Author: Louis Wu

Yesterday, Captain Spark released 44 new dialogue snippets on his website; it’s a 2 mb zip download to get them all. A day before that, we got mail from KaworuNagisa, containing 19 new snippets of his own – most of them from the Prophet Regret (including his sermon, in pieces). Some really good stuff here;…

Jumping vids seem to be all the rage these days. Synide’s put together a nice one for MLGPro.com; if you’re a Video On Demand subscriber, you can watch a direct stream of this, and if you’re not, just connect to MLG-TV and wait for it to come around in the rotation. (It’s not ALL jumping;…

Today’s Calvin and Halo takes a look at the more mature gamer… and what might happen occasionally on XBL.

Thanks to Cody Cress, who pointed out that there is a new jump session at http://www.jukesbox.com/. This one focuses on slide jumping… wow. 9.5 mb, WMP9 format. Go watch. And come back to this news post later today.

The stats analysis options continue to improve – Tom Mathews has upgraded his Halo 2 Statistics Browser (screenshots show how powerful this is – here and here).

Black Six pointed out that the Bungie Store is having a closeout sale on a number of items – visit if you want stuff at reduced prices. (The Titanium Eclipse Tumbler is under $10 now. Not bad!)

GRAH! I’m an idiot. Yesterday’s One One Se7en followed Tuesday’s Outskirts on Legendary Walkthrough release SO beautifully… but I forgot to post it on time. Wow – it’s been a while since i screwed THAT up. Go read it now, though. It’s funny.

There’s a bunch of Halo 2 news that popped up last night, too… again, I doubt this is a comprehensive list, but it should lighten the mailbox just a little.MLG posted a writeup of the DC event that took place last weekend; thanks to Dyslexia for the text, and Dolbex for the heads-up. This contains…

Man… you can’t take a night off around here, things just move too fast. Okay, while I was sleeping (and other stuff), we heard: Ripp0n’s Montage got another pair of direct download mirrors; a bunch of you have gotten it via BitTorrent, but for those who can’t, HALOChat has put it up via HTTP, and…

Okay, that’s it. We killed another account with Ripp0n’s Montage… so I’m doing what I should have done at the start… and putting up a BitTorrent seed for it. If you wanted to get this earlier today, and couldn’t… get it now.

Bizarre. SirDougOfUsbek made a film in which one of his party members just… fell asleep during gameplay. Proximity voice let everyone nearby hear the guy snoring… they messed with him for a while. Mantis posted a link on our forum; nof has mirrored a director’s cut (somewhat longer). Take this as a warning; fall asleep…

Tourney in Wayne, NJ, this coming Saturday; 2v2 Team Slayer, $500 cash prize. Details in this forum post.

Holy… so there are tons of skill vids out there, and as I’ve said before, there’s ALWAYS someone better than you… but this was pretty amazing. Ripp0n posted a link to a montage vid he put together from his XBC (Halo 1) gameplay, and man… that guy can stick. There are some grenade throws that…

Whoa – more awards possibilities. The Game Audio Network Guild is hosting the 3rd Annual G.A.N.G. Awards, to be held this year on March 10 during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Halo 2 is up for:Audio Of The YearBest Cinematic/Cut-Scene AudioMusic Of The YearBest Live Performance RecordingBest Interactive ScoreBest Original Instrumental Song (for…

Randomhero has started an Art contest; entries can be almost anything (as long as they haven’t been seen before), and you’ve got until Feburary 28 to submit. Full details, including a prize list, can be found at his 7th Column Group.

We mentioned a couple of movies yesterday that have updates in availability… lessee. DementedPuppy has posted a QuickTime version of Vehicular Pwnage; it’s about 17 mb. (The WMP9 version is, of course, still available.) And HALOChat has put up a copy of the DivX version of the Codex Trailer – it’s always good to have…

A week or so ago, we mentioned the Interactive Achievement Awards – they were given out yesterday. Halo brought home 4 of them; of the 6 it was nominated for, it missed only Game of the Year (to Half-Life 2) and Outstanding Achievement in Game Design (to Katamari Damacy). Not too shabby!

Last night, we posted links to a trailer for The Codex, a new machinima production. Their server melted. They moved to a new host, and the links are back online, with smaller downloads (which means more people can view them)… and to make sure it doesn’t happen again, we’ve tossed up mirrors on mythica.org and…

For those waiting breathlessly… it’s Tuesday, so it’s time for another chapter of Mike Miller’s Legendary Walkthrough. This one looks at Outskirts… and the bane of Legendary in general – jackal snipers. Go read, go watch. (8 new movies.)

There’s another interesting article linked from Rampancy.net over on TheHollywoodReporter.com – it’s an interview with Henry Jenkins, a professor at MIT and a gamer. It brings up some pretty salient points about video game violence, and why we as a society seem to target it as a cure for our ills… and why this might…