Author: Louis Wu

There’s an article over on Xbox.com I’ve never seen before; dunno when it got posted, but Character Close-up: Know Your Enemies is a fun read. (I’m not sure I agree with all the advice – in fact, I think almost every section had something that made me go ‘hmm…’ but it’s a nice complete list.)…

28 new Fan Fiction stories since I left for Boston. Go read ’em.

Top story at TeamXbox today is a Top Ten Villians article – and Halo’s Elites come in at number 2, losing out only to Darth Malak, from KotOR. Armored beasts that resemble what an Alien mother and a Predator father might pump out is a great pace to start when creating a player character nemesis.…

Hmm… Play video games with band members (I have to say I’ve never heard of any of them), win prizes. Interesting concept. Details can be found on this page. Thanks to W1ldfire for the heads-up.

Bungie mentioned yesterday that the deadline for entries to the Mountain Dew Halo 2 contest has been extended until July 21. (This means that the photoshoot has been rescheduled, as well – to July 24.) Thanks, Mad Cow.

Halo Babies Episode 48 is out today – go check it out. Looks like MC’s been hanging out with Bungie employees…

Going Nowhere Fast winner Sean Oehrle’s run of Assault on the Control Room is now available for download via BitTorrent. It has been known for some time that by jumping off the first bridge, enemies for MOST of the level will not be spawned (because the trigger to spawn them has been bypassed) – Sean…

Apologies for the delay – the third release of the Going Nowhere Fast winning runs, Truth and Reconciliation, is now available via direct download. 850 people have already grabbed the vid via BitTorrent (along with 2000 copies of the Pillar of Autumn run and 1000 copies of the Halo run) – but I know there…

I’m headed up to see Blackstar pretty soon, so before I go, let me toss out today’s Calvin and Halo, his comment on some potential pitfalls in upcoming level design.

1up.com has added a new Halo 2 preview today – it looks somewhat familiar, but I can’t find a record of posting it before, so I’m crossing my fingers. Dan Hsu, of EGM, clearly liked the game. Thanks, Anton. (It’s also interesting that Halo AND Halo 2 are on the 1up.com Buzzometer – in 6th…

The Xtournaments Crew points out that they’ve added a Sniper Derby to their State vs State Nationals event in September. Your team’s best sniper will have 1 minute to shoot as many other sniper-equipped players as possible. The event is on Boarding Action, CTF settings (so that the sniper is one color, all targets are…

Today’s Applegeeks comic is Halo-related; it’s the second half of a story they started a couple of days ago. Thanks to Inky and Black Six for pointing it out.

Over the years, we’ve reported a lot of Halo news. There are, in fact, as of this post, exactly 10,000 news posts in the database. It’s therefore somewhat appropriate that this post is devoted to a pair of comics that have been a staple of the site for the last couple of years – Halo:…

Andrew points out that FTC 13 is now available for direct download for the masses, if BitTorrent hasn’t been doing it for you.

Dolbex points out an audio interview with Strangepurple, the number 1 ranked player in the MLG league. He’s not actually playing right now… interesting. Go listen to why not on the MLG website.

He’s done it again… Ducain posted a teaser pic on our forum last night, asking folks if they could tell what made it special. Juggertrout pointed it out for folks who missed it, and this morning, Ducain posted video of how it was done. And I must say, it’s pretty impressive. (I’m shooting for the…

Didn’t quite get to this in time to add HBO’s voice to the mix… but it looks like it doesn’t matter that much. Strato mentioned that yesterday, GameFAQs posted a poll: ‘Which upcoming big-name Xbox sequel/spinoff are you most looking forward to?’ It’s over now… but Halo 2 ran away with this one, garnering 22,050…

Okay, last one of these for a while, unless some REALLY killer shots turn up. Falcon Zero posted another pair of shots, Konrad tried his hand on Infinity, and The Ghost reminisced about the way it USED to be. One of these days, we’ll have to set up a section for this kind of thing…

There’s a great interview with the people behind Major League Gaming over at Bungie.net – how they got started, where Halo fits in, where they’re going. If you’re at all interested in the competitive Halo scene, you should check this out. First heads-up goes to Kyrceck.

BOLL turned 22 today. How many people give YOU a present on THEIR birthday? BOLL gives you this cool wallpaper. Enjoy.