Author: Louis Wu

Mintz sends word that Halo: Portable is now online. It’s all about providing Halo content for the Playstation Portable – if you have a PSP, this is a site you should visit! Check it out.

Juxtapose points out that if you’re a Bell Sympatico High Speed DSL subscriber (yeah, you have to live in Canada), you can get a free Xbox or Xbox360 game when you sign up for certain Xbox Live subscriptions. Details can be found on his Arbiter’s Judgement blog.

Wow. Spent yesterday at the Machinima Festival, where Rooster Teeth went home with 3 Mackies (Excellence in Machinima Writing for P.A.N.I.C.S., Best Editing (for Strangerhood), and Best Independent Machinima (for Red vs Blue Season 3), and Chris Burke went home with Best Machinima Series for This Spartan Life. (Since we provide Chris with his movie…

Wired has an article about the Machinima Film Festival (where I’ll be headed in a few hours, actually) and machinima in general – there’s a brief mention of Red vs Blue, which gives us our Halo hook. (Other Halo projects will be up for awards today – they just weren’t mentioned in the article.) Thanks,…

Last night, Chairleg Productions’ Waiting In Line passed the MPRRS – we’d already posted a note about it, and Chairleg said they weren’t looking for hosting… but passing the MPRRS means we’re happy hosting versions the original host isn’t offering – so for folks who’d rather watch QuickTime (and who don’t want to settle for…

Halo: Blood Covenant is a 2D sidescroller we haven’t heard from since May – but last night Tucker let us know that they’ve released a short (38 second) vid showing some of the progress they’ve made. The last time they released a movie, it killed their servers – so we’re putting up copies of this…

Over at Team3D.net, F13ND sat down with Hotshy to discuss this week’s practice sessions – plenty of interesting stuff for folks who want a glimpse into the pro circuit. Go read!

Bungie’s Weekly Update was posted last night – there’s quite a bit of info about some playlist changes coming in the not-too-distant future, there are answers to basic questions about interoperability between the Xbox and the Xbo360 for games like Halo, and info about how Halo and the new higher-res modes available on the 360…

Stuntmutt found some news about a series of CI-boys figures based on Xbox game characters. He hunted around until he found this – are those cute, or what?

JoeIce dropped by our forum yesterday with a pelican model he’d adapted from a Warhammer 40K piece. Today, he came back – with another dozen images, showing off the Pelican, a Master Chief, and an MC on a Ghost. That Ghost ROCKS!

Today’s One One Se7en takes a subtle shot at a certain type of Xbox Live player. The thing is… if this is you, you probably won’t get it.

Guess I went too long this time between Fan Fiction updates – there are 24 stories and poems to read today. Get cracking!

Gah. I totally spaced on putting this up earlier this week. insidi0us continues his work on speedruns (yeah, I know, we should be leaving this stuff to High Speed Halo… but insidi0us sends it here, and it’s just so amazing!) – his latest target is Two Betrayals. The current run is only on Normal difficulty……

Halo Babies has put up a new strip today… it, too, sends birthday wishes to Halo 2. It also points out one of the hazards of the Spartan uniform…

We got word from Dennis Powers that there’s been a resurgence in HaloCE interest in the past month – more than 47 different maps have been released since October 1 (bringing the total available for download at Halo Maps to 568). Maps are getting more sophisticated since the release of the complete Halo tag set…

Day by Day followed up yesterday’s Halo-related cartoon with another Halo-related cartoon (here’s the direct link, again) – this one’s even funnier if you’ve ever run across that marine in Delta Halo… thanks again, SteelGaribaldi.

Podcast updates we’ve been lax on… Podtacular released episode 24 on Monday, and episode 25 yesterday. Gamertag Radio released episode 29 Wednesday (happy birthday, Halo 2!). 2old2type released episode 12 yesterday. MLG PwnCast released episode 3 last night. Go listen! Update: The MLG PwnCast Ep III was accidentally switched for Ep II – it’s now…

Broken Console Productions have released Episode 10 of The Squadron – once again, the humans escape from the jaws of certain death. Poor Durge… this one is WMP9-only, for the time being. Go grab a copy.

XerxdeeJ has sent along another weekly update for Tied the Leader – and there’s some great reading in there. There’s a piece looking at some of the characters in movie history where the voice actor, the person who arguably made the role memorable, was not the person who physically acted the part. (Yes, this is…

Gavin Free, better known as Gavino over at Red vs Blue, was the proud winner of Lorraine McLees’ Fight the Flood sketch in the recent Blow Me Away charity auction. The first round of shipments went out a couple of days ago (Bungie, specifically Jeff Todd, Alta’s assistant, was ASTOUNDINGLY fast in the packing/shipping of…