Author: Louis Wu

Hikaru-119 posted a note about Project ODST – there are a few more pictures up on the website, showing some of the filming sites and props.

mfsamuel posted a link to his MyHalo2Stats.com website, another option for folks looking to save their XBL stats on the web. Check it out! (Izual posted this a couple of weeks ago, but nobody noticed.)

Hypnotoad put together a chart showing what’s needed, melee-wise, to kill your opponent in multiplayer, depending on what you’re holding in your hand and how you’re moving. That first chart was updated – and augmented with another way of looking at the data – in this forum post, so if you’re going to view only…

Interesting. MereCatfish posted a note on the Gearbox forums announcing that the HBO-COERCE HCE server is back online. Looks like it’s being hosted at Gameservers.net (a European gaming network) – ping times aren’t too bad from this side of the pond. The coerce.net website is still offline… but if you’ve been hankering for some good…

Sorry – I actually had to change the title, because using odd characters messes up the RSS feeds of this site, and then I get mail from the most rabid among you. Go read today’s One One Se7en to see what really bugs Stuntmutt.

The Fan Fiction section grew by another 13 pieces this morning – go see what the crew wrote over the weekend!

I… just don’t know what to say.

ICDedPpl sent in a link to The DePauw Online, the student newspaper of DePauw University, with an article written by a non-gamer about the popularity of Halo. You gotta wonder when the folks interviewed say stuff like ‘you can play 64-player games in Halo 2’…

1UP.com has posted its Essential 50 list, the top 50 Most Important Games Ever Made. Halo pulled in slot 50 (they’re listed in ‘roughly chronological order’ rather than ranking). Nice! We got this from Rampancy.net, who got it from Joystiq.

In remembrance of last year’s Wardrobe Malfunction during the Superbowl, a new episode of Sector 7’s Marines comic takes some precautions. Thanks, Wolfy.

The Miscellaneous Art queue has been building for some time (again) – there were 25 items in it this time around, ranging from pencil sketches to elaborate paintings to 3d renders. Some really cool stuff; be sure to check out augustc4’s Grunter, and I loved heirophant’s FlowerDream. If I went through every one of the…

Extabyte let us know that G4TechTV will be showing an episode of Cheat showing cheats and the Skulls of Halo 2. It’s on RIGHT NOW (1:30 pm ET/10:30 am PT). Next showing is February 12, 1:30 pm (with more listings here).

Grey Wolf points out that the HBO Lekgolos has created its own webpage; we don’t normally mention site launches any more on the front page, but they ARE an HBO clan…

Wow – I nearly missed this. c0ld vengeance put together an Excel spreadsheet containing every possible game variation for each gametype, broken out cleanly into easy-to-understand sections. For someone looking to create a website that allows fans to specify their own variants, this would make the workload MUCH smaller. (It’s great for ANYONE wanting to…

MrJukes has been creating some pretty darn cool jumping vids for the last couple of months – but occasionally, their popularity pulls them offline. In addition, they’ve only been available in WMP9 format, which means folks on slower-than-a-G5 Macs can’t really see them. We’ve rectified both of these issues with a full mirror of MrJukes’…

It’s Superbowl Sunday – and even Stuntmutt has gotten into the spirit with a special One One Se7en.

Hehe – a little tribute film from Mother’s Tooth… cute. Originally WMP9, 3.8 mb… now also QuickTime also, 3.6 mb. Modding can be fun.

Thanks once again to our forumgoers; Overridea grabbed another 7 Swahili sound snippets off of Outskirts, and rehema again translated; you can find all seven in our Dialogue Databank. These are much more what you’d expect to hear in a city under siege. (Nice pickup by Anton P. Nym, as well.) Good work, all!

Hehe – Scot Goodhart points out that if you belong to Friendster, you can link their Bungie stats in their Friendster profiles; just copy your XML link into the RSS feed in your profile. When folks view your profile, they’ll see your recent games! Geeky to the max – but hey, isn’t that what it’s…

Walshicus decided that the tablets from the Covenant Hall of Murals might look good in color – so he recreated the first one. We’ve added it to the Hall of Murals page, and will continue to update that with new colored versions as he creates them.