Author: Louis Wu

AngelicLionheart noticed an article on IGN PC about G-Phoria, G4TV’s Game of the Year show. In it is a mention of a playable Halo 2 demo (most likely the Zanzibar level shown at E3). AngelicLionheart wonders if we’ll see some footage of gameplay from someone there… To be complete, it should be noted that Frensa…

The Xtournaments Crew writes to say that registration has been left open a bit longer, because of a mistake last Saturday – and to point out that the Spokane, WA tourney location has moved. Details can be found on the Xtournaments website. (For those just joining us, Xtournaments is a multicity 4v4 national Halo tournament…

That Weasel points out that Episode 8 of ‘Grunts Are People Too!!!’ – The Good, The Bad, And The Chuckly – is now available for download from the GaPT website. 6.3 mb in WMP9 format, 11.8 mb in QuickTime-friendly .mp4 format, this one is an old-style western. Nice use of mods for interesting camera angles.

Red vs Blue has posted a fun film to pass the time until you get your Season 2 DVD (you DID order one, didn’t you?) – it was displayed a few weeks ago at Lincoln Center, during the ‘Wild Wild Web’ program, and now it’s available for the world. (This isn’t sponsors-only.) Check it out!…

Another 8 stories added to the Fan Fiction database – it’s looking like the new Fiction Comments setup is working. Lots of productive comments… keep it up!

A bunch of people noticed lots of activity on the Bungie Webcam last Friday and Saturday. Many, many people were playing Halo 2. (If you missed it, Tru7h Online was nice enough to archive it.) Well, the first writeup of this activity has appeared on 1UP.com; Che Chou, of Xbox Nation, has a nice update…

Konrad points out a pretty strange glitch that surfaced at the recent Dead Babies LANfest; the movie is truly crappy quality, and 7.4 mb in QuickTime format, but it shows KP racking up points in a slayer game by committing suicide. Can’t say that I’ve ever seen this before…

funkmon noticed a new Walkthrough of Halo on the Xbox.com Halo site – well, not new, exactly. The walkthrough itself (a 1.2 mb, 81-page PDF file) is dated October 18, 2001 – a month before the Xbox was released. Its inclusion on Xbox.com, however, dates back no more than a week or so. Interesting… (Don’t…

A few days ago, Nick pointed out that Microsoft had released DirectX 9.0c, the next generation of DirectX. The end-user runtime is not installed via the normal Windows Update interface; you have to download it yourself, and run the installer. You’ll be warned that it cannot be uninstalled, and that if you’re using Windows ME…

Last Friday’s unusual Weekly Bungie Update has now been archived in our database. I think all you can say about the usefulness of this is that our db is complete.

Stuntmutt shows where the new Halo 2 Elite troops come from in today’s One One Se7en. Personally, I’m starting to wonder about that boy – where DOES he get his inside info?

NuclearWinter discovered some pretty interesting info – Microsoft is getting ready to distribute a new style of Xbox Live headset, to be packaged with a game being released later this year. Evidence (read the post) points to Halo 2. If this turns out to be accurate, I think this is the first the Halo community…

Saturday was the day for the Dead Babies LAN, visited by a passel of HBO regulars. Writeups and pics in this thread, and more pics from Juggler (the host) in this one. I couldn’t tell if his Furhman fetish was bigger than his Spiderman one… (You gotta love the ‘HBO’ spelled out in Bawls bottles,…

Ducain whipped up a vid showing some fun stunts on the level Halo – jumping through walls, launching marines, generally going places you’re not supposed to be. It comes in two flavors – 640×480, weighing in at 35 mb, and 320×240, weighing in at 15 mb. If you’re allergic to WMP9 versions, there are a…

The CPL is in full swing, with the finals underway RIGHT NOW. cooked Gamers, a team often seen around the HBO-Coerce HaloCE server, has come back from a first-round loss to face Wat in the Final Championship round. Keep an eye on Gotfrag for details… and good luck, cooked Gamers! Thanks to rapture, a cG…

ShOrtBusKid points out a Halo tourney he’s organizing in Arkansas (Ft. Smith area). If you’re nearby, visit the site and check out the details!

Do you love Misterchief? A tribute, from BOLL.

Tina Leyk pointed out another pair of new Fur-Lo panels posted today (‘Priceless’ and ‘He’s Got A Point…’); we’ve added them to our Fur-Lo page. Go read ’em!

The Halo-based Grand Theft Auto conversion has been renamed to GTA :: Sin City. This information, and a few other tidbits about the past week, are available in the Weekly Update posted on their forum.

The final winning run in our Going Nowhere Fast contest, Trefitch’s Maw sprint, is now available via Direct Download from the GNF Status page. If you’re not one of the 900 people who have already grabbed this 82 mb file via BitTorrent – now’s your chance to get an HTTP download. It’s a gorgeous run……