Author: Louis Wu

Ever wondered how to stay calm when playing Halo 2 on Xbox Live? Fett_117 has posted 20 exercises that should help. Swing by Geezer Gamers to read about it. Thanks, Zed.

This year’s Child’s Play charity auction dinner (to be held next month) contains, among other cool things, a Tour of Bungie Studios. Tickets are $100 each (all of THAT is going to charity, too), so you can bet it won’t be cheap… but hey – aren’t they worth it? Thanks, Dr. Nick, who found it…

ofthehi77 stopped by our forum to point out 6 new downloadable maps for HaloCE. Swing by yayap.com to grab ’em! (They’re BEAUTIFUL.) Update: DocOc mentioned that there’s a problem with Dead End – you might want to hold off grabbing that one for a bit.

Kevin Paul, intrepid overlord of irc.bungie.org, has been interviewed over at High Impact Halo. Go read to see what makes this guy tick. (Ducain posted this on our forum last night, but KP wouldn’t let me put up a note about it until I’d hacked into the HIH servers and deleted the material about his…

Controversy still swirls about the Latino Review Halo script summary – Gamespot says they’re buying it, based on Latino Review’s record. Someone on the TeamXbox forums suggests that Microsoft is denying it’s true. You’ll have to make up your own mind – or simply accept that you’ll need to wait – but remember that NOBODY…

Over at MLGPro.com, Dyslexia has taken time out with Trademark Gamers, who lost out to Team3D at MLG LA recently. Great read. Thanks, 3Suns.

Just a reminder – today is the last day to vote for the Guilt O’ Lantern pumpkins. If you haven’t picked your five favorites… do it now!

Sometimes, I get the feeling that Stuntmutt just wants to play. I dunno – maybe it’s stuff like today’s One One Se7en.

The weekend was busy for Fan Fiction writers – fourteen new pieces for you are up now. Go read.

DropShock has posted Episode 4 of their podcast – they look over the Bungie weekly update, the Codex series, and loser online gamers, among other subjects. This one is definitely aimed at adults. MP3 format, 34 mb, an hour and a quarter long.

This weekend, BoneKin released a run-through of the Maw, on Legendary, without a single shot being fired. (He does use grenades – which seems reasonable, since most of the enemies you face on that level (at that difficulty) are immune to melee attacks.) It’s pretty big – because it’s over 18 minutes long. It’s pretty…

A week ago, Tempus Fugit pointed out that a site called Latino Review was claiming to have their hands on a copy of the Halo script, and that there’d be a review this week. It’s up now. There’s already a rather large thread on our forum, discussing its credibility… for those who don’t want to…

Had to head out for a couple of hours… and now it’s all over but the shouting. (Well, the paying, I guess.) You guys rock: the items for the Blow Me Away charity auction went for a total of $11,717.97, which means you guys are contributing over $10,000 to the American Red Cross hurricane relief…

Just a really quick note – the Blow Me Away auctions are closing now; the first three are already finished, with 13 to go. Last chances!

Joyride has put up a number of new toys; check out the Heretic Elite, and the Heretic Banshee (among others)! Thanks, madda cheeb.

rockslider has updated his Bad Cyborg website with a couple of warthog joyrides you can do on the second level of Halo (the original). I’m pretty sure I’ve done these – but it’s nice to have them delineated!

The latest episode of Podtacular is this week’s customs and call-ins episode. Go grab it. Thanks, GLewis.

Red vs Blue Episode 66 was posted last night for sponsors; they’ve moved to the H.264 codec for their QuickTime version, which means if your processor can handle it, you can get a great-looking video that’s only 9 mb (vs almost 30 mb for the other two flavors). The episode itself is pretty funny -…

Hehe – last weekend, I attended the birthday party of Miguel Chavez’s oldest son with my kids (Rafi turned 10). The party had a Halo theme… but I didn’t put up any pics or a writeup because… well, because Rafi is 10. The cake, however, was designed by Gruntsbane, over at Halo Babies, and Mig…

1Up has an article comparing (and contrasting) the Dreamcast and the Xbox360 – amazing similarities, in some cases. The differences are where 1Up thinks Xbox360 will get over the hump the Dreamcast never cleared – and one of the biggest is Halo (both older versions, and ‘Halo 3’ – yeah, we know it’s not announced…