Author: Louis Wu

AGAIN with the updates. Finn, this time, picks out some of the juicier morsels from the Halo Story mailbag (and a forum post or two) to peel another layer of mystery from the onion that is Halo. Go read.

Bungie.net’s transfer over to .NET (and the use of .NET Passports) is complete. If you have a Passport already, simply log in, then link your existing Bungie.net account to your Passport. If you don’t have a Passport, create one, and link it. Finally, you can link your Passport to a new Bungie.net account. Existing functionality…

Several days ago, we mentioned that the backlog of strips for the One One Se7en Guest queue was getting out of hand, and described what we thought would be a reasonable solution for the problem. Well, maybe folks didn’t understand what was being offered… because we had exactly two voluntary submissions. Added to that are…

After a really long hiatus, Fire Team Charlie is back, with episode 9. It’s available in DivX-encode AVI format (and QuickTime, as soon as they link it), and weighs in at about 40 mb. It’s high-res (640×480), for EVERYONE – though members of XboxOttawa.ca can download it directly, while everyone else needs to use BitTorrent.…

Wow. Master Chief Cutter has put together a full size rocket launcher. It doesn’t actually shoot… but that’s probably a GOOD thing. It’s over 4 feet long, and there are a bunch of blurry pictures on his website here. (I grabbed local copies, so someone should drop me a line if this dies; we’ll put…

mnemesis has once again dipped into the Halo Story page mailbag, and pulled out some tantalizing tidbits. (There’s even one from forum regular Jillybean… hmm, I thought I told him to throw all of those away.) Good stuff.

Heh. Stuntmutt takes one final shot at the absurd length of the Guest queue in today’s One One Se7en. (Later today, the Archive will open, and SHOULD take care of that problem once and for all.)

There were 22 pieces of Fan Fiction submitted this weekend… get to it. Merick’s Journal’s: Episode 3 1/2: The Poem, by John Kitchen Halo The Respawned – Book One, by md Fight for New Tatley (Chapter 3: Bank Withdrawal), by CoLd BlooDed Brutus, The Spartans, Two AIs and the Pirate Fleet (Part 5), by Traumatised…

Noobs and guns… they don’t always mix. Halo: Resolution looks at one reason why not.

343GS.com has put up the third episode of Echofournineteen – this one called ‘April Cruel’. (Check the Downloads section.) I’m not sure I get it… Thanks to Madda Cheeb for the heads-up.

The Best of The Best competition took place last night (it ended up being a ‘Best of HBO’ contest, in the end), and according to stan, the winner is synide. Details are in the forum post – full stats, comments, you name it. Congrats, synide!

I keep forgetting to write it up… but here you go. Ciarán Walsh has spent a chunk of time overhauling the search mechanism of our Forum archives; the new version of the search now relies on MySQL, rather than perl, and so can handle MUCH bigger searches. All posts not on the current forum are…

nukedude finally compiled a bunch of footage from the Pillar of Art showing/lanfest last summer in New York City; it’s about 10 minutes worth of commentary, gameplay, and artwork from the Selkirk Gallery in lower Manhattan. The movie is in WMP9 format, and weighs in at 32.8 mb. nukedude is hosting it, but if things…

Stuntmutt is sucking up yet ANOTHER Sunday slot with one of his Sunday One One Se7en strips. Apologies to the Guest strip submitters who have to wait LONGER now. (Luckily, anyone who CAN’T wait can still tell us to add their strip to the new One One Se7en Archive, opening tomorrow…)

Rockin’. FormerCide discovered a bitmap of a mystery woman on the level Boarding Action (PC version), when he was messing around in the game’s resources. (BOLL posted the pic, because FormerCide wasn’t sure if it was kosher to do so, and BOLL figured he was 5000 miles from Bungie headquarters and was immune to death…

GLADIATRRR3000 has put together a funny little Flash animation, called 343 Guilty Stick. It weighs in at 2.4 mb. Enjoy!

Ownt put up a review of Halo PC yesterday. They liked it quite a lot (gave it an Uber Ownage award). Repetitive levels in single player and some clipping bugs in MP brought its score down to 90. (There are also 44 highly compressed images, mostly of the levels Halo and TImberland.) Thanks, Blue’s News…

Today’s Guest One One Se7en is the last in a series of spoofs of RvB. (For what it’s worth, this is the sort of strip that will be added to the One One Se7en Archive automatically, once it opens on Monday.) This one shows the danger of spinoffs – to the ORIGINAL. And remember -…

Cool. Macsoft has put up a full webpage for Mac Halo – a sign that release really isn’t very far away. Release date: December 11, 2003. A week later than originally suggested… but coming from the producer, it’s a pretty reliable date. (I’m tickled that we got one of the circle links at the top…)…

Halo Babies has been updated – there’s a new strip that looks at situations explainable by network problems… or extreme inexperience. (You have to decide for yourself which is which as you play.) There are also some new AIM icons. Check it out!