Year: 2005

anti noob posted a note about his new website, and the featured item, a new montage. 68 mb, WMP9 format, hosted on FileFront. (Lots of killtaculars.) Look around!

Gamespot has put up a new preview, new screenshots, and new videos for Stubbs the Zombie (the ‘Do the Zombie’ vid featured at the top of the preview is hilarious) – go check this stuff out. I can’t wait to drive around in the sod-o-mobile! Thanks, Wort Wort.

3Suns ran across This Gaming Life, a collection of gaming screenshots with added captions. There are lots and lots of Halo ones – and some are quite funny.

Today’s Halo Babies takes a shot at the new Nintendo Revolution’s controller… go read! Thanks, mrsmiley.

Normally, we don’t make site notices on our front page – but this one’s a bit… unusual (special, I suppose). -Hp-FIL4, from the MLG forums, pointed out that his movie site, xtina, had never been mentioned here at HBO. And he’s right. Which is surprising, because the collection of movies available is rather large, and…

There’s a great interview over at Gamasutra with Alex Seropian, of Wideload Games. He discusses how the business model works (outsourcing assets rather than creating everything in-house), and how they expanded the Halo engine to fit the needs of a zombie-based comedy action-thriller. It won’t be long now – the game will be out next…

8 new Fan Fiction pieces in this mid-week update. Go read!

A month ago, we posted a sub-4-minute Silent Cartographer speedrun from insidi0us – the only thing that SLIGHTLY drew away from its awesomeness was the fact that it was run on Normal, instead of Legendary. He’s fixed that. He uses roughly the same tricks to shave time off on this run as he did on…

Darksage has completed the first version of his Floodgulch for Farcry Instincts map; it’s a reproduction of Blood Gulch for Farcry Instincts, but with quite a bit of standing water. He’s planning on setting up a dedicated server for folks to download the map this evening, from 5pm-midnight, EST. (If you grab this, please set…

The reordered I Love Bees release continues – today we have a couple of large chapters, 9 (34 minutes) and 10 (30 minutes). The meat of the story is beginning to come out at this point… go listen!

Wow – rockslider has written up a highly-detailed guide on a new bit of fun to be had on Halo (the second level of the original game). He calls it the Arc of Death, and from reading his description, it sounds like a blast! (Um, literally, I guess.) Give it a read, then try it…

StealthSniper22 created a ‘new kind of montage’ – it’s called ‘The Stalker’, and it’s composed entirely from real XBL Matchmaking Head-to-Head games. It’s AMAZING how often his opponents don’t notice him following them. (Or, in some cases, standing on their head…) It’s hilarious. A lower-res (320×240, 22.3 mb) version can be found in this post,…

Another HBO toolbar, this one from Keyes. No pic, but in his words, ” a news searcher, popup blocker, chatroom for toolbar users, handy dandy links, quick link to HBO, and a scrolling front page news ticker.” Works in IE and Firefox (on XP). Sounds handy!

David “wlkng nghtmre” Antunes sent in a bunch of pics showing off a table he made last year – the ultimate TV stand, as he puts it. Pretty fun battle scene! Check it out.

Broken Console Productions has posted Episode 5 of their ongoing machinima, The Squadron – grab it from their Videos page. Things are about to heat up… writing is a fun mixture of serious and silly, filming is topnotch. Go watch! (19.3 mb in WMP9 format, 18.1 in QT.)

Hehe – I have SO acted out today’s One One Se7en in real games… man. Sometimes, a comic just hits home. (Though Stuntmutt assures me that he had someone completely different in mind when he wrote this particular strip…)

TychoVII sent word of a video he and some friends finished up over the summer. In his words, it’s “a blend of the infamous Halo 2 gametype ‘Zombies’ and the movie ‘Shaun of the Dead’ using songs from the SOTD soundtrack.” It’s funny, well-filmed, and showed me a number of cool jumping tricks to use…

Two more episodes have gone up in Webshift’s reordered I Love Bees audio files. Things are starting to get crazy – go listen!

Z sends word of another pair of montages at Halo2Forum.com – one is a trailer – Crypty teases for his upcoming montage vid with very nice editing reminiscent of Dan Chosich’s Framework vid from a couple of years ago (15.8 mb), and OscarMayerNinja’s Montage 4 is five minutes of effect-laden sticks and snipes (63.3 mb).…

Well, I was wrong – there IS some Halo-related content in the OrigenXbox360.com website… the TeamXbox people snagged the XML file that contains all (well, maybe not all) the actual content, hidden or not, on the site – you’d think they’d have learned to protect that by now – and apparently, two of the available…