Author: Louis Wu

Over at the Halo CE Chronicles website, you can grab part 6 of the Valley of the Forerunners series. Harrington and the marines are starting to get an idea about how much trouble they’re actually in. Cinematography is quite good on this one. It’s a long one – almost 13 minutes, and weighing in at…

Z sent us word that Halzred’s 5th Montage is now available for download (we mentioned the trailer for it back in January). It’s 106 mb, in WMP9 format; it’s definitely more about the look-and-feel than about the gameplay. (Don’t get me wrong – the gameplay’s pretty impressive, what you can see of it – it’s…

Another video that went through the MPRRS recently was RipHamilton32’s ‘Rip Digital Cable 3’, a series of funny skits set up to look like you’re flipping through cable channels. This one didn’t pass – but it didn’t pass because one reviewer gave it a ridiculously low score (without any justification); we’ve tossed that score, and…

So there’s a group called Echo Zulu Films that has created a couple of machinima series – Alone, and the Major Tom Diaries – and they’ve recently released a Major Tom Diaries Primer episode, to bring new watchers up to speed on where the series is. If you’d like to check out the Major Tom…

XerxdeeJ, over at Tied the Leader, has been busy; there’s a summary of recent clan matches with notables from the Halo community (with boatloads of media), a Gaming Advisory System to help you find the fewest cheaters, and a summary of Le Tour de Halo, an intriguing (but closed to clanmembers only) tourney coming up…

Fwankman88 and friends at Force Lightning Studios created ‘Tablesaw Anatomy Episode 1 – it’s the start of a new machinima series. Two Ex-Marine bounty hunters stumble on a secret lab during a “sting”. Questions are left as they try and figure out what they really saw. Production values are quite high; great effects, great sound…

Stuntmutt continues the thread of Friday’s joke in today’s One One Se7en. Our society is obsessed with sex and violence – but they don’t always mix very well.

Aequitas created a screenshot which might just make you sick. (Motion-sick, not gross-sick.) Check out his forum post (and the followup) for more details, including how he made it. It’s 1.1 mb, so give it time to load.

Stephen Loftus created a very nice image showing the interior rooms of the Covenant Cruiser. We’ve added this to his Collected Works page, as well.

Rockslider continues to find new ways to have fun in the original Halo – up today, 5 new tidbits on Silent Cartographer. Check ’em out!

spartanerik noticed a Flash-based ‘Halo Situation Creator’ at newgrounds; drag and drop Halo sprites (looks like mostly Fuzzy’s stuff) into existing backgrounds. Something to play with?

Finn finally got to formatting our second-to-last level transcript – Sacred Icon is now available for reading. There’s only one left… and Finn is offering a prize for the first person to submit an error-free version of Quarantine Zone. Granted, that prize is only his thanks… but wouldn’t you like it if that person were…

Pinkuh updated her Lost The Lead comic – answering the question, “what can MC do to piss off Cortana?” Go read!

Bah. I was out most of yesterday, and when I came back in, I didn’t take the time to read through my email – which means I missed the reference to this post at Rampancy.net, which went up a couple of hours before April 1 passed into April 2. Marketing… taken to a new level.…

So, yeah. It’s April 2… which means the silliness that is April 1 is over again, for another year. For those who might be more optimistic than discerning, the following stories were (for better or worse) not real: Halo on the PSP, Halo – the MMO, One One Se7en: the Book (I think), The Squadron…

Heroes & Heretics Episode 4, ‘Operation: Incontinent Elephant’, has been posted over at the Slacker Entertainment website. More troops – but no substantial increase in battle strength. Poor Feldman… Thanks, WereSloth.

rapture sent along a link to the Halo2pc forum, where he’d posted a Press Release from Edelman Worldwide, announcing Halo 2 for MacOSX, coming this fall! (It will run only on Intel dual-core processors – Steve Jobs wants to prove that the OSX operating system is more powerful than Vista when both are running on…

Podtacular Episode 56 was posted last night – a general update show, with lots of… talk. Go listen. Thanks, Fr3d-105.

Xboxic previewed Halo 3. Lamely. (I say that because I can’t justify ignoring it, but they really didn’t do a very good job.) ‘First’ goes to Konrad, who next time shouldn’t post stuff this bad.

Red vs Blue Episode 77 – The Arrival – has been posted for sponsors. Currently it’s only available as a QuickTime – but other formats should be coming soon. I’m not even going to BEGIN telling you what it’s about – but more happens in 7 minutes than has happened in months. There’s a -…