Author: Louis Wu

A couple of tourneys came across our inbox recently… Michael M. pointed out one that’s taking place in New Zealand – visit the Halo 2 Battle website for more details. (It’s happening the first two weekends in April.) And Kevin Bunch pointed out a pair of tourneys being run by MVP Gaming in Michigan; end…

Stephen Loftus has spent an awful lot of time studying the intricacies of the Halo world – to a degree that some might consider fanatical. In the coming weeks, we’ll be bringing you a variety of his speculations and analyses… but to start with, we’ve put up a page devoted to a 1/1000 scale model…

Red vs Blue episode 50 has been posted for sponsors; it’s MASSIVE. 124-129 mb, depending on format… 16 and a half minutes of revisionist history. A whole bunch of mysteries from Season One are finally cleared up – sort of. Awesome episode, overall… for everyone except Shishka. If you’re not a sponsor, this should be…

Jillybean sifted through some forum posts and emails to put up another few tidbits on the Halo Story page today; a novels-based morsel commented on by Eric Trautmann himself, along with some speculation about the mechanism behind Halo’s offensive capabilities. Go read!

Today’s Prickly City comic looks at one of the pitfalls of pushing the visuals envelope… thanks, pirate stunn.

HALOChat has also posted an interview with a high-ranking Halo 2 player – it’s described as part 1 of 3 of ‘Speaking with a Pro’… but from reading the interview, it looks like cAPPy204 is just someone who plays a lot. (I can’t see anything that suggests that he does this for money anywhere.) Comments…

MLGPro has turned the Pro-Player Spotlight on Tsquared, a 17-year-old signed MLG player. Go read for a taste of what it’s like to be young and a professional gamer. Thanks, 3Suns.

We got a note from Jim Smith that there’ll be a Running Riot tourney happening at the Sauchiehall GameStation (upstairs of the Sports Cafe Glasgow) in Glasgow, Scotland, on March 7th. Registration opens at 7, gaming happens until midnight. There’s a small entrance fee. More details can be had by contacting running_riot@btopenworld.com.

Dennis Powers dropped us a note to let us know that Episode 6 of the Halo CE Chronicles has been released – 3:49, 4.2 mb, in Flash video format. The Spartan takes on the Covenant troops that killed his friend, and finds he’s not just a killing machine. Update: Dennis writes to say bandwidth might…

Not long ago, we put up a page detailing the progress Alan James has been making with a new MC suit he’s building. He just sent us a couple of shots of the gun he’s building to go with it – we’ve added them to the page. Great start!

FugitiveSoldier and some buddies played a marathon game of Zombies, and the resultant film is pretty funny; Brain Ninjas is just under 5 minutes of Benny Hill-type humor (complete with soundtrack), zombies chasing a poor living spartan. Latest thread for this can be found here on our forum; the movie is WMP9 format, 20.6 mb.…

KillR posted a small Battle Rifle Functions video in our forum – stop-motion footage of a White MC action figure and his Battle Rifle. Pretty nice work! I’ve tossed up both the original WMP9 version (1.5 mb) and a QuickTime version (1.9 mb) on local servers, in case his bandwidth runs out.

After War episode 14 has been posted over at Black Arts Studios; the story’s getting a bit difficult to understand, but hang in there. Thanks, Kevin.

Small buildup of Fan Fiction pieces during the time I was gone; 26 new items added today. (There was some talk on the forum about starting to call it Fan Literature, so that searches for Fan Fiction in the news wouldn’t return more than the 777 items written before today… but no, we’ll stick with…

MrJukes has been busy – there are two more Jump Sessions and a pretty fun flag cap on his Trick Jumping site. Some pretty cool stuff in that new one… go start downloading! Update: oops – I should have reminded people that we’ve mirrored the entire site – if you have trouble getting to the…

A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned the Game with Fame event with 3 Doors Down – a couple of Los Angelenos got the chance to play, and G4 filmed it. It was broadcast yesterday on the show Screen Savers for the first time – sorry about the short notice. Never fear, though – it’s…

Mr Smiley has interviewed CJ Cowan, Cinematic Designer on the Halo 2 team. Where he came from, what he does, what’s tough and what’s not. Meaty – go read, and get inside the head of a Bungie cinematographer! Update: credit for the interview goes to cmwak1, not mr smiley.

Hiding… in plain sight? Don’t try it, says Stuntmutt in today’s One One Se7en. Hmm… Maybe the HBO Helljumpers ARE moving forward…

Wow… lots of vids posted to our forum while I was gone. I’m taking them at their word and assuming there’s enough bandwidth to go around. (We have a bunch of stuff in the queue, hopefully that I can get to soon – we’re going to have to let these stand or fall on their…

ICDedPpl has started a bonus round for his Halo Photoshop contest; entries are due by Sunday night, voting will be up for 3 days. The winner will get a full year of webhosting with free domain registration or transfer. The catch? Your photo must include a cartoon character. Go read the site for more details!