Author: Louis Wu

The recent release of new hi-res screenshots from Bungie finally got me off my duff to update our Screenshots database; it’s finally up-to-date. 193 shots were added today… not a bad day’s work!

mnemesis sent word that he’s updated the Halo Story Page again – it’s a big ‘un. He’s been impressed recently with the quality of submissions… keep it up, folks! Update: And Wado explains WHY the quality is up.

Because of the massive influx of new sites in our Links database, we’ve added a small ‘New’ graphic to indicate when a site’s been added in the last week. (Thanks, Paul!) It seems some of you haven’t noticed that your site was added, and submitted again… maybe this will help.

Blade, at Teamhalo.net, put together a 6:26 long video (WMP9 format) showing gameplay on the upcoming New Mombasa map, using the Halo 2 Mod. (This is a huge team effort from a lot of talented people that mostly hang out on the Gearbox forums – a recent update on the project can be found here.)…

Wow. Frankie has posted an awesome interview/picture cornucopia over on Bungie.net; a discussion with Jeremy Zoss, Associate Editor of Game Informer magazine (about GI’s visit to Bungie in preparation of last month’s article), and a collection of more than a dozen VERY high resolution images (screenshots and concept art) that were eventually used in the…

That maskless grunt has been the talk of our forums today. Even Sarge is getting into the act – check out One One Se7en.

Halo: Resolution puts a Spartan in orbit… in a non-regulation orbital device. Good thing that armor can withstand hard vacuum!

Awesome. A week ago, Chilton mentioned a G4TV program in which John Mayer (the musician) was playing Halo with his friends. The thread didn’t go anywhere, because you either have G4 on your cable/satellite system, or you don’t. We got mail from Brian Graham, asking us WHY it didn’t go anywhere, given that anyone could…

Wow. Seems like there was some pent-up demand, that’s for sure – in the first day and a half since we posted our link submission form, we’ve added 50 sites to our Links page. We’ve had to reject a bunch of entries – folks who submitted sites with no Halo content, or sites that aren’t…

We posted a magazine article with a tiny picture of a maskless grunt this afternoon – and people complained that they couldn’t really see it. Over on the Halo Story Page, mnemesis has heard your cries, and while he deplores whining, he sometimes enjoys serving up surprises.

Fourteen pieces for you today in the Fan Fiction section. To submitters: if you feel the need to stick a huge honking piece of material at the beginning of every chapter, with, say, your cast of characters… make SURE that the actual STORY CONTENT meets our word minimum requirement, or your piece will be rejected.…

Thanks go out to Tim Alvner, who scanned an article from last month’s Superplay (a Swedish magazine) and sent it in. (The June issue is now on the shelves in Sweden, so we can put this up now.) You can find it in our Press Scans section. The highlight, for me, is a gorgeous Eddie…

Hehe – Xraf posted a note on Bungie.net’s Underground forum, with lyrics for a song called ‘We Will Frag You’, set to Queen’s ‘We Will Rock You’. Sketchfactor jumped in and offered a bonus:Someone record it to music and send in an .mp3 of it! I’ll send you a prize. =)Sounds like a deal! (I’d…

Mike Blanton writes that his clan, GaB, made a montage video recently; pretty much straight gameplay, but with some nice editing touches. It’s a big file (40.5 mb, mpeg1 format), and I have no idea how long his clan server can hold out serving it… but he said to post it, so I’m posting it.

Weirdness. Ducain has posted a vid he made from a videotape sent to him by TablesandChairs – there are a handful of totally out-of-place grunts on the top of Halo. They’re really up there (the vid shows them shooting and yelling, though not moving) – the question is how? Getting to that particular spot is…

A new modding team has started up – the Zanzibar Project has posted its first weekly update on both the Halomods forum and the Gearbox forum. (It’s pretty interesting reading the comments on the two sites – totally different feel to the communities.) They’re reproducing the Zanzibar map for Halo CE. No word yet on…

Sector 7 has put up a new episode of Marines, their local comic strip. It pokes fun at their server’s flakey connection. Thanks to Wolfy for the heads-up.

Calvin and Halo reminds me to remove all the televisions from my house, before my kids get home from school.

What the…? Xbox Nation went to a fortuneteller to find out how Halo 2 was going to do. The prediction – there will be legal issues, the ending will be weak, and a third game is in the works. Predicted score: 7/10. This article has got to take the ‘silliest article from a respected gaming…

Sketchfactor, over at Bungie.net, has put up their site stats for the past couple of months… and they’ve been doing some business! 28 million pageviews in 9 weeks; that’s some serious bandwidth! (I guess I’d worry more about the 4 death threats in that timeframe, though…) As a measure of how busy their forums are,…