Author: Louis Wu

ËœfmËœ and °MDS are organizing a Halo 1v1 Sniper Tournament, played on Halo PC and Halo CE. If you want to participate, you have to register on the °MDS forum. Be aware that this is a German clan. You’ll find more information in this section of their forum.

On Saturday night, Wolfy sent word that the Rockets on Prisoner nominees (culled from user voting) have been posted – look them over, pick your favorites, and go vote! There’s a small thread on our forum with comments, if you’d like to add your own.

Ryan ‘Mhaddy’ Matthews of the Junkyard points out that part VI of the “As Real As a ‘Survivor’ Elimination” series is up. A Marine Corps pilot looks at the military realism of the events in 343 Guilty Spark, and talks about what he would have done had these events actually happened to him (as opposed…

Tycho/Howard found a pretty funny Flash animation over at Newgrounds; someone else who’s angling to win a Plantronics Halo 2 Headset from HaloTV. A for effort, A for humor… I’d give it to him.

ghaash points out that the 7-Eleven/Mountain Dew Halo 2 Slurpee Cup website is now online – with chances to win Halo 2 before you can buy it. They’re giving away lots of copies of the Limiited Edition version of Halo, plus a couple of trips and a bunch of T-shirts. Eligibility is limited to the…

wopkins has posted a new movie showing MC doing the Can Can. It’s hilarious. 1.7 mb in WMP9 format, 1.3 mb in QT format.

More Crisp Death pics – clarksbrother put up all the pics he took (137 of them), and Konrad posted a bunch, with comments. KP wrote up his experience (an astounding amount od driving for the cause), including a scan of the original Mister Chief Blueprint, a one-of-a-kind piece showing where Frankie started, and Dan Chosich…

Stuntmutt sent in a special Sunday strip for One One Se7en – it addresses one of the biggest points of contention on our forum right now. Warning – it’s 200K large. Speaking of Stuntmutt, it seems he’s been cheating on us; or at least, he’s producing content for other sources, and not telling us. Bad…

Okay, it’s time to start waking up the slugabeds lying all over my house; we’ve got furniture to move, and Xboxes to wire together, and Halo multiplayer to… well, play. Crisp Death kicks off in a couple of hours, and that means no more news posts for a little bit. Enjoy your Saturday!

EvilBurger pointed out that a new Subzero Rivalries is up; definitely has a Caboose-like feel to it. He’s experimenting with a new coloring style – and I’d say it works really well. Check it out!

Tina Leyk seems to have caught the baby bug; her second new piece in a row is a Halo Babies tidbit. I must say… it’s gorgeous. Check out her Fan Art page for ‘Baby MC vs Baby Elite’ – I’ve really got to get me one of those carbine water rifles!

Marty O’Donnell talked to the Music 4 Games crew about the audio in Halo 2, from what went in to what didn’t, how the outside contributors were used, what’s still to come, and more. It’s a great read – swing on by!

Okay, I doubt the overlap between HBO visitors and NPR listeners is really big, so you’re gonna have to bear with me here. National Public Radio in the US has a program called ‘Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me’ – it’s a news quiz. If you call in, and take the quiz, and win, your prize…

Xbox LIve France has a preview of Halo 2, written up during the European tour last month. It’s in French (naturally), but there are plenty of pretty pictures (mostly on the last page, unless you’re a REALLY big fan of Cam Payne). Thanks to caudronix for pointing this out.

No Hables is getting in on the vidmaster action; he’s posted a movie in which he runs through 343 Guilty Spark, using zero bullets… and only ONE grenade. On Legendary. Movie is 12:15 long, 31.2 mb large, in WMP9 format. It’s got a couple of double-take moments. If he runs out of bandwidth, let us…

Frankie has posted an update (kinda) on Bungie.net; the game is done, as far as Bungie’s concerned, but it’s out for Certification. However, there’s plenty of reading material; info about making clans, how busy Frankie is (in between getting his butt kicked by Mat Noguchi – or wait, was that just ‘kicked out of the…

Man, it took a while… but it’s done, and it’s pretty. mnemesis has unveiled the Halo Story Timeline (to date) – including information from Microsoft, the books, and the game (though the actual GAME timeline for Halo is NOT included). If you’re curious about backstory events, this is the place to look!

Halo and Master Chief have been nominated to get a star in the San Francisco Metreon’s ‘Walk of Game’. If you want to help, you have to register (email address needed); you can vote once per day through October 31. At the moment, Master Chief and Halo are far and away the top picks for…

Ah, phooey. Two days ago, synide sent along a link to this week’s Plantronics Headset giveaway at haloTV – there’s even an extra set (on top of the normal 6) up for grabs. Sorry about the delay. (I was reminded when I saw a news post about this on the HaloPlanet front page.) Go win…

Not very long ago, in our forum, Skeletor posted a link to some new artwork by Craig Mullins. I ended up having to yank the link, because the work wasn’t actually supposed to be seen by the Halo community quite yet… but in the communications I had with Craig about that piece, a number of…