Author: Louis Wu

A few days ago, we got email from Matt Cheeser, alerting us to ‘This Spartan Life’ – a pretty unique concept; Damian Lacedaemion is a talk show host who uses Halo as a set. His guests talk about a lot of things – games, yes, but plenty of other things. It’s machinima… mixed with talk…

Aztec pointed out a new update from the HaloDev team about Prometheus, the all-in-one model manipulation tool that a series of prominent Halo modders (the good kind, not the kind that are cheating against you on Warlock) have been building. Lots of disasters, lots of under-the-hood changes, not a lot to actually SEE; this one…

kons0uL wrote a followup to his blog rant about cheaters and matchmaking that we mentioned yesterday – this one clarifies his position about his expectations, and about where he got them from. Go read!

Occasionally, the subject of paintball guns comes up in our forum, and the Tippman Model 98 is held up as a classic. True Dark 1ES found a company called Engler Custom Paintball Guns that has taken this gun and modified it to look like something much more familiar to Halo fans. The page is broken,…

G-Phoria is coming in early August – the Awards show on G4TV airs August 9th at 8pm ET, and Bungie’s been nominated for 7 awards:Best ShooterBest Multiplayer GameBest Sound DesignBest Original SoundtrackBest Voice Performance – Male (David Cross)Best Boss (Scarab Battle)Game of the YearVoting is open now – go let ’em know what you think!

Wow, bummer. Got an email from TicketMaster today – my tickets for the August 22 performance of the Video Games Live tour have been refunded, since the show was cancelled. A look on the Tour Dates page shows a number of other cancellations – and since Boston is still listed as active, it’s possible there…

HaloGod points out a 3-foot statue of the Master Chief he won in a GameCrazy tourney, and is now selling on eBay. Current bid is $250, 9 days remaining. (This is the same kind of statue I mentioned here back in January.) Go look!

Jillybean grabbed a small handful of emails from the bulging Halo Story Page mailbag for a light Sunday afternoon update. Go read!x

MasterGrief sent along a couple of HaloCE bits for us – Yoyorast Island has been released (this map looks BIZARRE), and a group is working on bringing Metroid into Halo – just a teaser, but an interesting start! Check ’em out.

Dennis Powers sends word that he’s re-encoded the Codex Series vids to be a more appropriate filesize for the 320×240 presentation they are generally released with; the new files should be much more palatable to bandwidth-challenged downloaders. You can find the new versions in the ‘Codex’ section of the GearboxGameZone Movies site.

Speaking of TWTv – we got this press release for the Rockets on Prisoner Awards:August will be the month of Halo fan films. The 3rd Annual “Rockets on Prisoner” Awards official website will go live on Aug. 1st but before that happens, the community needs to make sure we has all the videos created since…

That Weasel, of That Weasel Television, writes to point out that last week TWTv added fifty more Halo Exclusives to their video collection, bringing the total number of TWTv-exclusive vids to over 500. Go look!

Adium is an Instant Message client for MacOSX – and Epyon has created a Dock Icon for it based on Halo 2. Nice work! You can add comments to this thread.

Infesord pointed out that he’s got a Weapons Respawn thread over at halo2sucks.com with more info than either our online version or the PDF that bluestrike2 put together – worth a look if you’re trying to make sure you’ve checked every angle. (Some of his data conflicts with the data here – users need to…

kons0uL pointed out an entry he made yesterday on his RSCR: Respod blog, which uses Friday’s Weekly What’s Update from Bungie as a jumping-off spot for a rant about matchmaking and community exclusions. He also started a thread on our forum, if you’d like to chime in.

Okay, that’s pretty much it for me today – I’m off to KP’s for a LANfest. No more online stuff today, I don’t think! He’s said that the KPcam will be on all day – though right now, all you get a view of is his deodorant. And maybe a wig? I can’t tell. Dang.…

Stephen Loftus has updated his Halo Scale Comparison article with some new Halo 2 data – there are a bunch of new vehicles added to the images (Covenant Assault Carrier, Scarab, Phantom, Seraph, ‘Creep’, and some drop pods), plus some weapons updates, with new silhouettes. Nice work – check out the article again!

Episode 16 of the Codex Series has been posted on their website – it focuses on the power struggle between the Praetor and the Cleric, and shows some great voice and camera work. The main QuickTime version has a problem – it will crash your player at around 5:08 – so get either the brightened…

The Weekly What’s Update is online at Bungie.net – and this week, it’s mostly being used as a blog by Frankie, to talk about cheaters, and what losers they are. A fine, fine read, with a 2-week window of time before some major changes go into effect… go read. Plus, there’s a great poster. (Lots…

Been a long time coming… but there’s finally a Halo Demo for the Macintosh. At the moment, you can grab a copy on MacGameFiles.com – thanks, Dark uk. (It’s up a little before MacSoft thought it would be up – we’ll have a copy online soon, as well, but for now, use the MacGameFiles link.)…