Author: Louis Wu

Mooreburg found a rather strange report – apparently, according to the Palestinian Media Watch organization, the Palestinian Authority is using Halo’s theme in a video aimed at promoting the Palestinian cause. Microsoft has made a statement that the use of the music was wholly unsanctioned. If you decide to participate in the forum thread on…

More Tetraboxing material: Dan Chosich has posted a 25 mb QuickTime movie about his experience (a bit over 2 minutes, movies and photos combined), and Dolbex has posted his own writeup of the trip (Georgia to Connecticut and back in 60 hours – with a LOT of Halo in the middle!) on the Been Mawed…

bentllama, the Bungie animator and master of offtopic bizarreness on our forum, sent along a cool link to the CGTalk forum, in which he posted some preliminary (non-Bungie) work on some 3D models of Wonderboy in Monsterland, an old platformer that got released on many, many consoles. (Here are a pair of Commodore64 shots.) With…

SESpider has sent in another episode of Miniature Halo – the set gets a visit from another HBO denizen. It should make you laugh!

One One Se7en looks for new talent for the jokemaking. Whether it’s successful is totally your call.

Halo: Resolution continues the Matrix-like sub-story… and the bad jokes come fast and furious.

Sector 7 has written an entire article about the new Halo 2 multiplayer screenshot released last week – it’s pretty clear that when a Halo site chooses to analyze a single screen so carefully, it feels the community is starved for content. If you agree, go check this out!

Gantry dropped us a note that Halo was voted #1 Best Competitive Game of All Time on G4 TV’s show “Filter”, episode #223 (beating out Battlefield 1942, Rainbow Six, MechWarrior 4, Starcraft, UT 2003, and several others). Next showing is February 4, at 12:30 pm. Not too shabby!

Ghôlsbane was sifting through some Bungie employee data, and ran across David Joost’s website; David was Director of Sales at Bungie before the Microsoft buyout. The top news post (obviously written last fall sometime) discusses the long, strange trip Dave’s been on, with respect to Halo sales. Interesting tidbits…

Catching up on older news… MeatSaw points out that he’s sponsoring a poster design contest over at the Gearbox forums; the person with the best Halo-related poster design wins that design printed on 11×14 (or larger) poster paper. It’s just for fun – so go check it out! (Contest ends on February 26.)

More lanfest pics from the Offensive Tetraboxing event this weekend here at HBO: Konrad9 put up a bunch, (GT)Juggler put up some at Halo GT (including a couple of Konrad’s shots), Blood put up about 50 shots at Bloodgulch.com, and Have Blue posted his own set (including some early pics of my vandalized car -…

We didn’t get a chance to post this on Friday, as we normally do – but Red vs Blue posted a new Public Service Announcement this week, in lieu of episode 23. It’s out for everybody now – for sponsors in Hi-res (as it has been since Friday), and for casual visitors in 320×240. Go…

Quick update, since we missed one yesterday, and I’d hate for the Guest queue to grow TOO long… today’s Guest One One Se7en comes from Nukerman53, and is a takeoff of some very early Stuntmutt strips. Check it out!

There are going to be many, many updates about this fanfest – pictures, writeups, the works. I’m sure several of them have already been posted to our forum; I haven’t had time to find them yet. I did get a link from Brad Griswald, one of the participants yesterday; you can find it on his…

So here I sit, finishing up an interview with the Film Oasis guys, trying to figure out how far behind I really am because of yesterday’s Fanfest… Over the course of the next couple of days, I’ll do my best to catch up, but please be patient. Stuff isn’t gonna go up in the order…

Yeah, we had all sorts of plans; webcams from multiple places through the house, rotating Halo PC entrants, and on and on… everything fell by the wayside when the playing started. Offensive Tetraboxing kicked off last night; the first of almost 40 guests showed up a bit after midnight, and the first round of Halo…

This week’s Frankie’s Bungie Update is here at HBO – and contains some rather momentous news. A Halo 2 release timeframe has been set – for Fall, 2004. You’ll have to decide for yourself whether the relief at knowing overcomes the disappointment of having to wait another several months… (And congrats to those who procrastinated…

Hehe – c0ld vengeance is offering to pre-order Halo 2 for one lucky forumgoer. Guess the release date, win the game. Read the rules in his forum post.

Narcogen has posted Part Three of the High Ping Bastard’s Guide to Halo over at Rampancy.net – this one looks at gametypes, and how high-ping players can benefit from certain strategies. An interesting read.

Hey – we stopped mentioning the incremental updates on the Halo Flash game under development over at 343GS.com some time ago… but the new features in it now merit another look. A Silent Cartographer-like intro, new sounds, plasma grenades… it’s getting there! (Check the Projects page.)