Author: Louis Wu

The Bad News: XboxOttawa.ca seems to have gone down; no word on how long, or why. The Good News: Blade has mirrored both Episode 4 and Episode 5 of Fire Team Charlie’s vids at his Team Ice movie mirror. We’ll continue to update you on the movie situation… there are a lot of people trying…

PC Envy? Likely. Xbox MC disses PC MC on today’s One One Se7en.

WorthPlaying.com put up a Halo PC preview on Friday – they got in on the gameplay we saw at IGN and GameSpot last week. 10 new screenshots, all at 1024×768 size… nice! Pretty PC-oriented (as in, anti-Xbox)… but then, it IS a PC preview, so what the heck. Heads-up came from Konrad9, on our forum.

Wow, Monday, and we STILL haven’t mentioned this week’s Red vs Blue vid. It’s not a standard episode – it’s a look at how the Blue team makes it to New York for last week’s Film Society of Lincoln Center presentation. (If you ask me, they were FAR too cavalier about the teleporter.)

I promised last night to try and shed light on the movie hosting situation here – I’ve put up a page explaining where we currently stand. Suggestions are always welcome… we’re definitely in a bind at this point. Thanks for your patience!

Fire Team Charlie released their 5th movie yesterday; you can find it on their website. Sound quality is vastly improving, and humor quality remains quite high. 16.5 mb, DivX 5 format (though I’ve got a 9.4 mb QuickTime version that I’m going to try and get to them)… go grab it!

Oh, yeah, before I forget – there’s a Sunday One One Se7en for you today. You have to have a long memory, though.

It seems like every time I go on vacation, some crisis erupts around here. Like there’s a Halo god who doesn’t like to see me unchained from my desk… I’ve been made aware of the Mythica-related movie hosting situation, and have seen a lot of emails from people wanting to help, and people wanting more…

One last movie, before I go: This one’s from MaverickJ, and it’s called Oddball Tactics, part 1. It’s 9.9 mb, in QuickTime format. (You can also find it, in WMP9 format, on Maverick’s Project Spartan site.) It shows you a bunch of slick tricks you can use to gain the upper hand in a Team…

We’ve put up a mirror page for the Sidewinder Saga, because it was getting confusing figuring out where (outside of the Halogamers.com home site) you could get the various movies. Thanks to Team Ice for their mirroring help – as an aside, Blade has also posted the Halo 2 Announcement trailer and The E3 Demo…

Xbox Ottawa has put up #4 of their FTC vid series. Ex-Special Ops, huh? Current version of this one (3:38 long) is 23.6 mb, in DivX 5 AVI format… but they might have a slightly smaller QuickTime version up in the not-too-distant future.

Four Miscellaneous Art pieces for you – there’s no one-liner I can think of that describes them all, so just go look.

A couple of interesting (and colorful) desktops today in the Wallpaper section. Check ’em out!

11 Fan Fiction bits for you today. Running Riot- Part 1, by Simon James Shadow Spartans, Chatper 4: The Running Prophet, by Agent Shade and Arinoth Koby The Homecoming – Part 1, by Tim Ricciardello Running Riot-Part 2, by Simon James The Fall of Fate: Raid (10), by ‘Nosolee A Final Shot – Part 2,…

After a long span with no entries, we received another submission for the Halo 2 disk cover collection. Good to know folks are still thinking about cover art!

Derek Brown is starting up a new site called haloevents – he’s hoping to create a database of upcoming Halo events around the nation. Visitors will be able to search this database for events near them. This requires input from you; the more events submitted to this site, the more people who will come to…

IGN PC wraps up its week-long Halo PC coverage with two new articles; a general one is available to all readers, and gets a few last answers out of Randy Pitchford, and a more specialized, Insider-only one contains a 78 mb, 7:48 video interview with Pitchford. There’s a lot of feel-good discussion about Halo, and…

voX has put up the first of 5 pieces of a new series, called The Two Betrayels (sic) at his site, Halo2. The trailer is quite short (33 seconds), but sets the stage for another nicely filmed movie. (5.3 mb, DivX 4 avi) I’ve gotta say, I really appreciate what Red vs Blue has done…

Jake ‘Evergreen98’ Billo, over at the Junkyard, is taking a pretty close look at the PC version of Halo, comparing what’s in it to what’s in the Xbox version, and helping you decide where YOU want to be playing once it’s out. It’s a three part article – Part one is up right now. Thanks…

Never got a movie up at Mythica yesterday, and dang, if the bandwidth usage didn’t drop below 7 Mbit/sec. The inside of the pipe’s gonna start feeling lonely – not enough bits passing through! Next up is a movie we should have posted a while ago; it seems to have gotten slightly lost. This film…