Author: Louis Wu

Well, it’s not working out like I’d expected… but yeah, we’re still tweaking. The Movie Peer Review Rating System hasn’t passed a film since May 8 – but I’ve taken to looking at the ‘near misses’, and I’ve got a pair for you to watch today. Bunker 27 is an upcoming Machinima series which looks…

Yesterday, we pointed out an article that suggested that certain titles in the Xbox collection would be singled out for backwards compatibility – Halo and Halo 2 among them. That article implied that emulation would be involved; code running on the Xbox 360 that handled the calls to the Intel CPU that Xbox games expected…

Halo popped up in yet another webcomic yesterday – 6X9 College looked at its ability to suck your concentration right down. Thanks, Elizar.

Captain Spark posted another 30-plus dialogue snippets today, this time all from Sargeant Stacker. You can find them on his website, or in our Dialogue Databank. That man is pretty full of himself! (Stacker, not Spark.)

Whee! Bluestone whipped up a very pretty Flash montage showing all the HBO Helljumpers (and their special talents – or whatever). You can find it in this forum post on the HBO Clan forums. You can also comment on it in this thread.

Gah. You want a lot of desktop choices? We got a lot of desktop choices for you, in our Wallpaper section today. 71 of them, in fact – or almost 90 if you count variants. I’m praying right now for the safety of the server. (You can use this link, instead, if you’d like to…

Eight new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section – including a story by someone who usually submits artwork to us, instead of words. Check ’em all out! (Just clearing queues before I leave for E3…)

MarkHawk is broke, and looking to make up a little of the cash he needs by auctioning off a pair of Civilian Warthog action figures and a giant promotional poster. You can find the forum post here, and the eBay auction here. Not a bad starting price for a pair of extremely rare hogs and…

I’m thinkin’… that’s Stuntmutt behind the wheel in today’s One One Se7en. Could be wrong, of course.

Gah – I almost forgot that I’d submitted the Going Nowhere Fast Highlight Reel to archive.org! You can grab all four flavors (high and medium res, WMP9 and QT) from their download page; we haven’t run out of bandwidth on other links yet, but it’s always nice to have a really large pipe at your…

Microsoft promised to announce whether the Xbox 360 would be backwards-compatible this Monday – and they kept their word. The answer is yes – but only for a limited number of titles. (Emulation will be required.) They haven’t released a full list – but according to Newsday (in an article about the Playstation 3), David…

Dennis Powers points out an update to a recent news post we put up – the Zelda Ocarina of Time mod for Halo CE is coming along nicely, and in fact has released a video flythrough of the levels they’re working on. You can find commentary and download links (WMP9 or QT) in this post…

trigger119 points out that Fall of the Covenant, his second machinima project, has been posted at halomachinima.com. It’s available in four flavors – high and low-res versions in both WMP9 and QuickTime. (Size ranges from 50 to 100 mb or so.) It’s the story of the final battle between Spartans and the Covenant – and…

Whoa, cool. Looks like Xboxyde was first out of the gate with new screenshots of the upcoming map pack maps (I’m sure all the big boys will have copies before the night is over). Check ’em out! Thanks, Recoil.

The Art sections here at HBO have been languishing for FAR too long – I’ve FINALLY cleared out the Miscellaneous Art queue. Beware – there are 64 entries in today’s batch (over 70 if you count variants) – page loading might be rough. I simply didn’t see any options; I’m leaving for E3 in two…

Wonga. If you like montages, swing by Halo2Forum – they started a contest a few weeks ago, and received 135 movie entries, which they’ve narrowed down to 8 finalists. Two of those have already been released on HBO, but the other 6 are new to me – all told, you’re looking at 500 MB of…

A note up on Bungie.net warns you that the Halo 2 Game Viewer is undergoing some work, and will be somewhat limited compared to its usual functionality. By next week, a better, more powerful version should be online… please be patient!

Ciarán Walsh has kicked off a blog, and it’s mostly Halo-related – an entry yesterday explores what it might mean to fans if Bungie isn’t the group creating Halo 3. The relative explosion of Halo-related blogs has prompted me to add a new section to our links page – you can now find all Halo-related…

Another video almost made it through the Movie Peer Review Rating System yesterday; we’re releasing versions of it anyway because as I said then, our reviewers seem to have reached a point where NO montage is good enough to make it through… but I believe there’s still a bit of a market for these. This…

Narcogen looks at the Halo franchise from a slightly different standpoint today – it’s a system staple for the Xbox, yes… but would it have been what it’s become without the help of Steve Jobs? Go read.