Author: Louis Wu

One of the downsides of running a relatively popular Halo fansite is that we hear all the rumors, many, many times… and I worry about giving those rumors extra credibility simply by acknowledging them. Sometimes, though, a rumor is so widespread that NOT acknowledging it seems pointless – a recent one, ‘The Halo Movie has…

Quint sent word that Episode 5 of ‘Reclaimer’ – Aftermath – is available at Wandering Tiger. WMP9 format for now – go watch.

I shouldn’t have been here THIS long – I’ve got two different Memorial Day parades to attend – but I wanted to post the next in our series of celebrity One One Se7en strips – this one comes from Gruntsbane, and features the wonderful (and sorely missed) Halo Babies characters. Go read! Then (if you…

Mintz points out that Podtacular Episode 64 AND Episode 65 are available – he’s front-page-whoring because he’s a guest host on 64. Go listen!

We got email from Tommy Tallarico, (one of) the guys behind Video Games Live – they’re currently touring again (the next show is next Saturday, June 3, in Philadelphia), and wanted to make sure folks remembered them. There’s a new trailer available (Hi-res, WMP9 format, 45 mb | Low-res, QuickTime format, 15 mb), and tickets…

Stephen Loftus has created a new analysis piece for you – this one takes an in-depth look at the frigate In Amber Clad. From its history to its accoutrements, Miranda Keyes’ ship is examined with his usual style – take a look!

Cramesta submitted ‘Zombies 101’, a film which walks the viewer through some of the potential pitfalls of the popular Zombies gametype, to the MPRRS – they didn’t pass it, but it pretty much came down to a single review that kept it from passing, so I’m posting it anyway. It’s nicely filmed, has great music…

IGN posted ‘IGN Weekly Episode 10’, a look back at E3 for the most part. It’s 30 minutes long; the relevance here is that the entire last half is devoted to the Halo 3 trailer. Much of the discussion has already been hashed out on our forum, and large chunks are seriously debatable… but it’s…

The MLG Blog of the Week this week is Trunkers’ – he looks at the changes in seed from Dallas to Anaheim (how team rankings are changing). Interesting stuff, if you follow the pro scene! Thanks, 3Suns.

According to sawnose (a Bungie.net superuser), yesterday afternoon saw a pretty impressive milestone passed on Xbox Live – 3,333,333,333 player-games recorded. (A player-game is one game played by one player – so a head-to-head match would count as 2 player-games, while a full 6v6 match would be 12 player-games.) 3.3 BILLION player-games… at let’s say…

synide took a bunch of pics using a screenshot trainer – Devmode in Halo 2 gives you some pretty incredible angles! They’re all hosted at Flickr.

Halo Babies has a new guest strip up – ‘Holiday Over?’ – from Turalim. Oh, the hassles of union labor! Thanks, PlasmaFire.

Omega has taken a stab at illustrating ships which appear only in the novels. He’s finished 5 of them so far – two are currently visible on our forum (here and here). Nice work – check it out!

Heroes & Heretics Episode 6 – Operation: Anxious Armadillo – has been made available to the public over at the Slacker Entertainment website. (It’s been up in high-res format for sponsors for a week.) The team does their best to make it to the power station before the Covenant take over; it doesn’t help that…

Tom “Eastbeast314” Eastman let us know about a research paper he’d written about narratology (story and character analysis), and its role in explaining the success of Halo: Combat Evolved. It’s a tad heavy on the jargon, but that’s probably helpful in snowing the professor… wait, no, that’s wrong. Give it a read; it looks at…

Captain Spark turned in another couple of dozen dialogue snippets – grab the batch from his website, or browse them in our Dialogue Databank. Some funny ones today!

Now that Halo 3 has been announced, people are beginning to submit cover art mockups. We’ve added them to our existing Cover Art section (on a separate Halo 3 page). Take a look!

Funkmon points out that JJ Ying, the guy who created the very nice dock icons we mentioned yesterday, has updated ALL of his desktop skins; swing by his blog for a look at the integrated set. Now THAT’S some Halo lovin’.

This showed up yesterday, and I found it interesting enough to mail to someone who’d had lots of questions about cheating… but it didn’t occur to me to post it on the front page – thanks to Phi Delta on our forum, and Fulcan via email, for convincing me I was wrong. GamesFirst has put…

The Weekly Update this week is available at Bungie.net (or in our Weekly Update Archive) – there are some bits about Halo 2 Vista, and some bits about changes to the XBL playlists… and then a bunch of random user-submitted questions (with answers that range from pretty cool to KP-quality). Go read.