Author: Louis Wu

I’ve been meaning to write this up for some time – apologies to everyone involved. About 6 weeks ago, we posted a note explaining the hardships facing a prominent community member, Tina Leyk, and put a link on our front page, giving folks access to a PayPal link to help out, if they chose to.…

A few days ago, Agonizing_Gas wrote up a satirical post on the 2old2play forums about a 13-year-old who realized his attitude on XBL was influencing his life – yesterday, stosh posted a sanitized version on Bungie.net. We were gonna pass on this… but it was noticed both in our forum (though, scarily, the poster believed…

Yet another R.net heads-up… this one is a blog entry from Wil Wheaton, discussing the recent agreement between the Screen Actors Guild and video games publishers (we mentioned it last week). Wil’s point of view is that actors deserve more. There’s a well-written counterpoint over at Game Girl Advance, suggesting that while everyone might WANT…

Another transcription of the Halo main theme has been posted at Rampancy.net; Devin Eastman has submitted an archive including a MIDI file, a PrintMusic document, and a PDF containing the score. You can find comments by Devin in the R.net news post. (Registration – free – is required to download the archive.)

IGN posted a short piece about what they want to see in the Halo movie once it hits the big screen. I found this at Rampancy.net, where Narcogen said their list ‘makes Baby Jesus cry’ – he ain’t kiddin’.

Area 55, from Halo Hoger, has been released for HaloCE. Animated scenery, new enemies and character models, custom dialogue. 10 mb or so. Give it a try! Thanks, MasterGrief.

More versions of the Microsoft-commissioned map overviews are appearing – 1Up.com was first out of the gate yesterday with Containment, though the aspect ratio is all wrong. (Their QuickTime link works now, though – thanks, Blackstar.) GameTrailers.com is now serving QT and WMP9 versions of this – 480×360, about 8 and a half megs each.…

In keeping with the plan to highlight a new map each week until the release of the Map Pack in early July, Bungie.net has posted a preview of Backwash. Screenshots and developer commentary bring this map to spooky, eery life – check it out!

Stuntmutt gets off track in today’s One One Se7en.

The Clan of Bobs is looking to start up its own weekly challenge match, modeled on Bungie’s Halo Humpday Challenge. If you’re interested in participating, swing by the page and give it a read!

1Up.com has posted a multiplayer video of Containment today – nice footage, in a variety of formats. The QuickTime link, at the time of this writing, does not work – but I’m sure it’ll be up later. The aspect ratio on the large downloadable WMP9 is a little screwy, too… but (as the news post…

Bungie.net reminds you that your chance to win a Master Chief statue at the Bungie store is running out – their sweepstakes closes today. Read the b.net news post (or the Contest page at the Bungie Store) for details!

Z, over at Halo2Forum.com, let us know about a new vid posted last night. It’s called ‘Halo Poo’, and it’s a disappointment vid… but it’s live-action, and parts are pretty funny. There’s some unpleasantness (fake vomit, in the form of oatmeal and water), but mostly it’s a look at the surprise and disappointment these guys…

Charles Hoban pointed out The Bob and George Fancomics Pages – specifically The Ninja Bot, whose episode #218 looks at Halo 2 on Live. Odd…

Kyrceck is looking for a script editor for an upcoming machinima project. Read more about the project (and the folks already involved in this forum post… and drop him a note if you’re interested!

A couple of months in development, the Madda Cheeb Flash Game is now available for play over at the Fire Team Charlie website. Be careful – it plays really screwy on Safari under Tiger. Works fine on other browsers/platforms, though. FUN! Thanks, Madda Cheeb.

XerxdeeJ let us know that Tied The Leader has new content – Gamertag embarrassment, voice acting contracts, Halo personals, real-life Halo love, stupid excuses for losing, and day jobs of famous characters. Good stuff!

Before anyone writes frantically to let me know the Fan Fiction comments links are all broken… let me tell you that the Fan Fiction comments links are all broken. (No details are necessary, beyond an admission of colossal stupidity on my part.) I’m working on fixing them. It’s going to take a little while. Sorry.…

Über-Chief 69 points out that Resolute Episode 14 has been posted. I’m not sure I get it.

The Wahttehhog Clan has released their first video in an ongoing series – it passed our Movie Peer Review Rating System yesterday, so you can grab a copy in either QuickTime format (35.2 mb, bungie.org | mythica.org) or WMP9 format (36 mb, mythica.org | bungie.org). Dialogue’s pretty funny. <g>