Category: HBO

Today’s Guest One One Se7en comes from Spooky Donkey, and looks at potential jobs for the MC. And while we’re discussing One One Se7en, congratulations to IXIGhandiIXI, who found the One One Se7en easter egg which has been hidden in the section (in plain sight) for over a month now. The rest of you are…

Enemy Down, a UK-based ladder site for Counter-Strike and Day of Defeat, has added Halo to their list of supported games. There are new CTF and Slayer ladders. If you’re a UK Halo player, stop by and sign up, and climb the multiplayer ranks!

BGT writes to point out the Home Front mod for Battlefield 1942. (We’ve mentioned it a couple of times in the past few months.) Front and center on their website is a new map of the city of Côte d’Azur on Sigma Octanus IV. (It features prominently in the Fall of Reach book.) Nice looking…

disturbedroach, from Halo Center, wrote to say that they’ve set up their site to allow user-uploaded maps to be added to the database; if you have a modded map that you want available to the community, visit Halo Center and upload it!

Couple of new Halo reviews for you; Tom’s Hardware (thanks, Mondo-77 and JP) and Eurogamer (thanks, Blues News, via ash) both looked at the game. Tom’s LOVED It. “I would mention major drawbacks of this game, but there’s one problem: I haven’t been able to find any.” It’s an interesting review, because it focuses on…

Clan AKA has created a tool that can modify the Blood Gulch map to change projectiles (tank shells can be replaced with needles, for example, or vice versa). At the moment, it doesn’t do anything else, but they’re coming out with new versions every day, and they should have a final with in a week…

Nick the Roadie points out that Cyberjocks (near Buffalo, NY) is having another Halo tourney, coming up on October 18. Same rules as the last one we mentioned.

Small note for uploaders: there are a number of folks who’ve uploaded mods of existing maps to us, all (at this stage) involving simple hex editing of the mapfile to change weapons, or effects. It’s great that folks are modding Halo PC before the official tools even get released… but we’re having trouble justifying the…

First easter egg in Halo PC – confirmed. ‘halo fan’ sent in this image he captured while using the ‘walk on walls’ mod. Remember that the designer of Timberland is David Mertz – and his response to this discovery was amusement:Hehe, it was a matter of time before someone found it, its hard because you…

c0ld vengeance played a little bit of Gephyrophobia before writing today’s Guest One One Se7en strip. I know exactly how he feels.

Another Halo review over at FiringSquad… they gave it 80%. Pretty honest review; worth a read. (It’s quite negative in parts, but one gets the impression that the criticism comes from wanting to see something beautiful done right, rather than just to whine.) Hopefully, Gearbox is listening to some of the suggestions made in reviews…

16 Fan Fiction stories for you on this Friday afternoon… The Fallen: Halo 2 Ch5S1 Moving In, by Hikaru-119 The Fallen: Halo 2 Ch5S2 Where Did They Come From?, by Hikaru-119 Crazy Cowboy [H&R 14], by Jillybean Attack on ERISTOCK Part 9: Invaders, by xitWOUND117 The Rise and Fall of the Flood Chapter 9, by…

Ever play coop with someone who likes to let YOU do all the work? Halo Babies looks at the phenomenon today with a new strip. Check it out! (Thanks to mrsmiley for the heads-up.)

I’ve seen a couple of disturbing posts on our forum (and there are likely similar ones in other places) to the effect of ‘now that the Scavenger Hunt has been solved…’ Folks, there are 28 prizes to be won in the main hunt. As of this moment, 3 of them have been claimed. We’ll probably…

They were big… then they were gone. Then they were big… then they were gone. They’re back again – and it looks like they’re gonna be big again. Go visit Haloplayers and see Barak’s new design. (He just got his copy of Halo PC, so keeping the site updated might be a problem…)

First news story of the day was a Brooke Szabo interview with Lorraine McLees; there’s ANOTHER Szabo piece over at Xbox.com, this time detailing how the Xbox (well, her association with someone who WORKED for a company developing for the Xbox, but eventually the box itself) changed her life. Check it out! (Halo plays a…

Stuntmutt points out that The Master Chief action figure is in the spotlight over at Wizard Universe. These are toy freaks… and they love the MC. Go read why.

That MC, he’s one funny… nah. Go see One One Se7en and decide for yourself.

In the midst of a war, they’re still keeping track of expenses? You know it! Check out Halo: Resolution today.

There’s a great interview up over at Bungie.net – Brook Szabo talked to Lorraine McLees about what it’s like to work at Bungie (among other things). Lorraine rocks. Read this.