Author: Louis Wu

Some of you might remember a guy who made latex Master Chief masks, and sold them on eBay. He isn’t doing that any more – there are apparently copyright issues to work out – but I did find a very cool example of his product (in Doc’s trademark purple) under our tree this year. There…

One of the criticisms leveled at Halo 2 was that Bungie had gone back to outmoded console concepts in this one. Stuntmutt has decided to take a closer look; today’s One One Se7en is the first of a series of investigative strips. (If you don’t get this one, you haven’t played the first 5 or…

21 pieces written since Christmas Eve for the Fan Fiction section. Go read!

Couple of interesting articles out there – The New York Times has a piece on how the video game audience is getting older (and more monied), and how games like Halo 2 are leading the shift, and GameSHOUT has put up their top 10 games of the year – with Halo 2 taking the number…

Missing things… it’s an epidemic. Hep, from AussieXbox, sent word last week of a really cool didgeridoo (if you’ve never seen a didgeridoo, there’s some good info here), carved with Halo 2 emblems, on display at Xbox HQ in Australia at the time. Now THERE’S shwag worth owning!

Speaking of comics, Boxer sent along a copy of Adventures in Disaster in honor of Boxing Day – which was yesterday. Unfortunately, I missed it, so you’ll have to pretend it’s still Boxing Day. (I also resized it, because it was simply enormous, and unnecessarily so… but if anyone REALLY wants to see the original,…

Here’s hoping your Christmas didn’t end up like Samus in today’s VG Cats… thanks, Linkmaxwell.

We have another cutscene for you today in the Cutscene Library – this is the opening scene of Metropolis. As is true with a bunch of the cutscenes, the dialogue changes depending on which difficulty you’re playing on – and thanks to Sniper 058, you can grab it in whatever difficulty you’d like. (We’d appreciate…

John Redman wrote a utility that will download user stats from Bungie’s RSS XML feeds, and then conver them to CSV format (easily read by any version of Excel out there, back to 1.0). The package is a bit under 9 mb, and runs on Windows platforms. If you’ve wanted to try and work with…

Interesting. An easter egg based on the Xbox’s internal clock has been discovered – brings me back to the days of Dark Castle. Skitelz posted over on the High Impact Halo forums that the Shark Warning signs on the Zanzibar beach were different on Christmas… that got folks changing their clocks, and 4 unique signs…

Red vs Blue has posted a Holiday video for you to enjoy – reminiscences of Christmases Past, and such. Lots of such. First I heard of it was from Hawaiian Pig, on our forum.

TeamXbox posted a bit of news they cribbed from the latest Official Xbox Magazine – details about Halo 2.5. 2.5? That’s what they’re calling it. “Halo 2.5 will be an Xbox 2 launch title and is going to run in HDTV resolution with new, improved textures and graphical effects. All the stuff that people expected…

A number of people sent along holiday wishes – XLNC created a new HUDless shot, Dennis Powers put together his own Halo CE Christmas Video (broadband and dialup), and Hawaiian Pig put up a nice RvB-themed image. I’m sure there are others that i managed to miss – if I find them, I’ll update this…

Christmas is past, and I must say, I ate too much… but the time spent with loved ones was definitely worth it. Back to updating, though! Littlebigman noticed that there’s a new beer stein available at the Bungie Store. The perfect thing for slugging down that after-Christmas… juice.

Last post of the day, I think. Gotta run some errands, and then it’s Christmas Eve, and I’m off duty for a bit. Enjoy the fourth entry in the Halo 2 Cutscene Library – ‘They’ll Regret That, Too’. Thanks once again to Sniper 058 for recording these, and to Mythica, HaloImpulse, and That Weasel for…

HaloUT Content Pack 1.5 has been released; lots of updates, apparently. You can find download links (use the BitTorrent ones if you can) at The Project Torlan homepage, or at DragonStarElite’s download mirror. Thanks to Digikid for the heads-up.

MereCatFish created a Live Forever Christmas video – 13.2 mb, DivX format, hosted by measter. I think all the guys standing around are supposed to be singing.

thesaelens turned in another 28 dialogue snippets for the Halo 2 Dialogue Databank; a split between Grunts and Elites. I’m amazed by how many DIFFERENT clips there are when you shoot your own teammates, or trade your lousy gun for their good one. Go listen! Update: That link now goes to 53 new clips, not…

Very nice. there’s a new image over at DeviantART, created by Pinkuh – the Master Chief, saving a small girl (or using her as a human shield, if you read some of the more cynical posts on our forum). Great work. Thanks to SEspider for the heads-up.

Comic, Double Comic, Triple Comic! We’re gonna stop with One One Se7en, because a ComicTacular would simply be too much. (That said, we’ll almost certainly hear from SOMEONE today who wants to make that happen.) Good thing Stuntmutt lives in the UK – this strip has the potential to upset some Americans…