Author: Louis Wu

There’s a new poll running over at Subnova – ‘Why haven’t you bought Halo for PC/Mac?’ (Yes, there’s an option for those who HAVE.) Go vote!

A number of people have asked us, over the years, to set up an HBO IRC channel, for folks who feel that the forum moves too slowly. Thanks to the good folks at Homelan… we are happy to say we can now accomodate. The channel name is #HBO, the network is irc.homelan.com, the atmosphere is…

Over the past few weeks, HBO visitors have been able to try out our pair of Homelan-hosted Halo PC servers. The feedback we’ve gotten has been almost universally positive; folks love the low-lag, high-performance servers, and like the fact that they’re geographically spread; it’s great to have more than one option when trying to connect…

Red vs Blue has posted Episode 23 for sponsors – you know where to go. Seems like filler, for the most part… setups for next week. (There ARE a few funny lines, of course…) Thanks to Ross Mills for the heads-up.

Rampancy.net continues with another segment of The High Ping Bastard’s Guide to Halo – this part (Part Four) focuses on etiquette. It’s quite bulky (the lack of whitespace might intimidate some readers), but in general, it has good advice about how to deal with a low-bandwidth connection, in relation to other players. Check it out!…

One One Se7en finishes up the guest punster series… thank goodness. (This one was already done by rapture, anyway.) To make up for it, Stuntmutt is going to create another 4-page run-through… this time, though, it’s going to be a runthrough of Frogger.

That Orange MC is pretty swift… check out today’s Halo: Resolution.

Those crazy guys at Fire Team Charlie have put up another Flash shooter; take out the enemy MCs before they take YOU out. It’s pretty tough – I didn’t play very long, but my score was only 2375; there are folks in their forum with scores over 7000. it’s fun! (Comments can go in this…

I keep forgetting to put this in the news… but WhoKnew announced a new Halo movie that his clan (Alpha Base) has put together. It’s called ‘Elevation’, and they’re hosting copies in both WMP9 and MOV formats. It weighs in at 16 or 17 mb, depending on the version you get. Modded action – pretty…

Ryan ‘Mhaddy’ Matthews, of the Junkyard, pointed out an interview with CJ Scaminaci and Sam Bantner, the leaders of Project Halo: Webwar Evolved, a 3D FPS/strategy game based on Halo. This is a really ambitious project, as the interview will make clear… good luck to the whole Project Halo team!

Steve “Poppy” Cattell has started up a new comic on our forum – he says he’ll be posting new ones every week or two. Nice beginning!

HaloBabies is offline for a bit, while they work on bringing the new site online. The good news is, when they DO come back, there’ll be (in the words of Mr Smiley) “a massive amount of new content, which will hopefully make up for our downtime. That, and a brand spankin’ new site will be…

Wraith has been playing with a 3d modeler, and has come up with the beginnings of a Covenant Assault Boat. Interesting critiques in the thread, as well – good stuff all around!

Hehe – Mad Cow (and cohorts) created a huge 7th Column Snowman recently – check out the pics on our forum!

Today’s Guest One One Se7en comes from -Mopey-… I was waiting for this one.

Today’s Calvin and Halo is by Blackstar. Captain Spark came up with a pretty similar one… but this was already in the queue. (Besides, they’re not taking Guest strips.) It made me laugh.

Six pieces for you today in the Fan Fiction section: HALO: Dark Aftermath, by Nick Kang Widowmaker: The Defence of Earth Part One, by LordofDestruction My poem before I die, by David Li A Series of Wierd Events – Sequel, Part Nine[H_K], by Hunter_Killer A Series of Wierd Events – Sequel, Part Ten[H_K], by Hunter_Killer…

Again – we’re behind. Lots of cool stuff has come in over the past few weeks. It’s all still here – and I hope I can get to it soon. DeWayne Muse sent in a few shots of a customized Stikfas Master Chief – he’s pretty slick! Check out the pics.

The Art submissions here at HBO have gotten way, way, WAY behind; there are backups in almost every section. I’m really sorry about that. I’ll be doing my best to clear as much of this as possible in the next few days. First up – a bunch of desktop images for the Wallpaper section, submitted…

Mothergoat of Clan Boomstick, dropped off a pretty cool piece of music he put together. Here’s what he says about it:This isn’t any sort of easy remix or anything, this tune was built with full instrumentation from the ground up. Matt Cox (me) of the band Windsor Medium wrote this new theme for Halo, inspired…