Author: Louis Wu

Very, very cool – Rafi Chavez, otherwise known as Superman, created a rockin’ Christmas wish for the HBO community – jump in and say hi! (For those who don’t keep up on these things, Rafi is the son of Miguel Chavez, Bungie’s Number One Fan – and Master of BS.)

Merry Christmas, from Jonah – he found a copy of Halo at EBGames.com for $20. Can’t beat that!

Finally. rapture completed the absurdly long-threaded contest started by Gutupio a week ago… I’m guessing the answer’s gonna tick off some of the contestants. Reasoning coming later today (keep an eye on the thread, if you’re curious). Company arrives in an hour; I’m offline for a while.

Holy missed opportunities, Batman! Somehow, I managed to overlook a massive review of Mac Halo over at MacGamer about a week ago. Corey Tamas gave it a 99% when all was said and done. PC reviewers have almost universally complained about performance, and have downgraded the PC version accordingly. MacGamer claims that the Mac version…

We got an update from Webshift, of Nightmare Armor; the full suit of armor (unpainted) is now available to be ordered. Check their front page for a picture of the entire suit (in pieces), and the Store page for order info. They have 8 suits in the works right now, and all 8 will be…

vector40, once a prominent member of the Halo community, has returned with a vengeance because of the release of the Mac version, and re-entrance is marked with an article on Banshee flight tactics. It’s been posted to the Junkyard, Subnova, and Rampancy.net – but only the Subnova version isn’t actually visible yet. Worth a read;…

The second of Stuntmutt’s Christmas-themed One One Se7en episodes is up… and he’s STILL taking shots at poor Halo PC. Ouch.

Narcogen has posted the second of his Narc’s Retorts over on Rampancy.net; this one is titled ‘A Christmas Wish To Bungie’. It’s long… very long… but boils down to a hope that access to raw XBL statistics will be possible in the future. (I’m pretty sure it’s a hope with a chance of being answered.)…

Today’s Halo: Resolution continues the holiday theme… sort of. Gettin’ funky…

A massive CPL report was posted over at Bungie.net earlier… somehow I missed it. 🙁 A good read; congrats to the winners! Go check it out. (Thanks to Hamid Djangi for poking me.)

Back in June, The Discovery Channel aired a special called ‘The X Factor’ (we posted a press release for it on June 16). Since then, it’s aired a number of times (and, indeed, will air again, on Discovery Times, this morning, at 2 am, and again tomorrow, Christmas Day, at 10 am and 6 pm)…

MoCt wrote to point out that his Halo clan site has a bunch of movie downloads available. It’s HPC footage in WMV format… quite a bit of it. Take a look!

It’s not going to be as regular as our other comics, but Warbow shows no sign of slowing down… yet. Calvin and Halo, episode 12, has been posted – and it definitely got a laugh out of me!

Seventeen entries for you today in the Fan Fiction database: The War Within, by Dustin Jake A Model IV Chapter Two: Broken Men, by Slipping Knot The Second War: Prolouge (My triumphant comeback!!), by FOrunnER Foregoing the Experience, by Mainevent Fight for New Tatley Finale (Chapter 9: Saving New Tatley), by CoLd BlooDed Old Style:…

IGN put up part two of their Halo vs Halo 2 comparison (part 1 went up on Saturday). It’s still Insider-only, but you have the option of downloading just the second part, or the whole thing (133 mb in 640×480 format). Thanks to caudronix for the heads-up.

MC gets lost in today’s Guest One One Se7en. Hmm…

(GT)Juggler has put up another glitch film, his fifth. Brings back memories of the golden age of Halo tricksterism (early 2002) – I don’t think there are any NEW glitches here, but they’re put together nicely, and for folks who haven’t been around for years, it’s a great overview. 16.6 mb, in QuickTime format. Grab…

Wonga. SparkEdit 2.5 has been released; it now supports model viewing, object property viewing, BSP mesh property viewing, object rotation, and more. Grenadiac posted a screenshot on our forum – looks great! (Supports Xbox and Halo PC.)

MaverickJ came back to our forum to point out the Halo Nationals, a $10,000 contest taking place in late February in Philadelphia. The money sounds great; that $10k is GUARANTEED, no matter how many teams show up. Entrance fees get ADDED to it, so the more teams that enter, the more money there is to…

Halo Babies is back up! Bandwidth restrictions have lifted a bit, so there’s a strip today, and there’ll be another on Friday. There’s also a PayPal link, if you want to help out with their moving costs… The strip itself is Christmas-themed… and a harbinger of things to come. Ouch!