Author: Louis Wu

Eep – forgot to put this up earlier. Dan Chosich’s Halo PC Beta footage (discussed here) has been moved around a bit. Currently, there are two mirrors each for the QuickTime and Windows Media Player versions:QuickTime (33 mb) at files.bungie.org and rampancy.netWMP7 (15 mb) at the Junkyard and files.bungie.orgIf you haven’t gotten a copy yet,…

Continuing on their one-new-map-a-week schedule, Microsoft’s Official Halo PC site has put up 5 new screenshots in the Multiplayer section, this time of Danger Canyon. You can get a good sense for the scale of the map, if you didn’t have it already… take a look! Thanks to quickfire for pointing it out. We’ve gone…

Gearbox’s Project page, which was offline for a while this morning, is back up with a new screenshot (feel sorry for the Blue Base)… and a countdown of remaining work items left on Halo PC (before it can go gold). Total at the moment: 146. (That’s not very much; I remember Oni’s bug tracker had…

Red vs Blue Episode 17 has been posted for Sponsors; it’s pretty bitter, but in a funny way. Effects rock. Pay ’em the lousy 5 bucks and get it now, instead of waiting until Sunday (and then sending us email that we’ve forgotten to put up a Red vs Blue post for the week). C’mon……

Whoa. Buy a Halo action figure, get a free Active Camouflage Master Chief from Joyride. (Supplies are limited – and free means $5 for processing… but still!) Thanks to sirBoB for the heads-up.

The GTA series of One One Se7en wraps up today… isn’t that ghost a little big for him?

More movies – both free (streaming) and pay (downloadable) from IGN PC; 8 clips of Halo PC multiplay. A couple are pretty big suckers… check ’em out! Again, thanks to KookyBastard for noticing.

The second go-round of ‘Ask the Cananimators’, a Bungie.net feature in which anim8rjb and bentllama (the two Canadian animators on the Halo 2 dev team) answer your questions about animation, Canada, hockey, and life in general, has been posted. None of the sentences in the article are as long as the one I just wrote.…

Gah! How did we miss this? SketchFactor has put up part 5 of the Making of the E3 Demo series at Bungie.net – this one focuses on Engineering, and contains input from Chris Butcher, Michael Evans, and Damian (brought on board to work on the Halo 2 AI). It’s a fascinating read. I’m drooling for…

Whoa. Our Screenshots database has been updated with the screens released thus far in August – and the total number of Halo PC screens shot up from 70 on August 1… to 203 today. That’s a lotta shots.

Action Trip has posted a preview of Halo PC; not a huge amount of new info (and actually the hardcore among you will probably give them a hard time for some of their facts), but the screens are quite nice. 1600×1200, no watermark; there are 10 with the preview, and an additional 17 if you’re…

Halo PC footage – downloadable for Insiders, streaming for everyone – is now available at IGN PC. Seven clips from Beta 1.5 – Timberland, Gephyrophobia, and Danger Canyon. Thanks to FoOKz for pointing them out.

Today’s One One Se7en Guest Strip has -=d_dawg=- looking at Halo PC… I THINK I get it, but…

The Juggler has sent in a new hacking movie – in the vein of BOLL’s movies, but full of footage not seen before. Some pretty cool stuff. I think it’s unlikely we’ll be posting any MORE of this type of movie – but this one is definitely worth watching. Timing is great, and the music…

Xbox.com has put up a disturbing article about what friends might expect from you, Halo-wise. (Well, it disturbed ME.) Thanks to Tomass for the heads-up.

Dark Helmet would like to stake a claim as the first visitor to the upper stories of the level Halo in Halo PC. (He actually sent in this pic (68K) last week, but it took a little time before we could get word from Gearbox about releasing it.) Yes, you can STILL get up there…

Yesterday, Dan Chosich released a rather large movie showing some great Halo PC multiplay, filmed in classic Chosich style. Well, even though the press coverage was a bit limited, the bandwidth spike hurt the Junkyard, who was hosting the film. Dan, ever the courteous client, went back and re-encoded the movie to be a bit…

Another Pitchford interview – and more screenshots – can be found over at Gamers Depot. Randy’s pretty upbeat about wowing PC gamers, even though the Xbox version’s been out for a while. He’s also confident that the work Westlake is doing will allow Macs and PCs to play together… thanks to ash, who found it…

Randy Pitchford continues his evangelizing of Halo PC – there’s a nice interview up over at WorthPlaying.com. There’s a tantalizing teaser that suggests that there may be more than tools released post-launch… go check it out. (Thanks to Madscientist for letting us know.)

Many folks have complained about the navigation of the One One Se7en comic series. Hopefully, those folks will be satisfied with the newly added calendar; it doesn’t supplant the original links, it simply gives you another way to get around. It should be relatively self-explanatory… but be sure to send us mail if you don’t…