Category: HBO

Wow. If you want to get all the high-res Halo 2 cutscenes at once, without having to download them one at a time… HALOChat has made them available in a single 478 mb bundle via BitTorrent. Link can be found in this forum post. (I’m not sure how much demand there is for this… but…

Dennis Powers writes to point out a new machinima series he’s begun – it’s called ‘The Halo CE Chronicles’, and follows a “hapless Spartan stationed to a distant Outpost Station and his relationship with the station’s AI.” Currently, there are two movies to see – a short trailer, and a 3:49 Episiode 1. The movies…

The Halouvre has updated its site with two new images, in multiple form factors. Gorgeous HUDless shots of Delta Halo and Metropolis, both in regular screen ratios and as extra-wide panoramas. Check ’em out! Thanks to prometheus for the heads-up.

A couple of new Flash items popped up on Newgrounds recently, both done by ABob…. Halo 2: The Covenant , and Halo 2: Spartan 117. Pretty hard to hear… minimal plots. Thanks, Micro M and argent.

Back from errands, time to get a little Halo-related news posted. Last night, I saw a tidbit on the KOMO 1000 news page (thanks, Google) about a charity tournament set up by some students at Rogers High School in Puyallup (near Seattle)… that got cancelled by the school district. Two RHS seniors had organized a…

Red vs Blue episode 48 has been released for Sponsors – ‘Heavy Metal’ has the remainder of the Red and Blue teams attempting to assault the Zanzibar base… with hilarious consequences. I love Caboose again. This puppy’s 6 and a half minutes long – 30 megs for small versions, 60 for large. (It’ll be up…

Hehe – there’s no Weekly What’s Update yet (looks like that’s coming Sunday)… but you can see the Anime Mister Chief that’s gonna go with it. Thanks, Frankie!

Looks like Bungie is still smarting from the whupping they took from EGM during the Halo Humpday Challenge this week; there’s a rematch (2v2, Shishka and Frankie vs Mark and Shoe from EGM), coming up as soon as it can get scheduled. (There’s some trash-talk about it in this thread on the Bungie.net forum.) We’ll…

The online XBC-based neXtournaments we mentioned a couple of days ago are getting underway in two days – the first tourney is Sunday evening at 7 pm Eastern, sponsored by Corsair, and has a pair of 1GB memory modules (and an XBC Pro serial number) for the winner. There will also be hats and miscellaneous…

Fire Team Charlie has released FTC 17, in hi-res AVI format, for members; it will be up in lower-res format for the masses by tomorrow night. (A hi-res QuickTime should be available later today or tomorrow morning for members.) It weighs in at a bit over 12 minutes, and is something of a departure from…

Hey! It’s a comic morning. One One Se7en returns to the Covenant alphabet developed for the Halo2.com website… and runs into a problem we’ve probably ALL had at one time or another.

New strip over at Halo Babies – takes a practical look at a gameplay question, and comes up with the right answer. Nice artwork!

The Bungie version of the Halo Humpday Challenge between Bungie and EGM was posted yesterday evening – Frankie writes like a broken man. It’s almost sad to see…

GIjoe2 points out his new vid Special Fred, a tribute to grenades and fusion cores, set to Stephen Lynch’s eponymic song. WMP9 format, a bit under 5 megs. Funny stuff!

It’s not up at Bungie.net yet… but it looks like Bungie took another lickin’ in this week’s Halo Humpday Challenge from the guys at Electronic Gaming Monthly. Dan Hsu, known as Shoe in Clan EGM, and a participant in last night’s game, wrote up a short post on the activities. This one wasn’t even close.…

Wow. There’ve been articles out there before about how wives and girlfriends are ‘widowed’ by Halo… but I’ve never seen one like this. Well-written… but FULL of stereotypes. Originally in the New York Observer, now a cover story for the Charlotte Creative Loafing. It’ll either amuse you, or anger you… but it’s a fun read.…

Joshua Rennert posted a note on our forum about a sequel he and the Tricking IT crew are working on; working title is Beach of the Dead 2, though that won’t be the release title. The trailer, made by ipushmycar, is short (48 seconds) but pretty sweet; high and low resolutin WMP9 links are in…

Blackstar’s sent along another Calvin and Halo for your entertainment today – having dealt with exactly this sort of kid logic myself, I was tickled. Check it out.

According to this Reuters article, Halo 2 hit 6.4 million in sales worldwide today. (This seems silly; the article was posted at 4:30 am PT Thursday, and states that Microsoft ‘said [this] on Thursday’ – hopefully they meant Wednesday, or MS PR folks are working REALLY odd hours.) If this number is accurate, it means…

Gossip tossed us a link to the Amazon Web Services Blog, and an interview with Eric Neustadter, of the Xbox Live team, at the Amazon DevCon. Gossip characterized this as ‘dry’ – I’d have to agree. There ARE some interesting facts in it, though – Xbox Live increased some of its systems by a factor…