Author: Louis Wu

Today’s One One Se7en shows why mixing games can be a hassle.

Whee! Once I deleted 19 of the 20 submitted copies of maxx’s Warrior’s Fate chapter, the Fan Fiction queue had just 14 entries in it – which have now been processed. Go read (and be happy you don’t need to read Warrior’s Fate 20 times).

neXtournaments is hosting another Halo 2 online tourney – 2v2, May 7 and 8, $5/person to enter, with cash prizes to the top teams. More details at neXtournaments.

Stubbs the Zombie, Wideload’s Halo-engined brainfest, has a new website – flashy, and full of nice pictures (and downloads). Go look!

Remember that crazy Elite driver yesterday? Captain Spark followed the guy some more – he gets some mad air in this one. 7.6 mb or so (depending on flavor). He makes me laugh.

Halo mentions a Halo-related roller coaster in development for Roller Coaster Tycoon 3. Details (and a link) are in the forum post. Halo – it’s everywhere!

There’ve been a couple of small updates to the Halo Story page in the last day or two – and Jilly suggests that there’s more to come. Should we trust her, or is she just stalling?

Dennis Powers writes to point out that Halomaps.org has moved, and split, and grown, and all sorts of things. The old address works – but it now brings you to the Halo CE website, haloce.gearboxgamezone.com. All movies have been split off (except for map demo movies) and are hosted at movies.gearboxgamezone.com. This covers not only…

Poor Master Chief… he NEVER gets no respect. Go check out Halo Babies today.

The Containment video we mentioned earlier is now available, in both high and low resolution, to everyone (not just sponsors) over at Red vs Blue – in WMP9 format. To ease the pain for folks looking for QuickTime, we’re hosting both high res (30.6 mb) and low res (10.8 mb) versions – if you need…

There are two new videos up at Red vs Blue – both are for sponsors right now, but at least SOME of the versions will be available to the general public later this evening. There’s a second new map walkthrough – this one covers Containment. Hi and lo-res WMP9s again (we’ll be posting QT versions…

This week’s Halo Humpday Challenge, against the Red vs Blue boys, is up at Bungie.net – it shows off Bungie’s latest winning technique; invite in a group of people and make them play you on maps they’ve never seen before, but that you’ve been testing for 5 months! The results are pretty predictable. Thanks, Eric.

A couple of tournaments have been brought to our attention in the last few days – sorry for the timelag in posting them. The UGA Halo Club is hosting a Halo 2 tourney Athens, GA on April 24 – admission is free, top prize is $100. More details can be found in this news post…

Overswarm has added an ‘Aiming and Maneuvering’ page to his Not So Common Sense Strategy Guide – go read it for some tips that will make your shots more accurate!

Karri Scott, of Aspyr, wanted to make sure we noticed the interview with Matt Soell over at IGN – it’s a pretty in-depth look at Wideload’s upcoming Stubbs the Zombie game, including a discussion about what was added to the base Halo engine to make it work in this context, where the music is coming…

A couple of interesting entries in Eric Trautmann’s weblog – thanks for notice goes to Rampancy.net. Trautmann’s ‘The Art of Halo’ made the Locus best-selling Gaming-Related Books list this month – it joins all three Halo novels on the top-5 list. (Locus is a big science fiction/fantasy mag.) And Ross Mills asked 5 questions which…

Captain Spark did some character swapping with the original Halo – he wanted to see how well Elites could drive warthogs. The answer seems to be ‘about as well as a 16-year-old American Male’.

Rampancy.net has put up another in its series of Halo 2 Impressions – sistimatic takes a close look at Quarantine Zone. There are some things that bother him – but there are also things that bring him back to the high points of the first Halo. Go see if you agree.

Significant confusion has arisen about the Battle Rifle’s accuracy, following the release of Oranjoose’s video showing its new non-existent bullet spread. According to Achronos, over on the Bungie.net forums, it’s not so much that the Battle Rifle was changed by the Auto-Update – it’s that a bug that affected the accuracy of headshot weapons was…

Red vs Blue’s Burnie Burns has put together walkthroughs for the four new maps coming out on Monday; they’ll be releasing 1 per day for the next four days. Tonight’s release is Warlock; you can find both high-res (19.9 mb) and low-res (5.9 mb) WMP9 versions in their video archive (the hi-res versions are for…