Author: Louis Wu

Okay, I wasn’t going to post this, because it’s clear that the folks at nilerogers.com WANT you to watch the flash animations that go with the music… but for a lot of you, that’s a less than perfect solution; the animation doesn’t preload, it streams… which means if your internet connection isn’t suitably fast, you…

Another IGN Countdown article – this one is a short summary of Ivory Tower, one of the multiplayer maps that beta testers got their hands on. Read it for a summary and a couple of basic gameplay mode ideas.

Well, it took longer than any of us expected – but you can now grab ‘Heart is a Lonely Hunter’ in one fell 203 mb swoop. If you don’t know what this movie is, here’s the first news post I made about it. We’ll continue releasing chapters for folks who don’t want the whole thing…

IGN continues their Countdown to Halo 2 series with a showdown – Halo 2 vs Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Yeah. Thanks, Creaper609. Update: In a twist that’s vaguely surreal, it looks like GTA: SA has ALSO been pirated and released to the net, before official publication. The Gamespot article is eerily similar to the…

A few days ago, we mentioned that Ms Man had made it to the bottom of Truth and Reconciliation – at the time, there were only photos and a short, hard-to-understand vid. At this point, there’s a full 12 minute, 42 mb WMP9, showing the whole level, with step-by-step instructions. It’s really impressive. I don’t…

The World Cyber Games website is streaming video from many of the Halo matches in this year’s tournament – you can find them on this page. Registration (free) is required to watch. Thanks, Bagre.

Over at nilerogers.com, there’s a new snippet available from the Halo 2 soundtrack – this one is Odyssey 1st Movement, from Incubus. Looks like the web team there has learned their lesson – figuring out the direct URL to the mp3 isn’t as easy as it’s been in the past… and it’s doubtful that this…

There’s a new episode of Afterwar (episode 6) over at Black Arts Studios – looks like the Master Chief might be in trouble!

Speaking of books… Ross Mills ran across a curious entry at Amazon UK. It’s a book entitled “The Halo 2 Battle Guide: Advanced Combat Techniques”, and purports to be written by ‘an experienced Halo 2 Beta tester’, chock-full of multiplayer tips. Publication date is December 17. As far as I can tell, it is not…

eddie m pointed out a ‘Trade Kit’ for retailers made by Piggyback Interactive for their upcoming Halo 2 Strategy Guide. It contains different covers (including a very nice large version), an insert and a product sheet. The download is 2.1 mb, and requires registration (free). It’s still unclear whether there’s going to be a difference…

Once again, the end of the day arrives, and the day’s One One Se7en is almost passed over. Today, that would be depressing, because it covers a subject that inspired headlines like “THE DEATH OF XBL!” when it was first announced… and Stuntmutt’s take was so close to my own I actually turned around to…

Uriel has written a rant about the bungling of the Halo 2 LE release in Germany – apparently, a pretty bad job of estimating how many would sell was done. The language is not for kids, but the anger is universal.

Another Halo 2 sighting in random web comics – today’s Joe and Monkey drops the name. Thanks, The Tropical Storm.

Want to see the artwork that made Halo as beautiful as it is, but think that $22 is too much to pay? Wal-mart is selling it for $13.83 – that’s a couple of bucks cheaper than Amazon. (Realize that you’re eating away at Eric Trautmann’s royalty check every time you look for bargains, though…) Thanks,…

rockslider has added a Halo dictionary to his site – it’s called ‘Halo in a nutshell’, and it’s pretty dang funny. Go read some.

Holly Wright, who owns littleplasticmen.com, a site that sells action figures, wrote to tell us about the HALO Forward Command Center (HALOfcc), a new subsection devoted to Halo, with news, giveaways, and of course, Halo action figures (both current and older). The deal that makes this newsworthy: from now through the end of November, customers…

kapowaz has put together a pretty fun wallpaper (preview here, 36K) that ties together the new Firefox web browser (final release is scheduled for November 9 – does that date sound familiar to any of you?) and a certain game you might have heard of. If you like it, it’s available in 800×600, 1024×768, 1152×864,…

Okay, I’m back, but I won’t be able to post news for several more hours – this afternoon will probably see a flurry of posts in the few hours before the timestamp rolls over to midnight UTC. Sorry about that. (And innumerable thanks to mnemesis, who kept the front page from being blank most of…

Reality check – if you thought WE were psyched about Halo 2, check the hype over at Yahoo Finance. Those are some pretty big superlatives they’re tossing around in there… Update: oops, looks like that’s just a standard press release; Rampancy.net points out Major Nelson’s blog, where it’s spelled out. Sorry about that. They’re STILL…

For the next couple of days, I’m not going to be around much. Hopefully, mnemesis and Count Zero can keep up on some of the news that comes in – but please… be patient, and do not send news items to my personal address if you want them to actually have a chance of being…