Category: HBO

Dang. synide shows how it’s done. Check out this flag capture on Timberland – it’s just a meg, 15 seconds long, and if every cap went this smoothly, games would last a couple of minutes. You can let him know what you think in this forum thread.

DOH! This came in yesterday, I totally spaced. Battleground: Halo has interviewed the co-owners of the Cobra League Network, a group devoted to game ladders (one that recently added Halo to its lineup). The interview gives some insight into how the group was formed, and what they do… go check it out for info on…

New Halo reviews at Adrenaline Vault, GamePlanet.nz, Gaming Illustrated, and The Entertainment Depot. Opinions ranged from ‘eh’ to ‘good with flaws’. Thanks, as usual, to Blue’s News. Update: oops, missed one; Boomtown looked at it yesterday, too. Thanks, Narcogen (who got it from Shacknews).

The Adrenaline Vault has posted an interview with Randy Pitchford about Halo PC’s performance. On the positive side, he points out a bunch of the critical issues that explain some of the negative press Halo’s been getting. (The biggest is that this is really the first mainstream game to extensively use DX9 – and people…

Yayap the grunt has written a short FAQ about the Great Halo Scavenger Hunt; we’ve linked it in our list of helpful URLs on the right side of the forum. Yayap isn’t a Bungie or b.org employee; he’s just a fan who’s written up what’s known about this hunt to date. If you’re having trouble…

Oops – almost missed this one. SketchFactor posted a mini-update on Mac Halo over at bungie.net; the official beta testing starts next week. That’s rockin’ news…

Speaking of comics, today’s guest One One Se7en comes from forum regular hehbo2k3. He looks at the PC coop issue. And what an issue it is.

New strip over at Halobabies.net! The Baby Hunter… ain’t very nice. Thanks, mrsmiley. (There are also a couple of new sketches in the MOXC Sketches section, for registered visitors.)

Michael M. points out an article about Halo PC on XtraMSN, a New Zealand portal site. Not a lot of info… but press is press. Now let’s see… $99 NZ dollars… that’s about $59 US. Not too bad.

CNN reviewed Halo today – sort of. That is – it’s not an in-depth review… but it’s a full CNN article, and that’s about as mainstream as it gets. Mostly, the reviewer was happy with it. (He was sad about the lack of coop.) Thanks, RustedAngel!

Mirror sites for the Halo Trial are coming fast and furious. We’ve compiled a mirror list; if you know of a mirror that’s not listed, please drop us a note. Thanks!

The Halo PC demo is now available over at IGN – go grab it! (131 mb…) Update: 3D Gamers has put up a mirror already – we’ll probably create a mirror page later today. Thanks, Frans.

Yesterday, we mentioned a blog written by Mat Noguchi, a Bungie programmer. He’s added another Halo tidbit to the mix; he explains WHY the infinite ammo/camo glitch (one we chronicled pretty thoroughly in the one and only Keyes’ Corner entry to date) comes about. Way cool. (Thanks to Rampancy.net, who noticed the RSS feed for…

Gah – I haven’t been making my rounds. (Been a busy week.) Lots of new knicknacks over at Rampancy.net; this news post summarizes the enhancements to the user experience.

It must be Friday – time for another roundup of Halo reviews (thanks again to Blue’s News). Lessee… we got GamerDad, Gamer’s Hell, Gameguru Mania (with 60 screenshots), and Wicked Toast. The first three thought it was okay, the last one hated it. Well, ‘hated’ might be too strong a term; the final summation was…

Maybe I’ve just been around too long… but today’s One One Se7en made me laugh out loud. I miss that game…

The Master Chief is just like you – he’s too busy to pick up his clothes. Or so says Halo: Resolution today…

17 stories and poems for you today in the Fan Fiction section. The Resistance Alliance: Prologue, by Awesomedudeman Angels war II stage, by Javier Fernandez-vina The Rise and Fall of the Flood Chapter 10, by BlackValkyire Evanangel (Part Two), by Jinkaiden-XI Threatened-pt 1, by UNSC_spec._117 Modern Trench Warfare, by Postman A Marine Named Peters: Ouch,…

131 mb of Halo goodness… Friday at 10 am PST! (That’s 5 pm UTC, or 1 pm Eastern.) Check out the article at IGN – The Halo PC demo (Silent Cartographer for solo play, Blood Gulch with limited vehicles for netplay) will be released (exclusively, they say) at IGN Downloads. Thanks to the former Huntr-Killr…

This morning, on CNN Headline News, there was a piece showing a CNN reporter taking over the Editor in Chief’s job for the day over at Electronic Gaming Monthly. According to Blackstar, They played a bit of Blood Gulch multiplayer; not a bad job to have! And now you can read the story on CNN.com…