Author: Louis Wu

Ever broken your Xbox Live headset, and then felt sad because you didn’t have money to buy a new one? This isn’t totally Halo-related… but there are a lot of Halo players in this boat, so… check out Thomas Reynolds’ tutorial (with pics) on how to fix a broken headset.

Heroes & Heretics Episode 3, ‘Operation: Bloated Rodent’, is now available for download. Almost 7 minutes long, it indroduces you to the Mark VIa Combat Exoskeleton, and what happens when insane people try to work together. Hilarious stuff! Go grab a copy at Slacker Entertainment’s website.

Pinkuh posted another piece of work on the forum – it was created using a Java-based painter called ‘Oekaki’. Check it out! (It’s been added to her gallery here at HBO, as well.)

Thanks to Amaroq and Ducain, High Speed Halo is back online! (The URL has changed slightly, but that’s only because the .org was snatched by a squatter.) Go check out this classic Halo site.

Skav’s back. Sort of.

Se7en One put together a documentary on the Glide Dragon (otherwise known as QuadWings, seen primarily on the Delta Halo level of Halo 2) – it’s built entirely in 3ds max. It was submitted to the MPRRS – and didn’t pass… but KP agreed to offer hosting space on Boomerica, so you can visit SO’s…

Way behind on stuff – life’s getting a bit out of control right now. A couple of days ago, DocOctavius posted word of a new HaloCE map on our forum – you can grab a flythrough of the beta version, or download the map (there are pics included in the forum post). Looks like a…

Bungie’s Weekly Update today covers some music stuff (no, not the Soundtrack release, sorry), the 77,777,777th clan-player game session, more taunting about the ‘next game’, staff changes, the making of ponies (or, more accurately, ponys), and a note about ‘Bungie Cribs’, coming soon. Go read! (Or read it in our Weekly Update Archive.) ‘First’ credit…

Today’s One One Se7en is gross. Trust me.

Thirteen new stories in the Fan Fiction section today. Let’s hope that’s not bad luck.

Apologies for the downtime last night; the webserver decided to simply keel over. (The server never went down – just the application.) Things SEEM to be back up and running – I think.

LegendaryMark wrote up a nice article on Clan Training over at halowiki – go read it for some great pointers. Thanks, PEZ.

boltofaire and a friend decided to make a Master Chief statue in ceramics class – check out some of the in-progress photos in this forum post. Pretty cool stuff!

Frontline with Suzie continues – Broadcast 16 has Suzie talking to (and being hit upon) by an oversized Captain Keyes. Puts a whole new angle on the getting-taken-over schtick. Go read. Thanks, Rockslider.

Captain Spark released another batch of dialogue snippets – you can grab ’em on his site, or in the Dialogue Databank. (Yes, I know there are others still waiting in the queue – but CS submits so many, I automated the addition of his files; adding ones that are not formatted the same way takes…

F13ND has written up Part II of Team 3D’s MLG Nationals Wrap article – this one is an interview with OGRE 2. As always, it’s great to see what the pros think about how they played – lots to learn. Go read!

Oscar Gordon put together a few Halo-related Haikus a bit ago, and last night posted a link on our forum. Memories…

Last week, Mothergoat released the MPD public service announcement – and fans loved it. Today, you can grab just the MP3 – hi-res, 3 mb worth of teh funni. Go listen!

Wow. Elnea’s latest avatar… is for me. Awesome piece of work, in fact. I’d tell you to go read about its creation in her RvB journal – but RvB seems to be down right at the moment… so maybe try again later. But in the meantime… thanks, Elnea!

Over at the Internet Zillionaire, The Centaur has put together a list of Xbox Live Personality Profiles – and for the post part, it’s people you’ll meet playing Halo. (There are also some pretty funny additions in the comments.) Go read!