Author: Louis Wu

We got a very nice holiday wish from Boxer last night – and with that, I think we’ll call it a day. Enjoy your Christmas weekend… we’ll be back updating on the 26th! (There’ll likely be a Christmas post that goes up tonight at midnight, UTC… but there won’t be any more news. Time to…

FireDragon04 points out a thread over at the Gearbox forums, announcing a map pack he’s released for HaloCE. Swing by, check out the screenshots,a nd download The FireDragular Christmas Map Pack!

In the spirit of silly things done by retail stores to get your business, Pat Hillman took a cameraphone snapshot of a box he saw in his local FYE. This, to me, seems to be going just a bit too far…

Gamertag Radio has put up their last audio for 2005 – their 33rd podcast contains an interview with Team3D. Go grab it!

MLG has put up a photo gallery for their Chicago blowout – nice stuff! There’s also a spotlight on Killer N, the Player of the Week this week. Thanks (and Christmas wishes back to) 3Suns.

Over at Halo Babies, there’s a truly bizarre illustrated version of ‘The Night Before Christmas’ – a lot of artists got in on the act. It’s not the story I remember… but it’s unique, that’s for sure! Thanks, mrsmiley.

The Squadron Ep 14 has been released – you can grab the WMP9 version (20 mb) on Broken Console’s site, or the QuickTime (22 mb) from us. I can’t tell you much about it – I’m on my way out the door – but based on past episodes, it’s likely worth the download!

You’d think on Christmas, Cortana would show a little more love for the common Spartan… poor One One Se7en.

We tried a week between Fan Fiction updates (by request of the FF community), and it doesn’t seem like such a bad idea; 16 new entries this week. If the numbers rise to something intolerable, we’ll consider ways to decrease it… but for now, this seems to be working! Go read.

Bah. Sometimes the big sites are just… clueless. Back in early November, we posted a note about a poster that a local FYE in Arlington, VA had put up, touting Halo 3 (which, you might remember, hasn’t been announced yet). The forum thread generated by that picture shows how the image is a poorly-done photoshop…

In its first day online, the HBO Halo Movie Cynics Database garnered 150 new entries (with 10 still in the queue to be processed) – and Cybrfrk has added filtering and searching to the interface, making it easier to pore through the results. If you dig carefully, you might even find entries by names you…

Gruntsbane has a Christmas strip for you up at Halo Babies – and it’s Episode 117! How fitting. Go read!

Podtacular has released its final episode for 2005 – you can grab Ep 41, Customs and Call-ins, from their site. Thanks, HaloPlanet.

DoT_Gunslinger points out that today’s User Friendly is Halo-related again… you gotta watch out when loved ones warn you like that.

Ever had someone whistle a snatch of the Gilligan’s Island theme, and then be stuck with it in your head for the rest of the day? (Oops… sorry.) Yesterday, R-T3 wondered if anyone knew the tune that was used in the background of the Halo Demo Promo, released in mid-2002… and Marty O’Donnell himself chimed…

F13ND sat down with Saiyan, of Team3D, to discuss the team’s performance at the MLG Chicago tournament recently. You can read the result on Team3D’s website.

In what has to be one of the more amazingly coincindental bits of timing this week, Chairleg Productions has released a new movie entitled ‘The Editing Process’ today – you can download WMP9, QT7, and PSP versions from their downloads page. This video focuses on the making of the Halo movie… and if it wasn’t…

GameTrailers has posted a segment of GTtv that focuses on a Far Cry: Instincts fan who’s recreated a number of Halo maps for Far Cry: Instincts – the video contains footage of both the Halo versions and their FC counterparts, along with running commentary from the fan. Fun stuff! Thanks, 3Suns. (To view it, you…

Heh. In Surfers Paradise, in southern Queensland (east coast of Australia), there’s an attraction called ‘Spacewalker’ – their website, as noticed by lightinfantry, uses an image that is rather familiar to most of us here. (I’ve taken a screenshot, on the off chance that any legal interest generated by this news post actually makes them…

Chris Anderson is putting together Chronicles of Pain, a Halo machinima due in February. The teaser for this film passed the MPRRS this morning, so we’re passing it on to you. It was originally submitted in QuickTime 7 format (H.264 encoding) – weighs in at 11.5 mb. For those who have trouble with that codec,…