Author: Louis Wu

Navillus points out an upcoming Tournament in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia – the link in his forum post has the details. Check it out!

Jean-Luc posted a huge (2048×2048, 660kb) render he completed of the Master Chief – nice detail!

Apologies for the delays in posting today – there were some major (non-Halo-related) hardware troubles here in the last day or so, and cleanup has been… not fun. First up: 3Suns points out the latest Player of the Week at MLGPro.com – it’s OGRE1, and he looks back on his competitive Halo career. Fun read!

Frankie let folks know that over at Bungie.net, you’ll find a full description of the Contract Writer position he mentioned last week. Looking to work for Bungie? This might be you!

LegendaryMark wrote up a piece that gives you tips and tactics to beat XBL cheaters – you can find it over at HaloWiki.net. Go read!

Broken Console folks are looking for voice actors – swing by their website for details if you’re interested in participating in The Squadron or other upcoming machinima projects!

Bad news – the DOA4 contest we kicked off on Friday has to be US-only, because that’s the version of the game that Bungie has to give away. I’d really like to apologize for not noticing the logic hole until now… for all the outside-North-America submitters, I promise, there’ll be upcoming contests you’re eligible for.…

Silly title notwithstanding, the latest One One Se7en is pretty funny stuff. Go read!

Veegie posted news of a new render on our forum – great piece!

sorahn (and later a number of other people) noticed a new Halo sighting in a current contest at Worth1000.com. Very nice work, I’d say!

X3n0 put together a pretty cool cigar/trinket box – you can see pics in this forum post. Nice work!

Spartan Jag found yet another one of those M6D pistol replicas on eBay… the last two (this one and this one) have been paid for, but no feedback has been left as yet by the buyers. (The wording of the current listing would suggest that the guns aren’t finished yet.)

You might remember a week or so ago, we mentioned an upcoming machinima contest, sponsored by Xbox World 360 (a British gaming mag). They don’t have a website, per se… so we’re helping out a bit; you can read the contest details on this page. Movie makers… start your cameras!

Doug Millett pointed out a page at AOL Games/AIM that talks about games coming out soon – and Halo 3 is right at the top of the list. “Release Date: Sometime in 2006.” As though they know something the rest of us don’t… Bah. I hate sending them traffic with this link – but I…

Andrew, from Xbox Ottawa, writes to say that all the Fire Team Charlie episodes have been converted to portable formats for the PSP and video iPod – you can download them from their video page. Watch ’em on the road!

Bluestrike2 sends word that the MLG PwnCast has released The MLG PwnCast on Demand video trailer – requires QuickTime 7 or iTunes 6 (download links are in the news post), and it’s formatted for an iPod. Check it out!

Heh – remember a week or two ago, when we mentioned that the next Game With Fame event on Xbox Live would be with members of the band INXS? According to this article in the Vancouver Sun, more than 20,000 people have signed up in hopes of snagging one of the 100 slots available. Wow!

Another art update – this one from Dillo, who points out first Etoli’s DeviantART gallery (Etoli is a regular at the Halo Babies site), and then points out a number of her own new works. Nice stuff!

Pinkuh, as well, posted another piece of work (which we’ve added to her gallery) – this one is not g-rated. It’s a new species of the Covenant – one with a single purpose. Where does she come up with this stuff? (Pinkuh has a pretty major problem right now – her computer is dying. If…

RocketMoose found a bunch of fun Halo art over at LiveJournal – check out the links!