Author: Louis Wu

Mad Cow points out that he’s started work on his own Master Chief suit for Halloween this year. Geez… that reminds me that I’ve got a BOATLOAD of new pics to post on Chris Bryan’s ongoing project page… soon, I hope.

Ain Soph Aur noticed a tiny mention of Halo 2 (‘a must-have game’) in the October issue of Playboy Magazine. We probably won’t be bringing you scans of this.

mrsmiley writes to point out a couple of fan strips and a whole lot of fan artwork over at Halo Babies; go see what you can find.

Looks like a LOT of movies were released yesterday; I’m gonna combine ’em all in one post for efficiency’s sake.Boneho Chane and Lockpicker made a movie with action figures (not stop-action) called ‘Chicken on Fire Episode 1’ – 15 mb, QuickTime format.toyoungtodie posted a vid called ‘Halo 2 Remix’ on the High Impact Halo forums;…

Wow. I’m not sure how… but it looks like Xboxyde has gotten hold of (a mediocre version of) the very first E3/Zanzibar vid released. This is the vid that the 20 seconds of hi-res gameplay was cut from during E3 itself. This one’s only 320×240, and a bit dark and blurry… but it’s 20 minutes…

11 new stories for you in the Fan Fiction section today… go read!

Recoil found a really nice closeup of the Kubrick Master Chief (from the Tokyo Game Show) on this Italian site. I want one!

Hehe – Devin Olsen decided to try to cross the Shaft gap… without a warthog, and with only two grenades. Oh, yeah… and a Hunter. He made it. Watch the vid and smile. (3.9 mb, WMP9 format, hosting courtesy of Brian’s new Mythica Uploads server. Which, btw, rocks, and now works with b.net forums and…

IGN has put up 4 new vids containing shakeycam (but very high-quality shakeycam) footage of Zanzibar gameplay at the Tokyo Game Show. These show better gameplay than the rather lame Warthog driving footage they posted yesterday. In actuality, there are really only 3 new clips; those marked ‘3’ and ‘4’ are the same clip. (It…

Nice pickup by nash–housewares… in the final TGS picture displayed by Impress, Frankie is playing split-screen… but the screen is split side-to-side, rather than up-and-down! I missed this entirely, but it’s going to come as a welcome change to widescreen tv owners.

Interesting. There’s a forum thread over at Bungie.net in which a fan visited the website of the company that does the sculpture for the Halo 2 action figures for Joyride. In the Halo 2 section, he found a new, never-before-seen creature… is this a mistake? Did the sculpting company put up something they shouldn’t have…

Arkangel06 got a chance to play the E3 build of Zanzibar, as well as Waterworks and Lockout from the beta; he’s written up his impressions in a long post on our forum. Give it a read!

GhaleonbEB found some nice pics taken at the Tokyo Game Show yesterday; they were linked to on the Gaming Age forums, but they were actually posted on the Japanese site Impress. Great, high-quality shots of Frankie playing Ascension (the new map depicted in yesterday’s screenshots), which show clearly the HUD as it stands in this…

Goatrope continues his quest to blow people away in Vidmaster style… he’s completed 343 Guilty Spark, Legendary Difficulty, taking zero shots, and dying zero times. The movie is 11:44 long, in DivX-encoded AVI format, and 32.6 mb large. Nice humility, even. All I can say is… wow. (I’m really, really impressed that he didn’t instinctively…

Konrad, a regular at HBO Junkies’ lanfests, has recreated some memorable scenes from events held here over the years, in Megabattle style. (If you’ve forgotten – or never learned – what a Megabattle pic is all about, just search our news.) Now, you might not have any real context for the moments themselves (most people…

Brian Towne, of Mythica.org, has made an astoudingly generous offer tonight; if you have a file that you need hosted – an image, a small movie (under 8 mb), whatever – that you want to post on either our forums or the High Impact Halo forums… just upload them onto his new server. There are…

When the two new screens were released today, there was a bit of talk on our forum about how cool it was that the scope on the sniper showed what you were looking at. BOLL, never one to leave you feeling like you were missing something, decided to give you a chance to try it…

David Bikki points out a couple of pages of pictures at eToychest; the first page has as its last image a nice pic of the Halo 2 booth, and the second page has as its FIRST shot an adorable closeup of a chibi Master Chief. Check ’em out!

Everyone’s favorite cue ball has been interviewed over at TeamXbox; Frankie holds forth on online multiplay, decals, and what Bungie ISN’T talking about. (They’re still not talking about it – he’s just reiterating that. That is… oh, never mind. Just go read it.) Thanks, GhaleonEB.

SketchFactor has put up the two new screens released recently, over on Bungie.net… maybe a bit later than, say, us… but their versions are bigger. Go grab the 1600×1200 lovin’ over at B.net. (They DO have watermarks, though. Ha.)