Author: Louis Wu

Dan Chosich and Loren Judah, both longtime contributors to the Halo community, have put together Sentient Arts, a website devoted to giving artists a place to display their work. It’s not Halo-specific (though I’m sure they’d accept Halo-related material) – but it’s pretty slick-looking, and it’s definitely a resource that many in this community could…

Okay, so the DOA4 rumor we mentioned recently is true – it’s the new top story at Bungie.net. I’m a little disturbed by the jiggly bits in the image in that story… but then, Frankie’s never been totally couth. There’s still plenty under wraps, but the bottom line is, SOMETHING from the Halo universe will…

Today’s One One Se7en looks once again at Stuntmutt’s favorite weapon… and its effects.

Must have been a little while since the last update – there are 17 new pieces in the Fan Fiction section today. Go read!

Game Informer has posted an article that claims that a character from Halo will be appearing in the upcoming Dead or Alive 4, and that it won’t be the Master Chief (or a Warthog). At this point, this is in the Wild Rumors category, but if more info surfaces, we’ll let you know. Looks like…

The Multiplayer Map Pack is STILL being reviewed – Gaming Excellence posted a thumbs-up yesterday, giving the release a 9.1 out of 10. The extras got mentioned, but didn’t seem to contribute to their scoring of the product at all. (This makes me sad, because things like the interview with the dev team are pretty…

PodTactacular Episode 11 has been released – this one’s 30 mb, an hour and a half long, with tips on Backwash and the Battle Rifle (among other subjects). Go listen! Thanks, Spelchek.

Chris ‘CPU64’ Bryan dropped off a new render using new technique (final gathering, which calculates global illumination from rays cast from the object’s pixels rather than from a light source) – the end result is pretty slick!

There are a number of direct download mirrors popping up for the Metal Gear Solid movie we released yesterday (though with reported download speeds in excess of 1 mbps, you might be better off with the BitTorrent links for now) – That Weasel has put up mirrors of both versions, and Roland dropped off a…

That Weasel points out that although the Grand Finale Awards Ceremony for Rockets on Prisoner is still in production, a ‘pre-release segment of the ceremony’ has been released. Comes in four flavors, two sizes each for WMP9 and QuickTime. Download it, and see who won the Award for Best Trailer!

The next step in montages – now we have trailers for upcoming montages at the beginning. I’m just waiting for the animated popcorn and candy clip… over at Halo2Forum.com, you can download UnReal’s first montage (lots of sniping, lots of sticking), and it comes with a trailer for Halzred’s Montage 3 tacked onto the front.…

Another machinima project is recruiting – go visit The Ark if you’re interested in helping out. They’ve got a script for episode one posted, if you want to see what you’d be getting into.

Wow. Jamie98s has put up a bunch of movies over the last four months – but this one might be my favorite. It’s called Metal Gear Solid, and it’s (as might be expected) a story starring Solid Snake, from the MGS series. Jamie’s plot description: “Solid Snake is deployed to a secret miltary base to…

Elnea has been sketching up a storm since the data loss suffered by Red vs Blue a couple of days ago – there are two new sketches (one is an early version of a piece of artwork already in the collection, the other is crash-related)… and while you’re there, there’s couple of new avatars at…

Sith went through the current playlists, and broke out the weightings for maps and gametypes on each one. Interesting data!

Gamespot has put up a new article on the Best Launch Titles of all time – and Halo makes the list (at number 5). They had really nice things to say about the game:With Halo, [Bungie] accomplished the rarest of feats: It broke through to a new audience in the biggest way imaginable and set…

So last night, Ducain pointed out a post he’d made over at High Impact Halo, giving props to WLT, a trickster who managed to put not one, but TWO hogs on top of one of the Blue Beam towers in the level Halo… along with himself. It’s one of those totally useless, totally amazing tricks…

Pinkuh’s new comic, Lost the Lead, has a promo comic up in our forum now. (The full site is still waiting for the coding to be finished.) Go read!

A couple of new pieces over at MLGPro.com – there’s an article on Storm Ventures, an up-and-coming team with promise, and a gallery full of pics from MLG Seattle. Good stuff! Thanks, 3Suns.

Gamespot says the rumor that Halo 3 will be shown to the public at X05 in Amsterdam next week is false. (Whoa, what a surprise.) I suppose I’m glad they came to that conclusion – but I’m really only posting this so folks can stop telling us they said this. It ain’t announced until it’s…