Author: Louis Wu

Welcome back to the madhouse. Apologies for the up-and-downtime of recent weeks… there’s another short outage coming this weekend, when the server this site runs on is ripped unceremoniously out of the rack and stom- um, replaced with a better-functioning alternate. Shouldn’t take more than an hour or two to synch the data between the…

It’s not quite Thursday, UTC… so I’m still not late posting today’s One One Se7en. This one’s sort of special…

SketchFactor has posted part 1 of his FanFest Flashback; a look at the history of the Bungie FanFests, as well as the events leading up to this particular iteration. Good times, good times… go read!

Hehe – BOLL has put out yet another enjoyable Halo-inspired creation. It was for an intro course in animation… the main character may not LOOK familiar, but he sure SOUNDS familiar. (2 mb, QuickTime format) I love this guy!

SketchFactor has stepped into a thread about the imminent release of the E3 Demo video with a bit of information….it is definitely not coming out today or tomorrow. However, I can say with certainty that it’s very close to being released. We know everyone is eager to see it and trust me, we’re eager to…

[WSD] has put up their second monster movie (18 minutes long, 88 mb) for you to grab. It’s predominately 4-player gameplay – 2v2 or 4-player FFA – except for the last 5 minutes, which is an unedited 6 player game of Rockets on Prisoner. Editing overall is pretty well done. If you enjoy watching Halo…

It was posted during E3, but somehow we missed it; Gamespot put up a Hands-on impression article of Halo PC a couple of weeks ago. It’s got a bit of dodgy information, but mostly, it says the reviewer was happy with what he saw. Thanks to Clefton Twain on our forum for the heads-up.

Brannon Boren points out that Halo is featured in yesterday’s Dork Tower cartoon. Got a chuckle out of me…

Scott Velasquez of Gearbox points out that if you want to see a pic of the Gearbox team, you can find them on top of the building they work in in the latest issue of Computer Gaming World (which has a 4-page Halo PC spread). We can’t add the article to our Press Scans section…

Shacknews has interviewed Randy Pitchford, of Gearbox – there’s a boatload of tasty information there. Of great interest to many HBO regulars is the support Gearbox plans to provide to the mod community… The degree to which Halo is huge on the PC is the degree to which we?ll support the modification community. We believe…

Cyber Gaming Network has posted their E3 2003 Awards… and Halo 2 cleaned up. Best Visuals of Show, Xbox Game of Show, Demo of Show, and Outstanding Game of Show. Dunno… I think they liked it. Go read the details!

A month ago, we mentioned a card game being created by Phoenix Sanction. Looks like they’re done with the first set. Rules, card technicalities, and an Excel sheet deck creator… take a look.

Ross Mills writes to remind us that his ‘Halo Reloaded’ trailer can be found at That Weasel Television. There are two versions – a large 3.7 mb version and a small (sub-1mb) version, both in WMP9 format. Take a look!

HUNTR-KILLR turned in a funny little short film; no sound, but the action is what counts. Anybody who’s tried to put a jeep up on top of the level Halo knows how hard it is to drive up slopes… and walking is simply out of the question. Did you know, though, that Covenant characters have…

Evil Otto has posted a note over at Bungie.net announcing that the Halo 2 UI caption contest is now closed. Over a thousand entries, three will be selected. Good luck, EO, and good luck to all who entered! Read the news item for what is, and is not, permissible at this stage.

One of the more impressive gameplay vids in recent memory is Dan Chosich’s Halo50K Framework. It sets all sorts of bars that other Halo filmmakers strive to reach… and now it’s even better. Audio’s been re-encoded, aspect ratio and bitrate’s are both higher, for clarity… this movie captures the chaos, the adrenaline-induced exhilaration, the beauty…

Not to be outdone by the Gearbox crew, Bungie’s SketchFactor metes out a few morsels of info about the PC Rocket Hog. It’s a three-shot, boys and girls…

Geeoff has put together a multiplayer stunts movie called ‘the orange is coming’, and That Weasel has agreed to host it for him at That Weasel Television. It’s 26.3 mb, just under 2 minutes long, in WMP7 format. Some nice examples of using grenades to collect weapons on the run, as well as some hijinks…

Thanks to dolbex for sharing… he asked some interesting questions about vehicle respawning in PC Halo over at the Gearbox Forums, and got some solid answers from a couple of members of the Gearbox crew. Summary: vehicles will NOT be destroyable in multiplayer; it would be too frustrating to kill someone in a banshee and…

Another 12 entries in the Fan Fiction section today… When Games Collide: The Tournament of the Century Chapter 2, by Brent Carmichael True Purpose(7), by Frensa Geran A Halo Comedy (Very Original Title…), by Dispraiser Forsaken Forefathers part V: Boarding Action, by AlphaBravo343 and Havok Crash of the Accolade [Part 02], by Argonox Rally Point…