Category: HBO

There’s a new episode of Halo-Afterwar posted at Black Arts Studios – it’s a little messy this time around. Thanks, R3D L33D3R.

Hikaru-119 went through all of Halo 2 and counted the weapons and bullets he found – and posted the results on our forum. It seems that correcting mistakes draws pretty negative responses from him, so just look at the numbers!

v2 posted a note in our forum about an Elite Drawing Tutorial he posted over at DeviantART. (Be sure to read the commentary below the image, as well.) Definitely cool stuff!

A couple of new Halo articles, courtesy of Google (though the IGN piece got us another dozen emails later on):Cnet Asia has a broader look at the effect Halo 2 Xbox Live traffic might have on broadband providersIGN has written an epilogue to their Halo 2 coverage, looking at whether it actually measured up to…

Wow, nice. Over on the Gearbox forums, bitterbanana has released a mod that works with both HaloCE and HaloPC – it expands your field of view (works nicely on widescreen monitors) and lets you view yourself from behind (third-person camera). Nice! Thanks, VerdaFolio.

Gamespy has opened its Gamers’ Choice voting for Game of the Year 2004 – make yourself heard. (Halo 2, obviously, is up for the Xbox award.) Thanks, Gothmog117.

It’s time again for another HBO Poll. Thanks to Max Hoberman, Hawaiian Pig, and XLNC for making it happen. If you’re interested in letting Bungie know which Halo map you’d like to see again in Halo 2, follow the link to the right and vote! The poll will remain up for a week or so.…

Secrets from the inside! Check out today’s Calvin and Halo for the lowdown on bentllama’s inspiration.

Tired of your standard Windows cursors? Looks like BOLL and Stuntmutt teamed up to give you another choice. (No comment on whether it’s a step up or a step down…)

This was posted yesterday – but Dolbex didn’t make a lot of noise about it. Max Hoberman, Multiplayer and User-Interface Lead for Halo 2, answered a bunch of questions asked by MLG forumgoers over on the MLGPro.com website. Info about weapon balance, downloadable content, and Bungie involvement in the community are all addressed – plus…

News from Eric Trautmann, former keeper of the Halo Bible Flame, and author of ‘The Art of Halo’ – there’s a new article at Xbox.com on the book, including several sample pages (though they’re not even close to what I would have picked to showcase the book’s strengths), and there’s an interview with Eric, conducted…

There’s a story in yesterday’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer that looks at the creator of the Excel Worksheet mentioned last week for dealing with Halo 2 RSS stats. When was the last time a spreadsheet created for looking at videogame stats rated a full column in a major metropolitan newspaper? Thanks again, Narcogen.

Wow – there’s a mountain of new artwork over at Halo Babies – including the beginnings of a Halo graphic novel, and a new work in progress by Tina Leyk! (There’s plenty of other stuff in there to see, as well – check every link!) Thanks to Narcogen, at Rampancy.net, for the heads-up; I guess…

deftangel points out an article at vnunet.com – it looks like Britain’s conversion to broadband might be boosted a bit by Halo 2. Broadband traffic in general quadrupled after November 9 – a statistic that is rather astounding, when you consider how many uses there are for broadband. Looks like ISPs are upgrading in order…

There’s a note over at Bungie.net about an upcoming outage – starting around 1:30 pm Pacific time today, their forums will be down for roughly 12 hours for maintenance. Remember – they have a LOT of new visitors these days… they see a LOT of new posts, and all of them need to be adjusted…

haloTV has 12 new movies for you right now – some have been available as regular downloads, others are completely new. If you’re not familiar with haloTV, this is a great way to get to know ’em!

21 new pieces added to the Fan Fiction section this morning. I don’t make a habit of singling out individual stories – but vector40 doesn’t come around much any more, and his stuff is worth seeing when he does. Take a look at his 4-part (unfinished) final HBO fan fiction tale, and be sure and…

Web comic The Day it Snowed figures out that William Dietz had a pretty tough job… thanks, Druff.

SketchFactor has posted a note on the Bungie.net forums to address the recent allegations of cheating, with some guidelines about how to deal with it. Bungie is looking into the situation, and confirmed cheaters will be penalized, possibly with deletion of their Xbox Live account. Ouch! Read the thread for more details. Thanks, Brad Stephens.

Top story on GTAGaming.com (a Grand Theft Auto website) is ‘Vice City Gone Halo!’ – six mods to help turn GTA Vice City into Halo. Weapons, vehicles, health, HUD, and a skin… check ’em out!