Author: Louis Wu

Stephen Loftus continues his in-depth analysis of the Halo game world with a piece called ‘The Pillar of Autumn Conundrum’. In it, he looks at the UNSC ship with an eye to reconciling various size anomalies – he finds that Bungie did a great job of remaining consistent with scale issues… but took a few…

Dark Helmet, longtime Halo trickster and current High Impact Halo admin, sat down with Ducain for a 1-on-1 interview recently. Nice read; go visit to see what drives people like DH to blow up hogs (and lots of other stuff). Thanks, Ducain.

Yesterday, WraithX posted three new Swahili clips he found in the final tunnel in Outskirts – and rehema once again translated these to English for us. We’ve added all three (with their translations) to our Dialogue Databank… along with a multiplayer sound submitted by Remotemonkey. Coming up on 800 Halo 2 snippets!

Has it really been a week since I posted a Fan Fiction update? There are 28 new pieces today, so yeah… maybe.

Wow. There’s an article from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer today that talks about the big-business aspect of video game development… but buried in it are a bunch of tidbits that I haven’t seen anywhere else yet. It talks about the newest job opening on Bungie’s Jobs page – they’re looking for an AI Engineer (we haven’t…

Over at GameFAQsASCII.com, there’s a Character Battle – Arbiter vs Mega Man. Only 75 people have voted at this point – wouldn’t take much to sway this one. Thanks, Harrison. (I gotta say, I really don’t understand the point of polls like this; I’m posting this one because we got a half-dozen emails about it,…

The Halo in my Hometown contest being run by ICDedPpl is now open for votes; all contest entries are posted (there are 272 of them!), and you can vote for as many as you like. Go visit, browse, vote! (Voting ends in a week – so get started. 272 pics is a lot to go…

Bungie’s Weekly What’s Update has been posted at Bungie.net – and there might be info in there that even makes the disgruntled among you happy. Cheat fixes could be ready within a month (if everything goes according to plan) – and there’s a list of some of the worst cheats that will be fixed. It…

Ever wonder why Bungie scrapped its from-the-ground-up physics engine in Halo and incorporated an existing middleware solution known as Havok for Halo 2’s physics requirements? Wonder no more. Bungie’s put up a sizeable article over at Bungie.net, explaining exactly why they moved to this solution, and what it means for you, the player. There’s tons…

MLGPro.com has news of a contest, hosted by MTV, to find the Best Gamer On Campus. Some more details can be found here. (Well, the actual contest page is up, as well – that’s got lots of info.) See what you’ve got!

Not long ago, we received a widescreen trailer for an upcoming machinima series, the Dauntless Spartans. I liked the footage a lot – though the voice acting needs a LOT of work; hopefully, this can be addressed before the first episode is actually released. We’re hosting both the original WMP9 trailer (8.5 mb) and a…

trigger119 writes to let us know that Episode 3 of Outpost: Coagulation has been posted, to go along with their new website, Tree Skunk Productions. Weak point is voice work; it’s pretty hard to understand some of the dialogue. Past that, though, this episode introduces a new character (well, two), and brings O:C even closer…

Ever feel like you can’t identify where a teammate is when he’s shouting urgent directions? Today’s One One Se7en provides one possible solution. (I wouldn’t suggest counting on this one too often, unless you enjoy hearing your teammates swearing at you.)

Team Scoog, previously known for a fantastic Halo movie, Out for Blood, has created ‘7he Bridge’ – a 2v2 Spartan vs Covenant battle to control a bridge. It’s a bit dark at the beginning – but quality improves later on, and the camera work is just great. The announcement (with a comcast link to the…

Halo Babies starts a 3-part series today, outlining the secrets to Bungie’s success. This joke is much funnier if you know some older Bungie games. Looking forward to parts 2 and 3!

For some odd reason, it’s not on Bungie.net yet… but an hour ago, Frankie posted a note on our forum pointing out a new Halo Humpday Challenge writeup. Bungie played the US Army… and lost pretty badly. Well, they actually lost pretty gracefully, if you read the writeup – they were beaten by a huge…

Tina Leyk recently posted a new Fur-Lo guest strip on her weblog; with her permission, I’ve added this (‘Pink’, by Fugiri-Shi) to our Fur-Lo archive mirror here at HBO. Gotta watch those flags!

Halogen, the Halo mod for Command and Conquer Generals: Zero Hour, has been updated again – new vehicles and buildings. Thanks, Logical2u.

After a sizeable stretch without submissions, the Halo 2 Dialogue Databank grows by 22 snippets, from three separate submitters. Captain Spark found a fantastic whiney grunt (forum thread is here), thesaelens tossed us another group of grunt quotes, and Icy Guy sent along the beginnings of our Halo 2 Multiplayer category. Check ’em out! Update:…

The Codex Series has released episode 4 – the humans have figured out how they might use the Codex to their advantage, at least in the short term. This one sets up action for the future, more than anything else. Go visit the site! (Apologies for my statement in an older Codex-related news post that…