Category: HBO

Bah. I spent far too much of yesterday taking care of business – I missed the day’s One One Se7en. It was doubly relevant given the fact that Frankie skipped yesterday’s Weekly What’s Update because of the Thanksgiving weekend. Go read!

DocOctavius posted a new map he just finished for HaloCE; it’s called Red Feather Ranch, and it’s pretty gorgeous to look at. Really feels like the high hills of Colorado – as DocOc intended. The map’s quite large… but the two bases are actually pretty close together. I don’t know how it plays (haven’t had…

BOLL found an interesting feature on a later level – does this tell us anything about the origins of the Forerunner, or is this just a coincidence? (Again, spoiler issues for folks who haven’t gotten here yet, but the Forerunner were a big part of the original Halo, as well.)

I’m STILL not finished with the new HBO/HIH Tricks site (this holiday week threw a glitch in a lot of projects), but there was a vid posted to our forum this morning which is pretty cool, and worth seeing. Gil27 managed to film the handheld Scarab gun – a plasma rifle, hidden away on Metropolis,…

TeamXbox gave thanks for some Xbox-related stuff recently… Halo 2 Multiplayer made number one on the lsit of ten items. Nice! Thanks, Cybrfrk.

JesusLove submitted a fun little film showing a nice run of banshee boarding in single player. If you haven’t finished the Gas Giant section of the game, there are spoilers here. Otherwise, check this out; I tried it myself after watching this vid last night, and I must say, it’s pretty darned easy to fall…

The last time I posted a spoiler-marked news item, I received a TON of email from people who have not figured out how to get their browser to properly set a cookie to view spoilers. There seem to be two groups with the problem: folks running MacOSX 10.2, and folks running Windows while using some…

David “Chubigans” Galindo continues his cinematic style of video narrative with ‘The Arbiter’s Army’, a new piece putting the Spec-Ops Covenant forces fighting on Gas Giant and Delta Halo in a noble light. Really nice work! It’s available in WMP9 format (21.4 mb) at Mythica.org and bungie.org, or QuickTime format (17.5 mb) at Mythica.org and…

Zero, from Dark-Oni.com, dropped a note about a pretty bizarre movie he made. He says “This a little joke/experiment I was working with, it’s using some of the dialogue in cut scenes to make this funny techno beat, with cinematics.” I’m not sure I get it. Epileptics beware. Vid is 16.1 mb, WMP9 format, hosted…

Halo Babies has put up a guest strip created by BOLL – that guy is everywhere. The link in the news description is a bit funky – use this one instead.

Yet another comic tips a hat to Halo 2 – Aikida points out that blowing off your significant other for Halo 2 might not even be noticed. Thanks, BoinKlasik.

Speaking of overeating… Red vs Blue has posted a new Public Service Announcement; Indigestion 2004 is part political commentary, part cultural commentary, and all funny. Go watch! (Careful of the airsick bags…) First heads-up goes to Graham Cree.

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving… or if you’re outside the US, you did something else involving far too much food. We’ve just said goodbye to our guests, and I’m sitting down to take a look through today’s mail. We’ve got a very nice new film from Jon Oakes – he melded video footage…

Yay… finally. I’ve made a dent on the Miscellaneous Art queue! There’s still plenty more to post, but I’ve posted 30 pieces today; I’m giving thanks to the artists who’ve waited so long to see their work posted. And that will pretty much do it for the day… time to start cooking turkey, and waiting…

Calvin and Halo take off on a new series of comics today – thanks, Blackstar!

We’d received mail last week from some people that were having trouble hosting Major Clan matches on Xbox Live, even though they knew they had enough bandwidth to handle the job. Chris Butcher wrote out an explanation for the trouble recently, and posted it on Bungie.net – it seems that your ability to host clan…

In honor of Thanksgiving, Frankie has recycled the Halo 2 informational article originally posted on November 8, over at Bungie.net. I didn’t keep a local copy of the first version, so it’s hard to tell what, if anything, has changed… but at the very least, there are now nice graphics for the main sections. If…

eek has offered mirrors for both of Dave Galindo’s (Chubigan’s) videos from yesterday – he’s got the QuickTime versions of the Halo Sights Tour and ‘In the Front Lines’ up on The Nothing. Thanks!

We mentioned on November 4 that Halo had secured a spot on the Walk of Game, a new video game landmark in San Francisco. It took until yesterday for the inductees to be officially announced, however. Halo owns one of the four Favorite Game/Character spots. Thanks, pimpmeister.

Web comics for you today:MacHall takes a shot at the Halo 2 ending (Clearly, if you haven’t finished, this could be considered spoiler material) – Ian’s also put up a great new desktop image using Heltana, his anime version of your favorite onboard AI. Thanks to many – Jon was first.The most recent Carzorthade (November…