Author: Louis Wu

New strip over at Halo Babies – takes a practical look at a gameplay question, and comes up with the right answer. Nice artwork!

The Bungie version of the Halo Humpday Challenge between Bungie and EGM was posted yesterday evening – Frankie writes like a broken man. It’s almost sad to see…

GIjoe2 points out his new vid Special Fred, a tribute to grenades and fusion cores, set to Stephen Lynch’s eponymic song. WMP9 format, a bit under 5 megs. Funny stuff!

It’s not up at Bungie.net yet… but it looks like Bungie took another lickin’ in this week’s Halo Humpday Challenge from the guys at Electronic Gaming Monthly. Dan Hsu, known as Shoe in Clan EGM, and a participant in last night’s game, wrote up a short post on the activities. This one wasn’t even close.…

Wow. There’ve been articles out there before about how wives and girlfriends are ‘widowed’ by Halo… but I’ve never seen one like this. Well-written… but FULL of stereotypes. Originally in the New York Observer, now a cover story for the Charlotte Creative Loafing. It’ll either amuse you, or anger you… but it’s a fun read.…

Joshua Rennert posted a note on our forum about a sequel he and the Tricking IT crew are working on; working title is Beach of the Dead 2, though that won’t be the release title. The trailer, made by ipushmycar, is short (48 seconds) but pretty sweet; high and low resolutin WMP9 links are in…

Blackstar’s sent along another Calvin and Halo for your entertainment today – having dealt with exactly this sort of kid logic myself, I was tickled. Check it out.

According to this Reuters article, Halo 2 hit 6.4 million in sales worldwide today. (This seems silly; the article was posted at 4:30 am PT Thursday, and states that Microsoft ‘said [this] on Thursday’ – hopefully they meant Wednesday, or MS PR folks are working REALLY odd hours.) If this number is accurate, it means…

Gossip tossed us a link to the Amazon Web Services Blog, and an interview with Eric Neustadter, of the Xbox Live team, at the Amazon DevCon. Gossip characterized this as ‘dry’ – I’d have to agree. There ARE some interesting facts in it, though – Xbox Live increased some of its systems by a factor…

Apparently, you can look at the Master Chief while preparing to play Half-Life 2 – there’s a Halo 2 skin for Steam. (A screenshot is here.) Thanks, Samir Patel.

Stuntmutt has put up a new batch of Guest One One Se7en strips on his blog – if you feel like you’re not getting enough corn with the 3-a-week diet here, go visit and see what others are creating! (He also whipped out a nice ‘thank-you’ post to Zzombie13, the guest artist who helped out…

Whoa. Greg Hill and his brothers were visiting Detroit recently, staying close to the Canadian side of town (Windsor Canada is right on the other side of the river). He saw a building he HAD to take a picture of. Look familiar? (He made it easy for you, just in case it’s not ringing any…

3Suns noticed a whole bunch of content over at the Geezer Gamers’ site, related to the recent Halo Humpday Challenge they participated in. They’re all linked from the current front page, but in case things change, here’s what we’ve got:Bungie Challenge: Geezer Point of ViewVideo from the Humpday Challenge (great stuff – but the big…

Gamefly, a video game rental company, has posted the top video game rentals for 2004 – Halo 2 was 4th, following Ninja Gaiden (released March 2), Grand Theft Auto (released October 25), and Fable (released September 14). They’re also taking votes for your favorite games for the 2nd Annual Q Awards (you have to join…

Weird – Halo 2 had fallen off the charts in the UK, according to ELSPA (the marketing firm who keeps track of game sales there) – but this week jumped from 27th to 13th, as described by PC Pro. Wonder what caused the surge?

Xtournaments has opened neXtournaments, a site devoted to online Halo 2 tournaments held over XBConnect. There are two types of tourneys – one is free, the other has an entrance fee (but also cash prizes). Go read more details on either website! Thanks, Sick Vic.

Namemad whipped up a Flash-based stop-motion vid showing the MC bustin’ some moves to Jay-Z and Linkin Park. Get down.

The HBO Lekgolos clan is on a movie-making tear; in short order, two films have popped up. The first was done by Arashi90 and Blackstar, and features nice gameplay, awesome production values, and crystal-clear video; it’s a blood-pumper to get people interested in playing this clan. It’s being hosted by both KP’s Boomerica.com and Verdafolio’s…

We’d like to point out that today’s One One Se7en in no way represents the actual actions or activities of anyone here at HBO.

There are a couple of upcoming events at the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame at Seattle Center of interest to Halo fans; both involve author Eric Nylund. On January 25th (that’s next Tuesday), at 7 pm, he’ll be reading and signing books with his wife, Syne Mitchell. Admission is free. In February and…