Author: Louis Wu

Broken Console Productions have posted Episode 7 of their ‘Squadron’ Machinima – it’s available in both WMP9 (16.6 mb) and QuickTime (16.9 mb) formats. The squadron is… running into trouble. As usual, high-quality workmanship all around… go watch!

It’s official – as of now, the Leaderboards on Bungie.net are gone. Also, the Team Hardcore playlist should be live very, very soon. (As in, later this afternoon.) Here’s hoping that the level of cheating goes down, now that there’s much less to be gained!

The Stubbs the Zombie site was updated yesterday (in honor of the game’s Xbox release) with a fantastic trailer of ‘My Boyfriend’s Back’ by the Raveonettes. Disco Zombies… it don’t GET any better’n that. Thanks, Karri.

Z points out a nice montage trailer over at Halo2Forum.com – 58 mb, WMP9 format, really clear footage. Give it a look!

Dave Cheung, of Chugworth Academy, is worried about what having Peter Jackson on board might mean for a Halo movie. Check the image linked at the bottom of the news post on this page for a graphical depiction of his fear. Thanks, Kaari Koehn.

The Best Villain nominees (and winner) have been posted over at the Rockets on Prisoner Awards site – thanks to Spartan 777 for the heads-up.

Frankie wrote up a summary of statistics about Halo 2 on Xbox Live – and while it’s chock-full of the normal things you’d expect (like what percentage of arranged games are played on each map), it’s also got just plain silly stats, like how much money would have been earned if every hour spent playing…

After a very, very, VERY long dry spell, the Miscellaneous section gets the beginnings of an update – another 6 months of entries have been added, thanks to The Morningstar. (To be totally fair, I’ve had the Excel file with these entries sitting on my drive for almost 7 months now – this is NOT…

There’s a large local tourney in London, this coming Sunday – Halo 2 is one of the games on the block, it’s £5 to play or £3 to watch, and prizes include Xbox360s and lots of other goodies. More info can be found in the press release on GamesIndustry.biz.

The DC Independent Film Festival is currently accepting Halo movie submissions – and if you go through MachinimaDudes.com, and your movie is deemed ‘worthy’, you won’t have to pay the $15 submission fee. Details (including length requirements) can be found on the MachinimaDudes front page – the entry form itself contains information about formatting and…

Sometimes, the real world intrudes on our virtual world, and shows up in Stuntmutt’s One One Se7en. This isn’t really one of those times.

Thirteen new stories for you in the Fan Fiction section. Go read!

That Weasel dropped us a note to say that another Rockets on Prisoner pre-release is out – go grab the vid showing the nominees and the winner for Best Editing, Sound, and FX. Also, an official date has been set for the grand finale – next Sunday, October 23rd, at 8 pm Eastern. Go look!

The full results for the MLG LA tourney can be found over at MLGPro.com – Team3D took the 4v4 title, and Karma beat Ogre 2 for the 1v1 competition. Thanks to 3Suns for the heads-up (who says the Video on Demand coverage of these games was spectacular).

LiL Poison was part of a roundtable discussion last week that was recorded for a podcast over at GameSHOUT – you can grab it from this page. (It’s the October 13 ‘Roundtable’ link.) Go listen to the youngest pro gamer in the world! 26.6 mb, mp3 format. Thanks, SexyJosh.

Stephen Loftus put together a pretty cool image showing the various relative sizes of the planetary bodies we know about in the Halo universe. This is worth looking at if you’re having trouble pinning down how big, say, the Alpha 4 Halo is in comparison to Jupiter’s moons. The full-sized image is way bigger than…

Sponsors vs Freeloaders has put up a short (36 second) teaser for Episode 9, ‘Faith, Hope, and Duality’, of their machinima series ‘Flamewar’. Their site is currently being crushed (Laird, the host, is today’s Featured User on the RvB site, and has used that position to publicize the teaser), so we’re hosting copies for them…

Oh, not again. Gamespot’s Rumor Control has mentioned yet another viral marketing campaign, with the really, really, REALLY low-probability outcome that it’s pointing to an August 1 2006 release date for Halo 3. Go read the Gamespot writeup for details – I’m too tired of this kind of thing to bother summarizing. (It’s not clear…

This came in yesterday, but… well, it’s been a tough weekend here. F13ND is covering MLG LA over at Team3D.net – you can swing by for interviews, preliminary results, and more!

Dang. All this water’s gone to my brain. Burnie posted last night that Red vs Blue Ep 64 would be up for sponsors about 12 hours ago (and for everyone else tomorrow night) – but I spaced. So if you’re a sponsor, go grab a copy. Because Andy is simply the best machinima character ever.…