Author: Louis Wu

I’m definitely behind on news… yesterday was a pretty rough day for me. MrJukes updated his website again; Jump Session #5 has been posted. Between Jump Tactics, synide’s Lockout tips, and this vid, you should be able to jump through Lockout like a master now! (This vid also contains Waterworks and Zanzibar footage… and an…

Wonga. Another ‘Work at Bungie’ article is up – this one covering Marty O’Donnell, Audio Artiste Extraordinaire (yeah, I’ve used something like that before… Hi, Matt!). Frankie asks Marty lots of questions, gets a few answers. Go read!

Today’s Calvin and Halo shows me what I missed in grade school… I guess it’s just as well.

Hehe – looks like the Bungie Boyz managed to find a team they could beat. This week’s Halo Humpday Challenge was against Tips & Tricks Magazine… and the final score was 3-0, Bungie. (The first two games were relatively close, however.) You gotta wonder a little about the fable… go read.

WhitebeardedGnu pointed out that G4TechTV’s X-Play had their ‘Best of 2004’ episode on last night (next showing is today, 4pm ET/1pm PT). Halo 2 was nominated for Best Shooter and Best Game of 2004; it lost the Shooter award to Half-Life 2, but won the Best Game award. Nice!

Gamespot readers were asked to pick the best commercials of 2004 – results came out today. According to this Business Wire article, the Halo 2 ad from last fall was the overall Commercial of the Year. Kudos to ICDedPpl, who found it at Yahoo Finance before Google found the Business Wire article.

In early December, SEspider kicked off a Miniature Halo art contest – deadline was January 31. He’s just extended it a month, because there haven’t been that many entries. Go check out the rules, and the prizes, and get to work!

Gamestyle has put up a Halo 2 review – or at least the online portion of it. They gave it a 10/10. Thanks, Garry Webber.

A few days ago, we mentioned a ‘Halo 2 Montage’ by WaLKa – but the bandwidth ran out pretty quickly. A number of people on our forum were hoping someone would rehost this; we’re pretty tight on bandwidth this month, so we couldn’t put it up for you. However, the community has come to the…

Jillybean and mnemesis are both jumping all over the latest discussion popping up all over the place about Halo story snippets; you can find their latest thoughts on the Halo Story page. The Age of Speculation is upon us!

One of the tidbits that never made it into Halo 2 was a series of images created to show the progression of the Covenant civilization. A cutscene showing these images was included on the Limited Edition DVD – but Joe Staten explained that they were too info-heavy, and needed to be cut. 7he One did…

Over at MLGPro.com, synide has put together a Lockout/Colossus tips video – jumps, grabbing items through walls, general strategy. Definitely worth watching if you’re gonna be playing in a competition. It’s available via their Video On Demand service (for-pay on-demand streaming), or free, in rotation, on MLG-TV. Swing by and give it a look!

brokenwatch and UNEXPECTED62 have been working on a pretty cool ‘Halo 2 Advanced Stats’ page; drop in your gamertag, and get a WHOLE lot of info (over time). Because of the demand for this, if you add your tag today, it’ll be a day or so before you show up on their pages. After that,…

A few weeks ago, we mentioned that Marty O’Donnell and Jay Weinland would be speaking at the Game Developer’s Conference this year. Yesterday, Cybrfrk tipped us off that Chris Butcher and Bart House would also be there; their talk is called ‘Recreating the LAN Party Online: The Networking and Social Infrastructure of Halo 2’. A…

Major Nelson’s blog contains an interesting tidbit today; The Mystery Gamer will be playing Halo 2 this evening, after 7 pm ET. If you get in a game with them, and win… you get a T-shirt. More info (or not) can be found in the blog post. Thanks, Cybrfrk.

Littlebigman found a page containing large pics of all of the Halo 2 Series 3 action figures, and prototypes of a couple of the Series 4 figures. (The Ranger Elite looks pretty cool!) He also notes that the page labels Tartarus’ hammer as ‘The Fist of Rukt’ – as far as I know, that name…

A quick reminder; if you are headed for MLG DC this weekend, and you haven’t registered yet… deadline is tonight at midnight, no exceptions. They don’t have your money by today, you don’t play this weekend. Details on the Registration page at MLGPro.com.

Things you always wondered about prophets… or maybe not. In today’s One One Se7en.

12 new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section today… go read!

TricKy passed on a couple of links for us last night… the Swedish gaming site NordicGamers.se posted their ‘Best of 2004’ article, and Halo picked up Best Soundtrack, but lost Best Action Game to Half-Life 2, and came in third for Game of the Year (behind Rome: Total War and Half-Life 2). Master Chief also…