Author: Louis Wu

Thirteen new stories to read in today’s Fan Fiction update – so what are you waiting for?

Over at GearboxGameZone, Dennis Powers has posted a note explaining that the new season of Halo CE Chronicles will use over 20 HaloCE maps – and that each week, you’ll be able to download the maps featured in the current episode. On the front page are the first two maps – Snowy Assault and Pillar…

Halo Pro has posted an interview with WaLKa, a regular on the Halo Pro circuit. Always fun to see into the lives of these guys! Thanks, 3Suns. Update: Ducain pointed out that antiviral apps on WinXP are heavily triggered by visiting this link. If you’re using Windows, and you’re not firewalled… tread with caution.

Gah. I meant to post this yesterday, but forgot. We mentioned a movie from High Impact Halo – a montage of Warthog launches put together by Dark Helmet – and I said that if there was any demand, we’d put up QuickTime versions, as well. There was demand – so I posted a high-res QT…

[HC] D-Man posted a direct download linkto the WMP9 version of Halo 2: Road to Glory; it’s still available via BitTorrent (see the original news post for details), but if you can’t (or won’t) use BT, check this out. It’s hosted on FileFront, which means you have a pretty good chance of getting the entire…

Another thing that went up while I was wasting my evening away on Xbox Live was the writeup of the most recent Halo 2 Humpday Challenge – it wasn’t really on Humpday this time, it was Friday night/Saturday morning (depending on which team’s frame of reference you’re using), but it was a solid matchup between…

Bungie’s updated the XBL Halo 2 playlists – you can find the latest lists on the Playlists page at Bungie.net. Some good choices, some… not so good choices. Go play!

The weekly Tied the Leader forum update was posted today by XerxdeeJ – you’ll find a summary of the half dozen or so new articles put up since the last update. (There’s also a pretty new interface for the blog.) Just a quick note – it’s interesting how much mail we received about this article…

Matt Cox (known around here as Mothergoat) has written a review of the Multiplayer Map Pack for Lawrence.com – go give it a read! (It’s very well written, and comes up with some conclusions that aren’t the same as all the other reviews you might have read – worth listening to.)

Final Supremacy has released the first two episodes of a machinima project called ‘Black and White’ – this is the story of a team of SpecOps Spartans who need to hold back a rebel uprising. Vids are in DIvX or MPEG format, and run about 40-60 mb each. Grab them from their media page!

You may have noticed the ‘Seeker’ link on the right side of this news page. This is a new service being offered by Subnova – several major Halo sites (HBO included) have been indexed, and are available for searching all at once. Even for HBO, which has a variety of search options, this is pretty…

Halo 2 is a lot of fun – but it’s not quite as technical as some other games. To wit (well, maybe a bad choice of phrases) – today’s One One Se7en.

There was a montage mentioned over at High Impact Halo, as well – Dark Helmet put together a single player Hog Launching montage from Halo footage. Halo, Silent Cartographer, AotCR – some classic jumps, some stuff you may never have seen before, he makes it ALL look easy. (I watched him pull out a controller…

Another montage, this time from the original Halo. MPRRS reviewers loved the audio/video synching, which is very impressive. Check out YourDogM1H1, from RHSSE89 – 15.3 mb in QuickTime, 14.9 mb in WMP9.

Rampancy.net has put up yet another music transcription – this one is ‘Covenant Dance’, from the original Halo soundtrack, transcribed by Devin Eastman. You must be logged in (free) to download – the archive contains a MIDI file, a PDF of the score, and a PrintMusic file. Go grab it!

Last week, we released a trailer for a full-length (80 minute) documentary, created by a pretty obsessed Halo fan. I posed a question on our forum – would folks be interested in downloading the entire thing (400+ mb)? The response was pretty positive – so here you go. We’re providing two BitTorrent links – one…

A couple of days ago, we posted Jamie98s’ ‘Oh So Beautiful’, an ode to the gorgeous scenery in Halo 2 multiplayer maps. He’s done it again – ‘Oh So Beautiful II’ looks at the pretty stuff in the newest maps, again with Jack Johnson providing the soundtrack. WMP9 (9 mb) or QuickTime (10.3 mb) -…

Reinsoft parodies Akon’s Lonely – poor 12-year-old XBL players! Go listen.

Mintz continues his Halo for PSP content series with a bunch of recent articles, formatted for reading on a PSP. Details are in this forum post.

Recently, the processing time for videos in our Movie Peer Review Rating System climbed to almost a week; right now, there’s a vid which has been in the queue for almost 11 days. (All the rest of the current crop are below 2 days, so that’s an anomaly, but the problem is still worth noting.)…