Author: Louis Wu

You may have noticed the large number of reports of… odd Halo 2 gameplay at the Game Stars Live event in London over the past few days. Stuntmutt tosses his own ideas into the ring in a special Sunday One One Se7en. Update: There’s a MASSIVE (and really-well-written) chronicle of Stuntmutt’s EGN experience on our…

Professor Keo put together a very nice video called ‘Storming the Beach’ – 7.6 mb, QuickTime format, it does a very cinematic job of portraying the beach battle on Silent Cartographer. Check it out!

The problems with one of our three servers have gotten bad enough that I’ve pulled it entirely from the rotation. This means 2 things: the load on the remaining two servers is significantly higher (which might mean more outages)… and it means the Fan Fiction section is entirely offline until I can code a replacement…

Goatrope has opened High Speed Halo, a new website devoted to Halo speed runs. All difficulties, all levels – if you’re interested in seeing how fast you can get through Halo, High Speed Halo is for you! Comments can go in this forum thread.

Internet… connectivity… fading… but there’s still time for a Miscellaneous Art update. Go check out the 10 new pieces. Some pretty cool stuff this time around.

coolp, using the time he spent playing Halo 2 at PAX as a starting point, wrote up a pretty extensive ‘Hands-On Halo 2’ article over at TalkXbox. Go see if there’s anything you didn’t know.

Interesting article over at the BBC on the science of human physiology as affected by video game playing. Halo is mentioned as a prime example of why there’s motivation for this. Looks like first notice for this came from hminn.

Last update for a while. This one points out the new content at Halo Babies… there’s lots of it. A new strip, new strip backgrounds that can be used by folks interested in making guest strips, and a new reality-show-type video chronicling more of the Seattle trip in the Sponsors section (bandwidth 30+ mb movies…

cDringer scanned a nice-looking freebie he found at Gamestop – it’s the same image that OXM is using on their October cover. (I’ve replaced the original 1 mb gif with a smaller jpeg, but otherwise, his post is as it was.) The press continues…

Ouch. There’s a long story over on Bungie.net, talking about the long-awaited upgrade to the Seventh Column; starting next Tuesday, it’ll be down for 1-2 weeks for the upgrade, and when it comes back, there’ll be lots and lots of changes. This is bad news for the HBO Junkies, which was actually using one of…

Are you a legal resident of Canada, 17 or over by October 4? If you are, you have a shot at some cool Halo-related goodies from the Famous Players website. Visit the contest page for details, and don’t forget to check the Rules page for all the nitty-gritty. themanlydeadguy brought it to our attention.

WOW. Another really cool Halo-related image on the DeviantArt website – VegasMike (otherwise known as Adam Vehige, who won our Pillar of Art contest last year with a similar image) posted an image called ‘Halo 2’. Very, very nice. Thanks to Guardian for finding it.

No, that’s not a boot in today’s One One Se7en… it’s a – well, go read it.

Wow. BlackOps, of the Imperial Army clan, posted a note on the Gearbox forums, announcing a new (not quite available yet) stats system for Halo PC, based on an open-source Unreal Tournament 2003 stats tracking system. There’s a link to their own website, showing you what these stats look like; they’re amazingly complete. Check it…

Another update this evening comes in the form of desktops, with 10 new items in the Wallpaper Section. Go see what you can find.

Some of you may have noticed I haven’t been around much today. I’m at a family wedding about 1500 miles from home… so updates will be scarcer than usual (unless other staffers can cover for me). I CAN, however, post some of the user-submitted content… starting with the Fan Fiction section. 5 new items tonight.…

A Nightmare-Armor-clad MC made ANOTHER down-under appearance, this time on a footy field in Victoria. Thanks, Brett C.

Today’s Calvin and Halo is eerily reminiscent of a recent forum thread… I say ‘eerily’ since the C&H was submitted weeks ago. Dun dun dun…

Saint points out that The Library (his attempt to categorize everything in Halo) is back online at Psyjnir.net. Thanks to him, and to Psyrixx! (The Psyjnir Complex itself is still offline, but expected back in a few weeks.)

High Impact Halo’s Three Towers contest has ended – congrats to the winners! Check out Ducain’s writeup on the HIH forum for details. Highlight reels will be forthcoming, it seems. (And thanks to him for the heads-up on our own forum.)