Category: HBO

About a million years ago, or maybe it was just back in July, drelnathi sent along a collection of 18 Halo 2 figures, nicely separated from their backgrounds and saved as layered Photoshop documents. They were designed to help people make cool wallpapers – which is why he called it the Halo 2 Wallpaper Kit.…

John Kamphus found an old cigar box in his attic, and added some flavor (14k). Sarge would love him…

Subnova has launched the Halo FAN – a Fansite Advertising Network. If you run a Halo fansite with banner ads, joining this network will give your site exposure across the Halo fansite continuum, as well as providing you with a professionally-managed backend for your advertising particulars. Visit the info page for more details, and information…

MuchMusic.com got a chance to play the Zanzibar build at X04 in Toronto a couple of weeks ago – and they, too, have written up their impressions. Check ’em out. Thanks, Bored_dude.

Now THAT’S some dedicated mapping. Eric Loux sat down with what looks like graphing paper and a pencil and mapped out the Pillar of Autumn. Image is only 10K, so take a look.

Ryan ‘synide’ Thompson, who was recently Spotlighted by the Junkyard (go read it – it’s funny!), wrote up his own Halo 2 review based on his experience at last week’s MLG Seattle Downpour event. Swing on by Gotfrag for the lowdown, and some cool pics.

Okay – the film quality is pretty low (it was filmed with a digital camera, in movie mode), and the dialogue leaves a little to be desired… but Collin Ferry’s ‘Death of the Common Grunt’ film still brought a smile to my face. It’s available in WMP9 format (3.6 mb) or QuickTime format (3.4 mb),…

And again, continuing to clear the Wallpaper queue, there are 10 new desktops for you in the Wallpaper section this morning. Eep – time to get back to the Misc Art queue!

If you can read German, you should swing over to Halo Universe, where they’ve put up a preview of Halo 2, based on thier impressions at the Games Convention last week, along with another small (2.7 mb, WMP9 format) shakeycam vid of the action.

Stuntmutt takes a shot at passed-over assets in today’s One One Se7en. Might make you cry instead of laugh… (For some of you, that won’t be anything new, when it comes to One One Se7en.)

Ten new pieces in the Fan Fiction queue were approved today – many new series started! Go see what you can find.

Trigun mentions that there’s a new episode of Halo: On Vacation as well as a new Flash episode of That Halo Parody over at the 7th Revolution. (Well, it’s really at Newgrounds, but it’s LISTED at the 7th Revolution. Or something.)

foxygrandpa117 completed another one of those ‘wow-this-is-gonna-take-a-while’ tricks by bringing a Hunter to the bottom of the security shaft in Silent Cartographer. Read his forum post, watch the procedure (6.3 mb, WMP9 format, hosted by Mythica) and TELL me you wouldn’t go insane doing that.

mrsmiley points out that Halo Babies has a new Guest Strip from Polarbear. The things you never wondered about as a kid…

In response to many, many, MANY questions about submissions to our various sections, I’ve finally written up a set of guidelines – they SHOULD help you get your content to us. (They’ll also tell you what we’re not willing to put up.) Questions or suggestions, as always, can be sent to us via email. You’ll…

Several folks have pointed out the ‘plasma grenade’ reference in today’s Foxtrot comic; it’s pretty oblique, as Halo references go, but hey… Foxtrot is funny.

Gamestyle Offline (a downloadable PDF-formatted magazine available from the Gamestyle website) has a 2-page Halo 2 preview in its latest issue, 8. Thanks to HaloPlanet for the heads-up on this.

Apologies for the outage yesterday on our Subnova-hosted server; it killed several of the updates on yesterday’s news page. It’s back up, however, and we’ve got ANOTHER 10 wallpapers from the queue for you in our Wallpaper section; this gets us near the end of July. Soon… soon.

Poop Scoop has transcribed another trio of Halo music pieces – ‘The Maw’, ‘On a Pale Horse’, and Edgen’s ‘Halo: Master and Chief’ – and put up the sheet music (in pdf format), a midi version, and a Finale file for each piece. You can find all of this over at Rampancy.net. Nice! Update: I…

A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned a theater in Logan, Utah, using their screens for Halo-playing late at night. bentllama ran across another story of the same theater – with a LOT more detail. An interesting read. (Don’t mind the forum thread in which everyone tells him to search first; he’s bentllama, after all.)