Author: Louis Wu

Interesting. XBCTourneys is promoting ‘The Ultimate Halo Tricks DVD’, coming soon. ‘Every trick for every map’, in DVD quality. The page says ‘Price coming soon’ – but if you click on the Preorder button, you’re paying $14.99, so one might assume that the price will be $14.99. (I’d be impressed if they really do manage…

Promodo answered the screenshot analysis over at Sector 7 with his own comments; you can find them (and respond to them) on our forum. I must say it surprises me that this much evaluation is going into this single screenshot… it’s FAR more than went into the first multiplayer shot, and that, in my opinion,…

There’s a new .comic up at Subnova; Boxer wrote an autobiographical bit about his experience trying to get out of the Maw. I’d speculate about who the other player is… but geez, it could be ANYBODY…

room217 took a shot of his garage – looks like that crew gets pretty serious about Blood Gulch!

Wonga. It lives again. Thanks to Subnova, The Fan Fiction section is open again – and there are a few stories that were in the queue before it went down (plus two more that got posted today, from folks who knew the original URL). Jera III, by Elizar untitled halo poem, by new1nab113 Underestimated: Part…

She does it again – Tina Leyk let us know about two new pics she’s done; her fan character, Dre’al, an a Hunter closeup. You’ll find them at the bottom of the Halo Fan Art section of her local page. I’m lovin’ em.

Wolfy, over at Sector 7, has gone to the trouble of writing up a full article on the new screenshot.

Gustav Larimore (T B34NZ) writes about a movie he’s made called ‘A View from the Top’ he’s hosting it at Effervescing Blue Productions. It’s 2:30 long, 640×480, 25.4 mb, WMP9 format, showing some high jumping in various netmaps.

KingPhreak is setting up a Halo Trivia bot for IRC; it will sit in a channel, asking trivia questions, and keeping track of who answers fastest. The problem is… he needs more questions. Instructions on how to submit them can be found in this forum post. If you have some Halo trivia that you think…

There have been so many HUDless screenshots recently, I was going to implement a policy of a single update each day, with all the links in it. However, there are two posts tonight by CuBaNo which simply demand personal attention. The second batch, especially, contains some of the best shots posted on our forum to…

Just when you thought it was safe to read *NM* posts on our forum again… BOLL strikes. Call the office of Homeland Security!

On the plus side, Halo Babies has posted a new strip; I think the MC needs balance lessons. On the minus side, 343GS.com has posted that they will no longer be creating EchoFourNineteen strips (and, in fact, are no longer hosting their existing strips). And so it goes.

The Bungie Weekly Update this week went to… well, Bungie. (NEPOTISM!) You can find Frankie’s musings on the Underground, Bungie’s very own public forum. It’s short – but it’s tasty. The tidbit on realism on ‘an Earth level’ left me drooling for actual gameplay… the bit about Jaime fine-tuning Enemy AI got me intrigued, and…

FlyingV, over at Battleground: Halo, sat down with MonoxideC and talked to him about modding Halo, and about Halomods.com. Go check out the full interview!

Red vs Blue episode 27 is now out for Sponsors. It’s called ‘Nine-tenths of the Law’, and it points out that each team has a pretty weak link – and they’re both getting more disturbed. Some great one-liners. Thanks to Cybrfrk for the heads-up!

Marc, from Halo Universe, writes to say that they’ve uploaded some screens from the E3 2003 Halo 2 Demo trailer. In his words “for all who doesn’t know the movie a duty and for all others a nice reminder…” Go remember!

Yesterday, we posted a link to some pretty classy X-shots from Mills; in his original note, he stated that he had hi-res versions of the shots (1280×1024) that were available if anyone was interested. Folks WERE interested, and he uploaded them… but I completely forgot to do anything with them. Situation rectified; in his original…

The Burninator decided to get in on the X-Shots action. (X-Shot, again, is a term coined by Pico to describe the HUDless wonders pioneered by XLNC.) Some nice pics in there!

One One Se7en points out that the MC is a lot like… well most of our art submitters, I guess.

You never thought it was gonna tie back in to the MC, did you? Halo: Resolution brings it home.