Category: HBO

Four new Halo PC reviews are up; GamingNEXT, Gamers Depot, Telefragged, and The Wargamer (a first impressions article, which, judging from the screenshots, was written from Beta 1.5). The pattern amongst the first three is the framerate issue; the game simply requires a LOT from the hardware. (We’ll be posting a tips page to optimize…

Lophan wrote this morning to point out that his local Best Buy was selling Halo PC for $39.99, but that this was not the case on Best Buy’s website. It is, now. If you haven’t ordered Halo, save $10 by grabbing it here. Thanks, Hijack.

It’s Comic Morning at HBO – Here’s Monday’s One One Se7en.

Because it’s worked so well for Stuntmutt and One One Se7en, we’ve recycled our comic template for a new series, this one sprite-based, created by Fuzzy and D.I.M agic. It’s called Halo: Resolution, and it’ll have new strips every Monday and Saturday. Today’s strip is entitled ‘Old School’. Enjoy!

Nineteen Fan Fiction pieces from over the weekend: The Death of Earth:Guilt of a Spartan Chapter 4, by Sim McGaulkin Survival, Chapter Six: Days of Rescue and Defense, by Agent Shade Devestation- Chapter 2- Getting Home, by Michael Homeworlds XV, by Mainevent Unknown Apprentice, Rewritten, by apache119 Temporal Rift PART I: SPARTAIN II REDUX, by…

Another Halo online gaming league – Clanwars. Check this post for a quick rundown of features, or visit the site and explore.

Thanks to Harry Al-Shakarchi, for submitting a translation of the Pete Parsons interview that showed up on Blick Online recently. (We got one from “The Corupt German” as well… it was a bit later.) Couple of interesting tidbits in there…

Eep – forgot to post today’s Guest One One Se7en strip. (There are lots of them, we can’t miss days, folks get mad if they have to wait more than 3 months to see their strip in print.) Iceman1330 looks at alternative uses for character bumping.

Rapture has pointed out a thread on Gearbox’s forum started by Randy Pitchford, addressing concerns about Halo PC’s performance. Reaction seems to be split… but there’s some meat to be found if you read the whole thread.

The webmaster of Clantemplates.com has written to point out that they’ve recently released a pair of free Halo templates for gaming clans. If you’re building a Halo clan site, and don’t have time to design it yourself, check these out; they’re pretty nice looking!

Wolfy writes about a quiz over at Sector 7, to determine if you’re Addicted to Halo. Check it out!

The 343GS team has created the beginnings of a Flash game – the goal is to reproduce Halo in Flash. (Nah, they’re not ambitious or anything…) The beginnings of the game are up at the Junkyard; you can kill a couple of baddies with a grenade (but not by shooting; that’s not implemented yet). This…

Back from a nice break… first up, a German interview of Pete Parsons about Halo 2 over on Blick Online. Google’s translation services gave me the gist of what was said here… but any native German speakers who wanted to translate this would be gratefully appreciated. Thanks to caudronix for the heads-up.

During the beta test of Halo PC, there were a lot of HBO forum regulars recounting game highlights on our forum, and talk turned to whether or not HBO would host an ‘Official HBO Server’. At the time, we were vague; a Halo server requires a Windows-based operating system, and bungie.org (and the hosting company…

Stearsy writes to tell us about HaloRevolution.Tk – the ‘ultimate Halo fan site in the United Kingdom’. There’s quite a lot of info here; help in getting online (both XBC, for Halo, and Xbox Live, for other games now, Halo 2 in the future), basic game info (I’d have liked it better if some of…

IGN has posted their review of Halo PC… and a whole lot more. For regular visitors, the review, 45 screenshots, and 9 streaming video flicks (multiplayer action) are available. (Massive spoilers in the screenshots, if you haven’t played yet.) For Insiders, there’s also a Game Guide (basically an updated version of their Xbox guide, although…

Whoa – we just found out that That Weasel Television suffered a 5-day internet blackout… but is now back online. If there were movies you needed from there… go get ’em!

Whoa. Red vs Blue, Episode 19, went up for sponsors last night (a bit later than expected) – and what a finish for the season. Remember the ‘Who Shot JR?’ episode of Dallas? (Okay, okay, I realize an enormous number of you weren’t even BORN then…) Grab it now, if you’re a sponsor… or grab…

Today’s guest One One Se7en comes from Germain Couët again. A tribute to a master.

12 Fan Fiction pieces for you this time around… A Really Big Ring, Just What I Always Wanted [H&R 11], by Jillybean The Death of Earth:Guilt of a Spartan Chapter 2, by Sim McGaulkin The Battles For Centauri Primus : Chapter One, by spartandude117 The Plague Part 2, by monitor101 The Death of Earth:Guilt of…