Author: Louis Wu

Pistol Poppers has put together a little movie called ‘Valet Parking’ showing what not to do with your warthog. 3:41, 6.1 mb, wmv format. We’ve decided we don’t have the space for it, so if the link it’s on is unavailable, you’ll have to wait for the bandwidth restrictions to be lifted to grab it.

Eep – this should have gone up yesterday, I’m getting sloppy. Dispraiser writes that he’s created a site to host his fan fiction pieces – you can check out Dispraiser’s Fandom for stories, artwork, and rants. (The stories you can still get here, too, but the artwork is unique to that site.)

We’ve got six new desktops for you (some in multiple sizes), which finally clears out the artwork backlog. Go visit the Wallpaper section! It’s not posted yet, but in the next day or so, there’ll be a new Artwork Posting Guidelines page up to address the currently growing issue of flooding. There are lots and…

Yet another Halo 2 Box Art entry… this one from Mr. Lolly Pop Man.

Gah – sometimes, the updates get away from you. While you’re all waiting for me to clear out the art queues, the fiction queues, the screenshot queue… go watch this movie. Figh7erbo1 is a short (1:39) piece set to Avril Lavigne’s Sk8ter Boi… nice timing. 6 mb, in QT format, from chris_roc.

Roland Scarlett writes to say that Halo World (which we mentioned about a week ago) has been adding content at a rapid clip. Most sections are fleshed out now. There are a couple of games on the site – one is a variant of Bungie’s Extreme Closeups, and the other is called ‘Guess The Spot’,…

c0ld vengeance’s Halo 2 Cover Art challenge ended a few days ago – he’s now posted his results. For the Front Cover Only section, he gave the award to Ninjas on Fire. For the Front and Back Cover section, Ed Murphy took home the honors. (Check the forum post for more details and justification.) In…

Attempting to BEGIN to clear out the Artwork backlog… first up, Miscellaneous Art. We’ve got a new Halo mini-game, a very nice exchange medium, and a misplaced Halo Box Art entry. You’ll find ’em all in the Miscellaneous Art section.

Okay, so if you’re stripping your field piece and washing the bits in denatured alcohol, and you fall asleep and your head lands in the cleaning bowl, and lightning hits what you disgorge as it comes flying out of your mouth and torques it, by some freaky cosmic coincidence, into human-looking words… this is what…

After two disappointing attempts, Team Overkill makes the iGames Winter Season Regionals in the 3rd Qualifying round. Read the details on their website. Congrats, guys!

Ever wish you could get your hands on a set of those Spartan II dogtags that were being distributed in Japan? Well, thanks to Nekomusume, now you can. She’s got one extra set she’s auctioning off on eBay… starting bid is just under $36, and you’ve got almost a week to decide.

Athol Productions has put together a new gameplay movie for your viewing pleasure. 5:30 long, around 20 megs big, it’s gameplay on a number of levels… with a few oddities thrown in. Nice timing, and an interesting combination of musical styles. Folks offended by gay jokes probably shouldn’t download this. You can find it at…

Barring a few pieces that were too short, and one that never fully uploaded, the Fan Fiction backlog from this week has been cleared. The Long Ride Home 12, by Joshua Barreto Starship Daybreak Part 1 (revised) and Part 2, by Domitri Giovanni A New Year’s Day, Chapter 7, by Guilty Spark Starjacked Part 3,…

Shame, shame. Two pretty neat pieces of Bungie-related trivia occurred recently… and we have to read about them from bungie.org’s newest staffer, poena.dare. Scoopin’ the old-timers! The important one is that Alex and Laura Seropian (and their new baby girl, Amelia Eve), were featured in Parent magazine recently. The second one is actually more embarrassing,…

There were a couple of late entries in the Halo 2 Cover Art Contest – this contest is now officially closed, so please don’t send us any more entries. You can see the two new versions on the contest page, though – Mr. Yun’s is in the top row, second from the left, and Doggone’s…

Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation website has put up Chapter 9—Keyes—of its Legendary Walkthrough – spoiler goodness and 26 new screenshots! Go check it out… NOW! (The inclusion of shot 19 also means our Easter Egg page is going to be updated in the near future…)

A few days ago, we posted a note about a ‘Photo Story’ Microsoft had put together about Halo 2. Some of you could watch it, others couldn’t. Thanks to Stuntmutt and Djoey154, we now have pictures of all the slides… check ’em out in our Miscellaneous section.

A week ago, c0ld vengeance threw down a gauntlet: create a better cover for Halo 2 than, say, EB Games. We’ve received 9 entries for this competition; 7 show just the front cover, two show front and back. We’ve posted all 9 on a display page. c0ld vengeance will judge these and announce a winner…

Whoa. Grunts that THINK they have guns… but don’t. Spec Ops Elite managed to capture some bizarre activity on the level Keyes… a long thread, including an MPEG movie and an explanation of how this was induced can be found on our forum. It’s unclear how much bandwidth Spec Ops Elite is allowed for that…

After another hellish flying experience, I’m back and safely ensconced in the comfort of HBO Headquarters. There’s a boatload of stuff to get to… but it’s going to take a little while. In the meantime, Stosh has posted a new Blam comic – I think Stosh might have some… um, issues. But you should go…