and 104 mb respectively), and a pair of games with top pro players (both in the same vid, WMP9…

For the last couple of months, Aaron Walpole, brother of Bungie Cananimator Nathan Walpole (better known around these parts as bentllama), has been working his way up the ranks in Canadian Idol, a Canadian version of American Idol. (bentllama first let our forum know about this in June.) We haven’t mentioned it because… well, because…

Podtacular!, the Halo 2 podcast we mentioned last week, has a new episode up – 21.4 mb, 46 minutes long, covers a variety of subjects, including general tips, specific level strategies, and more. Go listen. (We heard from a couple of people about this – Donaff Baz was first.)

AJay points out SpartanComics over at MySpace, a series of well-done Halo-based comics. (To be fair – Shooty Guy pointed this out last month, but initially there was some unpleasantness about what ELSE was linked from the page Shooty Guy was pointing to, so I passed on it – and by the time it got…

Interesting – according to Stars and Stripes, Halo 2 is the most popular game at Forward Operating Base Lagman, home of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, in Khandahar, Afghanistan. The local exchange is selling controllers “like wildfire” – partly because so many people are playing, and partly because the fine grit in the air…

Don’t have enough Bungie schwag? Go visit the Bungie Store – there are lots of new goodies, from t-shirts to posters to action figures. Read about it on B.net. Thanks to Cybrfrk, whose email was noticed before the RSS feed was.

Three up, three out… a third offering to make it through the MPRRS last night was a video called ‘Happy Go Lucky’, put together by Ryan Stevens, Ashley Akers, and Nathan Stuart. In Ryan’s words, “an elite wakes up in the morning and goes to the store, but nothing is as it seems.” It’s pretty…

Halo shows up in the strangest of places… wheeler found a piece of fan art for a game called ‘N’ – it’s a “minimalist Lode-Runner-esque puzzle platformer”, with a stick-figure ninja as the main character. Visit their downloads page, you’ll find dozens of fan-created images putting N in a variety of settings… including the level…

As we mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Red vs Blue will be premiering the Season 3 DVD at Lincoln Center on August 21 – and they’ll be showing it again at the Penny Arcade Expo, in Seattle, on August 26. In a recent post on the Red vs Blue website, Burnie suggested that visitors…

We’ve never needed to put an ESRB-style warning on One One Se7en before… but maybe a POBE1 warning would be more appropriate. Yeah. I had nothing to do with this one. Yeah.1. Pissed Off Bungie Employee

Video number two for the day – this is a teaser trailer for a montage video coming out soon, from Mikeman27 and Nefarious Dan. It was released on our forum last week, but got minimal feedback… so they submitted it to the MPRRS, where it passed. The large frame around the content is actually there…

We got a note from Gene, a member of HaloZination, a German Halo 2 clan which has been working on a machinima series – there are currently three episodes, downloadable from their website. They’re all in WMP9 format, and range from 45 to 75 mb apiece. Without understanding German, this one makes very little sense……

Anton P. Nym found, over at the Escapist, an article on machinima, as well – and again, Red vs Blue is held up as an example of how to do it right (along with Randy Glass, and his latest (non-Halo) work) – but mostly, the author laments the huge amount of mediocre work available on…

The New York Times article we mentioned yesterday is online now (free registration required, or visit bugmenot.com for a username). NB was right – it’s a great article. It focuses pretty heavily on Red vs Blue, while looking at the field of machinima in general – go read this!

Over at Halo2Forum.com, there are three new movies to grab – P3MBY made a second montage (QuickTime format, 117 mb) – lots and lots and LOTS of sticks. On the same page, you’ll find a link for KwicK’s Montage (WMP9 format, 50.7 mb) – P3MBY is a member of the same team (xT Minnesota) as…