Author: Louis Wu

The Bungie store is running a new sweepstakes – you can enter to win one of 20 limited edition gold warthog action figures, or the grand prize of a gold master chief statue. No purchase necessary – just sign up. (You must be 18 or older, and live in the US.) First note I saw…

Interesting. A mod is starting up for Homeworld 2, attempting to bring Halo 2 ships into the game. (Many of them aren’t even in Halo 2; some of the models are built off descriptions in the novels.) It’s early days yet. There’s a thread here, and the start of a new board here. Thanks, Chris…

Couple of new Halo CE maps worth looking at – ‘No Remorse’ was inspired by Halo 2’s Outskirts, and has a nice writeup at Halo2CE (thanks, Nuero Ko Neza), and ‘Tributary of Lost Souls’ is a new map from SuperSunny that contains some nice glow effects (thanks, MasterGrief). Check ’em out!

Broncho has released a second Broncho and Friends video – nearly 20 minutes of jumping on the newest levels. If you’re a fan of jumping in Halo 2, you have to grab this. (Use the BitTorrent link if you can.) 44 mb, WMP9 format.

Red vs Blue Episode 57, ‘The Storm’, has been posted for sponsors. This is the last episode of Season 3, and it’s rather large (8 and a half minutes, 70-80 mb or so depending on flavor). You’d think that some storylines would be cleared up, given that it’s the end of the season and all……

There’s a somewhat off-topic column over at Slate from last week – it’s worthy of mention here because Halo 2 is used as an example of a game that leads people to expect more from their entertainment. (The column is a dialogue between Steven Johnson, who believes that TV and video games are causing people…

In early March, MurderDog and friends submitted respawn times for Halo 2 maps; we posted a note about it here. Now, Typher has added this information for the 4 newly-released maps – you can find them at the bottom of the timing page.

No, I DIDN’T forget today’s One One Se7en – it’s still Monday, right? Geez. Good thing, too, cause it made me laugh.

A few days ago, I got an email from BeefySleet, who wanted to point out a video made by a friend of his, TXz Dymdez. I watched it, and was impressed; it was really well-done. I asked him to submit it to the Movie Peer Review Rating System, which had recently been tweaked after complaints…

Dennis Powers has posted the Season 2 Teaser Trailer for the Halo CE Chronicles; it’s available in both WMP9 and QuickTime formats from the downloads page. More maps, more story, blowing stuff up. (Well, not in the trailer. But soon.)

Phoenix_9286 posted another episode of Last Stand – and the forum post gives lots and lots of background about the strip. Sounds like a bunch of work!

Flashman has written up a rebuttal to the recent article at HaloDev about ‘ripping’ – his argument is that creative expression (and free speech) is being stifled by fear of infringement of intellectual property. I almost didn’t post this; we’ve had a pretty substantial email conversation this morning about the subject, and I was pretty…

Twelve new pieces submitted to the Fan Fiction section over the weekend… poetry, chapters, standalone pieces. Go read!

While the silence from Bungie about the future of the Halo franchise continues, Narcogen explores another possibility – read about it at Rampancy.net.

Today’s Waffle Hut has a Halo 3 mention… I’m not sure I understand it, but there you are. Thanks, Tricky.

There’s a nice article on glitching, and the problems it’s causing for Microsoft, over at Wired.com. Nothing really new for the hardcore Halo fan, but it’s a nice introduction to the concept for the general public, and it contains great quotes from Ducain and Dark Helmet (and prominent links to High Impact Halo). Go read!

I woke up this morning to an absurdly-full mailbox. Yeah, there was a lot of spam… but there were also hundreds (literally) of notes about the Gamespot article which recounts that Time Magazine quotes Bill Gates confirming Halo 3, to be released at or near the release of Sony’s Playstation 3 next year. Bungie STILL…

A new site, VideoTuts.net, has opened its doors; in the words of one of its admins, “Our goal is to push the gaming and CG industry further, and make it easy and accessible to everyone.” (Well, mostly everyone – not Mac users, but everyone else.) They’ve released 20 new video tutorials on the use of…

Hehe – the Zelda Ocarina of Time mod being created for Halo CE is progressing nicely, as can be seen in the screenshots in this thread on the Gearbox forums. Still a ways from being done, but what’s there is quite impressive! Thanks, MasterGrief.

Stuntmutt has updated his weblog with some submitted Guest strips for One One Se7en – for those who didn’t remember (or never realized), the main One One Se7en section no longer accepts guest or archive submissions, and hasn’t for a year or so. If you have a strip you want made public, mail it to…