Author: Louis Wu

Marty O’Donnell has posted a pretty definitive statement about Halo 2 (and Halo) sheet music – he’s okay with fans transcribing it, but he’s not going to be doing it himself. (There are solid reasons for this.) Read the post on his 7th Column chapter for more details. Thanks, Jarrad Whitaker.

It’s not a Weekly Update… exactly. It’s a Weekly What’s Update. This week… that means a reader Q&A. A pretty substantial one, too. Discussion of Halo 2 bugs (and potential fixes)… answers to common complaints… more. Go read!

Dan Chosich, longtime member of the Halo community and a fan moviemaker extraordinaire, lived a dream this past summer – and recently, he talked to Cybrfrk about it. The interview contains some pretty interesting info… go read!

DoctorEvol, of Xblnext.com, recently talked to Alex Seropian about Wideload’s upcoming Halo-engined game, Stubbs the Zombie. There’s not a lot of new info there – but sometimes, any info is good info! Give it a look.

KP noticed an enormous Halo 2 Game Guide (Single-player only – multi comes later) at Gamespot. Weighing in at almost 6 mb, this PDF has 86 pages of pictures and text to get you through Halo 2. Unfortunately, it’s only available to Gamespot Complete members. If you have a membership, though, go grab it! Update:…

Four new pieces from Gamespy today about Halo 2:Pile-on: Gamespy editors discuss the game in a roundtable format A PC Perspective: Gamespy’s PC editor looks at the game from the PC users’ viewpoint Halo 2 is for Lovers: does Halo 2 fit in your personal life? Tip and tricks: Ways to beat the game According…

Kyle Knight, from the figures.com, wrote with a special offer on action figures. If you visit DieCastExpress.com, you’ll find a special Limited Edition Halo 2 Evolution Set – a metal box with a Halo 1 Chief, a Halo 2 Chief, and some special postcards – the price is $49.99. If you use the coupon code…

Three articles I put aside yesterday to make sure I commented on them… and wouldn’t you know it, I forgot all about them. The first was in the New York Times (free registration required), and David Jalomo was the first to point it out. A comparison of sequels, Halo 2 and GTA:SA. Halo 2 comes…

A number of people have found an unlockable multiplayer map called Foundation – but reports vary wildly with regard to what is needed to get it. Official word from Bungie will be coming next week – so hold tight!

There’ve been a few online reviews of the SmartJoy FRAG keyboard/mouse adaptor (search our news for links), but now BOLL has written one of his own. I trust this one – partly because I’ve seen him play, partly because there’s less hype than I’ve seen in some of them. In any case, it’s a new…

This is one of the odder press releases we’ve received…

Okay… just a heads-up. A TON of people are sending in egg/glitch/trick reports. A ton more are reporting these same things on forums all over the net. There have already been a couple of fights on our forum about credit, and who was ‘first’ – if this keeps up, we’ll stop crediting people altogether for…

Bungie has acknowledged a few of the outstanding problems with Halo 2 – widescreen HUD display, long wait times for matchmade games on live, and “dirty disc” problems – and has said they’re working on solutions. More when we know about it!

Today’s One One Se7en says hi to old friends.

Will Henderson points out that there’s a remixed version of Breaking Benjamin’s Blow Me Away on their website. It’s Flash-only; the music is actually embedded in a .swf file, so slow connections might have a problem.

Mechroneal points out that he, too, won a cool thingy at his local EB Games on Monday night. He says a writeup’s coming soon.

clarksbrother points out that the I Love Bees DVD torrent that has been mentioned in our news a couple of times (and which has moved at least once) now has official sanction from the folks who MADE the DVD:We know that it was hard (if not impossible) for many of you to get to the…

Is this gonna be a habit? (I hope not…) Daily article roundup: Movies: A bunch of people have already released vids for Halo 2 – we’ve held off until today posting them so people wouldn’t feel tempted too early. nukedude put together a multiplayer montage, with a couple of tiny bits from single player. Minor…

Well… the HBO forum, after 4 weeks of downtime, is now back online. Didn’t take long for regulars to notice (2 minutes, it looks like) – I’m not sure what that means for my day. For everyone’s sanity – story discussion is permitted, but PLEASE – be considerate, and mark posts with an *SP* tag…

Apologies. The plan was to reopen the HBO forum this evening – but I can’t be around to supervise it, and I’m a little afraid of the starting explosion. We’re going to hold off until tomorrow morning (Eastern time). You should spend the interim period playing Halo 2, soldier!