Author: Louis Wu

Interesting-sounding article in the current Spin magazine (May 2004) – first person shooters and the controversy surrounding them. We can’t bring this to you in scanned format until it’s off the shelves – but go see what you can find on your local newsstand! Thanks, daedalus.

Crispy Spartan points out the latest (Number 8! The Highest Numbered Update Yet!) weekly update for First Strike, the Halo mod based on the book. General info, new maps, weapons designs… and a page on the team itself. Go check ’em out!

Wow. Grendiac and KaptainKommie have been working on a new tool called Sentinel – and it has some pretty cool features. It’s designed to help folks running modded maps on a server get the word out, so that people can play these maps. Another feature it has, however, will be of interest to many server…

The Fourth AGP tournament took place in Washington, DC this weekend; there was more than $10,000 on the line. Thanks to rapture for the heads-up, and some summarized results. Congrats to Walshy and the Dream Team!

Recently, there’s been a bunch of interest in speed runs through Halo – it’s been the subject of two movies and a host of forum threads in the past week. Well, now you can actually GAIN something from your interest – Bungie.org and Mythica.org (along with the nonexistent Ninjas On Fire site) have teamed up…

I’ve spent much of the day outside, doing household chores… I returned this evening to find… well, a rather strange incursion on the bungie.org servers. I’ve left it alone for the time being, because (so far) it seems harmless… but it might pay to keep your eyes on it. If it’s not one thing…

Lots of people have gotten to the bottom of the Security shaft in Silent Cartographer. (Okay, not lots. More than a few, though.) NOBODY, I think, has ever gotten back OUT – at least on an unmodded Xbox – until today. Nice job, Ducain!

Subzero Rivalries has gone Flash. Check out the trailer for this newly-remade comic; more strips coming soon. Thanks, MarkHawk.

Quick update – the space map mod we mentioned yesterday is now available for download; thanks, Xhzjang.

Richard ‘SESpider’ White has dropped into our forum with an explanation for the delay in new episodes of Miniature Halo. Swing by and give it a read if you’ve been wondering what happened!

Yesterday’s Weekly Update contained a comment that has set several Halo forums atwitter:[…] the way the Elites reload now is almost too much detail.Lest too many people assume this means that in Halo 2, Covenant weapons (which, for the most part, are NOT reloaded by Covenant in Halo) will require reloading, Frankie stepped into our…

A couple of new multiplayer maps for you guys, from the modding community: Reppyboyo points out a creation by Xhzjang which isn’t actually released yet, but should be soon – it’s a space map with a LOT of individual platforms. Also, DocOctavius points out his conversion of the Cryo Bay to a multiplayer map; there…

NazdaH has sent along word of several movies in the past (here, here, and here) – but we didn’t host any of them, and they’re all offline now. This is too bad, because they show some pretty decent gameplay. Well, he’s sent us a new one, and I thought the sniping was pretty fun to…

A few days ago, Juggertrout posted a movie showing his speed run through AotCR in 7:19. His bandwidth has run out, however, and the movie was only available in WMP9 format in any case. We’ve tossed both the original WMP9 version (37.6 mb) as well as a Quicktime version (30.6 mb) up on Mythica.org (thanks,…

16 stories for you today in the Fan Fiction section: The Old Ways, by MT The Flood, by Keyes Casualties of War Part V, by Tom Murphy Chiefs Epic, by Andrew Hodgson Earth’s Wrath: Chapter 1 – Ruins of Earth, by Steven Carson (aka Ninja Steve) Halo: A Comedy 2 Part 2, by Tom Murphy…

Two and a half years ago, a thread started up on the gdalgorithms mailing list about some technical aspects of Halo. The original post looks at some of the achievements of Halo, and speculates how they came about – it’s really well-written, at least from this layman’s perspective. Some of the responses are just as…

Battleground: Halo has interviewed Mrs. Doublefire, a prominent figure in the Halo modding community. It’s an interesting glimpse into the life of someone addicted to modifying Halo. Give it a read!

MarkHawk has posted word that Ice Fields Episode 1, Part 1 has been posted. It’s 6:12 long, and ranges from 19.1 to 28.1 mb, depending on the quality you download. It’s got some truly awesome camera angles; they’ve done an incredible job of taking advantage of the HUDless interface. Go check this out! (There should…

Frankie has posted this week’s Bungie Update at Halo Center – and wow, they got a lot done this week. Animation info, some very cool tie-ins involving Lorraine, a HORRIBLE pun dragged out into an analogy, and some really cool censored info about… well, I’m not sure what. And oh, yeah, multiplayer coolness. Go read…

DOH! We got mail from Major League Gaming yesterday, reporting the results of its third major 2004 tourney, held last week in Dallas. I totally spaced on posting these. $15,000 was distributed amongst the winners, and the names, once again, are quite familiar…Halo Free For All: 1st Place: KillerN (Nick Urso, TX) 2nd Place:Zyos (Matt…