Author: Louis Wu

A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned that Overswarm would be creating an online strategy guide here at HBO – the first few pieces are now online. As you navigate through, you’ll find many links specified, but not yet functional – this should give you an idea of what’s coming. Anywhere you FIND a working…

This week’s WWU mentioned that there won’t be an official Bungie Fanfest at this year’s E3. You may wonder, what are we missing by not having one of those? Well, one of the things that happened last year was that Lorraine McLees sketched a bunch of on-demand pictures for lucky visitors. One of those visitors…

SketchFactor has posted another one of Bungie’s delicious 3D screenshots, utilizing QuickTime to show the picture in 360 beautiful degrees. That’s Sketch’s body, flying in death on a platform in Warlock…

Weekly What’s Update is up really early today. Good stuff in there. Looks like the cheat fixes will be out in the next couple of weeks, barring nasty crashes… no fanfest at E3 this year (boo!)… the recently-released game save that lets you play online without reloading will get you BANNED, immediately (no second chances)……

A month ago, I posted a note explaining a logistical problem we were facing with regard to Halo movies. It spawned a massive forum thread, and the concept for the HBO Movies Peer Review Rating System was born. From here on in, this is how all movies to HBO will be submitted. It’s a work-in-progress;…

LunarShadow has updated his H2O Stats Reader – bunch of new features, bug fixes. Details in this forum post.

Hehe – today’s Halo Babies is the first of a two-part strip, looking at what can only be described as spam. (If you look closely, I got a kill.)

Mr Kippling reorganized his comic blog, and added a sixth page – it’s posted here.

PC Magazine has a short article putting Doom 3 head to head with Halo 2 (both on the Xbox). They like ’em both – but recommend Halo 2 if you’re only going to buy one.

Furiont has written another article for his “The Making of a Spartan” column at Team Tabula Rasa – this one’s called ‘Multiplayer Havoc’, and it discusses the pain of entering the XBL Halo 2 online world… before you have skillz. I must say, I can relate.

Video Gamers League sent out a press release announcing that Lee Jeans has signed on as a tournament sponsor for VGL’s series of tourneys; it’s an interesting shift from power drinks and computer companies. A sign that video game tourneys are mainstream enough to warrant a jeans company to jump into the action?

The Query Spree signature (for use on forums OTHER than our main one, of course) is beginning to look quite nice – check out this forum post! El B has made with the pretty.

The Codex, Episode 8, has been released. Action’s a little slow, but character development is topnotch. (What’s a good story without an evil villain?) Available, as usual, in QuickTime, DivX, and WMP9. (If you’re feeling lost, storywise, be sure to check out the Characters and Story pages to catch up.) Thanks, StickyHelljumper.

One more set of pics from last weekend’s Resurrection lanfest – Count Zero has posted his photo montage. Nice shots of Oliver…

trigger119 writes to say that Halomachinima.com has posted 4 new machinimas – in WMP9 and DivX formats (each movie). Descriptions can be found in this forum post. See what appeals to you!

Stephen Loftus has turned in another of his analysis pieces on the Halo environment – this one is a tour of the Longsword, inside and out. Check it out – pretty neat stuff! (Comments can go in the forum.)

Michael Smith is selling some promotional Halo schwag he’s collected, on eBay.co.uk. First two items up are a Halo PC Oversized Promo Box (Currently at £5) and a Master Chief resin sculpture (33 cm, or 13″), currently at £45. Forum thread is here. Check ’em out!

Pizack points out an article he helped write at Everything2.com, a wiki-like site with tidbits about… oh, lots of things. This particular article is about Halo 2. (First half contains spoilers.)

Interesting post went up yesterday at the Halo Story Page. I didn’t notice until I was berated by Ciarán on the forum. Go read… funky stuff.

William Vitka’s latest Gamecore article on CBSNews.com looks at the idea of a Halo movie… from the standpoint of someone who’s worried about the ‘mogulization’ of video games (more and more games being made by fewer and fewer developers, with big-budget sequels getting the nod over edgy indie releases). Will the ‘right’ people be able…