Category: HBO

There’s a review for Halo PC at IceTeks, as mentioned by Blue’s News. (Thanks, Ash.) Notable for the pretty low-res screenshots…

Whoa. I want one. It’s not plushy… but I want one. SketchFactor posted a note to Bungie.net about some preliminary work being done on Grunt action figures. They’ll be part of Wave 4, due out next spring. Theres an uncolored closeup… and some early color ideas. Gimme Gimme Gimme!

One of the ‘under the hood’ changes in the 1.03 Halo PC patch is that Anisotropic filtering is enabled by default. This is a function of higher-end video cards, and it makes the graphics crisper… at a pretty big price, performance-wise. If you’ve got a good graphics card, and saw a huge framerate drop when…

Almost 3 weeks ago, we posted a Flash animation created by GLADIATRRR3000, called 343 Guilty Stick. Well, he submitted 3 new chapters for this very soon afterwards… but we lost ’em in the archives. 🙁 They’ve been resurrected, finally, and added to the original page; they’re quite a bit smaller than the first one was.…

XLNC posted three spectacular screenshots today – 1600×1200, no HUD, no weapons. (He explained how he did it in this post, if you want to make your own.) Wow.

I think Stuntmutt must have fallen and hit his head on the Plinth. When I went into the studio this morning, I found this, on the floor, with smudges of peanut butter on the reel. Someone send a doctor…

Who says your options get limited when you get older? Well, One One Se7en does…

What limits fights in Halo? Halo: Resolution checks out the issue.

The Halo PC 1.03 patch is now available at Bungie.net (bottom of the Files list). My in-game updater isn’t working (yet)… but the patch is only 4.4 mb, so grab it! (Thanks to progamerz for pointing it out.) Looks like a mirror list will be going up soon.

The Halo PC 1.03 patch is now available for the Halo Dedicated Server; grab it from Bungie.net. (That article also contains links to the full 1.02 server, if you don’t already have it (this patch is not standalone; it requires 1.02), and the mapfiles, if you don’t have those.) The client patch will be available…

MacGamer is giving away 5 copies of Mac Halo in this week’s MacGamer Giveaway; submit your best photoshopped image of the Master Chief on vacation, and if your entry is among the 5 funniest, you’ll walk away with a free copy of Halo. Details (including submission rules) can be found at MacGamer. Thanks to RavenEA…

Team Sexy has released Sidewinder King 2 – a followup to their popular Hall of the Sidewinder King video. It takes the fight to (where else?) Blood Gulch, and introduces dialogue. Mostly, it works pretty well. (Great camera footage in the second half…) It weighs in at roughly 20 mb (18.5 for the QT version,…

A couple of months ago, Edge Magazine published an article in their Equip Xbox issue called ‘The making of… Halo’; it was a fascinating look inside the development process. It was released online, in truncated form, at Gamesradar.uk, in late October. Not long after that, we received a scanned copy of the full article, from…

Shacknews is running their own Game of the Year poll; Halo is up for PC Action. Go vote! (Thanks to Jamirus99 for the heads-up.)

Today’s Guest One One Se7en was sent in by Chaos Ferret, and looks at the better part of valo(u)r… or maybe it’s something else. Hmm…

Lightweight Fan Fiction update today… The Rise of Humanity: Part 1 (Revised!), by [ridiculous combination of non-printable characters deleted] Fight or Flight: Chapter 6 (The Big Boom), by teemus Fight or Flight: Part Seven (Final Finish), by teemus MSOG: Chapter 6: Pilot and Escape, by Sprtn117John MSOG: Chapter 7: Violence begets violence, by Sprtn117John Shadow…

Two new movies over at HaloGT today; Rocketopia is mostly just a warthog jump vid, but near the end there’s some cool weapons-crossing-glitching going on. The other one… well, you gotta watch it. Maybe you’ll get it. Forum thread for comments is here.

Awful timing indeed, on my carelessness… Monday’s One One Se7en introduced yet ANOTHER new character. Keep an eye on this one – they say that old ones can be wiley.

Eep – for the first time in a very long time, I forgot about the comic updates yesterday. First up – Halo: Resolution, which continues to have n00b problems.

Wondering where the Halo PC 1.03 patch is? Cysco posted a note on the Gearbox forums stating that it was delayed a day, and will be out Tuesday, December9; the Dedicated Server will be released in the morning, and the client patch will go live in the afternoon. Thanks to -BERZERKER-, on our forum, and…