Author: Louis Wu

Continuing with the monstrous dialogue updates, we’ve got almost 100 Brute snippets from Hellhawk added today to our Dialogue Databank; go listen to these creatures!

Belligerent put together ‘View From Heaven’, a music video set to the song of the same name by Yellowcard. The MPRRS crew loved the filmwork. Cinematography is quite good, film quality is quite good. Good angles, all around. Go watch! 30 mb, in either WMP9 or QuickTime formats.

We got mail from Nerrolken about some big updates over at The Codex Series website. Well… it’s more than just the Codex Series site at this point, which is part of the big news – but there’s more. Go read it all.

Frankie bugged a bunch of the Bungie employees for lists of science-fiction influences or interests they’ve got going; if you’re looking for some good reading/watching, the resulting article will keep you busy for a LONG time. Notably missing from anyone’s list are Chris Rowley’s Vang novels… you’d think things that so deeply influenced the creation…

RemminyCricket submitted ‘The Ring Day 0’ to the MPRRS – reviewers liked the video effects, the background music, and the camerawork. It looks at the what happens to a guy who finds a video with a dire warning scribbled on it… 32 mb, in WMP9 or QuickTime format. (He’s expecting to make 8 episodes, though…

If today’s One One Se7en makes no sense to you, you should read this article. And when you’re done, find me the fan clamps.

I could have SWORN we’d mentioned this site before, but it seems I’m wrong. wheelers sent us a note about merzo.net – a site devoted to illustrating the dimensions of science fiction constructs from many different sources. On the 2000X page, you’ll find a pretty familiar ring-shaped object…

On April 1, we posted a (fake) press release from Jagex, the company behind Runescape; it announced Halo: Online, a Massively Multiplayer online role-playing game based on the Halo universe. This press release was created by Ross Mills, a longtime community member and current employee of Jagex, and while he thinks the concept is cool,…

Annihil8or stopped by our forum to mention his Halo blog, the title of which (‘Halo 2 Failures’) should give you a pretty good sense for what he writes about. None of this stuff is new – but it’s presented in a calm, rational manner, and for the most part, it’s well thought-out. (Well, except for…

LunarShadow dropped by to explain that his H2O stats reader has been upgraded again; it’s a small bugfix for folks who don’t have ‘English’ as the default language in Windows. A link to his site (for a download) is in the forum post.

omg a fish submitted a music video set to the Stereophonics’ ‘I Stopped to Fill My Car Up’ – great effects, great cinematography. The reviewers at the MPRRS liked it, though a few thought its pace was a bit too slow. (Hey, whaddaya want… it matches the song!) 21.6 mb in WMP9 format, 20.8 mb…

Two new GORGEOUS pieces from Bryn Casey – he describes them as ‘one loose and one tight’, which isn’t far off – but I love ’em both. Check out Vapori (tight) and Cave (loose). Why is it that when I put lines on a piece of paper like that, it looks like scribbling?

Dennis Powers writes to point out that the 7th episode of Valley of the Forerunners is online now at the Halo CE Chronicles website. Harrington takes over and begins to figure out what the marines need to do. Just over 7 minutes long, in (as usual) WMP9, QuickTime, and streaming Flash formats. Go watch!

Thirteen must be today’s lucky number, because that’s how many new desktops you’ll find in the Wallpaper section. A really interesting collection – lots of different styles. Some really striking work in there…

As I’ve said before, there are a really large number of dialogue snippets in the queue right now. I’ve managed to process almost 50, from Hellhawk, today; you can find them listed in the Dialogue Databank. There are still almost 400 in the queue, from four different submitters; even if some turn out to be…

Wired’s Clive Thompson wrote an article glorifying the First Person Shooter, and the niche it fills in our hindbrain’s desire to be stimulated. Halo gets a nice mention on page 2. Thanks, Target4Hire.

Stuntmutt comments on Frankie’s discussion of a Mister Chief t-shirt in today’s One One Se7en. I hope he’s wearing armor after a joke that bad…

Treeskunk Productions, the guys behind Outpost: Coagulation, have started a new series, entitled ‘Outpost: Backwash’. The series trailer made it through the MPRRS yesterday; they weren’t looking for hosting, but since their downloads page offers only WMP9 format (22.9 mb), we’re providing a QuickTime link (21.4 mb). Looks to be funny, well-filmed, entertaining – check…

Over at Rampancy.net, vector40 has written up part 5 (the last part) of his Banshee Handling Tutorial – this one covers a number of techniques he hadn’t gotten to yet. And in case you were wishing he’d included some of the sillier tricks… he wrote a separate article on our forum, detailing the stuff you…

Halogen’s updated again – 4 new skinned items. (You can also read it on their forum.) I like the Gas Facility… thanks, Logical2u.