Author: Louis Wu

Seventeen new pieces in the Fan Fiction section today – go read.

Top Cat Productions submitted ‘A Tribute to Halo 2’ to the MPRRS, and its combination of wacky humor, strange situations, and surreal transitions convinced the reviewers to give it a thumbs-up. It’s pretty long (almost 19 minutes, but still weighs in at about 50 mb… amazing! Grab a copy in WMP9 format (53.2 mb) or…

The Humpday Challenges are back, it seems – KP’s got a writeup of this week’s, against the Podtacular crew, posted at Bungie.net. Nice recap, even though Bungie got beat – congrats, Podtacular!

Matt Spenser and Psy Matrix got together and turned out Switch Parody 2, a cute takeoff on Apple’s Switch ads. 12 mb, WMP9 format – go watch! Thanks, Laird.

Darkendes found a review of Halo 2 on a site aimed at helping parents find good media for their kids – and MAN, did they not like the game. “A storyline only slightly above average and so-so graphics” – they don’t think it’s just bad for kids, they think it’s bad. Period. Ouch!

Over at Bungie.net, KP put up an item that explains how you can still get some clan action going, even though the Clan playlists on XBL have been dropped.

Heh – Weird Al Yankovic’s latest song, ‘You’re Pitiful’, takes a shot at Halo 2 players – it’s available for download (for now, anyway) on his site. Direct link is in KiGlow’s forum post.

Steve stopped by our forum last night to post a bunch of pictures of Halo guns he’d created out of cardboard – great work! Give it a look.

Ciarán posted a note about an upgrade to his Halo Screensaver – it has its own website. Check it out!

My local connection is having problems; the one of the routers here is seeing lots of errors. My service provider needs to do some ‘intrusive testing’ to nail down where the problem is; what that means for you is that everything on that connection will be offline from roughly 1 am eastern (5 am UTC)…

Mintz writes to point out that the Behind the Scenes vid is now available at Halo: Portable, in pocket-sized versions; 33 mb for PSP, 18 mb for iPod, 13 mb for Pocket PC. Go grab a copy!

Over at MLGPro.com, there’s an interview with ItWasLuck, another Scion Player of the Year nominee; go see what drives him! Thanks, 3Suns.

A movie passed the MPRRS this morning – it actually passed for the second time. The first time, it passed the reviewers, but I refused to host it because the submitter had been part of a couple of plagiarism incidents in the not-too-distant past, and I wasn’t even willing to look at it. However, he…

Today’s One One Se7en, riffing on a line from the Halo 3 trailer, made me laugh out loud. Then I smacked myself in the head with a board as penance for encouraging Stuntmutt. Go read.

NewsFactor Network wrote up an article on the upcoming TV presentation of MLG matches, and what it might mean for the future. Thanks to CoB Icu, who noticed it at MLGPro.com.

Joe Larson shows that he’s got sharper eyes than all a’ yas with his biting analysis of the Halo 3 trailer – there’s some good stuff in there. Give it a read! (Then yell at him on our forum.)

c0ld vengeance and sorahn have both been playing with Xbox7887’s trainer again – this time, they’ve created ‘3D screenshots’ – sort of. (They’re actually just QT movies that walk through a rotation around the shot – but it’s close enough.) Vids range from about a meg up to about 6 mb. Definite coolness.

Clefton Twain pointed out that there are a couple of real bargains in Halo 2 action figures at Amazon right now; you can pick up either the Series 3 Ghost with Brute or the Series 3 Spec Ops Invisible Grunt for $5.29 right now. Nice deal! (The other $5.29 figures Clefton mentions are the Johnny…

Occasionally, they release me from the chains that hold me to this desk, and take me outside to see the sun. (Or the stars, depending on the hour.) And as welcome as these breaks are, sometimes they come at… inconvenient times. Tonight, Bungie released Halo 3: Behind The Scenes, a new piece from Jim McQuillan.…

darkster2ongame sent us a note about a single player mod he’s release for Halo PC – it’s the Pillar of Autumn, except humans and the Covenant have changed places (and the Covenant are mostly grunts). He sent along a small movie (1.5 mb, WMP9 format) to show an example of the gameplay. More details and…