Author: Louis Wu

Matchbox 360 is running a double-team competition next Friday, November 18, at 7 pm GMT. The winners will get copies of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Chaos theory and Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Summit Strike (one copy each, total). Swing by if you’d like to participate! Update: though it doesn’t actually mention it in the rules,…

1UP.com has posted a Halo 2 retrospective, looking back at the history of the game, in honor of its one-year anniversary. Thanks, Tomas.

Dustin Kaufman pointed out that last month, Hamilton Camp, the voice of the Prophet of Mercy in Halo 2, passed away from a heart attack. It’s unclear at this point whether the voice talent from the games will be reused where appropriate in the Halo movie (though I’d suggest that it would be a good…

The Codex Series has gotten a lot of attention this year – and rightly so; it’s a pretty impressive machinima series from a lot of different perspectives. Recently, the entire crew headed out to LA to film a piece for mtvU’s Gamer’s Ball – they’ve written up the entire experience (with pictures) on their website.…

SteelGaribaldi points out that Halo is mentioned in the political comic Day By Day. I(If you’re reading this later than November 10, you can see the cartoon itself here; the site doesn’t allow for full-page linking based on URL.)

Over at HaloDev, there’s another massive update about Prometheus, the all-in-one Halo editor being developed. There’s far too much to describe in this news post – go read, and see where they are! Thanks, Nick.

Chairleg Productions has posted a new movie – it’s called ‘Waiting in Line’, and it’s available in WMP9 and MP4 formats (the latter for PSP). If you grab the PSP version, be sure to save it under “/MP_ROOT/100ANV01”. This vid highlights the quintessentially British queueing system, as Spartans wait for their Xbox360s – funny! Go…

In honor of the one-year anniversary of the release of Halo 2, there’s a huge retrospective posted at Bungie.net. Bungie insiders, press representatives, and some loser fansite maintainer reminisce about the past year, and how Halo 2 has changed it. Great pics (Alta is hot in a formal evening dress), great memories. Go read. And…

The votes (almost 25,000 of them) have been tallied for the 2005 version of the Guilt O’ Lantern contest… and the winners are repeat offenders! Michael Coffing, who took first place last year, did it again this year, with his Arbiter and Master Chief pumpkin. Eric Rodrigues, who took second place last year, pulled in…

Over at TeamXbox, there’s an interview with Nile Rogers about the future of audio in gaming – Halo, and Marty O’Donnell, are credited with putting Sumthin Else Music (Rogers’ company) on the track it’s currently on. Thanks, Tempus Fugit.

Gruntsbane stopped by our forum to point out an interpretation of Cortana he drew (he’s labeled her Not Safe For Work, because… well, because she’s not wearing any clothes). She’s a little more curvaceous than some other versions we’ve seen… but it’s a pretty impressive piece! (There are also in-progress sketch links.)

Thanks for all your voting – the 2005 Guilt O’ Lantern Pumpkin Carving Contest, voting phase, is now over. We’ll tally the votes of almost 6000 people later today, and announce the three top winners!

Stuntmutt looks at a very real hazard brought about by Halo 2 in today’s One One Se7en. Definitely appropriate for the Halo 2 anniversary…

That Weasel points out that the latest episode of Grunts are People Too!!, episode 22, ‘Offending Every Grunt’, has been posted in multiple formats – this one has been put together by TW and fans, rather than Mother’s Tooth, but the series lives. Singing Hunters and trampolining Grunts… oddness.

Exiled Zealot found a really nice Arbiter drawing over at DeviantART – be sure to check out Kamino185’s whole gallery – there are a whole bunch of Halo and Halo-related pieces in there.

Trickwaffle points out that today’s episode of the 7th Facet webcomic celebrates the one year anniversary of the release of Halo 2. Check it out!

3Suns found an article at Amped IGO that counts down the five top successes for the Xbox platform – and number one, in their opinion, is The Acquisition of Bungie. (I think I’d agree.) Go read.

Chappy found a pretty funny poster at his local FYE – they’re advertising the presale of a game that hasn’t even been announced yet. (Check out a blowup of the critical piece – they didn’t even bother to make the effort to blend the central area.) This is news not because someone’s trying to make…

Z points out Halo Fr3ak’s Montage over at Halo2Forum.com – nice timing. 96 mb. Go look.

TeamXbox posted a piece called ‘Passing Time’ – ways to make the time go faster while you wait for the Xbox360. If you’re in this boat, you’ll find that the top two things to do on their list are Halo and Halo 2. Thanks, 3Suns.