Author: Louis Wu

Though for the time being, the links are bold and in-your-face, I know how easy it is to overlook stuff that’s been there for a while… even when it’s glowing. So here’s a news post to remind you. The Blow Me Away Charity Auction ends tomorrow – the first auction to finish (the Joyride figures)…

Wonga. That Weasel has posted a note explaining that the Rockets on Prisoner Awards ceremony is now downloadable. It’s… pretty long. Almost an hour and a half long. Downloadable, in either WMP9 format (228 mb) or QuickTime format (291 mb). I tried to watch it… but my QuickTime player crashed. The forum post contains plenty…

Bungie’s Weekly Update is posted – stuff on upcoming playlists, plus stuff pulled from user-contributed questions. And a really awful furry Mister Chief. Go read. (Thanks, Frankie. No, really. Thanks.)

We’ve been given permission by Stephen Cawood, author of Halo 2 Hacks, and his publisher, O’Reilly, to bring you a few excerpts from the book itself, in PDF format. (We’ve also added movies that Stephen and his editor, Brian Jepson, put together to illustrate these tidbits.) Look ’em over… if you like what you see,…

Broken Console Productions have posted The Squadron Episode 9 – the team has almost found a way out of Turf. WMP9 is up now (14.5 mb) – the QuickTime is on its way. Go watch!

Elnea’s been messing with her new Wacom tablet – the last few avatars she’s made have all been created with it. Check this one out – she found out that her dad visits RvB. (Remember that Elnea is a mom herself, in her 40s.) Ouch!

mnemesis, along with a bunch of helpers, has managed to get all but two Halo 2 level transcripts online at the Halo Story Page – only Sacred Icon and Quarantine Zone are missing. Go read both posts for more details, especially if you’d like to help out with the missing levels!

Stuntmutt, ever the cynic, points out that when talking about the upcoming Halo movie, what the fans want and what will actually happen might not be the same thing in today’s One One Se7en.

When I visited the Fan Fiction queue this morning, I was a little nervous – it was huge. Turned out, though, that much of it was spam, and some of it was porn. (Sorry – even if it’s on-topic, I’ve got to draw the line at porn.) At least two entries were folks attempting to…

The Tied The Leader blog has quite a bit of fun reading at the moment… there’s a response to the article we mentioned yesterday, in which a female college student rails against Halo 2 for stealing her boyfriend; there’s a short note about a photoshop contest over at Fark, and there’s a great writeup of…

This week’s Halo Humpday Challenge pitted the Bungie guys against the Cayote Cavegirls – they lost 2 out of 3 (both teams agreed to call the third game a draw). Ouch! Good writeup, though. Frankie continues to hog credit (though at least he’s getting creative with his FIRST subject lines).

Podtacular has posted its weekly Tips show – this episode focuses on Beaver Creek. Go listen.

char pointed out an article over at Gamepro that looks at things that are wrong with First Person Shooters, in general; Halo is held up as an example of how NOT to get it wrong. Go read!

LegendaryMark wrote an article examining why so many players stick with Halo 2, even though the universe of multiplayer games continues to expand. Swing by halowiki.net to read it!

Over at Halo Babies, some of the DOA girls take shots at poor Spartan 458… meanies. Thanks, mrsmiley.

F13ND has posted the next installment of his ‘Noobs Guide’ over at Team3D – this one gives some tips on flanking, with the help of Saiyan. If you didn’t get this the first time around, this guide is NOT for noobs – it’s for anyone looking to improve their gameplay, by focusing on advanced strategy…

Looks like you can buy all the Series 4 action figures directly from the Bungie Store. (You can buy them from a lot of places – but the profit from the Bungie store goes towards the World Domination effort.) Thanks, LegendaryMark.

The South Dakota State University Collegian has an article on why Halo 2 might be losing you dates. Duh. (Of course, this doesn’t apply if your girlfriend plays Halo…)

Four new movies at Halo2Forum today – The Last Man Standing (12.7 mb) is a Halo 1 story summed up by its title, and there’s a montage trailer from Domain Productions (21 mb), a demo of a mod that turns Banshees in to X-Wing fighters (28.3 mb), and a montage/gameplay vid from OscarMayerNinja (73 mb),…

Normally, there’s enough content over the course of a week that the Tied The Leader Halo blog gets a single wrapup mention. We got mail from 3Suns, though, suggesting that a new article, ‘Open Letter to the Timothy’, deserved a mention of its own. Upon reading, I’d agree. XerxdeeJ points out that not every young…