Author: Ding

After an unfortunate delay that was all my fault, the winners of the halo.bungie.org poster raffle should be receiving their one-of-a-kind prizes in the next few days! From all of us here at HBO, our deepest thanks to the talented artists who donated their work and of course the fine folks at splodeswag for making…

The Weekly Update is now up! Lots of juicy bits: new screenshot/desktop picture taken from the Halo 3 E3 trailer, a short interview with KP, his first official Bungie write-up: an eyewitness acount of KP’s hazing, though the results show him doing the hazing, and a (temporary?) farewell to AdgTinMan, who leaves us a cool…

A relatively old face has reappeared and stepped into the shoes of previous forum posters with not only the inquisitiveness but the creative drive to help the community visualize the clues that Bungie has dropped. In this case, Geoff Chang (of POA infamy) has used Google Earth as well as his own creative skills to…

Back from E3, you would think we would be thanking the fine folks at Bungie for some awesome hookups, or the local guys in L.A. who helped us save on hotel and travel fare. Well, you would think wrong. Who we should really thank is our partners who put up with our shenanigans during this…

Thanks to the sharp of eye of Tempus Fugit, here’s a new set of pics from the Halo Graphic Novel. That art is looking might fine!

Here’s a quick set of pics. More later. We tagged Major Nelson! But I don’t have photo proof yet. He was a great sport about it though, I give the man props!

Of the three lucky winners of the Dean LAN fest raffle, only ONE has replied! So please, Brian Kirchhoff and Ben Thompson, check your email and get in touch with me! If I don’t hear from you soon, you will forfeit your prize!

The Halo Movie Cynics Database has been quite popular since its inception back in December. If you haven’t seen it, I urge you to visit. However, not all the submissions have been exactly in line with what we envisioned. So with the help of uber-cool Cybrfrk, the database’s home page has been revamped, calling out…

Someone sent me this link, I think it’s pretty hilarious. It’s a 2 minute snippet from Howard Stern’s Sirius radio broadcast of 3-15-06 where one of the staff explains his adventures in XBL playing Halo 2. It’s interesting to see how others who are not clued in about XBL, Halo 2, and console games in…

It was three years ago that a good friend and worthy Bungie/Halo fan, Brian Morden aka ∗Ar-Isildur, passed away after battling Ewing’s Sarcoma. The recent passing of That Weasel makes it all the more important to remember just how fragile life can be. Who was Brian Morden?

Actually, it could be *any* day next week in San Francisco… I’ll be in the area attending MacWorld expo. I’m renting a car and crashing at the home of a friend. But I’m also going to have my swanky projector with me, as well as Halo 1 and 2 discs, and my trusty controller and…

Frankie’s WWU is now up for public consumption. Short and sweet as he says, but it does contain some very nice nuggets of info. The office gets their hands on DOA4, Max talks about the often forgotten handicap setting which helps even players out, and we get a near-final track list of Volume 2 of…

Swing over to Wired.com – they’ve got a preview up of an article that’ll come out in February’s issue. It’s about The Dream Factory, a Lego custom kit builder – and one of the kits on display was designed by Bungie’s Rob’t McLees – it’s a Warthog! Now we just need the Feb issue…

Jessica (I refuse to use her forum tag name!) details her involvement in getting her HS Orchestra Band to play The T&R Suite!The just under 4 min, 18 mb WMV file is being hosted by Mythica, go grab a copy and enjoy!This isn’t the first time we’ve seen video of a school attempting to play…

I had meant to post this a few minutes before midnight, but festivities here at home prevented me from doing so. All of us here at HBO wish all of our friends and family the very best for a bright and fruitful new year. In what I would like to consider a tradition started back…

Dear beloved HBO… the time has come to let the Halo fans vent their spleen! We all know there’s a Halo movie on the horizon… so what keeps you up at night that those unfamiliar with our beloved Halo might wreck? Cortana as the sassy sidekick? The insertion of a BFG in the MC’s arsenal?…

Birthdays Let us have birthdays every day, (I had the thought while I was shaving) Because a birthday should be gay, And full of grace and good behaving. We can’t have cakes and candles bright, And presents are beyond our giving, But let lt us cherish with delight The birthday way of lovely living. For…

The all-girl gaming clan PMS is given 3 pages in the latest Entertainment Weekly magazine (Sept. 16 issue, on sale the 9th) No online edition as far as I can tell. Since they’re heavily into Halo, there’s much talk about the game, and their participation in the CPL 2005 Summer Championships. Interesting to see how…

With the Wu gone this weekend, updates are a little sporadic, but we’ll do the best we can. First up, thanks to a heads up from Anton P. Nym, The Escapist’s latest issue has an article written by John Tynes, a tabletop game aficianado that had some adventures in computer game development, it’s an interesting…

Continuing their ongoing “I want to see the sun rise against a horizon of floating hypodermic needles” travelogue, the RvB clan (somehow legitimizing their sorry drunken asses with “Rooster Teeth Productions”) will be appearing at Lincoln Center, Sunday, August 21st 6PM. You can buy tickets for their NYC Premiere showing of Season Three here. Even…