Author: Louis Wu

New strip up over at Halo Babies; Baby Sarge is a little… mature for his age, I guess. (There’s also a nice concept sketch of the newest character – check it out!)

Ducain, over at High Impact Halo, has interviewed FrogBlast, trickster extraordinaire, about what drives him to do the stuff he does. Great read – thanks to both of them! (Ducain pointed it out in our forum.)

Interesting article over at MLGPro.com – Brick Shoemaker lays out why he thinks Halo 2 is no good for 1v1 battles. The main argument is a solid one; Halo 2’s multiplayer focus is geared more towards teamwork and cooperation than solo heroics. Go read. Thanks, 3Suns.

Thanks to Frankie, for pointing out a writeup at Aussie Xbox of a charity bash they hosted to benefit the tsunami relief effort. Great pics – that’s a lot of people playing Halo 2! Update: Gah – looks like mnemesis got to this one already; you’d think I’d be more careful reading existing news…

Bungie has put up an interview with BlAcKjAk, a high-ranking XBL player (he’s currently number 2 in the Rumble Pit stats). It’s just a quick ‘what do you like/dislike about XBL/Halo 2?’ piece – but it might make some people feel better to know that the folks at the top of the leaderboards are complaining…

There were a few news bits recently that might be of interest to Halo fans…Business Week has an article about the big-business aspect of the current videogame market – and Halo/Halo 2 play a pretty big role.The Oregon Daily Emerald looks at Halo’s ability to suck in and keep players.Pantagraph.com focuses on Steve Scott, a…

Eternity 117 sent along a tabbed version of the Halo 2 theme, Mjolnir Mix, as played by Steve Vai. Go play!

We mentioned a vid called ‘Broken’ a few days ago; one of the mirrors came from HaloImpulse. Wasn’t until just now that I saw the actual link to the mirror… if you still haven’t gotten this, you can grab it here (12.7 mb, .rar format).

Another hefty art update over at Halo Babies; some really, really cool stuff. (If you like the ‘Ambush’ piece by tanqexe, be sure you’ve seen his other Halo-related work in our Misc Art section.) Thanks to mrsmiley, who sent this along a few days ago – sorry I wasn’t here to pass it along to…

That’s it – I’m out. My family and I are on vacation for the next few days; I’ll be back Thursday night. There’s a chance I might find a few minutes to add stuff here and there (mostly late evening)… but the bulk of the updating job is going to be taken on by mnemesis…

Hogmasta put together a Halo 2 gameplay vid called ‘Broken’. Lots of folks on our forum liked it – but Hogmasta was pretty afraid of the bandwidth rush. Two kind souls have leapt to his aid – PLEASE, use these links instead of Hogmasta’s. Thanks to the DJ, of HaloImpulse (hmm… that link doesn’t seem…

Stuntmutt pins down a nagging paradox in today’s One One Se7en.

Fourteen new stories for you in the Fan Fiction section today – and an apology. There was a story in German I needed to reject – we made a rule almost two years ago that we’d only accept fan fiction in English, just from an administrative perspective… but I never added that to the rules…

Recently, we posted a bunch of pictures of a Master Chief suit created by Alan James – today, we’ve got a helmet from Germain Couët. It’s possible he’ll continue with the rest of the suit – but for now, he’s got some nice headgear!

Some of you may have noticed that the Halo Story page had some strange rearranging of news posts. We had a database glitch, and needed to input a few lost records – the upshot is that the newest entries, from mnemesis, are now well down the page below Jillybean’s recent work. They’re the last two…

TheTaintedOne has created a pretty massive gameplay vid; it’s 12:22 long, in widescreen format. Timing is quite good; composition does a nice job of moving you from kill type to kill type. Movie ends with another melee-only oddball clip (just like the very first release I ever saw from TheTaintedOne) – all in all, if…

I HATE making posts like this one – but I think it’s become necessary. Recently, we’ve received a mountain of video announcements and submissions; some bits are quite good, and we’re happy to host them, or point them out if others are hosting them. Others are not great, but okay… and as long as they…

Outpost: Coagulation was announced last night – there’s a trailer and Episode 1. (The trailer was sent in a few days ago – I apologize, it got lost in the shuffle.) Heavily inspired by Red vs Blue, it’s the story of a team of Spartans on Coagulation, living and working under the threat of Covenant…

Yesterday, we posted BitTorrent links to synide’s MLG DC Aftermath vid – and almost a thousand people grabbed a copy. Those torrents are still open, and seeded nicely; if you want the vid, and have access to BitTorrent, this is really the fastest way to get it. If, however, you can’t use (or don’t want…

The HBO Helljumpers are holding a tourney – rules and details can be found here. If you’re European, and you’re interested… swing by their forum – there’s plenty of room!