Category: HBO

poena.dare uncovered an interesting tidbit related to last year’s Halo National Championships… if you like backstory, read this forum post.

The Movies database has finally been brought up-to-date; movies from the last 6 weeks have all been added. There’s a new movie there, too – it’s called ‘Hurt’, and it’s mostly Blood Gulch gameplay (with some cutscene footage added nicely for flavor), set to Johnny Cash’s remake of NiN’s ‘Hurt’. It’s available in both QuickTime…

Stuntmutt points out that Halo Hacking gets a mention in the latest issue of Edge magazine (number 122, April 2003) – and so does HBO. (They point to the mirror link for the very first hacking film. Hopefully, visitors reading that will explore and discover the OTHER hacking movies… they should be in the Movies…

In a surprising twist, the Halo Story Page is NOT updated today. (Finn actually has real life work tugging at his coattails, and mnemesis… well, mnemesis is mnemesis.) I must say, however, that it was a struggle to make this happen… so if you’re not watching carefully, there might be an update in the not-too-distant…

Ryan ‘Mhaddy’ Matthews writes to let us know that the Junkyard is looking for help:We’re looking for anyone who has a passion for any of the games that we cover and has a basic understanding of HTML. All positions are open; from newshounds, interview / review / preview / article writers, site maintenance, file keepers…

ICDedPpl is EXTREMELY worried you might have forgotten that his Seventh Column chapter is running a giveaway for Halo: The Flood. If you haven’t signed up yet, go do it. I’m learning what ‘flood’ means…

I hate doing this – but some of you give me zero choice. 🙁 Once again, there are items in our uploads folder that have no attribution (or worse, have SOME attribution, but not enough). If, for example, you’ve sent a movie that hasn’t been posted, and you haven’t received an email from us about…

Sunday’s Fan Fiction installment:Just Getting Started: Chapter One, by James Kinsella Halo: FotF , by Frensa Geran What Would Have Been- Part 1, by gwinnalex Halo Zero Part 9 and Part 10, by nicholas The Tour (part 1) and The Tour (part 2), by Traumatised Marine What if We Miss….(yes of course it’s a comedy),…

Blast from the Past: In early September, 1999, a now-defunct website called ‘Total Halo’ released a home-grown movie. I re-discovered that movie on my drive while looking for something this morning… and thought it was great. I’ve re-encoded it (to reduce its filesize from the original 6 mb to a more reasonable 1.4 mb), and…

th3gh05t writes to tell us of his new Halo website, Halo Source. Still under development, but always open to comments and suggestions.

Ertai23 has set up a Halo Multiplayer Gametype Compendium; basically, an archive for various multiplayer variations. Check it out, and send him your favorites!

Once again, scooped by Opie301 on my own dang site. Finn has updated the Halo Story page yet again, this time with some extensive fan speculation. Take a look!

We’ve mentioned recently that Cybrfrk has been archiving webcam images… he’s just posted a few short movies to our forum, giving us a fast-forward glimpse into the Bungie world. Take a look!

Today’s Fan Fiction:Halo Zero Part 8- A Bigger Halo, by nicholas Halo Zero Part 7- Old Enemies, New Friends, by nicholas The Battle for Rackma VI: Finale, by gwinnalex Halo: Law & Order Part 1, by el_halo_diablo Halo: Fall of the Forerunners (tie in), by Frensa Geran The monitor’s contest, part 3 or the end…

CobaltNova points out the iGames Spring Season site is now accepting registrations. (We’d noted the site before, but until very recently, you couldn’t actually register.) The two divisional tournaments are March 29 and April 19, with the regional championships on May 10, and the Divisional championships on May 31.

Team Overkill noticed a blurb on Xbox bundles over at Gamespy – this sounds like a deal… Halo, Amped, a DVD Remote, and a bunch of vouchers, for $59.95. Since this is being offered in Australia, that’s presumably Australian dollars… meaning that you can get all that stuff for less than $36 US. Not bad!…

Sadly, the Miscellaneous section of this site hadn’t been updated since the end of November. I spent a goodly chunk of time classifying what needs to go in there since then (a couple of dozen items) – but I didn’t get them all fully formatted. I got through about half of them, though – and…

Last week, SketchFactor put up the first part of his ‘Building a Better Chapter’ article at Bungie.net. He has now posted Part Two – and for this one, he’s interviewed five chapter founders for their ideas about what makes a good chapter. Get to readin’!

Hehe – Roger Wilco came across an owner’s manual for Halo. Pretty funny.

A month ago, a pair from Canada sent in times for speed runs through the various levels of Halo, performed on Easy. Yesterday, Åstro and his partner, Coreman (Team Poughkeepsie), sent word (and a pair of films) of their work on the first of 10 levels… performed on Legendary. Their run of Pillar of Autumn…