Category: HBO

Whoa. It’s been announced. The Halo for Windows Worldwide Tournament will kick off on November 15 – you have to be registered by then to play. (Registration opens today.) Play will take place in iGames member centers around the world. Go read the B.net page for full details; prizes look pretty cool.

Leave it to Miguel to make things accessible to the world. Sometimes we forget that not EVERYONE reading this website has been here since Bungie opened its doors 12 years ago. (Okay, truth be told, NONE of us have been here THAT long… but you get the point.) Read this forum post for some pretty…

Hardcore’s Hardcorner, a column over at Xbox.com, covers Halo this time round. Check out ‘They Call Him MASTER Chief’. Tactics discussion, then a look at Halo 2. Thanks to Rendar for the heads-up.

Chelsea Bridge, in a break from her standard obscure references, almost gets specific in a Great Halo Scavenger Hunt clue. Whoa.

An IRC chat with representatives from Microsoft, Bungie, and Gearbox will take place on October 29 on the channel #CPL on GamesNET. Details are here, on the CPL site. Topics will include HaloPC and the CPL Winter Championship coming up in December. Thanks to kappa for the heads-up on our forum.

Holy moley. Mat Noguchi, Tools and Sounds programmer for Halo, dropped a small note in our forum, pointing to a new blog he’s started up… the relevant entry (for now, and for this community) is here. He’s explained WHY Object Overload is allowed to happen in the game. For those who don’t pay attention to…

The Wallpaper contest at Halo Bunker that we mentioned a couple of weeks ago has ended – and the three winners are posted on the site. Check ’em out! (Thanks to The Elite Spartan for the heads-up.)

synide is organizing a team of HBO regulars for the next SeeMePlayMe tournament (to be held online this coming Monday). He and jayWHY (who killed me a LOT of times yesterday, btw) need two more people for the 4v4 team. You can contact him on SeeMePlayMe, or our forum, I’d guess.

Grenadiac writes to point out that SparkEdit 1.1 (an Xbox Halo map editor/viewer) has been released. You can edit cache files to move player spawns, scenery, weapons, flags, hill placement, and more. There’s a movie demonstrating some object placement here, and the app itself can be found here, on HaloMods.

Today’s Guest One One Se7en comes from Limax – who takes a closer look at those hunters.

A whole bunch of clan/news sites in our mailbox recently… Grunts with a Vengeance (Halo PC clan) Clan 93rd V.S.D. (Halo 2 clan) Alpha Base (7th Column chapter, Halo PC squad) Bravo vs Delta (Comedy series, trailer available) Got Halo (General site, not finished yet) I’m sure there are more on the way – that’s…

Been a long time in the queue – but there are 30 new snippets in the Dialogue Databank, all from Captain Spark. Some real classics this time around! (There are still several dozen queued snippets – at this point, all Elites. Coming soon, I hope.)

Seven new screens over at Bungie.net – they were all taken by beta testers, and the filenames include the submitter. Most should be familiar to you, if you’ve been around here for any length of time. These are the top 7 screens of a much larger pool submitted to Bungie during the beta test, and…

HardOCP’s alter-ego site Hypothermia is giving away 10 copies of Halo PC; three are autographed by the entire Gearbox team. All 10 will be given away, 1 per day. There’s a pretty funny story that goes with the acquisition of the ten copies on the site… check it out. Thanks to Carlo Zottman for the…

The Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 2003 Machinima Awards in New York today. Winners will be announced on October 25, at the American Museum of the Moving Image. Red vs Blue was nominated for an astounding number of categories, includingBest PictureBest DirectionBest Virtual PerformanceBest WritingBest EditingBest Independent FilmIn addition,…

Wow. It looks like folks have pretty much given up on the Great Halo Scavenger Hunt… and that makes me sad. There’s a post on our forum that MIGHT summarize what the problem is – but I know that the puzzle is solveable, since several people have solved it already. So here’s the deal: we’re…

Stuntmutt looks at the human side of the Master Chief in today’s One One Se7en.

Today’s Halo: Resolution shows the agressive side of Cortana. Ouch.

20 stories for you in the Fan Fiction section today: The 7th Column: Revelations, by Mainevent Charge of the Grunt Brigade – Part Three: Second, by Walker Calling(1), by Frensa Geran Marooned – Chapter 2, by Steve Ollett The final war: Chapter one: The forming of an alliance, by Awacar Jaffa Part 2, by Neal…

Marty O’Donnell recently chatted with Music 4 Games about the recording sessions produced so far for Halo 2 – it’s an interesting read. There’s a pretty intriguing bit at the end, too…”All this music has been mixed in Surround Sound and will be released as part of a bonus DVD that will come free with…