Author: Louis Wu

Dweezle86 dropped by our forum to let us know that there’s a bunch of new content at Dead Man’s Hand; aside from the article we mentioned a couple of days ago, there are interviews with Damian Lacedaemion of THis Spartan Life and Mintz of Halo: Portable, along with a number of Halo-related (or not related)…

Wow, very cool. Oftenk pointed out some Halo Dock icons at customize.org – really nice work. Check ’em out!

More tourney stuff: Paulie Danger wanted to let people know about a series of events in the Philadelphia area, starting in August – details are at the Console Wars website… and tish mentioned a 4v4 tourney in Cincinnati on June 10 – more details in that forum post.

rapture sent word that recently the Hushed Casket held a LANfest – ‘Cookout! Grenades! 2’ – to celebrate one member’s house purchase and the anniversary of the first Cookout! Grenades! LAN (with a shout-out to Midnight, who couldn’t be there because he’s in Iraq)… and of course, they had a Halo-themed cake (pic 1 |…

The One One Se7en celebrity guests continue – today’s strip comes from Warbow, of Calvin and Halo fame. There’s even some color!

Fifteen new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section today – go read!

Narcogen, over at Rampancy.net, reminds us that Marty O’Donnell and Mike Salvatori will be at the PLAY! premiere tomorrow in Chicago – you can get more information at the PLAY! website.

At times, my online life seems to mirror my real life. Last year’s real-life birthday didn’t get missed – because it was a big one, and because my wife made sure that I’d remember it – but in general, I forget they’re coming until they’re here. Seems like that pattern continues online… we missed bungie.org’s…

If you live in Great Britain, Halo 2 is now officially ‘cheap’. Microsoft kicked off a new ‘Best of Classics’ label today, and Halo 2 is on it – for £9.99. Nice deal! (I saw this at both CVG and gamesindustry.biz.) For what it’s worth – EB Games is selling Halo 2 for $29.99 in…

Some very cool new shirts available at the Bungie Store – these were first seen at E3, but you can now buy them for yourself. Frankie was first (though the ‘retard’ comment was a bit out of line – I know for a fact that the guilty party is a pretty bright individual).

Fall0ut writes to point out a FFA/4v4 tourney in New Jersey on June 3 – FFA is $10 to enter, $100 for first place, 4v4 is $30 to enter, up to $1000 first prize. More details and info at the NJHalo website.

Luke Jeffery wrote to point out Wandering Tiger Machinima, a group working on a series called ‘Reclaimer’; they’re up to Episode 4. Swing by their site to check it out.

Heh – a new survey finds that surgeons who play video games make fewer mistakes when doing laparoscopic surgery than those who don’t – and the lead researcher lists Halo 2 among his favorite games. In case you, you know, needed some ammunition against someone telling you to quit wasting your time…

Spandexman noticed a Famitsu Readers Poll being reported at QJ.net – readers of the Japanese magazine were asked what game they were most interested in (all platforms)… and Halo 3 made the list. Not bad for a first-person shooter in Japan!

Over at Rampancy.net, there’s a fascinating piece that looks at a new book by Dean Takahashi, entitled “The Xbox 360 Uncloaked: The Real Story Behind Microsoft’s Next-Generation Video Game Console”, and how that book relates to Bungie, and to the development of Halo 2 and Halo 3. Great excerpts, great analysis. If you’ve ever been…

I don’t think I’ll ever understand how it gets away from me so quickly… but the Wallpaper queue, which was filled to bursting with Halo 3 images (along with quite a number of cool non-Halo3 images), has been emptied. (If you uploaded a file to our upload directory in the last day or so, it’s…

It’s much easier to watch Windows Media Player content on Macs than it used to be… but for those who’d still rather have QuickTime, we’re making the RvB Sargeisms movie available in QT format (High | Low). This one KP doesn’t get to steal away. (That boy might need his keys revoked, now that he’s…

HaloMan sent in word of another tourney this weekend – this one in northern Virginia. Hosted by C3CyberClub, Sterling, VA, 4v4 double elimination, $100/team, prizes to be announced. More details on this page.

AJ Ardovino pointed out an article entitled ‘The End For All’, over at Dead Man’s Hand – it asks the question “does Halo’s popularity impact the success rate of other games?” Are other XBL games failing because too many people are playing Halo instead of exploring what else is out there? You could also ask…

darthbob pointed out a thread on the Gearbox Forums with some pretty intriguing pictures – a Halo CE mod with lots of tweaks to emulate eyecandy in the Halo 3 trailer. Check it out!