Author: Louis Wu

I ran across this Flash animation at Newgrounds when reading a RedvsBlue member’s journal. Earth is under attack by Covenant forces. And we don’t do so good.

Elnea sent along a new avatar for her gallery here – lordsmurph looks rather graceful with that flag!

Phil Shiel hunted down the website for Muckle Mannequins – the folks who make those resin sculptures that come up for sale on eBay every once in a while. It’s all framed – but if you start at the home page, and follow the ‘Quick Menu’ at the bottom right to ‘Halo 2’, you’ll get…

The latest Bungie Weekly Update was posted a couple of hours ago – they’re hiring, there’s some cool stuff about the audio team, and there’s new schwag coming out. And oh, yeah… a naked mister chief. Sort of. You can find this in our local BWU archive, as well. I haven’t been to the forum…

We’re proud to announce the first in a series of bungie.org/Bungie.net contests – Killer Grunts. (Bungie.net is involved only in the sense that they’re providing the goodies you can win – so don’t bug ’em if you’re unhappy with the situation. Blame us.) The contest is simple: put together some box art for a (fictional)…

Today’s One One Se7en calls in a guest character for commentary on an issue that certainly riles up the fanbase…

Phil Shiel sent us a pic of the Master Chief Resin Statue (228K) he bought off eBay a few days ago – it’s the one we mentioned here. Looks awesome next to the high-end TV equipment he plays Halo 2 on! (I guess we’re doing some decent advertising for eBay sellers; the M6D replica we…

Jefu Kune points out that the Stubbs the Zombie demo (for Xbox) can be found on the current cover DVD for the Official Xbox Magazine. (We mentioned the Mac and PC demos a few days ago.) You can now try this Halo-engined game on whatever platform you prefer!

Very cool – over at MLG, you’ll find A Newcomers Guide to Halo 2 at MLG – Part I. This is a great intro to MLG-standard weapons, and basic strats for them. Nice! Thanks, 3Suns.

Twenty new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section today – go read!

The Bungie Humpday Challenge was back yesterday – even though it wasn’t Humpday, they weren’t playing Halo, and in fact they weren’t even playing anyone outside of Bungie Studios. The writeup’s pretty funny, though, so go read it! Frankie was first – as usual. Cheater. (The contest he mentioned will be made public later today,…

The guy doesn’t stop. More megabattle goodness from rockslider over at Bad Cyborg – bump the total number of enemies to about 50! Wonga.

Bryn ‘ofthehi77’ Casey let us know about another pair of paintings he’d posted recently – we’ve added them to his gallery here. ‘Terminal’ is a great view of the Terminal garage… and ‘Delta Halo’ is… well, just what you’d expect. Really nice work – be sure to take a look!

Z pointed out another couple of vids over at Halo2Forum.com – both are huge (150-200 mb apiece). There’s a KotH game between Exit Woundz and Legendz, on Midship – great audio (these guys really communicate well), and a montage from Ner0sis with lots of funky effects and a bunch of known names. Go grab ’em!

jman571 wrote to let us know about the Maw Slayer Tournament, an online HaloPC-baesd 2v2 tourney. You can sign up in this Bungie.net forum thread. Dates/times don’t seem to be set yet, and they’re working on a website – but the forum thread contains all the info you need. Go sign up!

Podtacular Ep 42 (Beginning of the year blowout) has been posted – swing by and download it! It’s an hour long, 28 mb. Thanks, Henry Brown.

QBakies pointed out a new entry in his gaming blog – The Sad March of Progress looks at his gradual movement away from Halo 2 towards other online games. Are you like Q, and ready to move on? Or does Halo still suck you in?

Some of you might remember SexyJosh, who released a number of Halo songs a couple of years ago – he stopped by our forum yesterday to point out that all of his Halo music (and more, in fact) has been collected at a new address, with a new design – if you haven’t heard this…

Burnie’s back from his vacation… and Episode 71 of Red vs Blue, ‘You Keep Using That Word’, has been posted for Sponsors. (Yeah, that means that the free versions should be up by Friday, if not sooner.) Shiela has turned into my second girlfriend, and Simmons has – oops. That’s not right. Go watch -…

Gah. Out all day… I managed to miss posting Wednesday’s One One Se7en. Up now, though. Pretty darned funny, too – worth the wait, probably. (If you don’t think it’s funny, that might be you in the last panel.)