Author: Louis Wu

Gruntsbane is back at Halo Babies, and there’s a new strip up – the first of 3, it seems. (There’s also a new Baby Sarge concept sketch.) Go check it out!

Ross Mills (among others) sent word about today’s Ctrl-Alt-Del, with a true Christmas message, Halo-related, of course. (You might need to read Wednesday’s strip to see what happened.)

argent sent us over to Newgrounds, for another Halo 2-based Flash movie. This one’s called ‘H2’, and was created by Robbie Watt. Stick figures and gore – what more do you want?

I check mail this morning… and there are still MORE movie updates for you. That Weasel, not content with the Cutscene mirroring and new Grunts vid, sent along a HUGE list of new and mirrored content – it’s too long to list here, so visit That Weasel’s HBO Mirror, and check out the top 10…

Movie’d out yet? No, wait! Remember the Halo CE Movie competition at HaloMaps.org? Remember how I said it was totally Mac-unfriendly? Not only has that been fixed, but there are now 16 entries to view – and less than a week to get your OWN entry in. Go watch! And then go submit! (Thanks, Dennis.)

Couple of contest notes: the Xtournaments Crew writes to point out that they’re starting their Halo 2 Tourney (4v4) in February, with $15,000 on the line. Visit their website for more details. And ZATZAi is pretty insistent that we mention an update to his Coagulation Christmas Tree Challenge (we noted it last week) – the…

That Weasel writes to say that a mini-episode of “Grunts are People Too!!!” has been posted – Episode 15, ‘Tic-Tac-Grunt’ is now available in WMP9, QuickTime, and DivX formats. It’s a little…bizarre. Also – they’ve added mirrors of the first two cutscenes from our Cutscene Library – and sent along wishes for happy, safe holidays.…

Got another movie for you. Remember the Dawn of the Dead gametype we mentioned a couple of days ago? Clan Tricking IT put together a fun movie, ‘Beach of the Dead’ with an eye to the cinematic. It’s large (large-format, and large filesize), but the quality is a little lacking… don’t let that get in…

Weird. I updated the Fan Fiction section about 12 hours ago – but the news post I wrote up seems to have vanished into the ether. 11 new pieces – go read.

And another Halo 2 Cutscene goes live. Return to Sender contains the scene between Cairo Station and Outskirts. Once again, we’ve added mirrors for existing entries – HaloImpulse has put up Home Field Advantage links. Go grab ’em!

Mintz08 points out that ‘The Unauthorized Halo 2 Battle Guide: Advanced Combat Techniques’ is now available at Amazon.com. If someone buys one, please – send us a review!

Hmm. Over at Tech Central Station, there’s an article entitled ‘Halo 2 and the New Heroism’. It looks at Halo 2 (and games like it) as a potential route to saving military personnel in a real war. Yeah, struck me as sort of out there, too. Go read. (If you choose to discuss this on…

To all those people who say the SMG is a useless weapon in Campaign play – Cody Miller says ‘meh’. He says it quite eloquently, actually – 3:23 worth of Legendary gameplay in a new movie called ‘SMG Love’. I’m sure that (just like after every OTHER movie Cody’s released) we’ll get people posting on…

Calvin’s getting himself into trouble – in more ways than one – in today’s Calvin and Halo. Let’s hope we make it through the holidays!

We’re doing okay, bandwidth-wise, this month… so I thought I’d go through the movie submissions we’ve received and put up some of the more interesting stuff. A HUGE percentage of what we got were tricking vids – these don’t have a home here yet. Another significant percentage were gameplay vids – there must be 2…

Andrew dropped by our forum to point out a new holiday song over at XboxOttawa, created by FTC fan Curt Is Not. It’s a summary of recent plot points in the Fire Team Charlie series, set to a familiar tune. Go listen! (Language, as is true with most FTC offerings, is NSFW.)

Cute article over at BBC News – not new, but notable for the site it’s on. What do you do when that ‘winking black box’ takes over the life (or at least the free time) of your significant other?

It’s not the same as a full level transcript – but it’s a decent start, and our own effort seems to have stalled. Over on Gamefaqs is a file with all the dialogue from the cutscenes in Halo 2, created by Rachel Maille. There are a few missing pieces, and it’s unclear what difficulty level…

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s submissions, thesaelens has sent along another 19 Grunt lines for the Halo 2 Dialogue Databank. Go listen!

Jilly “Have I told you how much I hate Cortana?” bean has summarized the Halo story to date, for folks who feel lost. See if you can guess her slant on things. (Nice summary, overall.)