We got mail from Blake about a movie he’d made, and posted. It didn’t meet our posting guidelines, but our general policy is that if someone’s willing to host the movie themselves, we’re willing to put up a news post about it – so here you go. It’s called ‘Halo Stunts‘, it’s 3:29 long, in WMP9 format, and weighs in at 5.4 mb. It’s a bunch of multiplayer footage (splitscreen and coop) filmed via digital camera off a TV screen (that is, the TV is visible in the picture). Some of it is totally incomprehensible. If you pride yourself on having that completely comprehensive Halo movie collection, grab this film.

Alpaca writes to point out that [HOH] has added a new Articles section, and the first article (“Noobery vs Stupidity“) is up. It looks at the difference between people who haven’t learned and those who CAN’T learn, and shows you how to keep yourself out of the latter group. Check it out!

Yet another analysis of the multiplayer screens – this time over at Echo-413. Click on the ‘Media Mintz Article 2’ link in the Community News section of the navbar to read it.

Gamers Gallery has posted a VERY high resolution version of the new multiplayer shot – 2468×1851 (weighs in at 452k). Go visit if you want this!

So, the Fan Fiction section is open again… and Stuntmutt has wasted no time taking a shot or two, via One One Se7en. Of course, he’s missed the target – the innocent victim in this case is poor, maligned Halo PC. Trust Stuntmutt to gang up on the downtrodden.

Today’s Halo: Resolution tries what we’ve ALL wanted to do, at one point or another…

Okay, the flood of screenshots on our forum is simply too much for me to keep up with. I guess I was planning to post a daily ’roundup’ – but there are well over 20 posts with screenshots in them since the last time I posted; some people post a few, then follow up their own post with more, or start a new thread and post the same ones again, or even follow up a post with a second post that contains a subset of the first post. If I had an extra couple of hours a day to sort it all out, I suppose I could keep track… but I don’t, so if you’re interested, just scan our forum for ‘screenshots’ in the subject line. (I’ll continue to point out the posts containing what I consider to be outstanding pics; even in this flood, there are some that are head and shoulders above the rest, and I’ll make a point of bringing them to your attention.)

WOW. Gil27 and Devin Olsen have created a multiplayer version of the Maw’s Reactor Room – there is a short (25 second, 2 mb) film as well as a few screenshots in this forum post; no map yet for downloading, but we can hope!

Back in early February, Burnie Burns and Geoff Fink of Red vs Blue were interviewed for TechTV’s Unscrewed. We actually had the footage uploaded to us by Sniperman27, and we contacted Unscrewed to find out if we could display it; the answer came back that they would do it for us… but they never did. Not to worry, though, because that same clip is now up as a Sponsors Extra over at the Red vs Blue site! There’s also a very cool 3:29 long video from the Alamo Drafthouse last week, giving some flavor of that event (we mentioned it on the 14th), and showing off (in really bad lighting) the Blue Nightmare Armor. Thanks to c0ld vengeance for the heads-up on our forum. Dang, sorry – that would be Ross Mills. My bad.

Benny, from Xbox Ottawa (part of the team behind the FTC videos) has submitted a new Flash game – Madda Cheeb: Golfer. We’re hosting a copy here, but there’s also a copy up at Newgrounds, which probably has way more bandwidth than we could hope to have. (It’s big – over 4 and a half megs.) Wherever you play it – you’ll find it’s pretty tough stuff, but quite rewarding when you actually do well. Andrew started a thread in our forum, if you want to comment.

So over the past few weeks, we’ve had a number of submissions that we simply haven’t had time to post. I’m going to try and get some of them out there. First up is a pair of speeches modeled on ones given by Winston Churchill in 1940; you can find them, along with transcriptions, in our Miscellaneous section. Thanks to Walshicus for his patience.

It’s still coming in… New Mailbag!

Homefront, the Battlefield 1942 mod, has put up new pics of an elite, their new AR (the MC looks BIZARRE without gloves on), and the scorpion tank. This picture is a joke – they’ll have him holding plasma weapons soon. (Good thing, too – Covenant would rather die than use human weapons…) Thanks to Spartan-39 for the heads-up on our forum.

Interesting. XBCTourneys is promoting ‘The Ultimate Halo Tricks DVD‘, coming soon. ‘Every trick for every map’, in DVD quality. The page says ‘Price coming soon’ – but if you click on the Preorder button, you’re paying $14.99, so one might assume that the price will be $14.99. (I’d be impressed if they really do manage to film ‘every trick for every map’ – I’m still seeing new ones on a semi-weekly basis. They must be sitting on a lot of stuff nobody’s seen before. Or something.) Thanks to ‘Nosolee for the heads-up.

Promodo answered the screenshot analysis over at Sector 7 with his own comments; you can find them (and respond to them) on our forum. I must say it surprises me that this much evaluation is going into this single screenshot… it’s FAR more than went into the first multiplayer shot, and that, in my opinion, was a more interesting picture. In fact, I haven’t seen this sort of interest since the dry spell (which had lasted a full year) ended in 2001. You never can tell, with fans!

There’s a new .comic up at Subnova; Boxer wrote an autobiographical bit about his experience trying to get out of the Maw. I’d speculate about who the other player is… but geez, it could be ANYBODY…

room217 took a shot of his garage – looks like that crew gets pretty serious about Blood Gulch!

Wonga. It lives again. Thanks to Subnova, The Fan Fiction section is open again – and there are a few stories that were in the queue before it went down (plus two more that got posted today, from folks who knew the original URL).

• Jera III, by Elizar
• untitled halo poem, by new1nab113
• Underestimated: Part 1, by Ikabuianman
• Halo2: The Covenant Wars [part 2], by Thomas Harper
• Purgatory: Part 1 , by Lord Spark
• war and blood, by new1nab113
• the maw, by new1nab113
• Don’t Look Here! Get out before it is too late! No!!!, by Frightener
• Assault Part 1: Ambushed, by Joe Ehret
• Halo Heaven: Chapter 1: The Story of the Surviving Spartan IIs, by Justin Harrison, Halo Heaven

Go to it!

She does it again – Tina Leyk let us know about two new pics she’s done; her fan character, Dre’al, an a Hunter closeup. You’ll find them at the bottom of the Halo Fan Art section of her local page. I’m lovin’ em.