Category: HBO

Almost lost in the insane postage about Bees and discussions of BitTorrent, a post last night from Joshua Pettigrew pointed out a Konfabulator Widget he created to count down to the release of Halo 2. Konfabulator is a Javascript engine that runs on the MacOSX desktop – if you don’t have MacOSX, you don’t need…

In the past few days, many sites have put up shakeycam video of public Halo 2 play – and many sites have been shut down by the demand. The sad thing is… quality has been HORRIBLE on almost every single released movie. Demand is still huge, because people want to see how this game plays……

Alpha Base is launching (ugh) a new contest – it’s… omg, it’s a regular warthog jump contest. Launch a warthog as high and for as long as you can, win prizes. Man, i do NOT envy the judges of this thing… Go read the details over at their site. Heads-up goes to Verdafolio.

(GT)Juggler points out that he’s got tons of 2v2 footage on the HaloGT website (redesigned and overhauled, by the way); all the individual matches from the 2v2 mini-tournament that happened at the Dead Babies LANfest a few weeks ago are online on his media page. The 9 regular films have no sound (though they still…

Nil, building on some community speculation, finished off this picture of a new Halo 2 vehicle… but then confirmed that the MC could do worse. Thanks to Anton P. Nym for starting this whole mess.

MrSmiley mentions that Halo Babies has a Fan Strip up today, and wanted to point out that their Avatar contest (ending soon) is now open for voting to members of the site. Check it out!

Finn awakens from his motorcycle-induced slumber (wha?) to speculate about that which must not be named on our forum. Check the Story Page. And hold on to your hats. (Thanks to Milamber for noticing.)

Nafe Rubeus continues his quest for Zanzibar multiplayer footage, with another german website, die-klobrille.de. There are two links; the first is a 103 mb, 19-minute file that will make you nauseous if you watch the whole thing at a shot. (It starts with some footage of the Nightmare-Armor-clad MS rep on the show floor, and…

Boxer continues his Adventures in Disaster series with Episode 3, over at akba.info.

Grenadiac points out FANTASTIC news for the Mac community – bobindashadows has found a way to port Halo CE maps to the Mac. The system isn’t complete yet – it requires modifying the way bitmaps are stored, so they can be tacked on safely to the existing bitmaps.map file (so that multiple mods can coexist)…

Fluffy, over at HaloPlanet, points out (once again) that they’ve got an awesome, though underused, resource available to all Halo CE modders. They will host your map/mod/website, with unlimited bandwidth (and they mean it – they’ve got the MASSIVE pipes of Fileplanet to back them up), pre-built forums (and other systems), tech support, haloplanet emails,…

Wronchi put up a Flash animation at Newgrounds, dedicated to all those who found certain aspects of the Library… repetitive. It’s a bit over a meg, and nicely done. Thanks to Gil27 for pointing it out. (Obligatory Spoiler Warning, for those keeping track.)

nico, the guy behind Red vs Blue’s music, sent along a picture (74k) of his Powerbook, running Halo on the back deck of his family’s house in St. Barths, in the French West Indies, as the sun begins to set. I can’t think of a nicer place to kill Covenant…

The latest Gamespotting column at Gamespot is about upcoming games… and it contains a poll – ‘Which upcoming game will be the greatest?’ At the moment, Halo 2 is in second place… behind Half-Life 2. Hmm… (Thanks to GruntKilla for the heads-up.)

We’ve added last Friday’s Weekly Bungie Update to our Update archive, and maybe made the archive a bit easier to use. I noticed that the full update list was getting a bit unwieldy (260k of text, plus pictures), so I uncovered a part of the search page that’s always been there, but not documented; you…

For far too long, the Movie Database has languished, victim of limited time and shifting priorities. Uriel offered to compile much of the data required to build this database, greatly reducing the amount of work needed to create updates; even WITH his help, it took much longer than it should have. However, we’ve passed the…

Today’s One One Se7en shows what a good headset can do to a polite individual… I suppose the real funny would be if that cord behind Cortana weren’t plugged into anything. Oh, wait…

The footage from the Leipzig Games Convention continues to appear… and disappear. The Game7 footage we mentioned on Saturday is offline already (they ran out of bandwidth, it appears), but there are new clips to fill the void. Nafe Rubeus found a thread on a clan forum with a link to a large (but EXTREMELY…

B Ball Master is embarrassingly insistent that we mention that Halo 2 will be playable next month at the Armageddon Pulp Culture Expo in Wellington, New Zealand. Under $15 NZ (per day) gets you into the event, taking place on September 25 and 26. Yet another venue for some Halo 2 lovin’ before November 9…

Oops – haven’t updated the Fan Fiction section since Thursday, so there are 20 new pieces for you to read… Gotta be careful about that. Go get ’em!