Author: Louis Wu

BLackout77x submitted ‘Savin’ Me’, a music video set to Nickleback’s eponymous tune; it tells an interesting story. Our hero keeps fading into flashbacks of a breakup in the middle of a firefight – his squadmates keep pulling his fat from the fire, but at the cost of their lives. It’s much better if you know…

MLGPro.com has posted a preview of MLG Anaheim, coming up in a week and a half. Good read! Thanks, KP.

Wow. I wouldn’t have expected this… but the latest word on the ‘Halo gun on a non-Halo book cover’ story has taken a new twist; the author posted this morning that as of now, the publisher is planning on printing future copies (including the paperback edition) with a different cover. (This is unofficial, in the…

Stuntmutt continues to mine the Halo 3 trailer for calembouric gold… today’s One One Se7en is actually a puntrocity.

Elnea’s most recent journal entry at Red vs Blue is about MJOLNIR’s Child, a song she wrote to explore the idea of children bred as supersoldiers. It’s really, really good. It is accompanied by a haunting piece of art – we’ve added this to her gallery here. We’re happy to mirror the song, if her…

DonVinzone wrote to let us know about Halo Pong, a game he’s developing. Pong… with CTF, Oddball, Assault, Territories, and Co-op? You don’t see that every day. It’s not done yet, but the beta version is playable – if you have a Windows computer, go grab a copy!

Nightmare 385 noticed some updates over at the Halouvre – check them out, there’s some amazing artwork in there!

Pixellated found a t-shirt for sale at Split Reason which may or may not be sanctioned by Microsoft… but which would look great on you either way. (A quick run through their inventory shows a Killtrocity shirt with dual SMGs, as well. Update: Boxer pointed out a couple of stickers, as well: Stuck | Body…

Wow, there’s a connection I’ve never seen anyone make before… Geoff Chang has found a relevantly-numbered passage from Nietzsche which certainly ties in nicely with certain aspects of the game! This is more Story page material than anything else… but there it was, sitting on the forum, and i was intrigued. Check it out!

Roger Wolfson, a database programmer at Bungie, spent a few minutes figuring out the ‘average gamertag’ – read his Bungie.net forum post if you want to understand what that means. The average tag? ‘xArKKAAaEX’. And yes… it’s registered, now. (Was registered about an hour after the forum post.) You gotta wonder, sometimes…

Frankie stopped by our forum to solicit questions for a Q&A. (Don’t post them in the thread on OUR forum – follow his link and post them at Bungie.net.) No, he’s not saying what it’s for.

William Sullivan-Angulo writes to point out that Freelancer: Combat Evolved, the Halo mod for Freelancer, has released a teaser video showing off some of their progress to date. You can grab a copy (11.7 mb, WMP9 format) from this forum post.

Northwestern Magazine (the magazine put out by Northwestern University to spotlight the goings-on in its community) wrote up an article on Joe Staten, after he came out to speak a couple of months ago. SleeperQ took photos of the three-page article, which details the road Staten’s taken to and within Bungie; you can find links…

As many of you know, we put the Halo Graphic Novel Preview online last week, for anyone who couldn’t get a copy in their local comic store (or who don’t HAVE a local comic store, or who don’t even live in the US). Looks like Marvel’s done the same (though you need to register -…

Dielectric posted a note on our forum with some interesting info about Halo 2 action figures; it looks like the last two series (9 and 10 are going to be cancelled, so 8 (upcoming, available for preorder now) will be the last. There’s also info about upcoming exclusives… and a name on the Heretic Leader…

Last week, in an attempt to help out the folks who really, really wanted a copy of the HD QuickTime version of the Behind The Scenes video, we put up a BitTorrent seed and a bunch of bandwidth; 250 people grabbed copies over the weekend. (That’s a cool hundred gigs.) Thanks to all who left…

I knew we’d reap the benefits of passing off one of our staffers to Bungie.net… the next community spotlight has gone live, and this time around it’s Jillybean. She waxes poetic about her uni experience, her introduction to the Halo community, and her current work on the Halo Story page. Don’t worry – the next…

MLG PwnCast Episode 16 has been released – it focuses on Xena (of the PMS Clan). Thanks, Bluestrike2.

Another update; yesterday, we mentioned a minor controversy in which the cover art for a sci-fi novel incorporated the Halo Battle Rifle… the thread has expanded quite a bit since yesterday, and it’s clear now that the author had nothing at all to do with the cover art, but he has, in fact, stopped by…

Heh – TragicNocturne noticed a book cover in Barnes and Noble that contained… a pretty interesting weapon. (Here’s the listing at Amazon – click the ‘See larger image’ for a bigger shot; here’s a local copy in case that gets yanked at any point.) Blade wrote as well, and sent this version, in case the…