Author: Louis Wu

Talk Xbox has posted an interview with BornRazz, who seems to be a random Xbox Live player who created a montage vid. (The montage itself is available for download in the interview.) It’s not clear to me after watching what makes this deserve its own article… but it’s there, and you can watch it. 19…

Another mini-review of the Multiplayer Map Pack was poasted yesterday on the website of the Fort Wayne News Sentinel – more love for Bungie. Go read.

Wow. Go check out Bungie.net – there’s a new article up, explaining how tomorrow, July 20, Autoupdate 4 will be released – if you’ve got modded content on your box, and you connect to Live, you’ll be banned from matchmaking. Period. Permanent, no appeals. You’ve been warned… (There’s more info, including details – go read.…

Dennis Powers has written up a page explaining the goals behind his Halo CE Chronicles series, answering some of the frequently asked questions he hears, and addressing some of the criticism. Give it a read!

ShadowX submitted a vid to the MPRRS last week, entitled ‘Halo The Movie’. It uses Halo 2 cutscene footage, married to dialogue from the Final Fantasy trailer (much as Brian Josselyn did three years ago for the original Halo) – some reviewers felt that it actually impinged on Brian’s intellectual property. (I can’t accept this…

Over on the High Impact Halo forums, comradx released Cairo Station, the first of seven episodes that will make up his full-length feature film based on Halo 2. A significant percentage of the film is made up of cutscenes from the game – but then, if he’s reproducing the Halo 2 story, doesn’t it make…

Dennis Powers, of GearboxGameZone, writes to point out that Jahrain, the creator of the Zelda mod we’ve mentioned a few times (for Halo Custom Edition), has released a ‘pre-alpha’ version of a single level.The map, Hyrule Field, features a Zelda biped instead of the Spartan and includes new weaponry in the Zelda theme, a working…

A rather odd story was posted on TechnologyReview.com yesterday – it contains speculation that Halo 2 could have been released at the end of 2003, but was delayed a year to add polish necessary to push Microsoft past Sony’s Playstation 2. Aside from the fact that Halo 2 WASN’T ready for release in 2003, and…

More info on the Video Games Live tour ‘cancellations’ – jdman2289 points out that on the news page of the site, there’s an explanation stating that due to the overwhelming success of the series, many dates are being added, and many dates are being rescheduled. At this point, existing tickets are expected to be honored…

Jeff, from Video Gamers League, points out that there’s new info about tourneys in Dallas, New York, and LA up on their website – swing by for rules and entrance info. Dallas is this coming weekend, LA plays on August 6, and New York happens on August 7. Get ready!

trigger119 wrote to say that a new machinima trailer has been posted at Halomachinima.com – it’s for a project called ‘Installation 451’, and the trailer’s nicely done. WMP9 and QuickTime. Go grab a copy!

coaxke, of futuristic sex robotz, wrote to say they’re looking for an illustrator/cartoonist to do robot characterizations (Futurama style?) of all the members of Futuristic Sex Robotz for their new web site. Samples should be sent to this email address. (These guys put together one of the funnier Halo rap vids out there.)

prometheus did a bit of searching, turned up a few Halo-related podcasts. You can find links to the one that worked for him in this forum thread.

Dyslexia continues his series of Halo pro interviews with a chat with Str8 Rippin, put together at MLG St. Louis. Good read! Thanks, 3Suns.

2old2play has put up episode 5 of their podcast, 2old2type – site discussion, tournament discussion, lots of cheating stuff. 31 mb, just over an hour. Go listen!

It might be good for sniping, but… today’s One One Se7en shows the dangers of insensitivity.

Interesting idea… Andrew Matlock has resurrected his Coté D’Azur design for HaloCE – you can see an evolution of pictures (including current versions) in this Gearbox forum thread. Thanks, MasterGrief.

Nine new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section this Monday – the writers never sleep!

HitManBobster pointed out a Red vs Blue Soundboard at AlbinoBlackSheep – clips from the various characters in the series, set up in Flash. Sound quality is lacking, but the organization is nice.

Xbox Solution has reviewed the Multiplayer Map Pack – they liked it quite a bit. Go see their comments! Update: another review today – this one from Globe and Mail (a Canadian newspaper). Interesting – I guess folks needed a week or two to play…