Year: 2003

Okay… we’ve got another Hacking vid for you. This one is called ‘Heffalumps and Woozles’, and was created by HUNTR-KILLR. (Okay, he shouldn’t be blamed for the name. That’s my fault – it’s full of such fancy that the name just seemed to fit.) This one’s a monster; 11 and a half minutes long, 33…

Mmm… pie. (Thanks, Razorback.)

Couple of updates on yesterday’s news… The guys running Sector.7 have bought a domain name, www.sector7-halo.com, and will be moving there shortly. (Currently, it’s just a placeholder page.) And the editorial by poena.dare on hacking and what it means to the Bungie community has generated a host of interesting comments, including several from Bungie employees.…

Three new Art tidbits – a nice satire piece, a boot logo for Win2K, and a cute exercise pic. Check ’em all out in our Miscellaneous Art section.

In the last couple of days, we’ve gotten a couple of banner submissions, from Andrew Austin and Fuzzy – you can find both of them in our Banners section.

poena.dare is putting together an interview of Brannon Boren, a consultant at Microsoft who’s been intricately involved in the creation of the ‘Halo Bible’, the collection of information about the Halo universe that all Halo content creators (official ones – book authors, folks writing the stories for the games) use to keep their facts straight.…

Here’s the first of several Hacking movies we have for your perusal. This is another one from Dozi, the guy who made the first one – again, sound is pretty rough. (Much rougher than the first one, as a matter of fact. There’s a static rumble throughout the entire movie.) You’re watching it for the…

To all the folks asking questions about modding your xbox, and hacking Halo: while we here at HBO think the results are pretty cool, this is a Halo site, not an Xbox modding site. We do not provide any information on how to mod your Xbox or how to hack Halo, nor will we in…

Famine to feast. Within a day of the release of the Halo mod information, we’ve received 4 NEW hack-related movies (and there’s still one non-hack related film in the queue). There’s well over half an hour of unreleased footage at this point… we’ll start releasing some of it in the morning, but please, please, please…

Today’s Fan Fiction:Two Betrayals, parts 1/2, by Raiyden Random, by Bloodcider Fallen Angel, part 6, by Gruntkiller/Covert The Battle For Sigma Octanus, part 1, by moniter101 ONI Black Operations, part 1, by Jaywhit10 Survival Grounds parts 1-2, by mattˆ Wrong or Right, part 2, by Harley Project Shadow Spartan, part 1, by Shadow Spartan If…

poena.dare, latest miscreant to be assimilated by b.org, has written a very, very nice editorial over at Bungie Sightings, on the subject of Halo hacking, and what it means to the community. Definitely worth a read.

This came in a few days ago – I managed to miss it. 🙁 Sparks writes that a new website, Sector.7, has come online. It’s not fully fleshed out yet, but there’s more content all the time. They plan to move to a purchased domain (and away from the banners/popups) as soon as they get…

I know, it’s been building up for a few days. Sorry about that. There are 10 (count ’em, 10) new desktops in the Wallpaper section today – check ’em out. Fan Fiction coming sometime later, I hope.

For those folks who couldn’t get the DivX-encoded .avi or the QuickTime version of the HaloHackinFun movie to work, Cybrfrk has re-encoded in WMP 9 format. It’s quite a bit smaller, too – 9.5 mb. You can grab it at his site, or snag a copy from Mythica. Anyone else wanting to mirror this, we’re…

Almost forgot: Eclarap, of the French site Halo-Game, wrote this last night about the Halo mod app:By the way, we were able to make it work on our PAL, but only by downloading a NTSC version : so it doesn’t normally work here – might be useful to warn all Europeans from HBO in your…

5 new entries in the Miscellaneous Art section for you today – some pretty fun stuff. Take a look!

DovBer (pronunciation – “the bear dove into the river”) Friedman dropped off a 2 sec. loop animation of a spinning 3d model he created of a potential halo2 logo/title. We reduced the size a tad – it’s still a full megabyte, but that’s better than 2… you’ll find it in our Miscellaneous section.

Apologies to all the people who noticed Halo on the tv show ‘The Dead Zone’ Sunday night – it’s been sort of busy here lately. (I’m pretty sure Dzejms was first.) Basically, one of the characters was playing the game – the comment made was ‘He’s trying to save the universe.’ Nice to see Halo…

Matt Soell asks, is that a roll of nickels in my pocket, or am I just glad to see you? Wait… I think that might be a bit off. In any case, Bungie has a new contest running – go read all the details at Bungie.net. You’ve got three and a half weeks to come…

lol – When I saw the headline from Bungie.net (‘Happy (Belated) Warthog Day!’), I thought, in my Halo-saturated mind, that Bungie was paying tribute to the one-year anniversary of Randy Glass’ Warthog Jump. Silly me – I forgot there’s a world outside these walls! And every year on February 2, Punxsutawney Phil goes looking for…