Author: Louis Wu

Shishka, covering for the missing Sketch and Frankie, has posted not one, not two, but THREE gorgeous 3D screenshots of Terminal – you’ll need QuickTime to see these, but oh, they’re so very nice. I’m loving the last one. Shishka, fresh off a victorious sword lunge, is about to become winshield splatter. w00t! (We got…

Captain Spark released another 34 dialogue snippets today – you can grab them from his website, or browse them individually in our Dialogue Databank. (1363 snippets to date – wow!)

mrsmiley writes to point out a new strip over at Halo Babies – maybe you gotta worry about where you’re getting your info…

Mercury has written up an article on his blog suggesting that the trash-talking and rudeness we often experience is as much due to adults as it is to kids (both directly, and indirectly in how adults provide role-models for younger players). Interesting viewpoint. Comments can go in this thread.

Stuntmutt says ‘watch your custom button layouts’ in today’s One One Se7en.

Normally, we don’t have two Fan Fiction updates in two days… but today is Jillybean’s birthday, and she’s submitted a story, so we’re posting the queue again (it’s a total of four stories). Yes, she’s a front-page wh— um, attention-seeker. Live with it.

Wortrow found an interesting series of renders over on the Scifi-Meshes.com forums – Doug Godfrey, aka JoKeRr, has modeled the Master Chief, and is in the process of animating his work. (There’s a small website begun, as well.) It’s out of the ordinary; this wasn’t built by starting with Bungie models, it was created from…

Mintz08 has been porting various web pages to the PSP – he started with some Weekly What’s Updates, moved on to the Enkidu Fan Fiction, and last night posted the Bungie.net Terminal preview. If you have a Playstation Portable, and you’re interested in reading some of these web pages offline on it, check out his…

Back in April, ArchieGates (a Gamespot user) released a pair of Needler songs; they’re pretty funny stuff. Looks like a couple of weeks ago, he released song number 3 – you can grab a copy off our server (2.4 mb). Funny stuff! Thanks to bighairyape for the heads-up.

comradx has released a trailer for the first episode of his upcoming feature-length Halo 2 film. (We posted an overall trailer a couple of months ago.) There are 7 episodes planned, with a trailer for each; Episode 1 should hit the web on July 4. The trailer is 18.8 mb in QuickTime format, 20.7 mb…

XerxdeeJ posted his weekly mention of Tied The Leader, his gaming blog, on our forum – Halo-related entries include Team Tactics Scorn, a LAN party poll, the new Tom and Jerry, Quitters, and Cheaters (more flying warthogs). Go read!

Whee! Flying warthogs. The Geezer Gamers got into a matchmaking game on Containment last night – and the other team had clearly modded maps. Bad news for them – it’s on film. (9.1 mb, WMP9 format. Unfortunately, it’s on Putfile.) Thanks, Martin.

DarkChief wanted folks to know that his fanfic, First Drop, which was mentioned a couple of days ago but which went offline pretty quickly at that point, is back up, now that HaloTips is back online.

Wow. I simply couldn’t pass this up. Bonekin posted a video entitled “Violence Isn’t The Answer” – it’s a full Rumble Pit Training game of Foundation King, in which Bonekin wins by a healthy margin… without firing a single shot or meleeing a single opponent. Zero kills, zero assists, zero shots fired, playing on a…

trigger119 writes to point out Mental Image, a new machinima created by his friend Vice Ruetoy. It’s in the ‘something the government is giving me is making me crazy’ genre – it’s 44.1 mb, WMP9 format. Voice stuff needs some work. You can post comments to this thread (this was put up yesterday, but the…

Hedfones has written up a pretty complete collection of information about the new maps coming out, combining details from many, many different sources and providing download links in one convenient place – go read his thread over at HaloPlanet!

Socrates points out that the magnet thingy we mentioned yesterday seems to be confined to the east coast of the US – there aren’t any out west yet. Bizarre. Update: (And this will be the last I say about these things) – we got a few emails saying that Socrates was incorrect; that there ARE…

Due to a relatively boneheaded move on my part, the new Fan Fiction submission page was set up to eat submissions, rather than post them. With some help from Wado and Mark Lieberg, I was able to track down the cause of the problem – and the latest 4 entries are now up on the…

Count Zero has taken time out of his busy schedule (of answering emails and sucking his thumb) to compile the next collection of questions and answers for the HBO Mailbag. Remember: the emails are all REAL. We really get this stuff.

A number of new action figure pics have been added to Joyride’s Halo 2 section – mostly stuff coming out later this year. The four that coviehunter noticed specifically were the Prophet, Hunter, Pink Spartan, and Spectre… there are more, scroll through the list!