Year: 2005

Stuntmutt reveals his secrets in today’s One One Se7en. (Well, not that you thought he actually came up with these jokes on his own, or anything…)

CYBRFRK pointed out that last night, the MPRRS passed the 500 movie reviews mark – 90 of the first 500 vids passed, an 18% approval rating. (This means that there were more than 400 movies I didn’t have to watch or evaluate, saving me more than a full day’s worth of watching time. If I…

You may notice the large red cross on the right side of this page – thanks to Boxer for giving us the idea to provide handy links for folks looking to help with the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. As a community, we’re as strong as our actions!

Clearing out the Fan Fiction queue this morning, there are now eight new pieces for you to read. So go read.

XerxdeeJ stopped by to tell us that his Halo-related blog ‘Tied the Leader’ isn’t dead, it was just on vacation while he kicked off his marriage. In fact, the top article right now is a recounting of the weekend leading up to that momentous event. It’s a monster. Go read.

It’s certainly not the first time I’ve seen it speculated that Dr. Halsey (who has never appeared in-game, only in the Halo novels) might be the mother of Miranda Keyes… but it’s the most thorough examination of the evidence I’ve come across. Kudos, Dark One.

Pinkuh announced a new webcomic this morning – it’s called ‘Lost the Lead’, and it will chronicle her adventures in online gaming. (Halo will play a pretty big role, but it won’t be ALL Halo.) Looking forward to it!

Treeskunk Productions, the folks behind ‘Outpost: Coagulation’ and ‘Lethal Tactics’, have released a trailer for ‘Project 117’, an upcoming machinima film that follows the Spartan IIIs, a group hunted by the very people they were created to protect, as they try once again to save humanity. 22.7 mb, WMP9 format. Great camera angles.

Fun article in Stars & Stripes – coverage of inter-base Halo tournaments within the British Royal Air Force. Those military Halo fanatics – they’re everywhere!

We showcase Bryn Casey’s original artwork here on HBO, but he’s far busier than just traditional painting and drawing. He also does some gorgeous rendering – you can see this work on Yayap.com. (Hit the fourth link in the navbar, and you’ll get to the Renders page… the first two are amazing. Well, they’re all…

Wow. rapture posted a note on our forum, alerting folks to the fact that he’s resurrecting the HBO-COERCE HaloPC server for a couple of months – Battle Creek CTF Shotties, No Shields, Bay-bee! See you there.

A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned a pretty cool charitable act – BoneKin was going to let his XBL performance decide how much money he was going to contribute to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. Last week, apparently, this story was picked up by the San Antonio Express-News – nice! Thanks to N1NJ4, who…

It’s been a little while since I went through our Uploads folder – partly, this has been out of fear. There were over 300 items in it this time around (it’s been roughly 45 days since it was last cleared), and that meant a lot of downloading, and a lot of processing. Amazingly, very few…

Over at Team3D.net, F13ND has conducted an interview with Ogre 1 – it’s a look back at the WCG win last week, and a look forward to Singapore in November. Always fun to keep up on the top pros!

Eep – I missed this a couple of days ago! After the success of the sale of a blue version, Briar’s Armor is selling a green Master Chief outfit. There are only 4 and a half days left in the auction – starting bid, again, is $1500. Give it a look!

Over on the Bungie.net forum, pro_duece2 posted a series of pictures of some rapid-prototyped models of Halo pistols (both the original, and the Halo 2 magnum). (Rapid-prototyping is a technique for creating 3D models from computer drawings – these are made from plaster/epoxy composite.) On the off chance that his links die, we’ve mirrored the…

We don’t normally post news verbatim from press releases, but this one was good, as-is. It came from the good folks at machinima.org:The annual Machinima Awards (“the Mackies”), presented during the 2005 Machinima Film Festival is nearing its submission deadline. The awards, honoring the best in Machinima, include the following categories:Best Picture Best Direction Best…

Yesterday, the IMDB entry for the Halo movie was changed – with the inclusion of Uwe Boll as Director. This caused no small amount of uproar on Halo forums around the net – even sites like Joystiq speculated on whether this was true. It’s not true. Joseph Staten, Halo 2’s writer and the Bungie employee…

Red vs Blue Episode 61, ‘Fair Competition’, is up for sponsors right now. (This means it’ll be up for the general public sometime tomorrow night.) A new character is now fully part of the cast… and I’m thinking, cross between Scooby Doo and Strongbad. With added odors. Fun stuff! Thanks to Keyes for the heads-up.

The Rockets on Prisoner Awards Ceremony has been delayed for a while now – but That Weasel dropped into our forum to point out a Preview video – nothing’s been cancelled yet! Check it out.