Author: Louis Wu

Z pointed out 4 new movies to download over at Halo2Forum.com – there’s clan Exit Woundz 4v4 CTF on Warlock (92.4 mb), clan Exit Woundz 4v4 TS on Ivory Tower (94.6 mb), Chronic’s Halo 2 mods (90.6 mb), and a parody of MTV Cribs based on Lockout (41.6 mb). The two gameplay vids are worth…

DigitalLife is a ‘consumer technology and entertainment event’ (a convention, in other words) that will be taking place this weekend at the Javits Convention Center in New York City. The Xbox360 will be there to play, and several Major League Gamers (LiL Poison, Zyos, and Xena) will be appearing as special guests. If you’re in…

There’s a big article on machinima, focusing on Red vs Blue, over at the LA Times (it’s possible that registration is required – you could try bugmenot.com if you’re not interested in registering). An entertainment form coming into its own, and getting lots of mainstream press… coolness! Thanks, mr cappy.

Back in July, we mentioned a tourney taking place in Orlando, sponsored by the PGL – Jay Marrero sent along the the results. Congrats to John Van (1st place, $500), Daniel Garcia (2nd place, $250), Chris Peters (3rd place, $150), and Joe Miller (4th place, $100) – all prizes came from Liquid Ice Energy Drink.

Halo Underground has added Beaver Creek to their list of FarCry Halo ports (I thought they’d already released that, but it turns out that this is a new version – and that there’s also a version of Lockout available). They’re also putting together a Halo 2 tournament – details are currently sketchy, but what there…

Last week, we mentioned that someone had extracted – and put up for download – the entire tagset from HaloCE, making it much easier to create new content. However, the download was more than 350 mb, and included a lot of information that some downloaders would never use. Dennis Powers has broken the tagset up…

Funky. MTV is looking for folks who have experienced racism during multiplayer games (Halo is mentioned by name). Looks like they’re putting together a piece. Thanks, Mr Yun.

That Weasel wrote to point out the Best Action Sequence pre-release segment for the Rockets on Prisoner awards – swing by to grab the file, in one of 6 formats, to see who was nominated… and who took the win!

Broken Console Productions has posted episode 6 of The Squadron – the fighting heats up. The WMP9 is up now (30.2 mb), the QuickTime should be up soon (29.6 mb). Check it out!

Over at Newgrounds, you can find a new Flash movie called ‘Halo Pramape: Truth and Reconciliation’ – it’s 11 minutes long and almost 7 mb big. It’s… um, rather odd. Some very funny parts, some very STRANGE parts. (Hearing a voice actor with a German accent imitating an Australian accent is great.) Thanks to Nom…

We heard from corpseguy again this weekend – he’s finished the helmet he started a few months ago. You can see all the pics he’s sent us on this page. Pretty slick piece of work!

2old2play’s podcast, 2old2type, is now up to episode 10 – and once again, it covers a lot of gaming-related subjects, but Halo 2 plays only a tiny role. (There’s information about their upcoming Halo 2 tourney, and a mention of their recent 40-and-over tourney.) Podcast is just under an hour, and weighs in at 26.5…

It’s been a little while, but Stephen Loftus has returned with a new article – this one takes an in-depth look at the Pelican dropship; dimensions, capabilities, and how it’s been used in-game. Go read!

That Weasel stopped by to announce that there would be four more pre-release awards ceremony vids for the Rockets on Prisoner awards this week. The first one is up now – it’s Best Musical Score, and the download is available, as usual, in 3 formats, two sizes each. Go check out the nominees – and…

Z pointed out another pair of vids for download at Halo2forum.com – there’s a Halo 1 campaign montage from Steve the Plank (WMP9, 21.9 mb), and the 4th montage from DaY (WMP9, 81.4 mb). I found the torqued aspect ratio of the campaign vid to be hard to watch, but others liked the effects. The…

Nice. The taped Peter Jackson speech about how excited he is to be a part of the Halo movie, shown at X05 last week, is now available at GameTrailers.com – it’s the same clip as JeuxFrance was serving, except without the JF watermark. You can grab it in QuickTime or WMP9 formats. Thanks, Mr.Cynical.

Yesterday, we mentioned Clan Hops Episode 3, a 12-minute-long jumping vid that originally appeared at High Impact Halo, and was released in hi-res form at halo2forum.com. Today, it passed our Movie Peer Review Rating System, so we’re putting up a copy, as well. (The mid-size version passed, but there’s no reason not to give you…

Foo Mo Jive writes to point out that Podtacular Episode 12 has been posted – and some changes have been made. The website has been redesigned, and there’s a new store where you can buy Podtacular t-shirts. And the shows themselves have been split up into three separate, roughly-half-hour chunks, to make downloading easier (and…

Stuntmutt speculates about the identity of Halo character in the upcoming DOA4 in today’s One One Se7en.

Theo Prins dropped off a new sketch the Master Chief – you’ll find it on his gallery page. He continues to floor me.