Author: Louis Wu

DropShock Episode 14 has been posted – discussions of the new books, as well as a couple of April Fools jokes. 40 mb, almost an hour an a half. Check it out.

Dojorkan posted a bunch of pics yesterday on our forum – they show grunts and the MC getting into, and driving, the Creep (the Covenant bus that shows up on Outskirts). Apparently… driving animations for these guys were actually created, even though you’re never actually allowed to get in and drive one! Fun stuff.

Stephen Loftus submitted a pair of updates for his Scale Comparison article; down near the bottom, you’ll find new weaponry scale charts (one for the Covenant, one for the UNSC) – and each one has a corresponding hi-res PDF document you can download, if you need or want higher quality silhouettes of the items. Good…

Recently, we altered the information that MPRRS reviewers had access to about their own reviews; we gave them the ability to easily see when their reviews were wildly different from the norm. There aren’t any solid rules about where you have to be in this regard – we’re not looking to censor reviewers simply because…

Rocksiider continues his investigations into fun battles you can set up on Silent Cartographer – check out this forum post for more details.

Michael Katcher looked at the MLG model and extrapolated to sports in general; could we see internet-based subscription content supplanting one-size-fits-all TV options in the future? (My guess – not if cable companies have anything to say about it; video-on-demand might make this whole concept moot in the next couple of years.) Comments can go…

During my travels through the Red vs Blue community, I ran across HyperSoldier, who’s got quite a bit of Halo-related artwork up at DeviantART (as well as a few extra pieces in his RvB images collection). Give it a look!

Stephen Loftus shows no sign of slowing down in his quest to fully delineate the known vehicles and structures in the Halo universe; his latest subject is the Phantom Troop Carrier. Armaments, interior space, carrying capabilites – he (with the help of Dojorkan, who supplied some of the pictures) lays it all out for you;…

There were a bunch of questions that came in, asking for clarification about the rules for the 7 on the 7th contest – can you photoshop your images, can you use extra (non-Halo) action figures, how do you specify your caption and theme… we’ve added answers to these questions in the Rules section of the…

MikeMan27 submitted to the MPRRS a new movie he’d edited – ItWasLuck’s 5th montage. This film is up for grabs at Halo2Forums.com in WMP9 format, and weighs in at 100 mb (it’s almost 9 minutes long), but since it passed the MPRRS (handily, I should add), we’re making a QuickTime version available, as well, for…

Swing by and light a birthday candle for High Impact Halo, which turned two a few days ago. Awesomeness!

The new Weekly Update has been posted – a nice little Q&A. You can read it on Bungie.net, in our Weekly Update Archive, or at Halo: Portable for your PSP. Who was first? Who do you think?

If you’ve got questions for Bungie, swing by Bungie.net and post ’em in this thread – Frankie will answer (some of) them in tonight’s Weekly Update. Gogogo!

Joseph Staten, a graduate of Northwestern University, will be back at his alma mater on April 22 to talk about Halo, and the writing of its story. It’s part of a full day of seminars from NWU alumni – the full day is $65 (with lunch), a half day is $45, and a single seminar…

Mintz writes to point out the new content at Halo: Portable, which now supports the iPod and PocketPC in addition to the original PSP content – you can find Wedow and Vinny Jones’ montage, in multiple portable formats, Bungie’s interview with Burnie Burns, and a truly annoying welcome to Funkmon, who’s joined the staff there.…

Peptuck found an interesting clip of a remix of ‘Under Cover of Night’ – read his forum post for more details. The full version can be purchased as part of a remix album.

Halomaps.org has upgraded the functionality of their Halo CE Server list – you can see full map lists (to make sure you have them before joining), gametypes, uptime, and so on. Great stuff! If you’re playing HaloCE online, this is invaluable.

It’s April 7th… which means it’s time for… that’s right, another 7 on the 7th contest! (Yeah, as though we’ve been doing one of these every 7th.) Anyway, this one is fun; grab some Halo action figures, pose ’em up nice (keep it clean, we’re going to toss entries that are obscene), write a funny…

Captain Spark dropped off another 19 dialogue snippets – you can grab ’em in bulk from his site, or browse ’em in our Dialogue Databank. There’s one that’s unintelligble to me – and Spark didn’t even try it, so he clearly couldn’t hear it either. (If you can tell what the brute is saying, let…

What’s worse than random speculation about Halo 3? Random puns about it… go read One One Se7en.