Author: Louis Wu

Zyber Jedi pointed out a Halo 2 FFA tourney at Matchbox 360, taking place on January 19 – free to enter (though you have to be from the UK), with a free Xbox/Xbox360 game for the winner. Check it out!

James Moran points out an auction on eBay’s UK site – it’s one of the 6-foot Master Chief statues. Starting bid is $1250 (US), and the auction ends tomorrow. (This is listed on the US site, as well.) Check it out!

Wonga. X3n0, emboldened by the response to his RvB action figure packaging, released a shot of a case he made for his Active Camo Spartan… and man, does it rock! Check it out. Joyride could learn something from this guy, packaging-wise!

IGN has put up the second half of their ‘IGN Predicts 2006’ article… and one of the predictions is ‘Halo 3 Ships in 2007’. (Never mind that 2007 is NOT 2006.) They’re pretty sure we’ll see Halo 3 in progress at E3 in May (this year), and that the game itself will ship in conjunction…

Wow, I’ve seen sleazy… but this is pretty amazing. Over at a site called ‘JonsModding’, they’re SELLING (yes, selling) three maps for your Xbox, which they’re willing to install for you. These maps come from “the programming department teamed with JonsModding”, and they “have programmed the maps to use the old halo 1 weapontry and…

Heh – Peter Moore talked to Computer and Video Games a couple of days ago, and discussed the next installment of Halo as though MS was actually holding it back on purpose. Reading his words, one might almost get the idea that the decision NOT to release Halo 3 as a launch title for the…

Taso, of the HIH forums, got some screen time with Frankie recently – you can read the interview over at High Impact Halo. It’s a really fun piece. Check it out! Thanks, Phan7om.

Dragondex submitted a video to the MPRRS a couple of days ago – ‘Dominic Grey: Tales of a Tortured Mind’ tells the story of a… somewhat disturbed individual. Nicely filmed! Give this one a look. WMP9 format (27.8 mb) or QuickTime format (27.3 mb). (He actually started a forum thread about this on Monday -…

Compton has written up another blow-by-blow account of a Halo 2 multiplayer match – this one is a 1 Flag CTF game on Zanzibar. As he did once before, he’s managed to put you in the game – it’s a fun read.

Interesting… Stephen Loftus ran across this page at Chapters (a Canadian bookseller) – it lists an as-yet-unnamed trade paperback based on Halo 2, written by Eric Nylund (author of two of the three existing Halo novels), and published by Tor books (previous Halo novels were published by Del Rey). According to Chapters, it’s due out…

Over at Joystiq, there’s an article about the Video Games Live concert series (yeah, I know, I said I wasn’t going to mention them any more… sue me). It contains links to video excerpts of a dress rehearsal of the Halo segment, filmed several months ago (the WMP9 version is 53 mb, the QuickTime version…

Coolness – a Stubbs The Zombie demo has been released for Mac and PC; if you haven’t had a chance to try this out, swing by Filerush and grab a copy! (200+ mb…) Thanks, hminn.

Dennis Powers points out that machinima.com has become an official mirror of his Halo CE Chronicles series – nice going!

Almost lost in the flood of ‘BILL GATES CONFIRMS HALO 3!’ emails – DropShock Radio has released episode 9 of their podcast. 50 minutes, 24 mb. They wonder what drives modders on XBL, among other subjects…

Wow, I missed this yesterday – careless. According to a news post on Bungie.net, Marty O’Donnell did an interview with Kilroy, a member of Bungie.net’s Chapter Founders. It’s a pretty rambling piece – but it’s full of tasty morsels. If you’re an up-and-coming Marty Stalker, you owe it to yourself to read this!

Very pretty Halo 2 faceplate for your Xbox360 on eBay right now (2 days left) – I’d agree with ManKitten about the price, though.

Newegg.com is selling Halo 2 for $17.99, today only. If you’re looking for a cheap copy – this is it! Thanks, Snowy_Duck. Update: phoenixdude24 let us know that his local Blockbuster is selling copies of Halo 2 (still with the ‘do not sell before 11/9/04’ label on them) for $9.99… his email address suggests that…

Some wishful thinking, and very nice graphics work, turned an idea into a cool pic – thanks, X3n0!

I really wanted to pass on this – but there are literally dozens of emails in our mailboxes (yes, boxes, plural – folks are mailing this to every address they can find, which is a lot of addresses), so I’m posting it to make people STOP WRITING – Engadget interviewed Bill Gates at CES this…

3Suns points out a number of new tidbits at mlgpro.com – you can find a Player of the Week profile of Poison (Lil Poison’s uncle), Ogre2’s blog, the featured blog of the week (video from WinterLANd coming at some point), and the MLG Handbook, with info for players looking to be sponsored or signed. Check…