Author: Louis Wu

Quick note before I dash out the door – swing by MLGPro.com for a great writeup of the MLG St. Louis event, from Dyslexia. This looks like a good time none of us should have missed! Thanks, Dolbex!

Red vs Blue has posted a 6:22 walkthrough of Gemini – Burnie warns you that this might spoil the initial experience of playing the map, because it’s so detailed, but if what you really want is to know how to get around, you can’t beat this. Hi-res WMP9 is 49.6 mb, low-res is 14.6 mb.…

It’s June 30, which means it’s okay for us to post the final three map flythroughs that were created by Film Oasis for Bungie. You can find links for Backwash, Gemini, and Terminal on our Maptacular Vids page. Just a minute or so long each… but man, do they make you want to play these…

Feenix writes to point out that both massive versions of The Harvest 2 (wmp9 and quicktime) are mirrored over at That Weasel Television, and they’ve put up mirrors of the Film Oasis flythroughs – Containment, Warlock, Sanctuary, Turf, Relic, and Elongation. Always nice to have more mirrors!

HaloCE Updates, from MasterGrief: The Zelda: Ocarina of Time mod is coming along nicely (a magic meter, and new melee attacks with hte sword) – you can see tons of new screenshots in this Gearbox Forum thread, and BitterBanana has created a much less buggy, more realistic chasecam – go download version 1.07. More people…

I meant to mention this the other day, but forgot; I’m sure there are a few people who missed it. In the ‘Relic Revealed’ article over at Bungie.net, SketchFactor mentioned that new screenshots had been posted, as well. This has been true for ALL the map overviews, starting with Elongation. You can find three new…

IGN’s posted a Grudge Match between Halo and Halo 2 – IGN editors duke it out over which is better. Thanks, Sir Jivealot.

Gamespy is counting down the Top 25 Xbox Games of All-Time (hehe – or since 2001, I guess) – Halo made #6. Halo 2 hasn’t been mentioned yet. Thanks, Spenser.

A week ago, we mentioned a fun film by Final Supremacy – a story of a Team Slayer game on Coagulation. (That is – a machinima of a game, sort of.) We killed their bandwidth by mentioning it, so I told them to submit the film to the MPRRS for review, so we could help…

More copies of the Film Oasis movies – TeamXbox has the Elongation and Relic films, in WMP9 format, and Computer and Video Games has them as well (though at a smaller screen size), along with text writeups of the levels. Glad to see they’re getting more press now!

Z, over at Halo2Forum.com, lets us know that they’ve released a trailer of Dymdez’s next montage – some nice timing and lots of superfast snipes. DivX format, 15.6 mb.

IGN has posted an article entitled ‘The Best First Person Shooters on Xbox’ – and Halo and Halo 2 took the top two spots (not in that order, though). Nice! Thanks to RC Master for noticing.

There’s a great piece over at Bungie.net – apparently, the message that EB Games has been giving to Australian buyers of the Maptacular Map Pack (that they’ll be banned if they go online with the new maps before the street date of next week) is false; you will NOT be banned. In Sketchfactor’s words:Bungie and…

Man, you know it’s bad when Cortana gets into the punning. Careful stepping into today’s One One Se7en.

Chargoyle has been working on a Lego Scarab, to scale with the Lego people themselves. You can see pics at his website – fun!

Gregory Austin let us know that Zool Inc is working on a live-action Halo fan film. It’s entitled “117”, and he’s sent along a small teaser poster for the film. In his words:Set in the style of “The Fall of Reach”, “117” details the life of Master Chief, starting from his first promotion to Petty…

HaloChat pointed out on our forum that games using the new maps (not to be played by the general public before next Tuesday, on pain of banning) can be seen on the Bungie.net stats pages – using the Game Viewer, you can get a decent idea of the overall layout (in some cases, better than…

Eight new stories in the Fan Fiction section today – go read!

It’s time for XerxdeeJ’s weekly Tied the Leader update – his blog contains an endorsement of CarnageStats, a slam at cheaters, defenses against cheating, a rant about how often Warlock shows up in matchmaking, and a pair of readers polls – Map Picks and Best Gamertags. Go read!

trigger119 announced the release of Crossfire’s ‘The Harvest 2’ yesterday on our forum – but things were so crazy I didn’t get around to mentioning it. (This is partly because I wanted to watch it before I wrote about it – and the thing is 30 minutes long.) It’s the full version of the vid…