Author: Louis Wu

Bryn Casey, who posts online as ofthehi77, has created quite a bit of traditional-media art focused on Halo over the past couple of years. We liked it enough that we decided to put up a gallery page for him; he’ll be adding to it over time. Most of these pieces have been seen, either posted…

Luke Timmins, a programmer on Halo 2, will be speaking at the University of Utah on April 21 (admission is free). Full details can be found at Voodoo Extreme (thanks, orion 12).

Lachdannan received a really cool gift from his girlfriend for his birthday… the forum crowd thinks he should marry her!

Comics around the net today:After War 17 has been posted at Black Art Studios – The Chief and Sarge go out on a limb.Uber-Chief 69 has put up a website for Resolute – there are now 5 episodes of this sprite-based comic. (He announced it on our forum, as well.)Mr Kippling has blogged his Bye-stander…

Nirvana has posted a number of movie mirrors – you can find the link in this forum post. Always nice to have more bandwidth!

High Impact Halo is a year old today! Amazing how a small site devoted to the vids of a single person has grown into the most comprehensive Halo tricking site on the internet, in one short year. Congrats, guys! (Ducain started a thread here – go spank him.)

Motherstooth has started a new machinima series… it’s called Miranda, and it focuses on your favorite female Halo 2 UNSC Captain. Episode One introduces her in a way you’ve never seen… she really IS pretty tough. Check it out! WMP9 format, 9.6 mb, hosted by That Weasel Television. Update: There’s a QuickTime version up now,…

Lots of College Humor links today… folks went searching. (First off: that GTA vid we mentioned yesterday can be found at its home site, as well – thanks, Austin Wilkinson. And while we’re on the subject of GTA remakes… Fbu pointed out that he made his own version a couple of months ago, on KoTHalo.com.)…

Mercury points out another entry in his Halo blog – a discussion of the downloadable content coming soon, and a look at how these things get promoted. Go read!

If you’re interested in helping out a biology student, go read this forum post – Kyle Schouviller is trying to build a dataset that will show which color provides the best camoflauge. I think he’s got his work cut out for him (and then some)… but you gotta give him credit – he’s trying to…

A new piece from Craig Mullins today – a spectacular Mullins-esque rendition of the Master Chief. So few strokes… so much detail! Thanks, KP. (It’s the last image on the page, if you’re having trouble finding it.)

This is just… odd.

Vic points out that the 2v2 tournament in New York we mentioned recently is happening this weekend – free Red Bull! Check the post, and check the site.

TheDaringDuke put together a short vid on Banshee piggybacking, and boosting techniques. I’ve seen Banshee riding before… but the barrel rolls and boosting were new for me, and the presentation makes it easy to emulate. Worth a look!

Damian has sent along a midi file of the Halo theme… 8k.

As many noticed over the last few days, Bungie.net has been in a variable state of down-ness… they went offline for maintenance on Monday, came back Tuesday, but the forums were still down. Achronos pointed out (both on our forum and on Bungie.net) that things went back to normal last evening. Once again, he blames…

Looks like the HBO Clan members haven’t quite forgiven Stuntmutt for last week’s April Fools joke… as seen in today’s One One Se7en.

Jack Bauer points out a HaloCE map he’s working – The Pillar of Autumn, in space. The beta (as seen in the screenshots in the Gearbox Forums thread) look great!

LeaveMeAlone117 found a trailer for Grand Theft Auto: Headlong, a remake of the GTA: SA commercial in the Halo engine. 8.1 mb, WMP9 format. ObWarning: College Humor (the site that the video is hosted on) is not safe for work.

Hehe. In mid-March, we put up a copy of a Halo 2 vid telling the story of Wonderboy, Tenacious D’s mythical hero. It was the second Wonderboy vid we’d posted; the first went up in mid-2003. Now, there’s a third. Team Legacy Productions has put together their OWN version… timing’s quite nice. You can grab…