Rampancy

A site called The Flaming Blue Ninjas has a new article up where their own Rabid Gnome interviews John "Xearo" Blow who played Halo 2 at MLG Seattle. He rates the vehicles and weapons and talks about his general impressions. Generally, he dislikes dual wielding, the new needler, the plasma sword, the fixed pistol, and all vehicles. He likes the battle rifle.

In the London Free Press, Steve Tilley apologizes, first for his job, that allows him to drink for free while playing Halo 2 pre-release, and then for committing 6 teamkills in a 3-2 CTF win on Zanzibar:

I ended up playing a human soldier appropriately named Chief, gleefully feeding pain and humiliation to the Covenant horde during the half-hour session of mayhem and trash-talking. Our team emerged victorious with a score of 3 to 2, and I managed to limit my friendly-fire frags to half a dozen or so. (C'mon, in the heat of battle it can be hard to tell friend from foe. And hand grenades tend not to discriminate.)

Thanks Louis Wu at HBO for the heads-up on this piece.

The Bungie Webmaster is back to ridicule some more of you. And by the looks of it, you deserve it.

mrsmiley of Halo Babies has put online the promised writeup of the MLG's Downpour event, which featured the Halo 2 action on Zanzibar that most of you are currently downloading via BitTorrent.