Author: Louis Wu

thescottishguy writes to point out a 2-day LAN in Scotland, August 19th and 20th; entry is £5 for Friday, £10 for Saturday, with £1500 on the line for prizes. (Preregistration is available.) The only thing I can’t find any info about (either in the email he sent, or anywhere on his website), is WHERE this…

MLG posted a short article summarizing the final games between Str8 Rippin and Team 3D… congrats to Str8 Rippin for taking the MLG Philly title! Thanks, 3Suns.

More articles formatted for your PSP are available at Mintz’s site – check the ‘New Articles’ section near the top. MLG Editor’s Corner, MLG Philly preview, July 29th WWU.

Wow. If you’re a gamer (at least in the US, but likely this stuff holds true worldwide), you owe it to yourself to read this series of articles. Not specifically Halo-related… but definitely eye-opening. Thanks, Deanero.

After some server downtime, This Spartan Life is back with Body Count. Environmental debate – with guns. Man… if more debates were conducted this way, at the very least we’d have fewer windbags to listen to! Funny stuff. QuickTime format, 20.8 mb.

Amir wanted to point out his blogged review of Halo vs Halo 2 – the more you read, the more you’ll see how conflicted he really is. (“I like Halo 2 better – but man, I hated X. And Y. And god, Z was AWFUL! And A, B, and C about Halo really rocked. But…

trigger119 had to leave for a while – but he’s put up a bunch of content on halomachinima.com that might interest you:WMP9 and PSP-compatible versions of Bunker27Goose’s Used Car Salesmen, a Real Men of Genius spoofOutpost Coagulation, for PSP (as well as WMP9 and QT, which were always there)Stryke Force for PSPGo look!

This weekend (GT)Juggler hosted a lanfest about 40 miles from here. I couldn’t make it – which saddens me, because according to KP, it was a lot of fun. Juggler just posted a bunch of pics – take a look!

Stuntmutt must have been driving with KP recently – check out today’s One One Se7en.

Cybrfrk found a short film over at Machinima.com, entitled ‘You’re Fired’. According to the film itself, it was made by the Sponsors vs Freeloaders team, but it’s credited to Panda Productions on the Machinima.com page. In any case, it’s what happens when Sims 2 and Halo come together in a film… Update: Just got mail…

Just six pieces for you today in the Fan Fiction section – go give ’em a read!

3Suns points out some CPL footage available at Gametrailers.com – there’s a general clip (with a small amount of Halo footage) and a Halo-specific clip, both from the CPL Summer Event which took place about a month ago in Dallas. Team 3D and Team Exigen (first and second place winners, respectively) talk a little bit…

Daily Game has reviewed the Multiplayer Map Pack – and found it wanting. “Plenty of fun, but you’re better off waiting for them to become freebies.” Read the whole review for details. (Hehe – they can say this – they’re PLAYING the maps right now.)

[HC]D-Man found a 3-page editorial in the July issue of a magazine called GVGames – it can be downloaded in PDF format (the editorial begins on page 41), or read online. There’s nothing really new here – it’s a not-very-professional rant about how Halo 2 sucks and Halo was the best game ever. If you’ve…

Saturday morning, we got email from Z, at halo2forum.com, that Dymdez’s Montage II had been released, along with a request for submission to the Movie Peer Review Rating System. It took about 36 hours for the movie to work through the system – in what might be a first, it didn’t receive a single score…

Chaos Recon pointed out a presentation, in PDF format, called ‘Research in Game Development: Halo 2’ – it looks at how different problems can be attacked, and what some of the pros and cons of each technique might be. It looks like this was presented at the Microsoft Research Asia Theme Workshop 2005, in Beijing,…

Vella pointed out that there’s a really small Halo mention in the latest Wired – in the Found section (a ‘Last Page’ feature of Wired which shows ‘Artifacts from the Future’), there’s a shot of the crossword puzzle from an edition of the New York Times in 2019. 65 Across is ‘First video game to…

A week or so ago, we got email from Mars Man 0013, stating that the 9 multiplayer maps were available on the September OXM bonus disc. Unfortunately, we’ve now received confirmation from both TURBO and Max Power that this info is not correct – there are no maps on that disc. You’ll have to buy…

PumaHog Productions has released its Toy Soldiers Series Trailer – an introduction to their upcoming machinima series. I’m likin’ the Elite. Check it out! 25-36 mb, depending on format (WMP9 and MPEG1 available).

corpseguy has posted an update for his MC Helmet (we mentioned this yesterday) – it’s now painted. Looks great!