Author: Louis Wu

Equally as surely, we’re working our way through the Miscellaneous Art backlog – another ten pieces have been posted today. We’re still in July, as far as submissions go… but that won’t be for much longer.

Dolbex, synide, and Jason of MLG put together an 8-minute long retrospective of the MLG-Seattle Halo 2 experience; you’ve already seen the in-game footage, this will give you some flavor of the event itself. 26.9 mb, QuickTime format; we’ve put copies up on both files2.bungie.org and mythica.org.

No matter how hard you try, sometimes info gets out before you mean for it to. Take One One Se7en, for example.

Another day, another 10 desktop images for the Wallpaper Section. Slowly but surely…

Nice. Wideload Games, the brainchild of Bungie co-founder Alex Seropian and the first (and only?) company with plans to release a game using the Halo engine, has finalized a publishing deal with Aspyr Media, a Mac publishing house. (This doesn’t mean Wideload’s first offering will be Mac-only… in fact, it’ll be released on Mac, PC,…

Frankie showed up at the PAX event (the Penny Arcade blowout last weekend) with 12 Xboxes loaded with Halo 2 in hand… and seems to have had a good time. Of sorts. Check out the pictures and entertaining commentary over at Bungie.net. (He states, near the end, that this is probably the last chance the…

Didn’t think I was going to get to it today… but sometimes you get lucky. The next of about 8 backlogged batches of Miscellaneous Art (ten items per batch) is now up for grabs – so go grab. Cool sketches today.

Boxer points out that Episode 5 of Adventures in Disaster has been posted at akba.net. Careful where you step.

About a million years ago, or maybe it was just back in July, drelnathi sent along a collection of 18 Halo 2 figures, nicely separated from their backgrounds and saved as layered Photoshop documents. They were designed to help people make cool wallpapers – which is why he called it the Halo 2 Wallpaper Kit.…

John Kamphus found an old cigar box in his attic, and added some flavor (14k). Sarge would love him…

Subnova has launched the Halo FAN – a Fansite Advertising Network. If you run a Halo fansite with banner ads, joining this network will give your site exposure across the Halo fansite continuum, as well as providing you with a professionally-managed backend for your advertising particulars. Visit the info page for more details, and information…

MuchMusic.com got a chance to play the Zanzibar build at X04 in Toronto a couple of weeks ago – and they, too, have written up their impressions. Check ’em out. Thanks, Bored_dude.

Now THAT’S some dedicated mapping. Eric Loux sat down with what looks like graphing paper and a pencil and mapped out the Pillar of Autumn. Image is only 10K, so take a look.

Ryan ‘synide’ Thompson, who was recently Spotlighted by the Junkyard (go read it – it’s funny!), wrote up his own Halo 2 review based on his experience at last week’s MLG Seattle Downpour event. Swing on by Gotfrag for the lowdown, and some cool pics.

Okay – the film quality is pretty low (it was filmed with a digital camera, in movie mode), and the dialogue leaves a little to be desired… but Collin Ferry’s ‘Death of the Common Grunt’ film still brought a smile to my face. It’s available in WMP9 format (3.6 mb) or QuickTime format (3.4 mb),…

And again, continuing to clear the Wallpaper queue, there are 10 new desktops for you in the Wallpaper section this morning. Eep – time to get back to the Misc Art queue!

If you can read German, you should swing over to Halo Universe, where they’ve put up a preview of Halo 2, based on thier impressions at the Games Convention last week, along with another small (2.7 mb, WMP9 format) shakeycam vid of the action.

Stuntmutt takes a shot at passed-over assets in today’s One One Se7en. Might make you cry instead of laugh… (For some of you, that won’t be anything new, when it comes to One One Se7en.)

Ten new pieces in the Fan Fiction queue were approved today – many new series started! Go see what you can find.

Trigun mentions that there’s a new episode of Halo: On Vacation as well as a new Flash episode of That Halo Parody over at the 7th Revolution. (Well, it’s really at Newgrounds, but it’s LISTED at the 7th Revolution. Or something.)