Author: Louis Wu

Blackstar sent along a Calvin and Halo that probably resonates with a goodly number of you…

MovieMaker5087 went to a Halo 2 event at his local Circuit City – and won a pretty cool raffle prize. As he pointed out, one of these went on eBay recently for over $2000…

Hehe – went to read the MS press release on GameInfoWire this morning… and was pretty amused by the advertising choices. Realize that all the black text (headline included) is part of the actual press release – GameInfoWire inserted a text ad in the middle (the red text near the top – ‘Shop for…’). Bizarre…

LBM points out that Joyride has updated their website with a finished picture of the Drone action figure. Should be available in January.

A bunch of people pointed out a new Halo 2 video in Flash format over at Newgrounds – looks like Spartan39 was first. It’s all of Halo – as we hope it wasn’t for you.

Article roundup – again. I’m leaving out the huge number of stories about how Halo grossed $125M its first day, because, heck, we put up the press release already. Reviews Canada.com – 4/4 Seattle Post-Intelligencer – 3.5/4 Richmond Times-Dispatch – 4/? Halo Source – 89/100 Computer and Video Games – no number score (thanks, 3Suns)…

We got a note from William Vitka – who’s started a new column about gaming at CBSNews.com. His choice for topic for his first column? Guess. Feel the love. Gamers are on the move! [Note – CBSNews.com seems to have moved this article – the original URL points to a piece on LEGO Star Wars.…

ARGN.com (the website that hosts Unfiction, the forum where most of the interesting discussion about the ILoveBees phenomenon took place) has an article about a phone-in chat with the ILoveBees actors this coming Saturday, at noon pacific time. The access number is 1-404-920-6610, the code you need to punch in to join the conference is…

Whoa. New article at Bungie.net – the Halo Humpday Challenge. Simply put, Bungie is taking on one group per week in a 3-game, knockdown, dragout fight, winner walks away with bragging rights. First on the chopping block – IGN.com. They… well, go read. Who’s it gonna be next week? You’ll have to wait and see!

Yesterday, Peter Moore blithely predicted that Halo 2 would have a $100 million day. He was wrong. They sold 2.4 million units in 24 hours, racking up $125 million. Moore is now estimating that it was the biggest launch of any entertainment product in retail history. You can read the official press release for more…

mnemesis has resurrected the Acronym issue, now that Halo 2 has been released. If you don’t know what this means, read his article at our sister site Bungie Sightings. If you DO know what this means, read it as well… and add your comments. We need brains! (Mmmm… brains… oh, wait, that’s Wideload. Never mind.)

In the downtime yesterday, Red vs Blue released Episode 42 (30-50 mb or so), which was odd… and today, they’ve released Episode 43, which is HUGE (90-100 mb, depending on flavor, for more than 10 minutes of video), which incorporates both the Halo 2 engine… and the product of mind-altering drugs. (I’m not sure what…

Robert Valdes, who recently interviewed Pete Parsons for the website How Stuff Works, has written up his experience in the Bungie offices. Nice read. Thanks, Rip-Saw.

Couple of new articles for you – a nice writeup in the Washington Post (it had five paragraphs on the front page of the paper, plus an entire page in the middle section – web version requires (free) registration) – except for labeling Joe Staten as the ‘leader of Bungie Studios’ (I’m not sure Joe…

On September 30, we announced the 343 Guilt O’ Lantern contest, looking for the best Halo-carved pumpkin of 2004. Entries flooded in – 86 of them – and on November 2, we posted the entire collection, and asked the Halo community to vote for their favorites. Over 4000 of you did, casting more than 18,000…

Stuntmutt exploits a fellow Brit in today’s One One Se7en. Just a few more hours…

We’ve already received more than half-a-dozen egg reports, or Halo 2 tricks – here’s the policy on those. I haven’t figured out how we’re going to handle Halo 2 tricks yet – but we WILL start posting news about them beginning on Friday. (This way, the European contingent won’t be TEMPTED to look before they…

A few weeks ago, Ross Mills found a ‘Halo 2 Battle Guide’ on Amazon UK. There was almost no information. There’s now a cover photo and a synopsis – apparently, it will teach you not just to get through the room, but to be a better gamer. Still no word on when it will actually…

A large number of threads over at the Bungie.net and TeamXbox forums have sprung up in complaint at the way Widescreen mode works in Halo 2. Apparently, multiplayer, vertical-splitscreen mode is great… but in regular campaign mode, many parts of the HUD are offscreen to some degree. I don’t have time to check all the…

Interesting article (and interesting comments) over at Mat Noguchi’s blog; a look at why some gamers might not appreciate the checkpoint system. Thanks, Ross.