Author: Louis Wu

Man, I wish there were a faster way to handle this stuff… but there isn’t. I’ve cleared out the Wallpaper queue; there are 20 new desktops (more, if you count variants) in the database today. Some of these are simply gorgeous. Check ’em out!

Lotus222 reminded us that MacGamer’s Giveaway from last week (3 copies of Halo to the best three ‘Master Chief goes to Hollywood’ photoshop jobs) has been completed. After seeing the winners, I’m wishing I’d finished my ‘Enter the Master Chief’ pic…

Gre’Thor117 submitted a new film; it splices concept art and Halo 2 footage together with EdgeN’s recent Halo music in a pleasing manner. It’s entitled ‘Halo: Master and Chief’ (just like the soundtrack it uses), weighs in at 8.7 mb in WMP9 format, and is being graciously hosted by Coerce.net (look for big things coming…

Rams, over at Battleground: Halo, has put up another edition of the Rams Report; this one looks at the handling of Halo PC since its release. I actually disagree with most of his conclusions, though he does raise some very valid points. (He also looks at the Halo comic scene, but I hesitate to comment…

The World Cyber Games website is soliciting input from gamers for the Official Game Events for the WCG 2004, and Halo is among the list of games up for consideration. To vote, visit the website, and follow the large blue ‘Official Game Events Selection for the WCG 2004’ banner in the top middle of the…

Geoff Fink (gfunk) and Gus Sorola (guS) , of Red vs Blue, have been interviewed over at machinima.com today; if you’re interested about how they got their start, and where they’re going, go read this! Thanks to Hugh Hancock for the heads-up.

Halo Universe has a fun puzzle posted right now; It’s Flash-based, and takes 10 screenshots and breaks them up into smaller squares. You have to put them back together in the right order. The game is timed, and I think this may be part of the problem; I tried to finish it, but got stuck…

Chris Bryan sent along a picture of the gloves for his MC Suit we mentioned yesterday; they’re looking pretty slick! We’ve added it to the page we put together for this project.

Edge_343 popped onto our forum yesterday to ask if anyone had ever gotten a Warthog into the final cutscene of Two Betrayals. I told him that, to the best of my knowledge, nobody had ever filmed this before, so he sent us some footage. 7.7 mb, QuickTime format; it shows how the hog was pushed…

One One Se7en, as well, begins a Christmas week… though we can’t say it’s with a ‘bang’. More like a ‘rimshot’.

Today’s Halo: Resolution is the first in a week’s worth of Christmas-themed strips… enjoy!

More tower building… nukedude posted a boatload of pictures (and links to more) showing some fun cooperative play on the HBO servers last night. Good to see folks are still working together!

In what is becoming a holiday tradition, the Halo Story page has put up a Bungie/b.org collaboration to celebrate the season. Follow the thumbnail link to find a unique piece of artwork combining the artistic skills of Lorraine ‘mehve’ McLees and the poetic prowess of our own Finn. It’s our gift to you – thanks…

For those interested in that astounding Nightmare Armor we’ve mentioned a couple of times recently… Webshift posted a note saying that they’ve put prices up for the individual pieces. Take a look!

Took a little while… but the Dialogue Databank has been updated with almost 50 new snippets. Some are simply cleaner replacements for older entries… but 44 of them are brand-spanking-new. 43 of those come from Captain Spark, and the last one comes from Patrick Naedele, who submitted a slowed-down, reversed jackal recording with a clear…

Since Halo PC was released, some people have had problems with the game spontaneously dumping them off a server. TURBO posted a solution that worked for him; he had a Linksys router, and once the router’s firmware was updated, the problem went away. There is at least one datapoint that suggests this is more than…

c0ld vengeance has posted solutions for the HBO Xmas Puzzle Carnage quiz. It was actually won several days ago, but the puzzles were left online for anyone who wanted to try and solve them for fun. And now the results have been posted for any frustrated souls that couldn’t get through one part or another.

Only 13 entries in the Fan Fiction database today: Battle for the Norah: Part Twelve, by Sterfrye36 An Even War:Part 3:Victory , by D4rgant Just One More Chance, by Sentinel Old Style: Revelations, by Horror Lightning Strike: The White Sar Reinforcements ride in, by Booney ES05 – Eternal Sunder (part 05): The Eye of Time…

Now, I’m not saying Stuntmutt is prescient or anything… but he submitted this One One Se7en Sunday strip without knowing that it would air mere hours after I went to see this play, which actually USED that quote. (My guess is, poor Mr. Rumsfeld will be living that quote down for a LOONNGG time.) Of…

Warbow, while disavowing any similarity with the production excesses of One One Se7en, has submitted a Sunday Calvin and Halo for today. I can’t even give him a hard time about it, because the sentiment of the strip is so spot-on.