Author: Louis Wu

Not that you should listen to the man, or anything – and it’s not as though it’s the first time he’s said this – but Matt Soell steps into a thread about Halo’s gameplay to smack down the theory that Halo was converted to a first person view (from third person) in order to fit…

Not sure how long this thread will exist… or how many of you want to read it if it’s full of spoilers… but someone who obviously playtested Halo recently has broken his NDA and described his experience on the IGN Forum. The link (for now) is here. It’s all multiplayer stuff…

Before we get MORE mail about it – it seems that Gamespot has updated their Halo screenshots recently (yesterday, actually)… but all the new shots are OLD. There are some from October 1999… others that are screen captures from the E3 2000 movie… they’re ALL old. (Interestingly enough, the screen grabs from E3 2001, listed…

PlanetXbox has published Part 4 of their Halo Developer’s Diary, and this one is chock-full of details about what makes Halo different from other games of its genre. There are some really fun bug-discovering snippets:Two days ago some crazy (but diligent) tester stacked enough Warthogs to jump on top of an ‘unclimbable’ cliff on one…

Death and destruction on the Halo fill Mr Bill Jr V’s latest story, ‘The Answers’. Related to previous works… yet different. You’ll find it (and many others) in our Fan Fiction section. It appears that the new comments feature is a success!

Yesterday the Marathon’s Story page mentioned an interesting little comparison between the Covenant and the Pfhor, from the Marathon series, created by fan Joseph E. Haake. Today, Joseph points out a modified version… which implies a different connection.

Seems we missed a source for the TeamXbox movie yesterday – you can find another two mirrors of the 20 MB mpeg at 3D Gamers. Thanks, Frans!

In a first for HBO, we’re putting up Fan Fiction in a non-English language – Uriel has submitted ‘Beyond the Paradise, part 1’, in German. Be sure to let us know how this works for you – the Comments page can be found in our Fan Fiction section.

Took us long enough… but we’ve finally added the two latest movies (the Bungie Commentary movie available at Microsoft’s official Halo site and the TeamXbox gameplay movie) to our Movie list. You’ll find all the current mirrors (in all the various formats) that were still active as of this morning, as well as links to…

Drawing over the shattered, and dying SolCore vessel, the mammoth alien cruiser slowly begins to pull Percipere up into it’s giant docking bay, her hull turning green in the eerie glow of the ships interior. The bridge command crew, watching in terror through the transparent titanium viewports as they are sucked into the belly of…

Thanks to Vid Boi, who sent in a translation of the Swedish Halo preview mentioned earlier. Lots o’ work… check it out!

Occasionally, mention is made of Halo’s ability to take absurdly high-resolution screenshots. We thought, when we saw the 1920×1440 shots posted by Daily Radar in March, we thought we were seeing an example of this. How silly we were… Bungie has kindly sent along an absurdly high-resolution shot – the original (440K) is 2664×2562 -…

Magnus Esko, aka Dead Glory, an HBO Forum regular, has written a preview of Halo for the Swedish gaming site Nordichardware. We’d give him a hard time about how he got the story all wrong, just on principle, except… well, it’s in Swedish, so we have no idea what he said. There’s one part, though,…

There’s a fight at the top of the Halo SETI Marines! charleya and Int_21 duke it out for top crunching honors, with Charleya narrowly edging Int_21 out, 168 to 165. (Int_21 takes the consolation prize of the Frogblast Award, leaping over 101 of his fellow crunchers to climb to 168th position.) The Marines lose ground…

Everyone’s getting in on the Mike Salmon action – TeamXbox has just posted an interview with the OXM Editor in Chief. Most of the questions are pretty general… but this one made us smile: Having played nearly all the Xbox launch games, which ones are your favorites? Mike S: Halo. Halo. Halo. The latest build…

Last week’s Halo Update has been added to the Halo Update Database… word of the week is ‘screenshot’. Not bad – only two updates between the promised screen and its appearance! (The shot itself has been added to the Screenshots section, as well.)

Wow. I can’t remember when a single screenshot was subjected to the sort of scrutiny that the ‘Cortana shot’ is enduring… there are threads on our forum, at Rampancy.net, the Marathon’s Story page, Battleground: Halo, and probably a few other places around the net. Add your thoughts to the discussions! (Or simply marvel at the…

Vector40 sent in an update to ‘The Sixty Minute War’, a story dedicated to the September 11 victims. Upon the author’s request, we’ve updated the existing entry, rather than add a second chapter – go on, read it again, it’s worth it. It’s not very long. Don’t forget that all stories in our Fan Fiction…

The Weekly Halo Update, now one week shy of its first birthday, was over at Battleground: Halo this time around… and while it’s short (mostly tweaks – Halo is currently at Release Candidate 2, there’s not much left to do), it DOES come with a new screenshot – you can finally see what Cortana looks…

Someone claiming to be a manager for a major US gaming chain showed up on TeamXbox’s forum today with more info about the Xbox kiosks in game stores. Apparently, Microsoft is doing some retail training on October 8, and playable boxes will be moving into stores no later than the 9th. They’re rolling out by…