Author: HBO

The last three years, around this time of year, you’ve been able to take a knife to a member of the cucurbit family (maybe you know it better as a pumpkin), and win cool stuff from us. vshields asked if we were gonna do it again – the answer was ‘yes, of course, we do…

KeyboardKiller, of Pothole Studios, submitted ‘Totally Random SV 1 – Attack of the Clones’ to the MPRRS a LONG time ago. (For some reason, our reviewers have stopped reviewing.) It finally made it through the system today, with a passing grade. ‘SV’ stands for ‘Short Video’, and it is that… and Totally Random. Quite nicely…

3Suns points out a feature at Kotaku – an interview with Keiji Inafune, a longtime Capcom bigwig who’s currently working on Lost Planet. “I really wanted to do something as cool as Halo. I’m a big Halo fan, but not well know in Japan. It’s very interesting, but very American. But we wanted to do…

ImmortalThree writes to let us know that Podtacular Episode 83 is up – with guest hosts Damian and Fyb3roptik, from This Spartan Life. They’ve also got a new Myspace page up… check ’em out!(Louis Wu 17:41:44 UTC)

Next Generation has posted an article about how important trailers have become to the marketing of videogames – as they are for the marketing of movies. Halo 3 is held up as a prime example of how to do it right. Thanks, LegendaryMark.(Louis Wu 17:37:15 UTC)

Trevor Chesler sent us another batch of pics of his Mjolnir armor construction – you’ll find them here. Work progresses!(Louis Wu 14:56:16 UTC)

Pinkuh posted an… interesting rendition of Cortana (probably not fully safe for work) on our forum – it’s “the first officialy unofficial artwork for the Zune” (whatever that means). We’ve added it to her Gallery, as well.(Louis Wu 14:29:30 UTC)

Wow, neat. Rooster Teeth sponsored a shuttle bus at the Gamestop Manager’s Conference… and tricked it out something fierce. I wanna ride on that! Thanks, Tex.(Louis Wu 14:24:50 UTC)

Over at Rampancy.net, Narcogen found a couple of articles relating to Wingnut Interactive and its upcoming work (Stuff, mentioned here, and The Record, mentioned here) – I must say that after having read both, I STILL have no idea what Jackson’s planning… but it’s becoming clearer to me that he’s not entirely sure, either. We’ll…

GamePro posted a design doc for Halo 3, detailing the things THEY’D like to see in the upcoming shooter. Check back next year to see how Bungie did at satisfying them. (You can also read this at GameTrailers.com (sort of – each page is a separate news entry) – thanks, Oscar.(Louis Wu 14:17:51 UTC)

Another in the Pros Picks series – Vash looks at playoff possibilities. Slightly different top 8 than earlier pros… we’ll see. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 14:04:43 UTC)

I found it sort of strange that there’d be a full writeup of the Halo Graphic Novel at this stage, several months after its release… but you never can tell with journalists. The Marine Corps Times has put up a piece that describes the work pretty solidly; if you need an article that references most…

Yesterday, I mentioned a writeup of a fun gaming evening over at Tied the Leader – but I forgot to check for OTHER new content. There’s plenty. Not all of it is Halo-related; they cover gaming in general, though they do FOCUS on Halo. Recent Halo goodies include a profile of the Panic Attacks clan,…

Monday night, a bunch of us got together for something Dweezle calls ‘Dead Man’s Potluck’. Everyone had to bring a silly gametype. (I was not allowed to use the Team Carnage options – party poopers, all of ’em.) It was a fun time – and Dweezle’s written it all up. And Eisen Feuer filmed the…

Doh! Almost forgot to post today’s One One Se7en. Maybe it was my subconscious… telling me to keep away from Halo Wars jokes…(Louis Wu 20:09:08 UTC)

No Soup 4 You was reading nba.com, and ran across the blog of Gilbert Arenas, of the Washington Wizards. What’s this guy doing with some of his extra cash? Why… he’s sponsoring Final Boss! Nice.(Louis Wu 20:07:23 UTC)

Wow. So the letters on the news page (I’ll be yanking them soon, so look now) were noticed by two separate groups within 60 seconds of going live. (Probably more – but c0ld vengeance mentioned them in IRC’s #hbo channel, and Pratch sent mail about them; nobody else pointed them out to ME.) c0ld started…

A press release went out over the wire this morning – Verizon and IN-FUSIO (the mobile games publisher with rights to Halo on mobile phones) have launched ‘Halo: Mobile Portal’ for Verizon Get It Now customers. If you have a Get It Now phone, you can download the portal and have access to Halo wallpapers,…

MLG’s feature on pro picks continues, with Samurai providing his predictions for the coming playoffs. Same 8 teams that Elamite Warrior picked… but not in the same order. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 15:28:56 UTC)

Stian Øby Johansen sent word about a huge Norwegian Halo 2 tourney – largest ever in that country, apparently. (The info page is in Norwegian.) FFA, 1v1, and 4v4 competitions, with lots of prizes (including one surprise prize). November 17-19 in Oslo… be there or be Swedish!(Louis Wu 12:44:53 UTC)