Author: Louis Wu

A little bit ago, we got email from Shadow Forsythe, pointing out a pretty incredible site on Geocities – Frankie ‘Deadpool’ G. had been creating Halo miniatures out of Warhammer 40k models. I was seriously intrigued – but knew that a front-page link on HBO tends to kill Geocities sites in about 10 minutes. I…

There’s another Project Halo Weekly Update, posted on our forum. The high point is an early concept of what might become their theme song. Check it out!

Never one to pass up an opportunity to kick a friend when he’s down, Shishka created a new .comic for Subnova (which is still down), looking at what happens when you script hotline bots to be just plain mean. If you don’t get it… don’t worry. The people getting kicked do.

Want another look at that Nightmare Armor in action? Webshift jumped on to our forum to remind folks that they’ll be in Austin, at the Alamo Drafthouse (with the RvB crew), starting at 6 this evening… stop by and see them in the BLUE armor!

We have a special Guest One One Se7en strip for you today; it was created by Stuntmutt himself, and it ushers in a new age of Guest Strips. By order of the Grand High Poobah (that would be Stuntmutt), there will no longer be any guest strips posted during the week. One One Se7en will…

A bunch of new artwork from Tina Leyk today; both her Artwork page and her Fur-Lo comic page have been updated. One of these days, soon, I’ll add search functions to those pages, so finding new material is easier. For now, though, you’re looking for the last two items in the ‘Doodles’ section on her…

Gamespot has put up a new TenSpot – the Top Ten First-Person Shooters of all time. Halo’s on the list (the games are unranked among those 10 slots.) When you’re done reading about what Gamespot thinks, there’s a chance for you to vote, as well. Thanks to Jonah for the heads-up.

Bluestone, from 343GS.com, wrote to say that the new design that went live yesterday had some problems… so they’ve upped a DIFFERENT one. Seems solid from here.

Kris Hull has written up a pretty snazzy multiplayer Halo guide; it was originally for his local Halo group, but he’s decided to make it public. (Their strategies have apparently evolved a little since it was written… but it’s still pretty solid.) Nice layout, great modifications of Bungie’s overhead maps, generally good design all around.…

Busy weekend… almost didn’t get today’s Guest One One Se7en posted. It comes from Michael Frank… and it looks at one of the bigger problems on our forum. Ouch.

Sports fan Lophan sent in this Halo sighting, on ESPN’s website. Frank Wiley wrote a column about trash-talking… and apparently, among sports fans, Halo lines are a common form. Hehe.

As a bonus for the fans, Frankie’s posted a video of Sid Garrand, Nightmare Armor virtuoso, wandering around Microsoft’s campus in full get-up, scaring small children and generally looking like one bad mutha. Makes me wish I had a few thousand dollars just lying around…

This week’s Bungie Weekly Update showed up on the Halo Babies forum – there’s a great bit on the Nightmare Armor team’s visit to Bungie this week, along with magazine visits, cinematics polishing, stress testing, and a dogfight. (‘A bigger Covenant ship’? Banshees on Phantoms? Hmm…) Light on the progress stuff this time around, but…

DocOctavius has posted the first iteration of his rendering tutorial – for folks looking to learn the basics of rendering using free software. Check out Yayap.com for all the details!

All the activity in the modding arena has one big downside… it enables cheating in online games. Halo Phenom (a site I hadn’t actually heard of before today) has put up a nice little article suggesting ways to avoid this, at least for tournament play. Worth a read, if you’re looking for suggestions… Thanks to…

gwdpto, the brains behind coerce.net and the HBO-COERCE Halo PC server, put up a post about the state of the HPC server. They’re moving to a new location, and there’s a $100 setup fee… so he’s looking for small donations from the community. For a $5 or $10 donation, you get a coerce.net email address…

One One Se7en tells you what NOT to do this afternoon. Take notice.

Halo: Resolution continues the saga of Keyes and GS; did you know what Keyes’ suit is made of?

The Evolution of Halo release, via p2p networks, a couple of days ago was a pretty big success; I don’t have Two Degrees stats, but BitTorrent dowload numbers are in the 5000 range in the past 30 hours… that’s half a terabyte of files transferred, and the hit on HBO-related servers was LESS than our…

Halo Babies has made their current strip visible for the general public. (Normally, we won’t be posting this information; just like with Red vs Blue, when there is an early release for sponsors, and a regular release for the general public, we’ll post once, when it’s first available (as we did yesterday), and it’ll be…