Author: Louis Wu

Toy stuff: littlebigman pointed out an interview with Joyride’s Managing Director Scott Corley – some interesting stuff about how the sculpting-to-marketing process works, and what happens when fans aren’t happy. LBM also mentioned that the Joyride website has been updated with Halo 2 Series 3 and 4 pics. In addition, prvtllchurch wrote to let us…

I didn’t think I’d be here for this… but I am, so I’m posting it. The Weekly What’s Update has been posted over at B.net – and as you’d expect today, the top question has to do with a Halo movie. Bungie’s answer? “We don’t know nuthin’.” Other goodies involve what they had to do…

Dennis Powers wrote to let us know that he’s posted Episode 3 of his Halo CE Chronicles series – showing off the universe of Halo CE and exploring a more thoughtful side of the Halo experience. The Spartan manages to get lost… and scared. Luckily, the AI’s along to help. Sort of. 3:31 long, Flash…

Okay, folks have been looking at the translated Swahili quotes we posted this morning, and overall, it looks like rehema did a great job… but he made one small mistake. Everyone has accepted the Swahili proverbs which make up the bulk of the quotes – nobody’s really sure if they actually refer to anything in-game…

Looks like the coverage of Stubbs the Zombie, the first title from Wideload Games (expected next summer and based on the Halo engine, justifying its presence here) is heating up again. Alex Seropian talked to 1Up.com via AIM – nice tidbits about the enhancements they’ve added to the engine, things like stealth and multicharacter animation,…

I’m always amazed by how many people are now working on machinima projects, and how many of them are actually pretty good. I found a series called ‘Saving Private Cyan’ over at turtleturtleclan.net; Episode One is out now, Episode Two is coming this month. The voice acting could use some work… but the cinematography is…

Today’s One One Se7en takes a look at what you might do when you have a teammate that’s… not keeping up.

Oops – no Fan Fiction update since the weekend… there are 27 new pieces for you to read. (A few rejections, as well; if you submitted something and it’s not up, you should probably read the rules again.)

Halo Story Page got another update this morning; three theories see the light of day. What don’t we know about Miranda Keyes? What’s going on on High Charity? and who were the Forerunners, really? Go read.

Hmm… is disappointment a natural consequence of rational competition? Are we only happy when we win? nof looks at how the impersonal and implacable matchmaking system drives us to be who we don’t like. (Something to remember: matchmaking attempts to pit you against those of equal skill level. This means, if it’s working properly, that…

Yesterday, we pointed out that Frankie had hinted that some of the Swahili announcements, audible on the Outskirts level, might contain material of interest to fans. Last night, rehema popped onto our forum, and with some file help from m32, was able to listen to the clips – and translate them. We’ve added all 7…

Two bits over at Halo Babies this morning… there’s your standard Friday strip, ‘Fear of Change’ – which takes a light-hearted shot at fans and their need for instant gratification – and a great interview with Matt Soell, former Community Guy at Bungie and now working at Wideload Games. Matt’s always had a way with…

Front-page this morning on Variety.com (login required, check the last entry at bugmenot.com) is a story called ‘Halo, Hollywood’… Looks like Microsoft has hired screenwriter Alex Garland to adapt the games into a movie – they’ve signed a ‘million-dollar-deal’ with him. Apparently, the buzz is that Microsoft (and Bungie) won’t be involved beyond the script…

Jump Tactics, the clan behind a pretty cool movie we mentioned recently, has launched its website. You can read the PR stuff on our forum, or just go visit the site. Downloads require registration (free) – they’ve got a couple of new movies up. Go check out the jumping action!

Chester gets his butt kicked a lot. Enough that he decided to make a movie about it. The original version is a 23 mb .AVI that doesn’t show up at all on a mac. (Work in Windows Media Player on a PC, though.) The Se7enth Prophet whipped him up a WMP9 version – half the…

Speaks for itself. Thanks, Mr.Cynical.

Holy crud. Bungie got tired of getting whupped in their Halo Humpday Challenges… so they picked on a team of non-computer geeks. The Discovery Channel crew accepted the challenge… and whupped their butts. (Well, okay, the games were close. But Discovery Channel took all three.) OUCH! (They even had a pair of Clan PMS filling…

Dolbex, in an attempt to coopt our front page, sends along the THIRD piece of MLG news for the day; The MLG Houston tournament dates have changed (it will now take place on March 11-13, with registration opening soon), and the MLG San Francisco event (February 26th and 27th) has opened its doors for registration.…

Whoa. A month ago ZexGX posted a bunch of sounds collected on Outskirts; public service announcements, playing on loudspeakers in Swahili. He was asking for translation help. (He wasn’t the first to find these – but as far as I know, this was the first time they were made available as recordings.) Nobody was able…

The Se7enth Prophet found a tab for Incubus’ Follow on powertabs.net, and transcribed it on our forum. (The original is a Power Tab Editor file.) If you’re a guitar player, give this a shot! Update: He’s added the Halo and Halo 2 themes, and Blow Me Away from Breaking Benjamin.