Author: Louis Wu

The Rumble Pit stats were reset yesterday on Xbox Live, leading to some outraged high-ranking players venting their anger on our forum (and others). According to this thread on Bungie.net, Frankie thinks the reset might have been a mistake. Stay tuned – if it’s fixed, we’ll let you know. (Thanks to all who pointed this…

Frogblast noticed some updates on Saber-Scorpion’s Lego collection web page… go visit for some really cool Halo 2-related Lego creations!

LD2k posted a pretty nice video on our forum yesterday – I found the rapidshare link in the post to be annoying, so I’ve mirrored a copy for him. 6.7 mb, QuickTime .mp4 format. Heroic gameplay, set to Troy’s trailer music. Nice cuts.

One last bit before I leave for the day: we’ve got the next entry in our Cutscene Library for you. It’s the Helljumpers cutscene, the beginning of Delta Halo, and there are two files: there’s the cutscene itself (2:30 long), and a small composite file that shows the one change that occurs, depending on the…

There’s a bunch of Halo news out there, on this first day of 2005 – here’s a roundup:G4techTV looks at the year in gaming – Halo 2 gets a writeup, and a mention in other writeups.The Davis Enterprise looks back on the last couple of months, and how Halo 2 has changed one columnist’s life.GameDaily…

From all of us to all of you… here’s hoping your 2004 was everything it could be, and wishing you the best for 2005!

Working on this New Years Eve Day, Frankie has posted the last 2004 Weekly What’s Update over at Bungie.net – except the link isn’t working for everyone. It’s worth a read when you can get in, though – there’s some good stuff in this one. (The most interesting bit to me, actually, was about Marathon,…

A 13 inch, 4 pound metal statue of the Master Chief is now for sale on eBay. Starting bid is $100, but reserve is higher than that. If you bid, notice that shipping will be from Paris, France, so take that cost into account. The fact that Frankie weighed in on the thread suggests that…

NINJ4 posted an animated One One Se7en on our forum – not only in line with Stuntmutt’s brand of humor, but it takes a SHOT at Stuntmutt. What more could you want from a One One Se7en?

A couple of days ago, Captain Spark released 62 new dialogue snippets, downloadable in one zipped bundle from his website. If you’d rather pick and choose which snippets you get (or like the ability to search for text), these snippets have now been added to our Halo 2 Dialogue Databank. Happy hunting!

Twenty-five new panoramic shots just got added to BOLL’s HALOrama collection – mostly multiplayer, but some impressive campaign shots, too. Go look!

It’s hard to argue with Stuntmutt’s reasoning in today’s One One Se7en – this is the pièce de résistance in his argument that Halo 2 is a regression to simpler times in console gaming.

VerdaFolio has written up an article on the Dawn of the Dead gametype – but this one covers much more than a simple rehashing of the rules. It looks at what levels are good for gameplay, plus game variants that might be enjoyable. Thanks to Narcogen, at Rampancy.net, for the heads-up.

Rampancy.net continues its analysis of Halo 2 with Impressions of Delta Halo. Again, the things that work, and the things that don’t, areas that are fun and areas that are not. Very well-written.

When we posted the ‘Hot Pursuit’ cutscene (with the Heretic escaping in a Banshee), Jillybean mentioned that whenever SHE watched the scene, the Heretic crashed into a wall before flying away. I’d never seen this – but a couple of other Europeans agreed, that’s the way it was for them. This seems to be a…

Halo Babies is back with a new series – and there’s a new Cortana (just like in Halo 2). Check out the strip – and some Cortana concept sketches.

Yesterday, we mentioned an article that suggested that video games might help train people to be better soldiers. It inspired quite a bit of discussion on our forum. Today, MIT’s Technology Review has an article about what soldiers in Iraq do on their off-time… and it seems a lot of it is ‘play video games’.…

We’re releasing two more cutscenes this evening over in the Cutscene Library: The Oracle and Edification bracket the Heretic Boss Battle. (I don’t THINK just those words are spoilers, in and of themselves… but if you consider them to be, please accept my apologies.) Enjoy!

Another Machinima series starting up – THEM vs US: A Zanzibar Story. Currently there’s just a teaser up on the page, but they promise more to come. Their hook – it’s all being done over XBL. The performers have never met in real life. Give it a look!

More video madness: over at That Weasel Television, the community has been uploading mountains of new video footage – much of it is trick material, but there are also a number of gameplay/music vids. If you’re jonesing for new video material (and I’m having a little trouble seeing how you could be, these days, but…