Author: Louis Wu

Z sends word of Halzred’s 5th Montage Trailer over at halo2forum.com; if you’re a fan of heavy editing (‘heavy’ = ‘you can’t really tell what’s going on, the cuts are so fast and furious, and the effects are so thick’), go grab this one. 40 mb, just under 2 minutes.

Mintz points out that there’s quite a bit of new content over at Halo: Portable – new articles, new movies, if you’ve got a PSP, go download!

twooranges found a Fullsize resin cast model of the M6D pistol on eBay last night – it sold via Buy it Now less than an hour after that initial post, but the pictures will be up for another couple of weeks. Gorgeous piece of work! Worth $180? Yep, clearly, to the buyer! (The forum thread…

Pinkuh posted a note on our forum with an update of a picture she’d started about a month ago. The final work is gorgeous (we’ve added it to her gallery here) – but there are also a few progress shots, showing how she got from the sketch to the final product. (Those are in the…

You might remember a guy named Mike Hill – he’s done a couple of sketches of Halo subjects. (Yeah, and Reinhold Meissner has climbed a couple of hills.) There was his MC with a Warthog, and Sniper Waiting… well, now there’s a new pic called ‘nightstalker’ (900×1442, 544k); it was created for the Bungie art…

Well, it’s been a little while since I’ve seen a Game With Fame on Xbox Live… but it looks like there’s one coming up in a couple of weeks. According to TeamXbox, you can sign up for a chance to play against INXS on Tuesday, January 17. Nice!

Today’s One One Se7en reminds people that behind many successful ventures are older iterations of those ventures.

Eep – forgot to post this yesterday – thanks to Capt 0bvious for reminding me. Geary noticed a new trailer at GameTrailers.com, showing off Nicole beating up on some of the other characters in DOA4. It’s nice, hi-res footage; not nearly as artistic as Dan Chosich’s vid, but high-quality, and fun to watch. (Love the…

The cutest little guy arrived in the mail yesterday (closeup | for scale)… Halo fans rock. To AngelicLionheart and crew… thanks. When I get sad or stressed, I’ll put this guy on my shoulder, and let him suck out my brains.

This week’s Fan Fiction pull is 18 pieces – and people are clearly reading the directions, because I didn’t have to delete a single one! Go catch up on your reading.

Today’s Halo Babies comic is a bitter look at the cheating scene on Xbox Live… methinks Gruntsbane’s been hit once too many times.

Last night, Sniper2477’s Mission Impossible 3 Trailer passed the MPRRS – so you can grab it in WMP9 format (28.1 mb) or QuickTime format (20.6 mb) from us. It’s an attempt to remake the Mission: Impossible trailer, down to camera angles and shots. (It actually helps if you watch the original trailer – it’s available…

Silver Stars/Purple Hearts pre-Episode 0.3 is now up for download at 7Pandas.com. You can find a variety of versions on their Downloads page – and we’re mirroring the hi-res WMP9 version, and offering a hi-res QuickTime as well. This particular pre-episode has no Halo content in it (it’s all Sims2 this time around) – but…

w00t – Mothergoat has released the WASP, a very cool flying vehicle for use in HaloCE maps. (If you’ve never seen it, visit this forum post, and download the movie therein – you’ll see it in action. For HaloCE Mapmakers, you can now include this vehicle in your own maps… for players, you just have…

Yesterday, we pointed out a new video from insidi0us, called Maptacular. It received nearly universal approval on our forum (multiple threads – this is the first), and while I can’t tell you how much traffic the hosts in the MLG thread handled, I can tell you we served over 15,000 copies in the past 24…

This morning, a new trailer from CROSSFIRE (previously known for machinima such as ‘The Harvest’ and ‘Hell Quarters’) passed the MPRRS – Havoc is a new ‘experimental film’ on its way, and the trailer might show you a bit about what you can expect. Superb effects, great camera angles – I’m looking forward to the…

Heh – Frankie pointed out a thread on the Bungie.net forums yesterday, in which a fan has suggested that next week (January 9-15) should be Elite Week; folks should switch over to the Elite model on Xbox Live for the week. Heck… we’ve certainly done SILLIER things…

netjak has reviewed Stubbs the Zombie – and mostly, they liked it. (G Allen, who pointed this review out to us, noted that a 6 from netjak signifies a pretty good game, and a 9 would be a game of the year – Stubbs pulled in a 7.7, which suggests both that they liked it,…

Yesterday’s Day to Day program on NPR looked at the future of video programming… and the first interviewee was Bryan Dann, a teenager from New Jersey (who posts on our forum as HunterXL). During the interview, Bryan brought the interviewer into his basement, and logged into XBL to play some Halo 2 to illustrate how…

Newcity Chicago (a city paper in – yep, you guessed it – Chicago) has a writeup of the MLG Chicago event a couple of weeks ago. It’s a pretty interesting read, because it’s a subject we’ve seen a lot of press on recently – but none from outside the Halo community. (This is pretty mainstream.)…