Author: HBO

RidgyMrPeepers submitted a highly-compressed version of his movie, ‘The Red’ – a music video set to the song of the same name by Chevelle; it examines a schizophrenic faced with a series of murders. Nice editing, though I wish we had a higher-quality version to serve you… The MPRRS reviewers gave it a thumbs-up, so…

Quantifier heard about a Halo-related question on Jeopardy – and Miguel Chavez confirmed it (while at the same time pointing out a pretty cool Jeopardy archive website I’d never seen before) – I can’t believe that was worth $800. Plus, all three blew the Leeroy Jenkins question!(Louis Wu 19:16:11 UTC)

Psychophan7 found some folks working on porting Mjolnir Armor into the Oblivion engine – love the sword!(Louis Wu 19:12:17 UTC)

GruntKilla ran across some really nice Halo artwork in the portfolio of Tyler Kirkham, a comic artist (Master Chief B&W | Master Chief Color) – awesome stuff!(Louis Wu 19:10:21 UTC)

Jean-Luc returned with a new Master Chief animation – it’s huge (1600×1200, requires the XVID codec), but it’s pretty slick! Grab a copy from FileFront.(Louis Wu 19:08:11 UTC)

Some interesting goings-on in our forum over the last day or so… let’s start at the top and move down. Feenix noticed a cel-shaded pelican (and Pillar of Autumn) in a fan-made Halo animation on YouTube… fun!(Louis Wu 19:06:35 UTC)

Not directly Bungie-related, but there’s a lengthy post-mortem on Stubbs the Zombie, written by our old pal Alex Seropian, over at Gamasutra. For folks interested in some of the aspects of game development done by a small team, there’s some solid info in there. Not to mention a whole mess of cool art, too. Go…

WikiRiot Episode 11 has been released – I’ve seen Star Wars/Halo comparisons, but this is the first X-Men/Halo matchup that I know of. 36 minutes, under 15 mb. Thanks, Sigafoos.(Louis Wu 17:43:05 UTC)

TheGhost writes in to let us know that Project BlueStreak, previously mentioned for its easy importing and exporting of models between Halo and 3Ds Max and Gmax, has been updated with an animation importer! He’s firmly on the way to a sweet suite of third-party Halo development tools. Go check this stuff out, and chime…

Frankie stopped by the forum earlier to note that the Bungie Weekly Update is up. Tidbits on everything from the newest Halo novel, to Halo 3 combat dialogue, graphics, and AI, to Halo 2 for Vista, and some various goings-on in Bungieville. Everything, that is, except info on the Halo movie. Nope nothing about it…

Just a quick reminder – the Design a Faceplate contest closes in about 11 hours. An amazing number of people ignored the admonition to not upload them anywhere but our Contest Uploads directory – I hate to have to do it, but there are almost 50 entries I need to toss because they were uploaded…

If you don’t know who Ernie Sabella is, Google’s your friend. Today’s One One Se7en mines a joke I can’t believe hasn’t been mined yet… that Stuntmutt, he keeps surprising.(Louis Wu 11:21:28 UTC)

Seventeen new pieces now up for reading in the Fan Fiction section… busy week!(Louis Wu 10:02:39 UTC)

Empire Magazine has a short article about Neill Blomkamp as the new Halo director, and while most of the info in is has been covered in other places in the last couple of days, they did manage to get a comment from Guillermo del Toro, who was considered for the job before Blomkamp, and who…

Obienator submitted a trailer for “The Haxor That Loved Me”, a sequel to “Gameplay May change During Online Play”, to the MPRRS; great cinematics, a well-thought-out storyline and over-the-top histrionics combine to bring you a pretty funny video. I’m looking forward to the full film! It won’t be out for a few months – so…

If you search our Miscellaneous Art collection, you’ll find a substantial body of work from Darkneshasfallen – he’s adding to that now, with a new project. He’s been illustrating scenes from the Halo novels – the first batch is available at this point, along with a series of sketches, showing his progress along the way.…

Dennis powers points out that the second episode of SightCEing, the visual tour of HaloCE beauty, is now available on the Halo CE Chronicles website. Some gorgeous landscapes to be found! QuickTime version is 40 mb, WMP9 is 37.5 mb. Check it out! (Louis Wu 02:03:50 UTC)

Over at Halo3Forum.com, you can find a trailer for a new montage vid from ArKiVe and Titan – pretty nice work! Thanks, Z.(Louis Wu 01:52:17 UTC)

Bungie got sliced, diced, and iced in last night’s Humpday Challenge against the PMS Clan – and KP gallantly ate the crow pie they made of our favorite developers in his writeup. Lesson learned here: Don’t play against the girls… they’ll stomp your butt and walk away laughing.(Louis Wu 01:49:36 UTC)

corpseguy continues to post progress pics of his homemade (but fantastic-looking) Mjolnir armor over at HaloPlanet – check out the latest pics!(Louis Wu 20:49:54 UTC)