Author: Louis Wu

I meant to say something earlier today, but forgot… thanks to [HC]D-Man for reminding me. This is just a heads-up that you’ve got 6 days left to submit an entry to the 343 Guilt O’ Lantern 2005 competition – there are some pretty spiffy entries so far, but there’s still plenty of time to put…

Ouch. Stubbs the Zombie has been released for Xbox – at least the NTSC version. And the PC and Mac versions are coming next month. However, if you live in a PAL country… you’ve got a little wait ahead of you. THQ just announced that they’ll be bringing the PAL version to the world… and…

The USA Final match for the World Cyber Games 2005 was between Team3D (the Ogres) vs Team3D (TheAlley); if you’re on a Windows PC, you can view this match on the WCG website. (It’s completely incompatible with Macs.) Thanks, Sn0G.

Looks like the Video Games Live concert tour has been postponed – AGAIN. I’m done posting notes about this; I’ve been burned twice now. (I had front-row seats in Boston, and that show was cancelled when the tour was postponed the first time. Then I bought tickets for a Connecticut date when the tour was…

PrAy4U writes to let us know about a national Halo 2 event on November 19 to be held at gaming centers around the US, using custom tournament system link software to link centers together – currently 9 states are involved. The technology is called Tunnelvision – looks pretty cool! Swing by and see if you…

Dennis Powers sent along a link to a bunch of frequently-asked questions about his Halo CE Chronicles series – if you’ve been curious about stuff relating to that, swing by and see if your questions are answered!

Podtacular Ep 18 has been released; this one focuses on Waterworks, but has plenty of other content. 8.6 mb, available via iTunes or direct download. Check it out!

Arcadian Flame, of Chairleg Productions, submitted a short history of Machinima to the MPRRS. It passed. It’s pretty funny. We’re hosting the WMP9 (33.5 mb) and QuickTime (28.7 mb) formats, and you can grab a PSP-formatted version on their website. We definitely need more vids like this – great audio, humor… nice work!

According to Yahoo Financial News, VIBE Magazine, Boost Mobile, and Motorola are teaming up on “the First-Ever Hip Hop Video-Game Lifestyle Tour” – hip-hop music and videogames (including Halo 2) to 20 historically black colleges around the US. Details and a schedule can be found in the story.

Gamertag Radio is presenting the First Annual Xbox Community Awards; they’re taking votes for the next few weeks (voting ends November 15), and the audio awards show is on November 20. Apparently, we’re up for an award (Best Fansite Based On A Game), which is pretty cool. You need to register to vote. Thanks, Godfree.

L30N1DAS (or is it Thanatos?) created a new Halo 2 Adium icon – if you get messaged, it gets active. (There’s also a new soundset.) Comments can go here.

Wow. There’s a massive art update over at Halo Babies… some really draw-dropping stuff. Go check it out!

Over at MLGPro.com, Dyslexia wrote up the MLG LA event, covering highs and lows, winners and losers, and all the drama that happens at a major tournament. Great read! Thanks, Dolbex. And thanks to 3Suns, who also mentioned the new Video on Demand content (including a rebroadcast of the entire event) that went live recently.

Cogent’s outage in southern Florida last night (due to Hurricane Wilma, and affecting HBO’s datacenter) coincided nicely with the window of opportunity I had for updates yesterday evening – so I couldn’t tell you about the new story on Bungie.net, about the followup to the Fight the Flood campaign Bungie ran last month. Thanks to…

DOH! I forgot to post this yesterday; it passed the MPRRS on Sunday night. It’s a trailer for ‘From the Oder to the Elbe: 17 Days Through Hell’, and it was created by Roland. Screen format is a very strange 1200×600 pixels, but if that doesn’t fit on your screen, you can watch it at…

Se7en One has put together a page on the ‘Glide dragon’, his name for the birds (or, I guess, insects, according to Se7en One) you can see on the Delta Halo and Regret levels of Halo 2. (Look closely – that’s the HBO Helljumpers website, not HBO; they just use a design based on ours.)…

Stuntmutt stays focused on the DoA4 Spartan in today’s One One Se7en. How bad would it get if she weren’t wearing armor?

Twenty two new pieces in the Fan Fiction section since Friday. Dang, they’re keeping busy…

The New York Times has an article (registration required, don’t forget about bugmenot.com) on the genre-melding of movies and video games, and it focuses on Peter Jackson as one of the prime players that is bringing cinematics to games, rather than the other way around. Halo, of course, is mentioned (although King Kong plays a…

Episode 10, the season finale of the Outpost Coagulation machinima series, has been posted over at TreeSkunk Productions. (If you’re having trouble finding them, trigger119 published direct links in this forum post (for the low-res) and this post (for the high-res). A cliffhanger…