Author: Louis Wu

Alan James has finished the gun for his MC suit – you can see a picture on his Suit page.

ICDedPpl reminds the community that today is the last day to vote for the Halo in my Hometown contestants. Apparently, lots of people visited, but not very many voted. So go vote!

If you missed grabbing the GDC Keynote blogcast at Major Nelson’s yesterday, there’s another source for it – GloryFish has put up a copy. Save the Major a bit of bandwidth…

Dang, still going. Halo (the original) moved into 7th place in overall game sales for the week of February 20-26, according to the NPD Group (as reported by Evil Avatar). Halo 2… ain’t on the Top 10 list. Wow. Thanks, 3Suns. Update: Oops… that was the PC list – no WONDER Halo 2 wasn’t in…

It’s Friday evening, which means time for another Weekly What’s Update over at Bungie.net. More vagueness, some surprising lack of easter-egg knowledge, another Hint Word (I’m thinkin’ we’re gonna see Tinkerbell underneath Union Station in the next DLC), a fair response to the ‘please keep sword flying in!’ request, and the saddest looking coconut bra…

Captain Spark released another bundle of dialogue snippets on his website; we’ve added them to our Dialogue Databank, as well. Elites, Grunts, and a couple of Marine bits…

Wow, nice. CrowPath has written up a really nice tutorial on bumpmapping in Halo CE – the first 3 parts of the five-part tutorial are online now, with the last two coming soon. Check it out! Thanks, MasterGrief.

Oh, man… so Frankie invited me out for drinks, he just wanted to chat, he said. I was a little suspicious when I woke up with a headache in a strange hotel room… but all my clothes were on, so I let it go. Little did I know he was recording the whole thing… I…

Stuntmutt anticipates more DLC comments in this evening’s Weekly What’s Update – check today’s One One Se7en.

Wow. Blind Sniper005 noticed a Halo 2 Kubrick toy (distributed for free to early purchasers of Halo 2) on eBay – with a starting bid of $75. OUCH! Update: Item sold early via a Buy it Now bid. All gone! Thanks, Jammerfer.

We mentioned Chronic V1RU5 about a month ago, when their release of Delta Squad Episode 1 hit the net. They now have a website, and a trailer for Episode 2 (due out March 26). WMP9 format, 9.2 mb. (The money shot at the end is fun.)

Halo Babies continues its look back at Bungie Fundamentals – with another staple, the ‘strong female character’. Too bad Leela was never actualized…

Hehe – less than a day after I rant about how many montage films (well, films in general, I guess) are out there, II TRU7H II sends us a link. He’s hosting, and it’s not a bad piece – so here you go. ’15FPS’ – WMP9 format, 22.6 mb. Snipes and sticks, with some great…

Wednesday’s Halo Humpday Challenge writeup went up on Bungie.net last night – and it looks like Bungie’s long winning drought is over. Bungie took on Pioneer Electronics – and Bungie cleaned up. (Frankie was very nice about it.) Go read!

Wow. The Movie Conunundrum I laid out yesterday has turned into a monster thread, with lots of decent ideas coming from lots of people. If you’ve offered your services as a volunteer ‘watcher’ – please be patient; I’ve recorded all names, but we won’t do anything with them until the new upload system is built.…

There’s been a growing problem I’ve been worried about in the last couple of months, with respect to Halo videos – explaining it is something that would take far too much space for a front-page news post. Besides, I’m looking to start a discussion about the issue, and that’s hard to do from here. Therefore,…

Paul Ritter writes to point out a Halo 2 tourney in Covington, KY (just over the river from Cincinnati, OH). Entry is $30/person, they’re shooting for 35-50 teams. Competition happens on April 9 – so get on over and register!

Wow, very cool. Looks like Joyride’ll be coming out with a die-cast warthog (or three) in the not-too-distant future! (June/July, to be specific.) Thanks to littlebigman for the heads-up.

Hehe – remember LiL Poison, the youngest pro gamer ever? Well, he’s got his own website now. He’ll be playing in the MLG Houston event this weekend. Thanks to Victor of Xtournaments (“Dad”) for the heads-up.

Wideload is showing off Stubbs the Zombie, their Halo-engine-based offering, at the GDC this year – and they’ve updated their Stubbs website to reflect this. There are 14 new screenshots and 9 video clips. Thanks to Rampancy.net for the news – and visit their newly-opened Wideload Games Forum to talk about this stuff!