Author: Louis Wu

Bat 21 and Longstreet also took a Warthog to the Map Room on Silent Cartographer… but when they got there, they played around a bit. Check it out in the Gameplay Tricks section. (The first image throws me a little… are there two jeeps there?)

The second part (of four) of dyoung92’s ‘Halo 2 Story’ came in today… nice example of cliffhanger writing. Check it out in our Fan Fiction section.

mnemesis single-handedly keeps the Halo Story page alive, bringing you speculation about the various races involved in the game, and how they might be related. (Okay, not single-handedly – he couldn’t do it without your submissions. You know what I mean, though.)

Not fully Halo news… but it’s pretty funny: This week’s Mac Hall comic at Inside Mac Games focuses on the inline safety release built into each Xbox controller from Microsoft. (Interestingly enough, the Mac Hall general response to this feature characterizes them strongly as PC (as opposed to console) gamers – almost every console gamer…

Corbantis turns in the next installment of his Tides of War series – Chapter 2 is action-packed! check it out in our Fan Fiction section.

Matt Soell stops in to explain (again) the lack of news on the PC and Mac versions of Halo. Bottom line – he’ll talk when there’s something to say. This was nice, though:I’ll say this much: the last time I talked to Alex and Michael about what’s happening with PC/Mac Halo – probably about two…

Reidbo stops by our forum to give out a new server location for his ‘Dukes of Halo’ video – you can find it here, in both sizes.

Xcruiser turns in a Silent Cartographer-based wallpaper – you’ll find it in our Wallpaper collection. He’s willing to make other sizes, for those who want them.

Junkyard news: Vector40 writes to say that the Halo Weapons Guide has been updated with Strategy information for each of the weapons. It’s well-marked for spoiler info, so you don’t have to avoid the Weapons Guide if you’re avoiding spoilers. Additionally, Ryan ‘Mhaddy’ Matthews, the JY’s head honcho, writes to explain some of the slowness…

Major multiplayer tip for Sidewinder: This was discovered (apparently by accident) by Nemesis_007 – but I’ve made a film of it, to prove it actually works. 🙂 If you strafe sideways in a Ghost towards the grate where the invisibility and shield powerups are sitting, a well-timed dismount will actually get you pushed THROUGH the…

Ouch. Seems XboxGate ripped the Halo Legendary Ending (included on the last Official Xbox Magazine DVD) into RealPlayer format, and have posted it, in its entirety, on their site (5 mb). (Interestingly, the blurb with it says”Do you think Halo is to hard in legendary? Do you still want to see the end movie? Well…

Merciless turned in a set of pics showing the progression of a jeep down below the Silent Cartographer level, to the map room itself. No, it’s not the first time it’s been done… but it’s the first time it’s been documented like this. (The images aren’t great, but you can tell what’s going on.) Check…

The Screenshots database has been updated with the 25 new shots that go along with the Legendary walkthrough of PoA – there are spoilers in here… but some of these shots are just amazing.

Whoa. No7orious has written a Legendary Walkthrough for the first level of the game, Pillar of Autumn… and Bungie liked it enough that they put it up at their Tru7h and Reconciliation site (along with 25 screenshots illustrating some of the finer points). Very nice! Check it out if you’re having your… um, head handed…

At long last, our Press Scans section comes online. Here you’ll find 40 print magazine articles, collected from a variety of countries over the past two and a half years. Larger articles are available for convenient one-shot downloads, or can be read page by page online. (Smaller articles are not bundled up.) Quality, in general,…

Jesper Nielsen, of the Danish Xbox site X-Byte, let us know of a review of Halo there. They liked it – 9/10, which Jesper says is very good – this site is pretty discerning. (We thank him also for the quote translation – there aren’t a lot of good Danish translators out there on the…

mnemesis went on a posting spree yesterday – the Halo Story page is a veritable hotbed of speculation. Check out the latest news… and add your OWN thoughts!

Call me lazy – or call it late. Noah “migraineboy” Brimhall said it just fine, though, so I’m just gonna quote him. In the March 2002 issue of Wired magazine there is an interesting article on AI in games called “Wild Things” and in the article there are several mentions of Halo, including a great…

MaxThndr’s Chapter 4 of Halo II: The Ardan Landings has been submitted – it’s Part 3, due to the fact that I combined chapters 2 and 3 into a single part, but don’t be confused – you can always read the series en toto. The Fan Fiction section is nothing if not flexible!

You lose, you gain… Brian Towne had to bow out of the Warthog Jump mirroring – after well over 10,000 downloads (more than 200 gigs), the demand was still so high that it was saturating his (rather large) pipe. (He hasn’t removed any of the OTHER movies he’s mirroring – if you need any of…