Author: Louis Wu

Again, we’re 12 hours late – but what can you do? Eric Trautmann mentions that his author’s copy of The Art of Halo showed up yesterday – and he’s happy with the end result. (That’s a good thing; I’d be nervous if the AUTHOR was unhappy.) Thanks, KiGlow.

As many of you already know, there is a cracked copy of the French PAL version of Halo 2 out there on the net. I suppose it was inevitable – but that doesn’t mean it’s okay with us. Leaked screens, descriptions of not-already-released areas of the game (both single and multiplayer), links to downloads -…

Brian Towne, the man behind Mythica.org (and a rabid Halo Action Figure collector) pointed out this auction on eBay today. Every action figure released so far (barring the brand-new Halo2 figures), including a bunch of pretty rare exclusives. There are still 4 days left in the bidding, but it’s already up to $305. Back in…

Red Leader points out After War, a comic (more of a graphic story) drawn by Kevin Ryan. They start here, and the latest episodes were posted today. (I’d never seen them before – they’re pretty good.)

Gaming Horizon has a story on the relaunch of Halo2.com, the official Halo 2 website; new screenshots, new movies, 3 brand-new wallpapers. Wonga! (Remember, we already mentioned the teaser wallpaper – you can get a sense for what it looks like by tossing it into an image processing app (like Photoshop) and fiddling with the…

Interesting forum post from princeofthesword – a challenge to do some of the cooler things discovered about the first Halo, for yourself, before November 9. Yeah, lots of you have done all of these, and more… but many, many more of you haven’t. And this is a good chance to see just how rich the…

Hehe – G-NOx points out a Dutch Halo 2 contest – beat the Cherry Coke monsters, win an Xbox Halo 2 pack (crystal Xbox, Halo2). You have to be Dutch to win – but anyone can play; it’s just Space Invaders. I hit 55,000 before I got too bored. 🙂 Read the post on how…

DKo5 points out a post on the Shacknews forum made by one of the people working on the redesign of halo2.com. There’s a Wallpaper ‘gift’ in the post… nice. Update: ChibiJosh posted the wallpaper directly to OUR forum, too.

Hehe – Eric Trautmann described being fully paid for his work on The Art of Halo, due out in early November, in his blog. (If you’re near Olympia, Washington, on November 13, you can get it signed, even.) There’s also a nice ramble about how he feels about this whole process, and the Halo fan…

Stuntmutt takes a look at societal mores once again in today’s One One Se7en. (This was inspired by the Wired article posted recently… and some other stuff.)

nexus points out a 2v2 Halo Tourney in Dover, New Jersey on October 23 – $35 entry fee (discount with a Gamestop coupon), $800 payout. More details can be found in his forum post, or their website.

IGN continues their downward slide (and I do mean DOWNWARD) into Halo 2 with a new article entitled ‘On The Pot’ – describing how the author gets his best info about Halo 2, and where. Yes, it’s what you think it is. This series better ramp up soon, or I’m gonna have to stop posting…

There’s a bunch of Halo Babies fan-generated 3D artwork over at… well, Halo Babies. Go look!

No, they don’t mean it’s gonna be terrible – they mean its a fusion of Worst, a popular Japanese manga that’s coming to America, and Halo 2, a popular video game that’s coming… well, everywhere. A Halo 2 tourney in mid-November, with Worst and Halo-related goodies for prizes. Check out all the details on the…

Tina Leyk is back, with two new Fur-Lo comics; they’re both great looks at multiplayer… erm, fun. Or something. (I’ve been there, on BOTH of these…)

Okay, enough people have been whinin- er, clamoring for the return of the HBO-XBL Gamertag list that I put it back up tonight. What it DOESN’T have: I’ve yanked the ability to list what games you play. (This is why it disappeared in the first place; new games were being added to XBL so quickly…

Wow. Hawaiian Pig has ALREADY whipped up a MegaBattle set piece from Red vs Blue episode 39… wow. (There’s also a really nice little wallpaper in there.)

A couple of days ago, we mentioned a Spike TV casting call; it was happening in Santa Monica, CA, on Tuesday. It’s been rescheduled; the actual event will be tomorrow, Wednesday, October 13, at 10:30 am. The full casting notice can be seen here.

It’s almost, but not quite, the end of Tuesday – this episode of Calvin and Halo makes it in under the wire. (No guarantees on how long it’ll be readable; our backup servers are both choking.) It’s a big ‘un… but then, the job Calvin is trying to do is a big ‘un.

Team Radeon has put out a guide to Tweaking Halo PC – lots of information on making HPC run nicely on your computer. Check it out!