Author: Louis Wu

A few days ago dude 69 pointed out that Gamespot’s Readers’ Choice Awards for 2004 had been posted. We were on-and-off following their Best and Worst of 2004 stuff – it started on December 18, and Readers’ Choice was day 7; I’d have assumed that the Reader’s Choice stuff was posted on Christmas Eve Day…

Couple of tourneys we heard about yesterday – over at High Impact Halo, there’s a 2v2 Tourney being set up; sign-up is on the forum, and a small subsite has been put together for rules and participants… and Halo HQ is running a 2v2 doubles tourney, as well: signup for THIS is on THEIR forum,…

Music from the Movies has reviewed the first volume of the Halo 2 soundtrack – you can read the details on their website. The writeup is predominately positive; the reviewer liked it, both as a soundtrack to a video game and as a standalone CD. (The rating was 3.5/5, somewhere between ‘recommended with reservations’ and…

The Weekly What’s Update has finally been posted over at Bungie.net… Frankie sounds a little harried. It’s got some fun info – lots on cheating (and how they chose who to ban), info on why it’s as short as it is (something to do with the Bungie Pentathlon… sounds like Frankie’s team might be losing),…

Over the past few weeks, we’ve gotten a chunk of mail about the next series of Halo 2 action figures from Joyride; up to now, it’s all been text-based, and we’ve passed on making it news. Littlebigman found a website with a picture of the Series 3 toys, though – and posted about it on…

teh Havoc modded a Halo 2 LED flashlight (no longer available, sadly, at the Bungie Store) to end up with a Halo 2 USB flash drive. Nice work!

As I sit here surrounded by 18 inches of snow (with more on the way), and some pretty heavy winds, I notice there are 17 new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section. Nothing better on a cold, blustery day than reading by the fire!

Another Friday bit, almost overlooked. This one is only useful to Firefox users on WinXP… but it’s pretty cool. Go visit the MLG forums and grab a pair of search plugins (and their corresponding images), and drop ’em in your searchplugin folder (directions are in the post). Now you’ll be able to search for gamertags…

Oops – this came out Friday, but I forgot to post it. The 8th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards nominations (awards come from the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences – Halo took home Game of the Year in the 2002 ceremony) were posted on Friday (thanks, CJAD 800). Halo 2 is up for six awards:…

Wow. If you want to get all the high-res Halo 2 cutscenes at once, without having to download them one at a time… HALOChat has made them available in a single 478 mb bundle via BitTorrent. Link can be found in this forum post. (I’m not sure how much demand there is for this… but…

Dennis Powers writes to point out a new machinima series he’s begun – it’s called ‘The Halo CE Chronicles’, and follows a “hapless Spartan stationed to a distant Outpost Station and his relationship with the station’s AI.” Currently, there are two movies to see – a short trailer, and a 3:49 Episiode 1. The movies…

The Halouvre has updated its site with two new images, in multiple form factors. Gorgeous HUDless shots of Delta Halo and Metropolis, both in regular screen ratios and as extra-wide panoramas. Check ’em out! Thanks to prometheus for the heads-up.

A couple of new Flash items popped up on Newgrounds recently, both done by ABob…. Halo 2: The Covenant , and Halo 2: Spartan 117. Pretty hard to hear… minimal plots. Thanks, Micro M and argent.

Back from errands, time to get a little Halo-related news posted. Last night, I saw a tidbit on the KOMO 1000 news page (thanks, Google) about a charity tournament set up by some students at Rogers High School in Puyallup (near Seattle)… that got cancelled by the school district. Two RHS seniors had organized a…

Red vs Blue episode 48 has been released for Sponsors – ‘Heavy Metal’ has the remainder of the Red and Blue teams attempting to assault the Zanzibar base… with hilarious consequences. I love Caboose again. This puppy’s 6 and a half minutes long – 30 megs for small versions, 60 for large. (It’ll be up…

Hehe – there’s no Weekly What’s Update yet (looks like that’s coming Sunday)… but you can see the Anime Mister Chief that’s gonna go with it. Thanks, Frankie!

Looks like Bungie is still smarting from the whupping they took from EGM during the Halo Humpday Challenge this week; there’s a rematch (2v2, Shishka and Frankie vs Mark and Shoe from EGM), coming up as soon as it can get scheduled. (There’s some trash-talk about it in this thread on the Bungie.net forum.) We’ll…

The online XBC-based neXtournaments we mentioned a couple of days ago are getting underway in two days – the first tourney is Sunday evening at 7 pm Eastern, sponsored by Corsair, and has a pair of 1GB memory modules (and an XBC Pro serial number) for the winner. There will also be hats and miscellaneous…

Fire Team Charlie has released FTC 17, in hi-res AVI format, for members; it will be up in lower-res format for the masses by tomorrow night. (A hi-res QuickTime should be available later today or tomorrow morning for members.) It weighs in at a bit over 12 minutes, and is something of a departure from…

Hey! It’s a comic morning. One One Se7en returns to the Covenant alphabet developed for the Halo2.com website… and runs into a problem we’ve probably ALL had at one time or another.