Author: Louis Wu

Yesterday, we released a short vid showing Mike Miller clearing the Belly of the Beast fight on Truth and Reconciliation without firing a shot – on Legendary. You might remember ‘Legend’, Mike’s last video, showing some pretty slick Legendary gameplay. Well… he’s followed it up with a sequel. Legend 2 is 7:36 long, 28.6 mb…

bobindashadows has managed to convert the New Mombasa Classic map (originally for Halo CE) to work with Mac Halo. (There’s also an updated tool for installing custom maps available.) You can’t actually play on Halo CE servers (Mac Halo can’t see them) – but you CAN play the map itself, with other Mac users. Really…

The Halo PC 1.05 patch, which closes a potential security hole and fixes Halo PC to work with XP’s Service Pack 2, is now accessible via the Auto-Update feature (it will be downloaded automatically the next time you connect to the server list from within the Halo PC application), or you can grab it from…

Ducain, following up on his previous ‘get a warthog with a live marine across the Silent Cartographer shaft’ trick, has gotten the warthog BACK across the shaft (without killing the live marine). Vid is 8.6 mb, WMP9 format. Nice toss!

I’d hoped to find time to recode the Fan Fiction section for a new server – it hasn’t happened yet. We’ve therefore brought the original back online, for this section alone. We should be fine for a while. There are 8 new pieces for you there – go read!

Thanks to broony, who sent in a scan of a 4-page interview with Max Hoberman, Bungie’s Multiplayer Lead for Halo 2, published in last month’s Xbox World magazine in the UK. It mostly discusses Zanzibar… with some fun tidbits of other areas thrown in. Go read it in our Press Scans section.

Age points out that the Fire Team Charlie boyz have put out another vid; FTC13b is members-only, but it’s 8:16 of hilarity, absolutely worth the 65 mb download. It’s currently available in Divx-encoded AVI format, but they’ll have a QuickTime version available later today.

Mike Miller, a man who knows how to play Halo and make movies about it, has dropped off a film called ‘Guns Don’t Kill People…’ If you’re at all insecure about your Halo-playing ability, don’t watch this. T&R’s ‘Belly Of The Beast’, on Legendary… in under 4 minutes, without firing a shot. (An interesting side…

It seems that Stuntmutt has gotten a taste for fame, and now refuses to let a day go by without a new strip or a news post. Well, the money’s good, so I’m fine with it. Go check out his take on what happens when internet geeks meet in real life in today’s Guest One…

It’s Tuesday, so there must be 10 new pieces of art on HBO. Today’s batch is in the Miscellaneous Art Section. Some snazzy sketching in there! Check it out.

Juggertrout put together a short (1:19, 6.8 mb) film showing some Warthog Jumping off of pelicans. It’s being hosted by Mythica, for the [-TLG-] clan.

Thanks to Nathaniel, of the EPG Servers, who posted a note on the Gearbox forums about the new EPGS Delagginator. Coded by Kornman and MonoxideC, this is a server-side patch that can help significantly with the vehicle warping problem on Halo CE. (Be sure you read his warning about the order in which to do…

Way back on April, 2000, Haloplayers launched a Halo WAP site for mobile phones. That site is long-dead… but the idea has been revived, over at HaloPlanet. (I’m linking to the automated forum post for two reasons; there’s no ‘permanent link’ I can lock onto on the HaloPlanet front page, and the thread itself has…

That Weasel writes to mention two new videos on the Team X subsite of That Weasel Television; Tantrum and Recoil are now available for downloading (along with 12 other vids that folks might not have seen due to bandwidth issues). All movies are in WMP9 format. Check ’em out!

Following in the Jackal theme, Tina Leyk sent along a quick sketch of a Jackal, just to show a friend that they CAN be drawn… you’ll find the new guy at the bottom of her Fan Art page here at HBO. Rockin’!

Boxer points out that Episode 7 of Adventures in Disaster is up over at akba.info. A Jackal by any other name would still taste like chicken…

Word from Mhaddy, over at the Junkyard, is that part IV of their Realism in Halo series, focusing on Silent Cartographer, has been posted. Go see what a Marine pilot thinks about Bungie’s military realism on this open-battle level!

Wow, almost missed today’s One One Se7en update because of the traveling. Stuntmutt’s pretty proud of this one – I think the fact that he got it all down on paper before passing out says a lot for his stamina.

Because one batch of Wallpaper is never enough, you need to stop by Halo Babies, for a massive art update, including some very cool collaborative wallpaper done by Gruntsbane and akba. (akba started by vectorizing the MC pose from Zoe’s farewell desktop, and then both akba and Gruntsbane put this image (with various amounts of…

Back, finally, from Minnesota. There was no Wallpaper update yesterday (oversight), so here it is today – 10 new desktop images in the Wallpaper Section. Apologies for the delay!