Author: Louis Wu

Stuntmutt takes a look at the new shield/health system again in today’s One One Se7en. You gotta love helpful AIs…

Uncle Mato has kindly donated some Halo gear to the 343 Guilt O’ Lantern loot pot; we’ve upped the second prize collection to include an S-type controller, and added a third prize. More goodies for everyone!

7 new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section today – more poetry than anything else (including some haikus – whoa, does that bring back memories!). Go see.

Plenty of new content over at Halo Babies – a new strip, of course (it is Friday), plus new concept art, and a nod to MC and Cortana, another comic strip that’s recently come back online.

Looks like there was ANOTHER Xbox.com article I missed last month – this one is called One Chief to Rule Them All, and it looks at what makes Halo stand alone in the field of Xbox titles. Not a bad read, overall.

GhaleonEB posted a link containing a list of all the EB Games stores (sorted by state) that will be open at midnight on November 9 to sell Halo 2. If you want to be sure you get started playing at the earliest possible moment… check this list for a store near you.

Ms. Man created a collection of multiplayer trick movies, back in the day. (None of them, for some reason, are in our Movies database… I’m not sure why.) His website went offline, and the vids were gone… until now. Ducain points out a post on the High Impact Halo forum containing a list of all…

There’s a new article on Halo 2 in the BBC’s Technology section today; most of the info is well-known to hardcore Halo fans, but it’s pretty fun to see such an in-depth article in a mainstream news source such as the BBC. They look at what is known about single-player (not much), how multiplayer has…

Recently, a new website put together by the Red vs Blue team went live – The Strangerhood is a new machinima series that uses the Sims 2 engine for storymaking. This is totally unrelated to Halo – except that a team that came together to make Halo-based movies originally is making this. An astounding number…

Man, I don’t know how I missed this one… except maybe because I wanted to. Xbox.com posted an article in their Lifestyle section a few weeks ago that looked at who should be cast in what role if anyone ever made a Halo movie (which, I hasten to say before the next sentence break, they’re…

Xbox.com has posted answers to last week’s Xbox Question of the Week, which was “What would you do for a sneak peek at Halo 2?” After reading the replies they got, I’m thinking that most of the people who answered have also made it into our mailbag…

Want a cookie? Calvin and Halo shows you the bar; raise it for results.

An astoundingly generous fan – who wishes to remain anonymous – has donated some pretty cool schwag for use in a new Bungie.org contest; we’re proud to announce 343 Guilt O’ Lantern, a pumpkin-carving contest. Last year, Bungie hosted their own, and it was pretty successful – our fan wanted to see it happen again,…

A quick update on the free file hosting service being offered by Brian Towne… the list of sites that can use the service has grown considerably – and a check of the bandwidth usage for the box tells me that there’s an added bonus that I hadn’t expected. Over the years, I’ve gotten pretty stingy…

Getting started late today – apologies. Looks like Halo 2 fever has gotten people thinking about what has brought them here (or, I guess, to ANY Halo site) – there are a couple of threads today on our forum that look at various aspects of this game’s effect on us. Neo-genesis asks “Why are you…

Narcogen, over at Rampancy.net, noticed a new update to the blog of Mat Noguchi, ToolMaster for the Halo 2 team. (I think I heard someone shortening that a bit, at one point…) Sounds like they’re really winding down – we’re close to the Gold announcement! An interesting ‘bit of trivia’, as well: “Legendary is hard.…

Looks like Levels4you.com posted a Halo Character Model pack for Unreal Tournament 2k4 last week. Thanks, Hawk7886, for .

A couple of weeks ago, Frankie confirmed to Gamespy that there would be no low-gravity levels in Halo 2 multiplayer. Looks like someone forgot to tell One One Se7en…

Hehe – this is sort of funny. IGN Xbox is running a poll… “Most Anticipated Xbox game besides Halo 2?” If you can’t beat ’em, rule ’em out. 🙂 Thanks, Pete.

E1337 points out a page at Xboxyde with a couple of vids on it; the first is simply a re-encode of a video we mentioned from them last week (if you didn’t get it then, it might be worth grabbing now), the second is a 16 mb, 4:19 long WMP9 showing more Zanzibar gameplay from…