Author: Louis Wu

Comic Oni sent along a link to a new comic strip he made for a Halo 2 clan – here’s hoping the Photobucket bandwidth holds out.

Gamespy put up an interview with Marty O’Donnell as part of their weeklong Halo 2 coverage – as always, Marty’s fun to read. Thanks, John Rivas. Update: Uriel reminded me that when multiple people are updating the site, sometimes things get posted twice. Sue me, I’m human.

IGN’s newest Halo 2 Countdown article looks at timezones, and how they affect who plays when. Plus some gratuitous prurient picture captions.

There’s a new series of commercials running on G4TV – promoting November 9 as Halo 2 Day at G4. They’re commercials, so I’m guessing they won’t mind the extra exposure… and the ad itself was put together by Red vs Blue, so I’m guessing the Halo community will enjoy them. ZiplocBodyBag and Cybrfrk captured and…

Jordan Montreuil (and half a dozen other people) pointed out a blurb from Gabe in today’s Penny Arcade news about some ads PA made for Microsoft about Halo 2. He couldn’t actually find the ads (and neither could I) – but keep an eye open for them!

Couple of giveaways to mention: Xboxcheats.com is giving away a copy of Halo 2 every day of November after November 9th (thanks, gizmoe)… and 92.3 KROCK (out of New York) is celebrating Halo 2 Week by giving away Halo 2. Details are in this news item, with online entry info here (thanks, Dan Chosich).

Major Nelson put up a small bit about the winners of the Halo 2 Backstage Pass competition – including a nice shot of the Halo 2-branded stretch Hummer used to haul them around. Looks like they’ll be having some fun tomorrow! Thanks, Cybrfrk.

Yesterday, Ding mentioned the John Stewart Halo plug – thanks to Jakedagreat, we’ve got a 1.9 mb QuickTime clip of the action. Check it out!

A number of people have pointed out this website, tied somehow to the Desktop Master Chief. (I at first believed that the music videos were totally fan-created – I still think they’re pretty amateurish, personally, but this seems to be an official site, so what do I know?) Some interesting stuff there, in any case.

As mentioned frequently, the Art sections here (Miscellaneous Art and Wallpaper) have been neglected for too long – it’s been almost a month since we added any new desktops. Unfortunately, one of the oldest items in the queue was a Halloween-themed image… apologies. The first 10 are up right now in the Wallpaper section, with…

deftangel found a page on the Samsung (UK) website offering Halo 2 downloads for Samsung mobile phone users. If you’ve got one… go look!

Hellion points out that the third movement of Incubus’ Odyssey has now been posted to the nilerogers.com website. The snippet itself is 1.9 mb, 2:00 long. Go listen! (And keep your eyes open – there are still 6 tracks on the album that have not been added to the Listening Station.)

Wow. I stopped by misterchief.com today, just to see how things were going – I’m pretty amazed by the fan art this site is attracting. If you haven’t visited… go. It’s funny stuff.

pushbak has created a new vid – it’s called ‘Valor’, and it’s basically a promo for a video he’s planning to make for Halo 2. The look and feel are strongly reminiscent of some of Dan Chosich’s work – nice editing, overall. It’s 17 mb, QuickTime format, and it’s available at files2.bungie.org.

TK421 mentions that there’s a short article about video games (with a focus on Halo and Halo 2) in the November 8 issue of Time Magazine (page 116). It claims that games are striving for more emotional involvement. If we can get a scan, we’ll post it next week. Update: Lojack found an online version…

Ack! Yesterday, we got word from Andrew, of Fire Team Charlie, that FTC 15 had been released for members. Somehow, I totally spaced on it after replying to him. If you’re a member, go grab it now (80 mb, DivX-encoded AVI, with a QuickTime coming some time today or tonight). If you’re not… it should…

One One Se7en takes a look at the upgraded Cortana graphics. (No, not those bits, you sicko.)

NiceMissMayonnaise found an older Halo-based series at w00tness, the comic we mentioned yesterday. It starts on January 6 and runs for about a month and a half. (While we’re at it, the next panel of the CURRENT series is up.)

bourwa writes to say that Media Play (a chain of stores) is hosting some Halo 2 tournaments next weekend (Saturday the 13th). There doesn’t seem to be any info online, but if you live near a Media Play, it might be worth a call! (He’s a supervisor in a Michigan store, and they’re hosting one.)

The latest IGN Countdown 2 article tells you to go read a book while you wait. They even suggest one. Three, actually. Looks like Jason Ware beat Google this time around with the heads-up.