Author: Louis Wu

Work on Last Stand continues – Phoenix_9286 announced Page Seven on our forum yesterday. This is turning into an F-Troop sort of thing…

Back in January, we mentioned that Bungie was beginning work on a series of Multiplayer guides, with Lockout and Ascension first up. It’s unclear when it went up… but Cptn Mexico just pointed out that the Lockout guide is now online. It’s pretty in-depth; a walkthrough, strategies, tips, all backed up with pretty pictures and…

Spenser noticed the next installment of William Vitka’s series on video game violence at CBSNews.com – this interview is with Scott Ramsoomair, of VG Cats. This one’s a bit more ‘off the cuff’ – someone who doesn’t take the issue quite as seriously as say, Jack Thompson. And for those who think that discussion in…

imSuck wrote to let us know that Halogrid, a ‘movie making clan kind of joining the ranks’, had released their OWN ‘storming the beach’ video a few days ago; it’s called The Platoon Remix, and can be found on their website. It’s 44 mb, 6:03 long, 640×480. They tried to recreate the beach scene in…

Blade is having a Halo 2 party – and wants to invite you. It’s like a LAN fest – but it’s online. Details can be found on the teamhalo forum. (If you want to reply, you’ll need to register.)

A month ago, TurtleTurtleClan hit the scene with Episode 1 of Saving Private Cyan. Great cinematography, so-so voice acting. Today, they’re releasing episode 2 – well, I guess we are releasing it for them. (The last time around, the fans shut ’em down, they loved ’em so much.) Voice acting is much better, cinematography is…

Two days ago, we mentioned an article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that quoted J Allard as saying that Bungie was “doubling staff for the next installment [of Halo]”. Today, that quote is all over the net – I saw stories about it at CVG and TeamXbox, for example. Straight from the horse’s mouth (separate emails…

Europeans – start preparing for the first official European Halo 2 Championship, being set up by Xbox.com. Check your country-based Xbox.com website to see if signups are open for your country yet. (The UK-based page is up, for example.) There’s some nice schwag up for grabs, so register soon! Thanks to Eurogamer and CVG for…

Been a while, but Mat Noguchi (Desk Mess Consultant on the Halo 2 dev team) has updated his blog with some thoughts. He discusses how studios approach the ‘how do we get the most out of our creative people?’ problem – disjointed but fun read. Thanks, Cybrfrk.

Stuntmutt always said he stole his best work; I certainly remember seeing today’s One One Se7en gag in a few old Warner Brothers cartoons (just swap in Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, and Bugs Bunny where appropriate). Nevertheless… it’s certainly topical and relevant in today’s XBL milieu.

Phoenix_9286 has posted episode 6 of Last Stand, his Halo 2 comic. If you haven’t read the rest, links are in the text blurb below the comic on the DeviantArt page.

AsiaOne has put up another interview with Brian Jarrard, aka SketchFactor, collected during his recent tour of Asia to promote Halo 2. This one does a much better job with translations than the last one did – there are no obvious gaffes like “most of [our games before Halo] were not successful” or “[Microsoft] cancelled…

The Junkyard continues its Spotlight series (after a 3-month break) with a look at Ross Mills. Tattoos, The Princess Bride, and Fable – go see what ELSE defines this guy. Ross’s instincts for self-promotion have not failed him. Thanks, Mhaddy.

William Vitka is a columnist with CBSNews.com – we mentioned his very first piece, a look at the power of Halo 2, back in November. Recently, he began publishing a series of interviews focused on the issue of violence in videogames; a series of questions was sent to a variety of people with opinions on…

Dennis Powers continues his introspective machinima series ‘The Halo CE Chronicles’ with Episode 7, ‘Remembering the Future’. The Spartan comes to grips with the loss of a friend, and his AI companion attempts to understand the human concept of grief. Pretty scenery, and a thoughtful (though action-free) episode. Proof that Halo machinima doesn’t have to…

Icy Guy and RMC 12 submitted another 12 multiplayer dialogue snippets for our Dialogue Databank – go listen.

coolp dropped by our forum to let people know that TalkXbox.com is looking for a new Strategy writer to continue their series of Strategy of the Week articles. Read the forum post for more details.

Geez – you’d think we weren’t fans, or something. Thanks for reminding us, Toby.

Must be a weekend for in-depth looks. Speedy posted a treatise on our forum on The Mechanical Aspects of the M12 Warthog LRV. When was the last time you saw a physics analysis of a video game model?

Wow, very nice – mortey points out a thread in the Halflife2.net forums showing screenshots of an in-progress map for Half-Life 2 deathmatch, based on Halo’s Prisoner. Great work!