Author: Louis Wu

Gamespy, clearly short of material to write about, has put up a ‘Top 10 Game Boxes of the Season’ article. Halo 2 came down with Number 7. Thanks, Bored_Dude.

A number of stories came out last night about the Halo 2 preorder issue; apparently, rather than being an UNDERestimate (as I thought), the Seattle Times’ value of one million preorders was an OVERestimate; official counts put it around 750,000. Oops! First clarification report I read was at Gamespot.

NiTrOuSoXiDe sends word that the Halo CE Zanzibar mod is far enough along to release screenshots – and you can find 3 of them in this thread on the Gearbox forums. Dang, that looks nice!

I’m beginning to think Tim Buckley is looking for hits from Halo sites or something… today’s Ctrl-Alt-Del is Halo-related, again. I gotta give him credit for nailing the attitude of an awful lot of us, though… Thanks, Bonekin.

GBase, a Swiss gaming site, has posted an interview with Bungie (it’s not clear who was actually interviewed, but I’d guess it was Cam Payne or Pete Parsons). It’s a decent read; most of the information inside has been said before, but there’s always a new twist or spin, or a question that hasn’t been…

Rockslider has added a few more enjoyable activities to his Bad Cyborg site; check the October 6th bullet in the Recent Updates list. This is a great site; content reigns supreme, but display isn’t unpleasant or awkward. No pics – just stuff to do. Fast.

This may or may not be relevant to you – but it’s pretty darn relevant to me. The Miscellaneous Art section has been moved over to nikon.bungie.org, a far more capable server than what it was on before. All old links should work without any intervention on your part; the only real difference to you,…

Hehe – Koolice sent us a screenshot (108K) of his MSN Messenger client from last night – looks like Anim8rJB (John Butkus, one of the Bungie Cananimators) was on XBL, playing… what? How could that be? Is it done?

Hehe – look where the Master Chief is showing up these days… (Full article is here.)

Mr Chubster submitted (a LONG time ago, it seems… sorry about that) a movie called ‘Sniping Made Easy’ – some really, really nice shooting. 4:36 long, 480×360. There’s a QuickTime version (26.3 mb) and a WMP7 version (29.8 mb). There’s a multiple killtacular at the end that I would have HATED to be on the…

Nice… redeemermatt points out a few of the ads running for Halo 2 on msn and other places… I like.

An article in the (Australia) Herald Sun newspaper today talks about the marketing blitz about to kick off for Halo 2. It contains a summary of some of the more notable Australian events related to Halo 2 – and except for the crack about ‘constantly revised release dates’, is pretty accurate. Thanks, Dr. Nick.

One One Se7en makes an old joke new. Well, current, anyway.

Brandon Raffensperger, better known as gwdpto, the owner of the HBO-COERCE Halo CE server, posted a note explaining that as of October 31, HBO-COERCE would be going offline – there are multiple reasons, but Halo 2 is the top one. He’s hopeful that they’ll be back with a Halo 2 dedicated server before too long!…

Markus Tacker lets us know about a Halo 2 launch promotion in Frankfurt, Germany:this morning I noticed a black Poster on a wall in the subway station Hauptwache showing the Master Chief and the headline “Are you ready to save the world?” (in german). On the bottom there were snippets to be ripped of (similar…

According to the Seattle Times, Halo 2 has presold more than 1 million copies at this stage, making it the highest presale in the history of video games. (I’ve heard higher numbers – but they probably did more homework than I did.) It’s the leader in a blockbuster season for Xbox, according to Andrew Jenkins,…

Major Nelson, the marketing guy at Xbox who gets such cool stuff, has gotten hold of (and taken pictures of) a limited-edition Halo 2 Kubrick T-shirt. It’s pretty cool. I’d wear one. (No, I don’t think you can buy one.) Thanks, A B.

CNN has put up a story on the World Cyber Games that kicked off yesterday in San Francisco. Halo takes up the last few paragraphs. (With almost $40,000 in cash and prizes on the line for the top 8 competitors in Halo, this is another of the biggies. If the same people who win this…

The 2004 Season Championship for Major League Gaming will be held in New York City on October 23rd and 24th – and details can be found over at MLGPro.com. There is $50,000 in prize money on the line, with the vast majority of that going for Halo. (Quick addition makes it look like $40,000 is…

haloTV is into week 3 of their Plantronics Halo 2 headset giveaway, with 6 more headsets to go out. The response has been tremendous – so they’re giving you chances to win that aren’t just ‘put your hat in the ring and pray’ (though that option is still there). Make the coolest haloTV wallpaper, or…