Author: Louis Wu

The Rockets on Prisoner pre-release schedule continues – yesterday, Best Montage nominees (and the winner) were announced… and today, the first Main Category pre-release was posted – best Documentary. Go grab a copy and check out both the nominees – and the winner!

There’s news all over the net about the Peter Jackson/Halo situation. Tempus Fugit found a small video clip (WMP9, 12 mb) where Jackson, at X05, made a statement about how excited he is, over at Jeuxfrance.com. Spitvalve scanned the front page of the Dominion Post, Wellington’s biggest newspaper, where the Master Chief takes up a…

Wow. So for those who didn’t notice, the internet broke yesterday. Two of the big boys (Cogent and Level 3) had a falling-out… and much traffic was blocked from getting where it needed to get. If you want to know more about this situation, you can read this Slashdot article (and its comments). Some people…

The Register has a slightly different spin on the ‘Peter Jackson as Exec Producer’ news than other sites have shown so far – they’re wondering if Jackson isn’t just window dressing, ‘more for the poster than the creative input’. While it’s possible that this might have been on Microsoft’s mind, there are a few things…

Halo Underground has posted notes about a couple of FarCry: Instincts maps – Beaver Creek, and now Backwash. There aren’t any screenshots, but there is info in the Backwash post about how to connect and download the map. If you’re playing FarCry – give it a look! Thanks, Rapter Payne.

Okay, this is just scary. Joystiq has a story about a t-shirt design submitted to a T-shirt-selling website that combines Hello Kitty with the Master Chief. (This has been done before, I suppose – there was a SomethingAwful Photoshop Phunnies entry like this, now sadly offline – but this is something you wear.) We’ll see…

Chris Hughes is a computer graphics artist who came to Bungie with the Oni team, and stuck around to work on a little game called Halo. He left before Halo 2 development kicked in, and did a bunch of work for Wideload, on Stubbs the Zombie. He’s recently put up a personal website, showing off…

What to do when you’re not betraying teammates with a rocket launcher? Check today’s One One Se7en for a suggestion.

Dyslexia, over at MLGPro.com, has written up an endorsement of the upcoming Team Hardcore playlist that Bungie will introduce to XBL Matchmaking later this month. He explains why it’s a good thing, and who will benefit from it, and although I STILL don’t like MLG’s use of the word ‘balanced’ (I think they mean ‘uniform’),…

Reinsoft posted another Halo rap (definitely needs the MPAA Explicit Lyrics rating) on our forum last night – 3.4 mb in downloadable form, or you can stream it from his website. Check it out.

Red vs Blue episode 63 is up now for sponsors – it’ll be up for everyone late Wednesday night. (As Burnie says, it’s either a few days late, or a week and a half early, depending on how you view RvB’s ‘time warp’ database accident of last week.) Tucker gets in a bit of trouble…

We’ve added yet another Gallery Page – this time for a newcomer to the Halo art scene by the name of Theo Prins. His first piece made it into our last Misc Art update… but since then, he’s been sending quite a bit, and I’m really taken with it. I decided there were enough featured…

Over at Bungie.net, Frankie pointed out a post by Lorraine ‘Mehve’ McLees, detailing the work behind the Halo Movie Companion, the work put together to help the movie studio understand the Halo universe a bit better. Great read!

That Weasel has posted a second segment for the Rockets on Prisoner 2005 awards – ‘Best Music Video’ nominees… and the winner. Available in 6 flavors (two sizes of 3 separate formats). Go grab the one that works best for you!

There were rumors floating around that Peter Jackson might be directing the upcoming Halo movie – today, Bungie’s posted an article that might just floor you. Jackson is on board – as Executive Producer. That means WETA, the special effects house behind the Lord of the Rings trilogy and Jackson’s upcoming King Kong, will ALSO…

JW points out a story on Joystiq which discusses a purported leak of the Halo 3 script on a website known as Riches Will Rust. The poster is brand new to that forum, with no personal info shown… and the script itself shows itself to be… well, below Bungie writing standards is a nice way…

I’m lovin’ it. Last night, Elnea recorded ‘Blow Boys Away’, a parody of Breaking Benjamin’s ‘Blow Me Away’ in which she stands tall for the fairer sex. It’s hilarious. It’s available in MP3, Real, or WMA formats from her RvB Journal – but if you’re not a member (and don’t feel like becoming one), you’re…

XerxdeeJ stopped by to say he’d posted another couple of entries in his Tied the Leader blog – there’s a great rant about ‘skill’, and what it means in a game of Halo 2, and a plea for advice on how to improve the XBL connection in his new digs. Go read!

The Daily Toreador, a newspaper in Lubbock, Texas, has an article about a Halo 2 tournament held in a local church. It’s a nice general-interest piece, with opinions (that will reach the general, non-game-playing public) about the upcoming consoles, and Halo’s place in online gaming.

Dennis Powers wrote to point out a milestone over at the Halo CE Chronicles – over 50,000 downloads of the series (and counting). Nice! If you haven’t seen it, and don’t feel like downloading each episode of Season 1 individually, he’s re-released the season in two chunks; episodes 1-5 in one file, and episodes 6-9…