Category: HBO

Ten pieces added to the Fan Fiction section – there’s always something to read…

Hawaiian Pig continues his RvB Set Pieces series with Installment IV – Requests. He’s been combining the MegaBattle Picture technique (using the development camera in HaloCE to put multiple characters in the same scene) with the popular machinima series to create scenes from Red vs Blue, in high resolution, as they might look from a…

NBC Giga, a German media site, has got a poll running for the latest Giga awards. One of the categories is ‘Please Release’ – and Halo 2 is on the list. Winners will be announced next week at the G|C Games Convention in Leipzig. Go vote! (The site is in German, but it’s not hard…

Boxer points out a new .comic at Subnova – things we have to look forward to in Halo 2. Oh, yeah.

Tocki, of Halo Orbit (one of the largest European Halo sites), points out a new design for their main site and their forums. He wants you to visit!

nexus points out a one-day 2v2 tourney in Wayne, New Jersey (about 15 miles northwest of NYC), at CyberConXion, on August 21; $15 to get in ($20 at the door), prizes are 50% of entry cash plus other stuff. Give it a look!

(GT)Juggler put together a nice reminiscence of the Dead Babies lanfest held in Connecticut recently; it’s 4:15 long, 32 mb big, in QT format. You can grab copies from either Mythica.org or files.bungie.org. For the record – though my name appears on a number of scoring screens, I wasn’t present… though the video makes me…

The latest issue of Toyfare magazine has a couple of covers – one is a Halo 2 version (with some… odd artwork; spoiler warning, I guess). Several people (first being Littlebigman, last night) pointed out that Joyride not only has posted this cover on their site, but has put up a scan of the Halo…

Narcogen, of Rampancy.net, recently sat down with Viper, of HaloPlanet, and discussed Bungie, fansites, and of course Halo – go check out the interview.

A couple of weeks ago, IGN posted a ‘Best Xbox Co-op Games’ article, and not surprisingly, Halo was at the top of the list. Yesterday, they posted a followup article, in which they targeted the most promising upcoming games that will support this style of play. Again, Halo (in this case, Halo 2) is ranked…

Speaking of comics, Trigun writes to say that the second episode of Halo: On Vacation is up at the Seventh Revolution, along with some links to a number of flash movies. See what you can find!

The Unknown Spartan sends in a link to his new comic, ‘MC Buddy’; I’m not sure I get it, but go read anyway.

E.D.P. points out a thread he started on the HaloPlanet forums, showing off a LEGO Battle Rifle he built. Give it a look!

GameDaily has posted a Hands-on Halo 2 article, based on an afternoon of gameplay in New York a couple of weeks ago. (This was the same event that StrangePurple wrote up for MLGPro.com not too long ago.) Give it a read for some more Halo enthusiasm.

A few people have pointed out the Character Battle between Master Chief and Crash Bandicoot, over at Gamefaqs.com right now… MC has a healthy lead, but you never know. (This is also the first round of a 16-contestant bracket; if MC wins this one, he’s got a couple more to go to take the bracket.)…

Dispraiser wrote to let us know that Halogen, the C&C Generals TC, put up a pretty major weekly update recently, announcing some new renders, a Covenant units list, and Halogen for Battle for Middle Earth, a mod for the upcoming Lord of the Rings game. This is not a port – it’s a separate mod…

Frankie’s in the Yucatan this weekend, hiding from hurricanes and looking for nuclear weapons, so the job of Bungie Weekly Update fell to Bungie Princess Alta Hartmann. It’s a bit light on the technical aspects, with maybe a little too much emphasis on personal appearance… but hey, what can you expect from someone who just…

(GT)Juggler points out a small tourney – Xbox Halo, 2v2 Team Slayer – in the Digital Mayhem gaming store in the Westfield shopping mall in Meriden, CT. The catch? Your team has to be registered ($15/team) by tomorrow, Saturday, because the tourney is on Sunday. Check the forum post for more details. (Directions to the…

IGN reports that there’s an Xbox Halo charity tournament in Sunnyvale, CA, on August 22. Proceeds will go to Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Details are here, on Evite’s site. Thanks to Tippmann88 for the heads-up.

Homelan has hosted the official #hbo irc channel for the last 6 months or so… but they’ve been having some trouble recently – so DeimosFawkes has launched irc.subnova.com, and we’re moving to new digs. Information can be found on our IRC Info page. The biggest advantage for casual visitors – there’s a web-based java client…