Category: HBO

Captain Spark gave the Engineer model buried in Silent Cartographer some Elite AI and a plasma rifle (using Halo PC modding tools), and made a short movie. It’s hard to make a longer one, because the game tends to crash when you do this… but this one’s pretty cool. The links in his forum post…

Tankramp, over at HaloPlanet, suggested recently that Stuntmutt might be running out of new jokes for One One Se7en strips. The joke’s on Tankramp – Stuntmutt never HAD new jokes for One One Se7en. Today’s strip, however, does use humor to make a decent point about weapon ergonomics.

We continue to get a significant number of new links being submitted to our Links page (there are 7 added to the database in the past week) – but sometimes submissions make me wonder. Today, I rejected one from a site that stated, on the nearly-blank front page, that access is restricted to members of…

Icetiger writes to point out his newest mod creation, Pipedream. Lots of new vehicles, weapons, bizarre architecture… check this one out! (It’s about a 13 mb download, or a bit smaller in .rar format.)

There’s a 2D Halo game that was mentioned by HaloPlanet during our downtime – but when I checked the link on the HP page, I got error messages. A quick note to Fluffy, though, got me a ForumPlanet thread, which had a better link. There are actually two games, ‘Hail to the Chief’ and an…

TheManRoom wraps up their Halo 2 Preview coverage with a new piece that includes the Halo 2 Fact Sheet, and a collection of all the recent screens and concept art released. Good reading! (Looks like we got an XBL glove tossed at our feet, as well… we’re there, when the time comes.)

Mothergoat has released Unyielding, his newest musical Halo-inspired creation. It starts quietly, majestically… but quickly explodes into heavy guitar-driven rock. 5:32 long, 5 mb big, hosted by Mothergoat himself (though if bandwidth gets tight, we’ll certainly provide an alternative – it’s quite good). Go listen. In Mothergoat’s words, “Turn it up loud, close your eyes…

IGN Playstation 2 has written up a perspective piece on Halo 2 from the standpoint of a gamer whose chosen console is NOT an Xbox. The bulk of the article is spent discussing how it’s going to be the single-player aspect that makes or breaks Halo 2, and how worrying it is that we haven’t…

Dark Strider points out that Homefront, the Battlefield: Vietnam mod, has updated again; this time, you can see shots of ‘Plains of Reach’, a new map. Take a look!

Pretty substantial usability updates to BOLL’s HBO PAL, the sidebar that puts all of HBO at your fingertips; he’s cleaned things up, added some search features (you have no idea how useful they are until you actually use them), and added a pair of guides for adding this page to your Windows Active Desktop (the…

Tried to get back to the Art queues – I was actually going through my drive to make sure I hadn’t lost track of any mail during the downtime, and I came across a number of pieces submitted to HBO in the past few months that simply got overlooked. They’ve been mixed up with newer…

You new it had to come one day… Cortana is in the running to be voted ‘Cyber Vixen of the Year’, along with 19 other virtual chicks. Sponsored by Maxim and Spike TV (surprise, surprise). Go vote, then wait until December 14 to see who wins. Thanks, Argent.

Another tourney – this time in Denton, Texas. Entry is $20, event takes place on October 1, first prize looks to be $100 (I might be reading it wrong). Details in this forum post by texasvgames. Update: Man, it must be the day for tournaments… MikeSak wrote to say that there’s one at Gameheads, in…

Bizarre – someone in the UK is selling (on Ebay.co.uk) a ‘Halo 2 Drink’ (energy drink, something like RedBull or Bawls) and a Halo 2 rubberized sticker that they picked up at a Gaming conference recently. First sighting (by me, anyway) of either of these items. Current bid is still under £2, but it doesn’t…

nexus points out an upcoming Halo 2v2 tournament in New Jersey – $35 entry, $800 grand prize, event to take place this weekend. Check out the links!

We don’t really do warthog jump videos any more. They’ve… been done. (I even just got through telling that to a couple of movie submitters in the last few days.) However, Ducain pointed out a new one that’s… well, new. Not done. There’s a bunch of stuff you’ve seen before (though I must say some…

Summer’s over… and Warbow is back! Calvin and Halo returns to its normal Tuesday/Thursday rotation – Warbow (as always) handles Tuesdays, and Blackstar (as always) handles Thursday. Today’s episode – an object lesson in why armor is a good thing.

Because of the messed-up weekend, the Fan Fiction section has built up a bit of backlog; there are 18 new pieces there today. Sorry about the flood.

Interesting… there’s an article in Wired about Japan, and the scene for gamers with a Macintosh (it’s nearly nonexistent). Looks like Microsoft is planning to change that – they’re rolling out a whole series of popular Mac games, and calling it the Microsoft Mac Games Collection. First game on the block? Halo. It was released…

Eep – I forgot to post this yesterday. Captain Spark made another ‘revenge on Marines’ movie; I’m not sure if his original link is still live, but funkmon has mirrored the small (1.4 mb) file (and upped its framerate a bit). I also made a QT version of it – same size. Those poor marines…