Author: Louis Wu

The Video Games Live tour, bringing the music of many popular video games (including Halo), has kicked off its PR campaign – you can find the first press release in our misc section.

prometheus wrote up a pretty cool tutorial about how to create a Halo 2 HUDless screenshot; if you’re interested in Halo scenery without all the text and personal info, check this out!

Infernus441 posted on our forum with a series of links to different versions of his Halo 2 Live Experience Calculator – it’s available for PC, Mac, and online (in Perl). Check it out!

New Zealand’s Gameplanet has a news article about the Kiwi representative in the Halo 2 Worldwide Tournament that ended last Friday. Thanks, Google.

Dennis Powers points out two movies at Gearbox Game Zone – the first is called ‘They said it was impossible’, and it takes a look at HaloCE, and shows what’s been possible with it. (This might have been prettier had it been filmed on a machine with a more powerful graphics card – but the…

Yesterday, Yaksha visited our forums to let us know that Sponsors vs Freeloaders, Episode 7: ‘Flame War – Blood on the Snow’ was available for download at their website. Downloads were painfully slow, though, due to demand… so they put up a smaller version. However, it’s pretty darned impressive at full res, so we’re tossing…

MC makes a few cosmetic modifications to a classic weapon to more accurately reflect its purpose in today’s One One Se7en.

Eight new stories for you added over the weekend in the Fan Fiction section… go read!

Tricky writes that Waffle Hut has another Halo-related comic. If the last panel doesn’t mean anything to you, you should check this forum post from last week.

Chris Bryan created a Wearable Master Chief Suit over the course of a year or so. We chronicled the work with pictures – and one of the things this page generated was a whole lot of questions, both for Chris and for us, about HOW this was done. Chris has put together a short tutorial,…

TotalVideoGames.com has a story about Major Nelson playing Halo 2 on an Xbox 360 – and not being able to tell the difference, despite the fact that the 360 is not yet optimized. Nice! Though we heard this from Google News, there was also a post on our forum by altodarknight.

Gamespy has put up their own Map Pack Preview, with info about (and video of) the remaining five maps. The video comes from the same games that IGN and Gamespot put up last week – it seems like in some cases, at least, it’s different segments, and you don’t need to be a subscriber to…

Slicksnake pointed out an interesting use of Xbox Live; The Sarrow, over on the GameFAQs forum, posted a note stating that he’d be doing readings of the Halo novels on Xbox Live – comments in the thread suggest he’s pretty good at it. Now if only you could get XBL in your car…

A hunt through the Xbox.com site turned up a few articles that we’ve not mentioned – here’s what you can find. Summary of the Killtacular Map Pack Summary of the Bonus Map Pack Comments from fans who played in the Game With Fame series: Goldfinger Dan Cody Atreyu 3 Doors Down Molotov Incubus Chevelle Willis…

Stephen Loftus has made a bit of progress on his Pillar of Autumn model – you can find the new photos on his model page. this looks pretty impressive!

A few days ago, Halogrid.com released Jump Tactics Spoof: Episode 4 – and at the same time, submitted it to our Movie Peer Review Rating System. The MPRRS reviewers are taking a bit longer than they used to to review films – but last night, they passed this video, enjoying things like the modded content,…

clarksbrother points out an audio interview he did on the Not So Late Show with David Hufford, Group Xbox Manager, about the Xbox 360 – this is relevant to Halo fans because the interview touches on backwards compatibility for Halo and Halo 2, comments about Halo 3 (and when it might, or might not, come…

There was an interview with Brian Jarrard in the January 2005 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly – and Guardians has found a copy of it online. (It went along with the interviews of Tyson Green and Pete Parsons that month.) It’s old info (from December, I think)… but still pretty interesting stuff – and in…

Oops – I forgot to mention last night’s Weekly What’s Update, posted over at Bungie.net – some basic info about the Halo movie script, the Halo World Championships, and what will (and WON’T) happen when the new maps are released next month. Go read!

For the truly geek-minded among you, there’s a fascinating case study of the Bungie net website, written up by the MSDN Solution Architecture Center. (Yep, I guess I fit in that category…) How the site was developed, what’s behind it, what challenges had to be overcome… for people interested in the backend part of things,…