Author: Louis Wu

A radio station in the Phoenix AZ area is hosting a Halo 2 tournament on September 17 – first place is $1000 in cash and prizes. Unfortunately, A note is up on the page stating that all contestants have been selected already – but who knows, maybe there’ll be cancellations. Thanks, Cybrfrk.

ÜberChief points out that the newest issue of Resolute is up – if only the MC was that damage-resistant in the game we play!

ChairLeg Productions continues with their Nephrons series; ‘Nephrons – Minus Four’ passed the MPRRS last night. Hugh is still insane, Mike is still in prison, the Blues are still better at insulting than the Reds. The reviewers liked the quality, the jokes (except for one reviewer, who found it ‘quite boring’ but passed it anyway),…

pkrut sent us email about a Halo 2 tourney at CyberZone, in the Neshamiy mall near Philadelphia. It’s 2v2 slayer, MLG Rules. Entrance fee is $30/team. I couldn’t find any info on prizes. There’s no age requirement – the only caveat is… it’s today. Get on down! Update: Oops – the tourney is tomorrow, Sunday,…

Over on GotFrag, there’s a story on Team 3D, and how they’re dealing with their surprising loss to TmG in Philadelphia. Sounds like they’re looking forward to MLG Atlanta, coming at the end of this month, where they’ll get a chance to face these rivals again! Thanks, James Schneider.

A few days ago, we mentioned one fan’s plan to raise some cash for Katrina victims – BoneKin was going to give one dollar for each kill he got in a series of 7 games (with a minimum of $117) to the Red Cross. Those games were played, on schedule, last night, and Mintz was…

There’s a major story up on Bungie.net – ways you can help with the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. First up – the T-shirt we mentioned earlier today. Go read WHY you should buy one (or several – they’ll make great presents!). After that, there’s a little bit of information for an upcoming charity auction -…

This Spartan Life has kicked off Episode 2 – module 1 (Opening and extended monologue) is up now. 28 mb in QuickTime format, 22 mb in WMP9 format. (The WMP9 link is actually not active on their site yet – but you can grab it from the GearboxGameZone website for now.) Hey – who couldn’t…

Speaking of Stuntmutt – it seems the man has figured out a way to keep his betrayals down to a reasonable number. Check today’s One One Se7en for details.

Okay, this one takes some explanation. A couple of weeks ago, vshields ash started exploring what happens when you overload the Halo engine during the fight with the Prophet of Regret. The first thing he discovered was he’d spawn new prophet chairs after the overload kicked in – he got up over 100 chairs before…

Captain Spark posted another 25 dialogue snippets on our forum today – all are from Marines, and some are PG-rated. Some hilarious stuff in there! You can grab the batch in one chunk on his website (if it’s up), or you can browse the entries in our Dialogue Databank.

Mintz posted another few articles for your PSP over on his website – swing by and see what’s new!

SiegWarheit pointed out a rather odd-shaped HaloCE map created by NiTrOuSoXiDe of the H2CE team. Um… yeah.

Bungie has posted a new T-Shirt on the Bungie Store; it costs $20, and $15 of that will go directly to the Red Cross for distaster relief. (There’ll be more on this subject from them later this afternoon, but tag-goody71 noticed the shirt in the store this morning, so we figured we’d let you get…

Another vid passed the MPRRS yesterday – it’s called ‘Taking one for the team’, and it’s Obie Brown’s take on a sad, underappreciated job in Halo 2 multiplayer. It’s pretty funny, with great musical integration. Obie is part of ‘Lost Youth’, a clan of 22 and up “geezers” that have seen one too many montages…

Over at Halo Babies, the humor gets sort of dark… I want my teddy bear! (They’ve also finished up their RvB cartoon contest, but the winning strips aren’t online yet. I was going to hold off announcing this until they were – but it’s unclear when that will happen.)

You gotta love the horn-self-tooting… a new Halo blog focused on machinima, The Halo Theatre, asked me a few questions about the subject… it may or may not be worth a read. (There is not a single shot taken at KP, so some of you might decide to skip it.) Lucky for me, comments don’t…

Last year, we hosted the Going Nowhere Fast competition – taking speedrunning to a new level. It inspired the creation of highspeedhalo.org, a website devoted to Halo speedruns. A couple of days ago, over on the MLG forums (you’ll have to be registered to see that thread), insidi0us posted a new run for Silent Cartographer…

A followup on yesterday’s ‘Help Katrina Victims’ post – Dennis Powers, of the GearboxGameZone, has compiled a list of charities accepting donations for Hurricane relief from the FEMA website (I’m impressed; I went there and looked around, and the only obvious link was to the Red Cross). Check it out, do what you can. (Yeah,…

Another vid for you that passed the MPRRS recently – it’s called ‘Boot Camp Short: Episode I.V – Attack of the Critics’, and it’s a nice shot at the MPRRS itself. (Well, sort of.) These guys submitted their first vid to the system – and it failed. Rather than rework it, however, or give up…