Author: Louis Wu

MLGPro.com has put up a huge new batch of Video on Demand content for subscribers – Finals and semi-finals from MGL St. Louis. There’s more on the way today – keep your eyes peeled! Thanks, 3Suns.

New Halo Babies strip available today… looks like Baby Cortana’s growing up. Ouch, Chief!

There are four new articles up in the Articles and Extras section of Overswarm’s Not So Common Sense guide. You’ll find pieces on Team Organization and Communication, as well as reviews of the Maptacular Map Pack and the training website Console Pro. Check it all out!

The MLG interviews just keep coming – this time, it’s the IGameSpot team (second place in MLG St. Louis, formerly Legendz. They talk about their performance in STL, and what’s next for the members. Thanks again, 3Suns.

Both IGN and TeamXbox have released reviews of the Maptacular Map Pack – if you’re still not sure if you should pick ’em up, read these.

MLGPro.com has posted info about MLG Las Vegas, coming August 12-14. There’s a slight twist to this one – each room needs to be booked (and checked into) by someone over 21 – this is Nevada state law. Beyond that, though – looks to be a fun event! Thanks to Ecko, from HaloPlanet, for pointing…

Captain Spark finally got the IWHBYD skull to work successfully – and man, does it help produce some funny dialogue. The first couple of dozen snippets were released today – you can snag ’em at his website, or browse through them in our Dialogue Databank. Awesome stuff!

Nirvana has re-encoded low-res versions of the Hollywood Halo Update 4 vid released a few days ago – if 87 mb was too much for you, grab the ~30 mb versions he’s made.

Last night was the kickoff event for Video Games Live, and it seems to have been quite a success. The LA Philharmonic performed music from many video games – and the finale was Halo 2. Marty O’Donnell and Mike Salvatori were on hand and available for questions and autographs – once again, Marty suggested taht…

We’ve mentioned a Freelancer Halo mod a couple of times – seems they’ve stalled for lack of help. (This will be the last of this type of ‘please visit’ posts we put up for this project.) They’ve got a screenshot of their ‘slipspace effect’ graphics – except without Halo models so far. If you’re interested…

Wortrow celebrated the Halo/Halo 2 transition by eating. Good idea!

Long time coming (as usual) – but there are 32 new images in the Miscellaneous Art section. Renders, sketches, paintings – lots of good stuff! Go look. Wallpaper coming in the next day or so.

The July issue of Wired magazine has a nearly 20-page section on remixes – how creative projects involving the work of others have grown in recent times. They look at everything from music and art (the obvious) to movies (Tarantino, anyone?) to cars and candy. The final piece is a two-page, visual spread, showing the…

You knew it was coming, right? Wow – when Stuntmutt first submitted some strips for a pun-filled Halo comic strip in 2003, who knew he’d make it all the way to 343? (And with jokes like this one, it’s STILL a mystery.) Congrats, One One Se7en.

For folks looking for strategy tips for the new maps, you might think that the Strategy pages at Xbox.com (Backwash, Elongation, Gemini, and Relic – no Terminal yet) would be a good place to start – but you’d be wrong. Well, the Relic and Elongation pages have some MINOR info that might be helpful -…

Last Friday, XerxdeeJ added an item called ‘Wish List’ to his Halo blog, ‘Tied the Leader’ – it looks at add-ons he wishes he could buy for his Xbox… that would go with games he wishes he could buy for it. The piece spawned a pretty sizeable response from 3Suns – who suggests that his…

DSmooth points out that 2old2play has posted episode 4 of their podcast news summary, 2old2type, on their website. They discuss everything from the new map pack to nudity in video games – the download is 29 mb, available via BitTorrent. Go listen!

Razgriz points out that Frag Nutz, a Halo 2 clan, has the full collection (Episodes 1-57) of Red vs Blue online for registered user download (with permission from Geoff of RvB). If you’re looking for any of these, swing by! (Check out the rest of the site while you’re there.)

MLGPro’s Dyslexia sat down with Team 3D after MLG St. Louis to talk about their win, and about playing in general. A good read – go check it out! Thanks, 3Suns.

SketchFactor has posted a beautiful preview of Gemini, over at Bungie.net – strategy, map overhead, screenshots of the Marathon Infinity level that inspired it, gameplay tips. You can’t go wrong. Go read it!