Author: Louis Wu

Not directly Halo-related, but somewhat important for the viewing of files on this site – Apple has released a Public Preview of QuickTime 7 for Windows. Go grab a copy today! Thanks, Sorahn.

More details on the Halo movie script, shopped to Hollywood studios yesterday – Frankie says it’s pretty darn good. (The rumors, though, at places like Coming Soon (thanks, Saint [lpn]) and Gamespot (thanks, Savage Yoshi) are that the demands made by Microsoft – $10 million advance against 15 percent of the film’s gross – are…

My goodness, I can be forgetful. Another vid passed through the Movie Peer Review Rating System last night; it’s called ‘Eskimo’, and it was created by Jamie98s, recently in our news for his 28 Days Later re-enactment. Eskimo is a 4:25 long vid telling the story of a man’s journey to find his eskimo friend.…

The Halo Cutscene Library now has the five cutscenes from Keyes available – a couple are quite short, but that’s how it goes. Enjoy!

anti noob created a really nice Halo 1 tricking tribute vid, grabbing some of the best moments from dozens of vids showing some of the best Halo tricks released, nicely put together. 13:16 long, 58 mb, DivX encoding. In addition to the thread on our forum, there’s a thread at High Impact Halo – toss…

Johnny Suede pointed us to a link to his montage vid, Buckwheats. Lots of snipes, nicely timed to Drowning Pool’s Bodies. 54 mb, MPEG1 format.

deadmonkey found a new guitar tab for the Mjolnir Mix over at Mxtabs – check the forum thread for possible corrections.

ODST.net has put up a promo vid for their upcoming Summer League – you can find a link in this forum post. (Hehe – clever way to release a montage vid.) 11.2 mb, WMP9 format.

Rockslider continues his long-term investigation into Halo, with a couple of suggestions for fun on Truth and Reconciliation. Good stuff!

Bloodmoon Studios is working on a new machinima project called ‘A Day at the Races’ – you can find the trailer for it on their website, or at That Weasel Television. The full movie (about 4 racers who have to deal with each other, as well as an evil villain) is coming soon. Check it…

Many, many people emailed us about yesterday’s VG Cats comic – a new look at an old taunt. looks like Target4Hire was first.

Wow. So a couple of months ago, the rumor making the rounds was that a Halo script was being written for the big screen by Alex Garland, who wrote The Beach and 28 Days Later. And then we heard nothing. Until today. Defamer has a piece that says that couriers dressed up in Master Chief…

Remember that series of articles on CBS Gamecore, written by William Vitka, in which the various viewpoints about videogame violence were put on display? Looks like 1UP.com is following suit – a few months later. Same guy on the ‘ban ’em’ side (Jack Thompson, a lawyer looking to sue the gaming industry for murders he…

2old2type Radio (a subsidiary of 2old2play) has released their second weekly episode as a podcast – it covers site info, as well as upcoming tournament news, the new consoles, and how upcoming games will affect Halo 2’s success. Check it out!

A couple of months ago, we mentioned the Video Games Live Concert – a celebration of game music. At the time, there was just one show scheduled, in LA, on July 6. The tour continues to fill out – there’s now an August 11 date in Atlanta, GA. (Check back at their website regularly for…

Nicholas Singer, a professional composer who studied at Oxford and the National Film School, is looking for single-player Halo mods that need original music. You can hear some samples of his work in the forum post – I’d say anyone who picked him up would be doing pretty well!

In early May, Raz0r_117 submitted his movie, entitled ‘A Day In Halo And Halo 2’, to our Movie Peer Review Rating System. It didn’t pass – although reviewers liked the diversity of the montage, they thought parts were repetitive, and the quality of the video was pretty low – but Raz0r found hosting for this…

Today, in the Halo Cutscene Library, you’ll find the Two Betrayals cutscenes – the Chief gets his eyes opened. The hard way. Go watch!

There’s an interesting read over at Pitchfork Media, a music review site. John Cage’s Xbox looks at game audio as an up-and-coming genre, attracting more big-name composers – and the problems that come with the mixing of worlds (in this case, movies and games). I’m really surprised Marty O’Donnell and the Halo audio crew aren’t…

Thanks to our own Count Zero for submitting another level transcript – Gravemind is now available in the Halo Story Page navbar. As more levels come in, we’ll be adding them!