Author: Louis Wu

Fury Three has done a nice job of summarizing the Halo-based Lego models available for viewing at the Brickshelf website; he even went to the trouble of formatting his list to fit our template. Nice!

Red vs Blue Episode 31 (‘Room for Rent’) is now available on the Season 2 Sponsors forum at RvB. It’s gettin’ weird, folks. (I, for one, never wanted to see the inside of… oh, never mind. Go watch it.)

One One Se7en points out a common complaint among action figure collectors… Joyride, take heed.

Halo: Resolution comes up with what has to be the lamest reason ever to chase a bad guy. (Not that I’m sayin’ that, you know, Bungie employees are bad guys, or anything…)

Halo Babies has a couple of new items – there’s another strip, of course, since it’s Friday, and it’s a direct tribute to Red vs Blue, but there’s also a very cool desktop in a few sizes. (This has been in our artwork queue for a while now; apologies to Gruntsbane for taking so long…

Bungie has put up an article about ‘Dirty Halo Tricks’ – things you can do to win in Halo that might be on the far side of ethical. I’m really surprised that out-of-map stunts didn’t make anyone’s list… taking a ghost across the top of Sidewinder and invading the enemy base from above is definitely…

W00T! New Fur-Lo artwork from Tina Leyk; there’s another regular strip, called ‘Mishaps With Grenades’ (third from bottom row, if the anchor doesn’t work well), which made me LAUGH (what an awesome Jackal!), and a great guest strip by Iatro, which captures the spirit of Fur-Lo quite nicely. Tina rawks.

Wolfy points out a new comic over at Sector 7 – The Marines. nice look!

Yesterday, Juggertrout posted a speed run through Assault on the Control Room – 7:19 from the time he got out of the pelican to the time he entered the final room. As far as I know, that’s a record, at this point… but there are a number of places (using his route) where seconds could…

As promised, we have another batch of 20 desktops for you today; 23, if you want to count the BOLL variants. (Even more if you count the SIZE variants… but BOLL’s are actually image variants.) Check ’em out in our Wallpaper section! There’s still more in the queue, both wallpaper and miscellaneous art… coming soon!

Wow… Red vs Blue has been nominated for a 2004 Webby Award in Humor – winners will be announced on May 12. This was pointed out on our forum, by iBob… but I didn’t notice it until Narcogen posted it on Rampancy.net. Looks like I’m getting behind on my forum reading…

Parents – they have ears in the back of their heads. Or the sides, or something. Somewhere. Stop reading this, go look at Calvin and Halo. Thank you.

I guess people have been saving up… only one day since the last Fan Fiction update, and there are 26 submissions – AFTER the deletions I had to make. Sergeant Vick: Part 2, by Helljumper Halo Heaven: Chapters 3 & 4: The Story of the Surviving Spartan IIs, by Justin Harrison, Halo Heaven Halo Training:…

There’s a new remix of the Halo title theme posted over at Overclocked Remix; it’s 4:06 long, and 5.6 mb large. Worth a listen! Thanks to ARUCKSHA for the heads-up.

Ducain has put together a small movie – 3 minutes, 7.8 mb, WMP9 format – showing some fun glitches; a Banshee stuck in the walls in AotCR, some shade-bumping, more security shaft jumping, and a Turret ride. As Ducain says, another trick vid to burn away three minutes of your life!

Just a quick heads-up; if you missed the interviews with Brian Jarrard and Tom Gioconda over at Xbox.com yesterday (because I was an idiot and announced them moments before they went offline for the Tsunami update), Xbox.com is back up, and the interviews are readable again.

Psyrixx has put up a basic replacement to our HBO-XBL Gamertag database over at The Psyjnir Complex; it contains only your real name, your gamertag, and a handle – not HBO-specific, but any online handle you use, I suppose. (No listing of games, but then, it was the difficulty in maintaining that listing that put…

SancheztheLlama writes to point out Nerdstock 2004, a Halo tournament taking place near Chicago on June 26th. Details, including cost and basic prize info, can be found on the web page.

Stuntmutt points out that there are pics of the Series 5 action figures over at ToyWiz.com – at least two are new to me. The Gold Elite has a new head design, and the Silver MC with a purple shotgun looks positively Barbie-like. (The red grunt is also mislabeled as orange – the orange grunt…

DrPeggs pointed out a collection of jokes told using Halo action figures – entertaining stuff. Take a look!