Author: Louis Wu

Once again, it seems we’re having problems with our third mirror (the one that handles Fan Fiction, among other items) – I’ve rerouted all OTHER content, but Fanfic is down until we can get the problem fixed. Bad combination of hardware troubles and a holiday weekend – sorry!

Tycho, of Penny Arcade, wrote up a nice review of the Bungie Fanfest at E3 last Friday (scroll down near the bottom) – they had a good time, it seems. (Looks like clarksbrother was the first to give us the heads-up – thanks!)

A few days ago, I digitized a bunch of videotape submitted by Michael Coffing, and posted a whole passel of new scores on the Going Nowhere Fast leaderboard. Some he submitted just because there was no entry for that level, others because he had really nice runs. One run he posted, Silent Cartographer in 5:46,…

Yesterday, Rip-Saw posted a note about an option to view the 3D screenshot Bungie posted Friday for those without QuickTime – he created a 2.1 mb, 320×240 animated gif. Viewing it took a little work; there’s no .gif extension on it, so many browsers don’t know what to do with it. BOLL came to the…

Hot on the heels of Friday’s 3D screenshot, One One Se7en has gone 3D. Sort of.

Not being able to access the Fan Fiction admin section didn’t seem to stop submissions – there are 32 new pieces in the section for you today. Some good, some… um, not so good. Check ’em out.

Red vs Blue has released a bonus vid found on last month’s Computer Gaming World cover CD to sponsors; check the Season 2 Sponsors forum for a link. (Non-sponsors; you might still find that CGW on store shelves.) It shows off some of the FAILED concepts they didn’t go with, before deciding on the RvB…

Blade writes to point out that he’s posted Episode 2 of his ‘Blood Gulch Experience’ on his Teamhalo website. (Free registration required.) This is 8:28 of standard gameplay on Blood Gulch, weighing in at 51 mb in WMP9 format. The point, it seems, is to show how much better Halo looks on his new Radeon…

Steve writes to ask that we remind people of the Fan Fiction contest we mentioned last week – there are just two weeks left to enter a submission. If you’re going to enter, keep the deadline in mind!

Interesting find by Anton P. Nym: If you visit the Library, one of Bungie.net’s new forums, the splash bar at the top has a pretty interesting secondary definition for the word itself:2. A collection of cloned DNA sequences whose location and identity can be established by mapping the genome of a particular organism.So is THAT…

Apologies – once again, we’re having trouble with one of our mirror sites; everything it handled has been redirected at this point, EXCEPT the Fan Fiction section (because of its dynamic nature, it CAN’T be mirrored properly). That section is offline until we can fix the problem. Sorry. Update: Fixed, more easily than expected. All…

Rockslider points out the next episode in Frontline with Suzie – this week’s episode is called ‘the heavy brigade’, and talks to a Hunter.

Dr. Nick points out that even though the actual movies are being hosted elsewhere, the Advanced Essentials movie brought enough traffic to the [-GTC-] website that it’s offline again. I wasn’t smart enough to record all the mirrors, but I can at least point out the b.org ones: we’re hosting both the DivX version and…

Out of time and out of options, it seems, Frankie has posted this week’s Bungie Weekly Update over at Bungie.net, on the new ‘New Mombasa’ forum. It’s not particularly meaty this week – but Frankie has lots of excuses for that. There IS some discussion of new maps, a new (previously unmentioned) weapon, and some…

Red vs Blue has Episode 34 – ‘aftermath, before biology’ – up for sponsors. (The general public will have to wait a couple of days.) It’s 4:27 of RvB goodness, with a great combination of humor and plot advancement. And the – oh, go watch it.

So Bungie’s got a new toy – they can make 3D screenshots! And the first one is a pretty slick piece of work. It’s called “Army of One”, and it’s available in both high (8.4 mb) and low (1.3 mb) res versions. Grab it (make sure you have QuickTime installed), and go to town rotating…

As a followup to their Basic Essentials movie released last week, [-GTC-] has created Advanced Essentials, a new film showing some lesser-known tricks of the trade. Some are useful in single player (grenade jumping, for example), while others are purely multiplayer (speeding up the invisibility powerup). Again, the movie is presented in a clean, easy-to-understand…

Aquaduct 2 is imminent – “we’re talking days or maybe hours now” (written about 11 hours ago). Mac-based Xbox tunneling is almost upgraded! Thanks to Sharp for noticing!

One One Se7en continues its look at new Halo 2 stuff. Was this what they meant by ‘battle damage’?

Halo: Resolution gets… odd.