Author: Louis Wu

Calvin and Halo speculates on a pretty nice way to go out…

Dark Helmet has put forth the question – what are some of the best Halo tricks ever? Ducain stepped up to the plate with an entire section of the High Impact Halo forums devoted to the issue. Nominate your choices, and then come back and vote! Rules are here. Thanks, ash.

Bluestone has posted a new Flash movie called ‘Capture the Flag’ – it’s under 2 mb, and hosted at both 343GS and Newgrounds. Nice animation. (Apologies – he sent me mail about this on Saturday, but it got buried in the flood.)

Over the past few weeks, Compassghost has been posting pretty cool artwork for a Flash movie he’s working on. I haven’t added these to the Misc Art section because there are just too many of them; I considered offering him space for a separate page, but someone else did that and he said he wasn’t…

Geez – you go a weekend without posting any Fan Fiction updates, you suddenly have 23 pieces to deal with. Lots of poetry this time around.

On Saturday afternoon, Recoil brought a new product to our attention – the SmartJoy FRAG, an adaptor that allows you to connect PS/2 mice and keyboards to your Xbox. (We were sort of busy Saturday, and didn’t get to this right away.) Folks on many forums are up in arms about this, talking about how…

Ross Mills found a listing on Amazon.com for a Halo 2 Wall Calendar for 2005… except that it’s not available. Huh? (Details list a publication date of July 1, 2004. Bravardo (the publisher) doesn’t seem to have a website.) Curious… Update: Mike Scott says the listed ISBN number is invalid – did this EVER exist?…

Boxer reminded me a couple of hours ago that today’s Adventures in Disaster has been posted. Gotta watch them coordinates…

Narcogen, over at Rampancy.net, points out a tutorial showing how to use HexEdit, HMT, and some plugins to increase the speed of your Warthog. Since it’s posted on the MacDev site, I’d assume this works on Mac Halo. (You’ll need to register on MacDev to be able to read this.)

Major Nelson, Director of Programming for Xbox Live, has posted a picture on his blog of a metallic, embossed Halo 2 poster – looks pretty wild! Thanks to Anim8rJB for the heads-up. (Major Nelson also has pics of the final packaging of the Plantronics headset.)

Major League Gaming has launched MLG-TV, a free version of their for-pay Video on Demand. There are several vids up now, including shakeycam video from the San Fran tourney, and the LA Paintball Aftermath. Quality is quite good, especially considering what you’re paying for it (NOTHING). check it out! Thanks, Dolbex.

Some of the zanzibar-based movies showed a new (for Halo 2) gametype called Assault – not to be confused with the Assault variant of CTF. A description of the gametype can be found in the Halo.fr writeup that went online a couple of weeks ago. A potential conversation between teammates DURING this gametype can be…

Boatloads of new fan-created artwork showed up this weekend at Halo Babies. We already mentioned the Tina Leyk piece – but there’s much, much more. Go see.

Piggyback Interactive, a highly-respected UK-based strategy guide publisher, held a contest for game store managers recently, asking for the best reply to “Why should I buy the Halo 2 guide with the game?” The winners were announced today – they’re all fine reasons to buy a strategy guide. (Me, personally, I’m holding off until I’ve…

Nesnora, over at the (newly remodeled and super-cool) Red vs Blue site, has posted another of her realistic renderings of Halo locales; this one is called ‘Shiela was Here’, and is an amazing view of Sidewinder. Prints should be available sometime in November. (You will not be able to follow that link until you sign…

MiD33 has posted a beta of his ‘Pimp up Halo’ game over at Newgrounds; at this point, the most fleshed-out module is the warthog, thanks to the artwork of Ian McConville (used with permission), but there’s also some basic changes you can make to a scorpion tank and a Marine. Flash-based, it lets you change…

daedalus was the first to let us know about the Wired Magazine article going online – text AND pictures. We’ll still be providing press scans for the dead tree version once the November issue is on newsstand shelves… but you can read it now over at Wired.com. Once again – there is absolutely nothing in…

Verdafolio pointed out that Demented Puppy is hosting an older multiplay vid that Clan Alphabase made, called Instability. 11.2 mb, WMP9 format. (Registration required for download.)

Today’s Ctrl+Alt+Del is Halo-related… and shows why it’s important to have roommates you can trust. Thanks, russellfamily.

Big-O found a pretty funny error on the CompUSA Halo 2 page; somehow the date and the price got melded, so Halo 2 costs $1,109.04. Ouch! (If it gets fixed, look farther down in the thread; Brian Towne snagged a screenshot for posterity. It’s still that way now, though, 2 days later…)