Author: Louis Wu

So if you’re poor, and you don’t have a Gamespot or IGN subscription, you’re limited in your choices for video downloads of the E3 demo. Really the only game in town is the TeamXbox vid – and that’s sort of small, and it’s in pieces. Well, mrsmiley put them all together, and did some nice…

Deimos Fawkes remembered to go looking for the good stuff; the Xbox Press page has a zipped archive of 7 of the recent screenshots (everything at Bungie.net, except the ODST shot), in a 3.7 mb package. Why would you want this? Oh, because they’re 2560×1920 pixels… with no watermarks, maybe?

Mirrors have been popping up for the one free version of the demo footage – the stuff put up by TeamXbox. Blackstar has mirrored all four pieces on his server, Xbox4uweb (in Germany) has stitched them together and posted the 42 mb result (registration required), and Halo Orbit (also in Germany) has posted all four.…

Calvin and Halo should have been posted yesterday. Or last week. Not my fault. Really.

On January 30, c0ld vengeance started a contest to pick the Halo 2 release date; the first poster with the correct date would win a copy of Halo 2. Looks like that lucky winner is JPJ007… congrats! (Thanks, Gutupio, for doing the legwork.)

ajenteks points out another IGN Insider download; the entire E3 Demo, in one chunk (212 mb in QuickTime, 92 mb in WMP9). This is very similar to the Gamespot vid (i’d say quality is a little higher; the image is brighter). They’ve come a long way since last year’s shakeycam capture! (This is listed as…

The Gamespy crew managed to actually PLAY Halo 2 a few days ago (rather than just watch it), and have written up a Hands-On article. It’s a good read; it comes from folks familiar with Halo, but not immersed in Halo 2 – folks just like you and me. Go read! (Thanks, fludblud.)

It’s up around the net by now, but for completeness’ sake, here’s the Limited Edition Halo 2 press release sent to websites several hours ago.

Once again, webmasters have neglected to account for nosy viewers. If you look through the new Halo 2 screenshots at Halo2.com, you’ll find that they BEGIN at image02.jpg. Like any good Bungie fan, Mr. Zarquon substituted image01.jpg into the URL… and found a ninth, unlinked Screenshot. (We’ve archived a copy here, in case it gets…

daedalus found a new blog update by Mat Noguchi, the Angry Zen Master, discussing the tools released with the Halo Editing Kit (tools he created, not incidentally), and hinting that he might post some hints or tricks in the future. We definitely wouldn’t argue…

As many have already noticed (and as could probably be guessed, by many hardcore fans), Microsoft scooped up the Halo2.com domain – and has used it to launch a new Flash-based promo site. There isn’t much info there that isn’t elsewhere, as well – but there’s plenty of room for expansion!

The saturation coverage continues; Gamespot has a 235 mb version of the Halo 2 demo from the Press Conference available for Gamespot Complete members. (They’ve also put up their own ‘Impressions’ article.) IGN has put up a 340 mb WMV raw feed of the entire conference itself (minus a 5 minute parody show that MS…

The Microsoft Press Briefing from E3 kicks off in about 5 minutes; all the really good stuff will be shown here, first. No, we weren’t invited. However, SketchFactor posted a note at B.net a few hours ago, promising lots of goodies as soon as it’s over: As soon as the briefing concludes we’ll have our…

Dr@Home’s Death Island Evacuation vid, posted recently, has overwhelmed his server – but Uriel’s mirror is still up, and KP has added one of his own. The film is only 7 mb, in WMP9 format; grab it if you haven’t.

Dr@Home was messing around with the -console and -devmode commands in Halo Custom Edition, and managed to create a rather… disturbing effect. It’s a 7 mb WMP9 movie; you’ll want to right-click and save as (or option-click on a mac), because it’s not so good for streaming. Update: Mirrored at WWWP, thanks to Uriel.

Realizing that it was finally closer to NEXT Halloween than LAST Halloween, Sledgefare has posted his pumpkin from last year on the web; you can see it on this page. Not a bad job!

Saint has put forth a plea for proof-reading and general checking on the soon-to-open Library, an encyclopedia of Halo knowledge housed at psyjnir.org. Give it a read, send him feedback!

Saw this last night, accidentally closed the window, forgot to go back. rapture points out a thread on the Gearbox forums about a new fan-written application that parses Halo CE dedicated server logs. It’s not all that useful as is – but the potential is enormous. Check it out! (Unfortunately, Gearbox’s forums are down at…

We’ve added last Friday’s Weekly Update to our archive – don’t forget that search option! Say you noticed that one of the tidbits this week mentioned ‘Greg’s cool animation system’, and you wondered, ‘who’s Greg, anyway?’ Well, a quick search for ‘Greg’ makes it clear that we’re talking about Greg Snook, and your Bungie Stalking…

The BBC News site has put up a story about E3, and what to expect this year; Halo 2 features prominently in the section titled ‘Game delays’. (Yeah, we know – it hasn’t been delayed.) Margaret Robertson, Games Editor at Edge magazine, is quoted as saying that Halo 2 can still match the splash it…