Author: Louis Wu

Lots of good tech info from the Westlake programmers on the IMG forum – if that goes offline, Madscientist transcribed a bunch of it in this forum post. Not long now!

mrsmiley stopped by last night to point out a new Halo Babies cartoon – I’m just reaching that section of the forum now. Looks like we’re getting away from water balloons to me… Explore the Halo Babies site, there’s also a bunch of other new stuff; new banner ads, AIM Buddy icons, and some new…

343GS has put up yet another teaser for their upcoming Flash Halo game; it’s a downloadable standalone Flash executable (runnable only on Windows platforms) with a bit of text about the game. It weighs in at 1.5 mb. Personally, I wish they’d put their efforts into actually CODING THE GAME, and hold back on the…

Team Sexy has posted deleted scenes from their ‘Hall of the Sidewinder King’ movie; dunno, but to me it looks like one guy running out of a base and through the tunnels. (I guess I thought it was gonna be bloopers, or something.) If you’re interested, stop by their forums and look for the ‘NEW…

IXIGhandiIXI pointed out a new comic over at 343gs.com. It’s called EchoFourNineteen, and it’s in their Downloads section. (The site is framed, so you’ll have to navigate there yourself.) Episode 1 looks at Brutes…

Whoa. So back on August 31, Rampant Cowboy pointed out a thread over at TeamXbox which was discussing a product someone found in their store’s database called ‘XBX-Halo 2 BUNDLE’ – price was $19.99, release date was November 15. RC’s thread went nowhere – there were a couple of posts, but I think MY feeling…

Today’s guest One One Se7en is by Michael M, and if you don’t get it, I’d suggest you revisit our Miscellaneous section. (The dangers of long lead times on strips…)

Yesterday, Bungie.net posted an interview with Jay Ubroh, the president of the Associates of Gaming Professionals, an organization devoted to professional Halo Xbox gaming. How AGP started, why Halo, and what’s next were all on the table. Check it out!

Blade writes to say that the Team Ice site has been updated; there are a few movies mirrored there (including the entire Fire Team Charlie series), and their new forums are now online. Take a look!

Longtime bandwidth donator That Weasel wrote to tell us about a new project: That Weasel Television has teamed up with Team X and Ctrl + Alt + Delete Productions to create the Team X: The Beginning of the End collection of Halo videos. It’s being hosted by TWTv. Check it out!

Whoa. Out tonight, there’ll be updates in the morning… but I stopped in to the office to turn the lights off, and noticed a bit of news which should make LOTS of moviemakers happy; Microsoft has released a WMP9 version of Windows Media Player for MacOSX. (As far as I can tell, there is not…

Quick heads-up; seems Yahoo has managed to harbor a big enough mail spammer that it’s gotten its entire block of mailservers listed on SpamCop. Bungie.org’s mailserver uses the SpamCop blacklist… so anybody mailing from Yahoo will not be able to mail us until this is over. (For an ISP like Yahoo, it usually takes a…

A few quick points covered today on the Halo Story page… mnemesis continues to hammer away at the iceberg that is the mailbag. Go make his life harder by reading, then commenting.

15 entries in the Fan Fiction section today: Unforgiven, by AlphaBravo343 New Lunar HQ: Chapter 5/ Part 2, by Fleet Admiral A Soul of Steel: Part 5, by The Scribe Shadow Ops II: Nowhere to Run, Chapter Three, by Nemesis Broken Promise, by Alpha Lance The Fallen: Halo 2 Ch6 The First Wave, by Hikaru-119…

Most HPC players will be able to relate to today’s One One Se7en…

Once you’ve had a taste for freedom, it’s hard to go back. Check out Halo: Resolution today.

As promised, the Great Halo Scavenger Hunt closed its doors this afternoon. Congratulations to all those who finished it, and indeed all those who took part! We’ve put together a page containing complete directions on how we thought the game would be played – you can see how close you came, if you didn’t win,…

Taken a little time… but the HBO-GameDaemons Halo PC dedicated server is back online, with its original mapcycle. (For the past 2 days, it’s been running a few stock maps while we tried to iron out some difficulties.) There’ll be more complete changes coming tomorrow, most likely (an addition of several new games, and a…

A quick reminder: The Great Halo Scavenger Hunt ends in roughly 3 hours (6 pm UTC, which is 1 pm EST or 10 am PST). The solution (and the names of the winners) will be posted later this afternoon – but after closing time, even if you complete the hunt, you won’t be able to…

The Apple Store is listing some system requirements for Mac Halo (you’ll have to search for the item; there’s no way I know of to link directly to it), and they’re relatively steep: 700 MHz G4, 256/512 MB RAM, Radeon 8500 or GeForce 2 MX with 32 MB VRAM. These aren’t final requirements, as far…