Author: Louis Wu

Congrats to Team3D – the Ogre brothers have won the Halo 2 Grand Final at the World Cyber Games in Singapore, beating Team EG from Canada! They’re going home with $20,000 because of this win. Full details can be found at the Team3D website – and thanks to Jeff Horn for the heads-up.

An article in today’s Boston Globe suggests that games won’t really take advantage of the Xbox360’s hardware for a while – and they use Halo 2 as an example of this phenomenon. (This isn’t really news, I don’t think – it’s common sense – but maybe folks just aren’t thinking about it enough.) Thanks, Hanchen…

TeamXbox compared Halo 2 running on an Xbox360 through an S-Video cable to Halo 2 running on an Xbox through an S-Video cable – and they were pretty surprised to find that there’s a sizeable difference. Their results suggest that Halo 2 will look better running on an Xbox360, no matter WHAT you’re playing it…

Se7en One has put together an article, written in the style of a soldier’s journal, on the worms that make up the hunter. Any comments can be tossed into this forum thread. Odd stuff!

Z points out another vid over at Halo2Forum.com – Nokturnal has created a heavily effect-laden montage, more than 10 minutes long, weighing in at a massive 178 mb. What can I say?

Mintz pointed out that there’s a TON of new content over at Halo: Portable – if you’ve got a PSP, swing by and see what you can read on it. (The latest Weekly Update is even there.)

Weekly Update is up at Bungie.net, posted by some jet-setter or something. Xbox360 launch, DOA4 stuff, playlists. And an oldschool Mister Chief. Go read.

Stuntmutt unmasks another Halo 2 character in today’s One One Se7en… that guy should be pretty recognizable to anyone who visits our forums. If not… well, count yourself lucky.

Speaking of online stats… I received a very nice box from the good folks at CarnageStats yesterday – it was full of shirts! It doesn’t seem like they’re for sale yet over at their site – but you can be sure we’ll be giving some of these bad boys away in our next contest. w00t!

Ed Chipman, aka DevilsKnight666, has put together PHP Stats – a php-based stats displayer that takes output from QuerySpree and converts it into a web-based form. Give it a look!

This week’s Halo Babies strip looks at the ever-tightening field of Halo montages – what’s a guy gotta do to get noticed? (Things might be a bit slow; they’re having some server issues. Be patient… they’ll work it out.)

Nine new pieces in the Fan Fiction section today. They’re keeping busy…

Last night, Bungie posted a writeup of this week’s Halo Humpday Challenge, in which they took on the Seasoned Gamers… and lost. It was a good loss, though – they enjoyed themselves. (agdTinMan pointed out a couple of typos in Frankie’s writeup… but it sounds like he’s jealous or something, so you might wanna take…

This was supposed to be up days ago – but what with one thing and another, I’m behind. All of the prizes for the 343 Guilt O’ Lantern contest have been sent to the winners – including the voicemail messages recorded by Tim ‘GuiltySpark’ Dadabo and Steve ‘MasterChief’ Downes. Michael Coffing sent us mp3s of…

You may or may not be able to read this. For some, there’s no problem at all. For others, the site is utterly and completely down. For most of us in the middle, it’s more sporadic than that (though for some reason, the front page seems to be most affected). If you can read this,…

1Up has a huge article on Dead or Alive 4, and the inclusion of a Halo Spartan. (Her name is Nicole, for the record. They think of her as a person, not a suit of armor.) It’s a great read – and there are three new Halo-specific screenshots. Check it out! (Thanks to 3Suns for…

Back in April, 2002, NFL246 sent along some pictures taken in the Control Room on Two Betrayals; there are some decent (but not perfect) images of the huge Marathon logo created by the layout of the room. Yesterday, insidi0us sent along a new shot (104k); we don’t really do Trick stuff any more, but this…

Benjamin Brewster has taken a hard look at the anti-aliasing upscaling feature of the Xbox360, in theoretical terms (he’s going on published reports, because he doesn’t have a 360 yet) – but he’s worried that the way in which Bungie has chosen to implement 720p support will lead to more image degradation than simply allowing…

A billion years ago (well, summer of 2004) High Impact Halo ran a contest to see who could get to the top of the beam towers on the level Halo with the most s7yle. The prizes for that contest took a little while (in the sense that dinosaurs ruled the earth for a little while)…

XerxdeeJ pointed out a new update on his Tied the Leader blog – a look back at the development of Halo 2 (and Halo before it) as community builders. Nice stuff!