Author: Louis Wu

Montages might be getting a bit old… but over at Halo2Forum.com, there’s a Gauss Montage (well, both hogs are featured, but it’s predominately the Gauss), and it’s really, really nicely done. 124 mb, WMP9 format. (I’ve whipped up a QuickTime version for those who can’t deal with WMP9 – but I haven’t heard whether I’m…

He’s not the first to receive one – but he IS the first to send us a picture. Laird was one of the poster winners in our E3 contest – and it looks like the first thing he did was unroll it from its tube and snap a photo. He’s looking forward to getting it…

Stuntmutt has a special Sunday One One Se7en for you today – or rather, it’s for the folks who filled in for him these past two weeks. Check it out. And while you’re in that Stuntmutt state of mind (sort of like a New York state of mind, but slightly seedier, and without all the…

Execution1013, of Clan 0kinawa, turned in ‘Move Along’ – a Halo music video set to reproduce the real video created by The All American Rejects. Great quality, nice syncing – the MPRRS liked it, so give it a look! WMP9 version, 61.5 mb, or QuickTime version, 62.2 mb.

BlueHunter has been submitting versions of ‘Kill Phil’ to the MPRRS for quite some time – it took a while for reviewers to get over the fact that the film is in French, with English subtitles, but along the way, he’s refined it into a really polished piece of work. It’s (in the words of…

Spartan Jag pointed out a small news story on Bungie.net – a forumgoer over there has posted some pictures of a piece of stained glass he made in the image of the Webmaster. Cool!

We got word from mrsmiley that while there might not be ‘official’ strips coming out any time soon, Halo Babies is back open for business; they’ve got a couple of art forums set up to encourage the development of Halo artwork. Check it out!

The Halo Graphic Novel preview hit comic stores in the US a few days ago (Wednesday was the release date); I hadn’t realized this, but it was supposed to be a freebie. My local comic store was charging $.99/copy (not much, but when you want to grab enough for your buddies in Europe…), and comic…

Marty, taking pity on us poor fans, posted a list of all the individual characters in Halo 2, and the actors who played them. We’ve added this list to our Names behind the Voices page – thanks, Marty! (At some point in the not-too-distant future, there’ll probably be some reclassification going on in our Halo…

Dan Chosich put together a pretty cool montage of his E3/D3 (Dean’s post-E3 lanfest) experience; it does a wonderful job of showing the insanity that is E3, and has a few Halo-related clips from the lanfest to boot. Two versions are available – a ‘small’ version, 87 mb, QuickTime format, 640×360… and an HDV version,…

Major Nelson posted the Top Live Games lists again, broken out by platform (Xbox/Xbox 360)… but also pointed out that on a combined list, Halo 2 would be number 1, followed by all 10 Xbox 360 titles. Thanks, Smandon.

A reminder – Video Games Live will be onstage in Philadelphia tonight, with lots and lots of extra goodies (including the chance to meet your favorite Halo soundtrack composers). tyguy101a, from the RvB community, swung by to invite people as well – if you’re in the area, there are still tickets left… go!

insaneidiot found this article that had been linked off the Xbox.com forums – it’s a discussion of the Xbox Live Vision Camera, built by GestureTek, coming out this fall. The company that made it, according to the article”earlier hinted something about the camera being put into use in Halo 3 gaming wherein once a player…

QsK King submitted a trailer for the first montage from QsKGlobal.com – the MPRRS liked it. This is the rebirth of someone who was banned for plagiarism a while back; it warms me to see solid, non-stolen work being produced. (There are some very nice editing touches in this vid.) It’s short – only 1:23,…

Davidgojr put together ‘Memo 2 Bungie: Halo 2 BS Montage’ – a look at some of the humorous stuff that can happen on Xbox Live. Humorous, that is, if it’s not happening to YOU. It’s one of those ‘you gotta laugh so you don’t cry’ things. Nicely filmed, and the MPRRS reviewers said yea, so…

The Weekly Update is up over at Bungie.net, even though they had a major power outage today (probably that enormous bank of cooling fans in the back going rampant) – info about Video Games Live (and PLAY!, a different series altogether, though you wouldn’t know it from the way Frankie wrote it up tonight), plus…

The One One Se7en guest strips come to a close today – the final strip was created by BOLL. It requires a bit of knowledge of the Halo novels (specifically First Strike) to make sense… and, like all stuff BOLL does, is more than it seems at first. Enjoy.

I’m lovin’ the thank-you notes we’ve been getting from the Soundtrack Contest winners; this hasn’t really happened before, but it’s cool. The latest comes from SnowVapor – take a look!

Thirteen new stories are available in the Fan Fiction section today – I had to toss a few of the submissions. In today’s day and age, there is absolutely no excuse for misspelling more than 25% of the words in a submitted story (I’m NOT exaggerating) – even if you don’t have an app that…

Heh – weirdness. Wikipedia not only has a featured story every day… they queue them up a couple of weeks in advance. Not only do they do that – but they MAKE PUBLIC what the upcoming featured stories are. Laird noticed that next Saturday’s Featured Story (June 10) is going to be Red vs Blue.…