Category: HBO

Today’s Penny Arcade might, or might not, involve a game you’re all familiar with. You’ll have to crack the code to decide. Thanks, KP.

I’ve turned off the Fate of the Forum poll – the ‘Yes’ percentage is almost exactly 77.7% of the total vote, and that was too good to pass up. 😉 (It’s been hovering around this point for the last 18 hours or so, but I wanted to give it a little longer last night.) Four…

Daily Game has posted Duke’s Diary – the story of a controller’s visit to San Francisco to play Halo 2. Yeah, you read that right. Now go read it.

Wow… very nice. If you visit nilerogers.com, you can listen to a 1:45 long snippet of the Halo Theme Mjolnir Mix – composed by Marty O’Donnell and Michael Salvatori, with guitars by Steve Vai. It rocks. Thanks, palatine. (The Flash popup that goes with the song is pretty nice, but if you’re having trouble with…

Gah. I wrote this up this morning – but forgot to post it. Credit goes to Rampancy.net, which is where I found it. Over on MTV.com, there’s a story about “the Halo 2 Council”, a group of ‘7’ (if you count each of three bands as ‘1’) who receive a specialized xbox/screen combination and a…

Yesterday, we pointed out a story on Xbox.com in which an editor of OXM stated that they’d have a world-exclusive pre-release Halo 2 review that covers Campaign play. We got word today from SketchFactor that yes, it’s true, they’re going to have the only published story with a street date before November 9 – but…

Stuntmutt’s taken his own (well, okay, someone else’s, repackaged) view of the entire leaked Halo 2 issue in a special Sunday One One Se7en.

Whoa. Ms Man has managed to get to the bottom of Truth and Reconciliation, winning c0ld’s contest and proving me a pessimist. Pictures will be up on his site later today, a movie tomorrow. Congratulations!

More mirrors for yesterday’s high-quality Heart is a Lonely Hunter release – Djof points out that it’s available on the Psyjnir.org Hotline server, and the DJ has put a copy up at HaloImpulse. Don’t miss this one! The next episode comes out in a couple of days. (While we’re mentioning HaloImpulse, they’ve also got the…

Dark Helmet, over at HaloPlanet, has set up the ‘favorite tricks’ votes – go and make your opinion known! There’s a Favorite Multiplayer Trick vote, a Favorite Coop Trick vote, and a Favorite Single-Player Trick vote. The choices you have are the ones nominated and seconded in the past two weeks on the High Impact…

A couple of people mentioned that Halo 2 was the subject of a story on 60 Minutes in Australia – apparently, it’s news because it’s looking like November 9 (and the days that follow) will ‘affect the industrialized world’ with the number of ‘sick’ days taken. The web release is here, and a transcript is…

Churchofhalo found a funny error message on the net – the images are busted, but the text is humorous.

Holy moley… in the last couple of days, a TON of tools for decoding the alien font used on halo2.com have come out – and now, you can find not one, but THREE different fonts available for writing your own messages on Wallpaper or whatever. We mentioned two tools yesterday – now there’s a third…

Wow. The email response to the closing of the forum has been surprising, to put it mildly. Folks writing to us have been overwhelmingly in favor of keeping the forum closed until November 9. However – I want to hear from the whole HBO community, not just those who bother to write emails. To that…

Every once in a while, a Halo movie comes along that’s head and shoulders above almost everything else out there. Great filmography, awesome sound, fantastic voice acting… if you look back on all of the Halo machinima creations that have been released (we’re not talking music videos now, or gameplay presentations), there are only a…

Recoil points out nice bonus deals from Canadian sellers, if you haven’t already ordered your copy of Halo 2. Best Buy is offering a free T – the Blue ‘2’ logo on the front, ‘Go Earth. 110904’ on the back. (This doesn’t seem to be available on the online store, and Recoil doesn’t say what…

There’s a note over on Xbox.com from the Assistant Editor of the Official Xbox Magazine talking about their next issue, and the massive Halo 2 article planned for it. The mag will be out on November 2, one week before the game is out, and will contain (it looks like) information about the entire Campaign…

Oh, man… in all the mess of yesterday, I managed to forget to post yesterday’s One One Se7en. That might have been a good thing… you decide. It’s up now.

IGN’s Halo 2 Countdown article for yesterday is called ‘Lockout’, and gives a couple of decent Multiplayer ideas for use on the map Lockout. Go read!

Very cool. Chappy has created a Konfabulator widget (138K) to ease translation of the code found on halo2.com. This requires Konfabulator, a MacOSX in-system javascript runtime engine that allows you to put cool functions on your desktop. This one is pretty useful, if you’re trying to decode a message; simply click the appropriate symbols, and…