Category: HBO

The second go-round of ‘Ask the Cananimators’, a Bungie.net feature in which anim8rjb and bentllama (the two Canadian animators on the Halo 2 dev team) answer your questions about animation, Canada, hockey, and life in general, has been posted. None of the sentences in the article are as long as the one I just wrote.…

Gah! How did we miss this? SketchFactor has put up part 5 of the Making of the E3 Demo series at Bungie.net – this one focuses on Engineering, and contains input from Chris Butcher, Michael Evans, and Damian (brought on board to work on the Halo 2 AI). It’s a fascinating read. I’m drooling for…

Whoa. Our Screenshots database has been updated with the screens released thus far in August – and the total number of Halo PC screens shot up from 70 on August 1… to 203 today. That’s a lotta shots.

Action Trip has posted a preview of Halo PC; not a huge amount of new info (and actually the hardcore among you will probably give them a hard time for some of their facts), but the screens are quite nice. 1600×1200, no watermark; there are 10 with the preview, and an additional 17 if you’re…

Halo PC footage – downloadable for Insiders, streaming for everyone – is now available at IGN PC. Seven clips from Beta 1.5 – Timberland, Gephyrophobia, and Danger Canyon. Thanks to FoOKz for pointing them out.

Today’s One One Se7en Guest Strip has -=d_dawg=- looking at Halo PC… I THINK I get it, but…

The Juggler has sent in a new hacking movie – in the vein of BOLL’s movies, but full of footage not seen before. Some pretty cool stuff. I think it’s unlikely we’ll be posting any MORE of this type of movie – but this one is definitely worth watching. Timing is great, and the music…

Xbox.com has put up a disturbing article about what friends might expect from you, Halo-wise. (Well, it disturbed ME.) Thanks to Tomass for the heads-up.

Dark Helmet would like to stake a claim as the first visitor to the upper stories of the level Halo in Halo PC. (He actually sent in this pic (68K) last week, but it took a little time before we could get word from Gearbox about releasing it.) Yes, you can STILL get up there…

Yesterday, Dan Chosich released a rather large movie showing some great Halo PC multiplay, filmed in classic Chosich style. Well, even though the press coverage was a bit limited, the bandwidth spike hurt the Junkyard, who was hosting the film. Dan, ever the courteous client, went back and re-encoded the movie to be a bit…

Another Pitchford interview – and more screenshots – can be found over at Gamers Depot. Randy’s pretty upbeat about wowing PC gamers, even though the Xbox version’s been out for a while. He’s also confident that the work Westlake is doing will allow Macs and PCs to play together… thanks to ash, who found it…

Randy Pitchford continues his evangelizing of Halo PC – there’s a nice interview up over at WorthPlaying.com. There’s a tantalizing teaser that suggests that there may be more than tools released post-launch… go check it out. (Thanks to Madscientist for letting us know.)

Many folks have complained about the navigation of the One One Se7en comic series. Hopefully, those folks will be satisfied with the newly added calendar; it doesn’t supplant the original links, it simply gives you another way to get around. It should be relatively self-explanatory… but be sure to send us mail if you don’t…

If you use Microsoft’s Xbox Live service, you might want to swing by Xbox.com. Their newly revamped website now has a web side to Xbox Live… and if you link your Xbox Live gamertag to it, you automatically enter yourself in the ‘Join. Play. Win.’ sweepstakes – first prize is a pair of invitations to…

Today’s One One Se7en is dedicated to Skavenger… for supplying the grape koolaid we all drink. Or something.

Fourteen stories for you in the Fan Fiction section tonight: Chapter Two: Stranded Eagle, by Blue Jaguar Last of the Walking Dead – Part Three: Fire, by Walker A John Before Halo: The End Of VManJr. (Part 8), by J-117 Last of the Walking Dead – Part Three: Fire (Continued), by Walker Private Johnson part…

Rgamer, a site we mentioned recently, has changed its name (and URL) to UNSC.net. They currently have an introduction to a new series from Ctrl Alt Delete Productions – it’s called The Beginning of the End – Intro, and it’s about 9 mb, in WMP9 format. If you want it, UNSC.net is the only place…

Gamespot has gotten into the subscriber-only-Halo-PC-movies game, along with Gamespy… There are 5 new films, totalling about 65 mb of QuickTime footage of Halo PC campaign play. Locked, unless you’re a Gamespot Complete subscriber. Thanks to Strato for the heads-up.

Looks like Gamespy has put up an exclusive Halo PC Multiplayer vid – 141 mb, zipped, on FilePlanet. You can’t download it if you’re not a subscriber, though – I can’t tell you what’s in it. Thanks to ko0_ko0 for the heads-up on our forum.

PegNose, a regular on the Gamespot forums, created a slick animated gif (864K) showing the Master Chief in a pixel war with the Covenant. We’ve added it to our Miscellaneous Art section. It’s really quite good. Thanks to Konrad9 for pointing it out.