Author: Louis Wu

We usually leave the Halo tricking to High Impact Halo these days – but there’s a cool vid over there that’s worth pointing out. A bunch of guys got underneath the air vents on Foundation – insanity. The video is encoded using WMP9 Professional audio, which will give Mac users a headache… so we’re providing…

Monthly gaming parties at a hotel in downtown Toronto… fun stuff. 🙂

No pictures yet, but Stephen Loftus found mention of the upcoming Series 9 Halo action figures – details are in this forum post. Battle-damaged Ghost… mmm.

Ewen dropped us a note about a tabletop RPG adaptation of Halo he’s working on called “Halo: The Covenant War.” You can find some sample artwork for the miniatures in this blog post. Great start!

Roger Wilco noticed a great article at Gamasutra, discussing storytelling and game design (and how they’re inter-related). Halo 2 is held up as a ‘mixed success’ – some of the storytelling is done in-game, but some of it is done via ‘agency-violating cutscenes’. Go read!

The Halo2Forum montage contest deadline is fast approaching, and a goodly number of montages are coming in at the wire. Today ArKiVe’s 3rd Montage was released – some serious sniping action. Swing by and grab a copy! (94 mb, WMP9 format.)

AJay created some Master Chief contact boxes to use on MySpace profiles (if you have one, you probably know what a contact box is, if you don’t, don’t worry about it) – check this link to grab one (and the code needed to use it). If you want to see one in use, check his…

Today’s One One Se7en refers to a forum thread that blew up last week; it started with a simple question, and ended with some gaming philosophy. (Trust Stuntmutt to boil it down to a bad joke.)

Wow… only four hundred of you voted for the entrants to the 7 on the 7th Soundtrack contest yesterday… c’mon! We need more than that! Swing by, check out the pics, let us know your favorites! Thanks.

Alstrong discovered that the Bungie Webcam, dormant since before the move to Kirkland, is live once again. Currently it seems to be sitting in a room with a server rack in it (though I’m having trouble figuring out why there’s plywood in the image…). No Halo content – yet – but hey, you never know!

The playlist changes noticed a few hours ago are now official – as evidenced by the nice article on Bungie.net. There are some fantastic-looking changes – check it out! Thanks, Spartan Jag.

Gah. I wanted to avoid this altogether, because it seems like it’s better just to see what happens… but when rumors start showing up on CNN, you gotta pay ’em SOME attention. Lots of places have been hinting that E3 could be the first place where new Halo footage is seen this year – and…

Heh – looks like the new Halo 2 XBL playlist Rumble Hardcore is up and live, with no announcements – go play! Thanks, Compton.

Comic Book Resources seems to have quite a bit of new info on the Halo Graphic Novel, coming out at the end of June – go read!

At long last, the public voting phase for the 7 on the 7th Halo 2 Soundtrack v2 contest is open! (Huge apologies for the ridiculous delay.) The bungie.org admin staff has taken the 250 entries, removed the invalid ones, and pared the remainder down to a manageable 49 images; your job, as visitors, is to…

The Valley of the Forerunners part 9 is now available for download over at the Halo CE Chronicles website. Sergeant Roberts spends a quiet shift learning more about Andrea, and the marines continue to protect the valley’s exit. Go grab a copy in your favorite format.

Playing video games with your kids – check this article at FortWayne.com. Video games… bringing families together.

Over at MLGPro.com, there’s a recap of this weekend’s New York Season Opener – lots of familiar names in the top spots. (Remember that Team3D is now Final Boss.) Thanks, 3Suns.

Stuntmutt regresses to playground humor in today’s One One Se7en, in honor of tomorrow’s release of the Halo 2 Soundtrack Volume 2. Understandable, really, when you realize that he turned old today – check out the strip his cousin created for him. (HAPPY BIRTHDAY, STUNTMUTT!)

The Halouvre, heretofore reknowned for its amazing collection of Halo scenery, has opened a new section – the Halouvre Music Gallery. It contains a compilation of 53 (and growing) Halo-based fan-created music tracks, nicely organized… give it a look! (It also contains an archive of some musical outtakes that are buried deep within Bungie’s site,…