Author: Louis Wu

There was some serious demand for the Relic flythrough we posted yesterday – seems when Bungie.net mentions something, folks come to grab it. We put a second copy online to handle the additional load – which seems to have lessened. Because of that, we’ve posted the four older flythroughs – Containment, Warlock, Sanctuary, and Turf.…

Bearded Ferret wrote up a nice review of the Maptacular Map Pack, which he got his hands on yesterday. Go read for his recommendations of gametypes and highlights.

Duo, saddened that nobody noticed on their own, has pointed out that the w00tness strip from a couple of days ago contained four covenant cruisers with gravlifts and two crashing cov cruisers. Geez, people… where’ve you been? (There’s an absurdly high-resolution version, as well.)

Looks like Eisen Feuer has updated his Art of War strategy series at TalkXbox.com – The Art of Deception is a great read. It’ll help you fool your enemies into dying before you do. There’s a hefty writeup, complete with pictures, plus a video, demonstrating the techniques, in two formats. Go read and watch! Thanks…

XboxZone, in Australia, has made good use of the early release of the Maptacular Map Pack down under – you can find 5 eight-minute movies (one for each of the new maps, all WMP9 format) showing lan play in the offices. Free registration for download required. Thanks to Rodney Campbell for the heads-up.

Bungie continues its new map overview series with a fantastic writeup of Relic – great pics, great gameplay stories, invaluable strategy tips. What timing on my part – when I posted the Relic flythrough vid earlier, I had no idea they’d be putting this up tonight – read one, watch the other, immerse yourself in…

Apologies for the delay – QuickTime versions of the recent RvB-created Elongation walkthrough (Hi-Res, 26.2 mb | Lo-Res, 12.2 mb) are now available from our server. I meant to get these up a couple of hours ago – family obligations made that impossible. If you’d rather have the WMP9 versions, they are, as they were…

As promised, the Hi-Res Film Oasis flythrough/overview of Relic is up for your enjoyment – man, I love the timing in this one. Marty’s music is SO well incorporated… wow. And the imagery and camera work give you a fantastic sense of the epic feel of this map for CTF games. Go grab a copy!

Red vs Blue has released their next map walkthrough – this one is Elongation. Burnie’s walkthrough is much less exciting than the Film Oasis version we released a few hours ago, but it’s far more practical, if what you need is weapon placement and commentary on flow. (Grab ’em both!) We should have QuickTime versions…

Briar, the guy we mentioned yesterday making some really nice Master Chief armor, has added a pair of shots for the SMG to go with it. (They’re the first two shots on the page.) Thanks to beetlecrazy12 for the heads-up.

Word came from Bungie – those two posters you can buy on eBay, for potentially inflated prices… you’ll be able to buy them anywhere soon, at standard poster prices (the last batch at the Bungie store were $8.95, if that helps). Here are larger versions: Master Chief on Turf (577×894, 212k) | Arbiter (577×894, 140k)

Some not-so-standard promo vids of the new Maptacular levels have appeared recently – Containment was first, followed by Warlock,then Sanctuary and Turf last week. I’ve been a little unhappy with these releases – some have had encoding problems, others have watermarks or splash screens added by the sites releasing them. I did a little digging,…

Wow, funky. 7he One found some posters on eBay – they’re listed as ‘fully licensed’, though I haven’t seen them for sale anywhere else yet. Nice looking images!

Overswarm wrote up his impressions of the MLG St. Louis tournament last weekend, complete with pics; you can find it in his Not So Common Sense strategy guide, in the Articles section.

We mentioned the Vertex Weight Injector, a tool created by rec0 to add new bipeds to HaloCE, a few weeks ago. Yesterday, he released a new, less buggy version of the app – you can find a download link and comments in this Gearbox forum thread. Thanks, MasterGrief.

Thanks to the seven thousand people who wrote to point out that the Red vs Blue Season 3 DVD is now on sale in their online store. Season sponsors will get a $10 discount via email (look for the code before you buy) – otherwise, the DVD is $20. (This is a preorder only; the…

Wow – THIS is gonna cause problems, I can tell. Looks like EB Games Australia might have made a pretty big mistake; they’re selling the Halo 2 Maptacular Map Pack NOW – you can buy the DVD in stores. (It’s not supposed to be on sale before July 5.) However, they emailed customers with this…

Guardians found an as-yet-unlinked-here image by Greg Horn, an artist who creates pieces for Toyfare magazine (among other places). We mentioned a couple of other pieces of his last year – but the BR shot is new to me, at least. Nice work!

Holy… Webshift just wrote to tip us off to Briar’s Armor, a website devoted to armor replicas of various sci-fi characters. The Halo stuff is amazing. Doesn’t look like it’s for sale (yet) – but keep an eye on it!

Very cool. Over at Red vs Blue, Burnie Burns, who created walkthroughs of the first four downloadable maps a couple of months ago, is repeating the effort with the newer maps. A walkthrough of Backwash (41 mb in hi-res WMP9 format, 19 mb in low-res WMP9) is now available for sponsors (thanks, Sharky) – should…