Author: Louis Wu

Confused about where you stand on Halo? poena.dare #CP#g created an updated version of his Ring Configuration graphic (originally posted here, a week ago), giving you some sense of perspective for the size of the ring, and your position on it. (The 300 km value at the bottom was chosen because that’s how far Cortana…

Warthog Jump movie update: heavy demand has cost two mirrors – maserati.ca and the Junkyard have both dropped out of the hosting ring. (Lots and lots of you grabbed files at those two places – we’re seriously indebted to both of them for the bandwidth!) Additionally, Bravehamster has moved his copy of the movie to…

Lophan has posted a Halo @ Tweeter Day postmortem on our forum, detailing the goings-on this past weekend of the Philly Halo Anonymous chapter of the Seventh Column… if you weren’t there, you missed up to 15 players fragging each other on huge bigscreen HDTVs for over 6 hours. (Freewill, another attendee, posted a couple…

Nemesis_007 posted a detailed description explaining how to get to the top of Keyes… and Frogblast took him up on it and got up there, taking pictures all the way. Together, they bring you a pictoral record of the first melee attack on the Truth and Reconciliation (from the outside, anyway). The Gameplay Tricks section…

Thanks to Aginor, who pointed out that the International Game Developers Choice Awards nominees were announced today – Bungie nominations are as follows: Halo for Game of the Year, Marty O’Donnell & team for Excellence in Audio, and Jason Jones & team for Excellence in Programming. Winners will be announced on March 21, during the…

The One-Shots page of the Gameplay Tricks section is finally open for business. Sorry for the delay! We’ve added a number of images which have popped up in the last couple of months… I’m sure there are more that we’ve missed. (We’ll pop ’em in when we find ’em.) Feel free to submit your own,…

Steve Campbell writes to let us know that both the Suicide Bobs vid and the Halobodies music vid have been mirrored at the Forerunners.org Hotline server. Thanks, Steve!

VoOdOo created a movie (under 5 mb, .avi format) showing how to get the Warthog back to the waterfall in Halo without getting on top of the level. Takes a few grenades, and a chunk of your health… but you’ll probably be doing this after everything’s already dead, so don’t worry too much.

Foxhound turns in Chapter 2 of his ‘Apollo’ series – someone better keep an eye on that Cortana… Check it out in our Fan Fiction section.

Movie mirrors at the Junkyard… They’ve put up copies of both Halobodies.mov (a music video) and BobSuicide (a snuff film). Thanks to Vector40 for the heads-up.

We’ve added Nemesis_007’s Sidewinder Sneak exploit to our Gameplay Tricks page – use this trick, and your multiplayer opponents won’t know what hit ’em! (As several forumgoers pointed out, this is a general glitch in the Halo physics engine, and can be exploited on several other levels… but none with such dramatic results in a…

Beam Timing Mystery – SOLVED! Jaime Griesemer (aka Flawless Cowboy, Halo level designer) stopped by our forum to explain why there seemed to be a link between the beam timing and motion freeze in areas of Halo you were never supposed to get to in the first place.Toward the end of the game’s development cycle…

There’s a new top dog on the Halo SETI Marines – Durandal turned in 207 units this week, beating out perennial top crunchers Int_21, *-=SHARkY=-*, and charleya. Nice going! Are you crunching your best? Check the 7 day stats to find out! (Admin note – there won’t be any SETI stats next week. 2 week…

Noticed a new music video over at The Cole Protocol – halobodies.mov was created by Darth Gehenna, and sets Halo cutscene action to Drowning Pool’s ‘Bodies’. Warning – there are MAJOR story spoilers here; don’t watch this unless you’ve played the whole game. That said, this was made by someone who understands that music videos…

Phear X has put up a new video, this one called BobSuicide. 7 mb, 45 seconds, and one singing bob. (Me, I’d have turned the soundtrack down a little.) Mirrors, as always, are appreciated. Update: Mirrored, now, thanks to the gracious hosts at the Psyjnir Complex. Grab your Hotline Client and go get it!

Thanks to foxhound, who sent in Chapter 1 of his work-in-progress, Apollo. Check it out in our Fan Fiction section! (Don’t forget to leave him comments…)

Frogblast, a frequent contributor to the Gameplay Tricks section, discovered something pretty intriguing – there’s a link between the blue energy beams that mysteriously fire on the level Halo, and your ability to move around on the top of the level. (The why is completely unknown, and might be something worth discussing on the Halo…

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Griffon turns in a desktop image based on his ‘Halo Dude’ he created back in May of last year. He realizes the helmet’s a little out of date… but hey, it looks pretty good! You’ll find it in our Wallpaper section. And speaking of Wallpaper, Xcruiser has created a 1024×768 version of the wallpaper he…

Cybrfrk writes to say that he’s put the Warthog Jump movie up on his site in .WMV format (with permission) – sound quality is pretty low, but for folks having trouble with QuickTime, this might be the way to go – plus, it’s only 8.5 mb. (He’s also started his filmed cutscene collection – the…