Category: HBO

Once again, the art queue has built, a little bit. Here are five pictures submitted to the Miscellaneous Art section over the past few days… Update: Gah, missed one. It’s from almost 2 weeks ago, even.

Following up on yesterday’s news glut on the Halo 2 ‘delay’, JPSartre points out that CNN Headline News is currently running a piece on how Halo is being pushed back. (It’s titled ‘Hello Halo’.) Let’s hope the coverage of the actual GAME is this big…

The Halo50K Tournament is fast approaching (less than seven weeks away now), and in an attempt to clarify who’s coming and who’s just talking, the deadline on the $75/person ($300/team) entry fee is March 22 – after that date, the fee goes up to $360/team. Get your money in soon!

æ­µsic.ign.com has put up an article about a panel of musicians that convened to discuss the importance of melody in video game music. Apparently, there were some major audio/video problems – but some interesting discussion was still reported. Marty O’Donnell was among the group (which is why it’s getting a writeup here), and he had…

Pretty cool – TechTV has an article (and an associated video) about videogame playing on US military submarines. The funny thing about the video – though everyone talks generally about ‘videogames’, and ‘playing games’, the 5 or 6 clips of actual gameplay are all…yup, you guessed it, Halo. Not another game in sight. Thanks to…

The Swedish Halo site Halo-Se is being taken down (lack of staff, it seems). We’ll yank it from our Links page soon. (Thanks to BOLL for the heads-up.)

Red Loser, who seems to want his own day (but started WAY too late to succeed, sorry pal), has written up a History of Halo: Combat Evolved which brings to light some heretofore little-known tidbits. Or maybe just the type of mushrooms he’s been eating lately.

Red Loser has put together an interesting page of speculation linking Halo to the Bible. He let us know about this yesterday, but time constraints kept it from getting posted; for the masses, he referenced it on our forum. It’s worth a read, if you’re at all interested in what RL calls ‘The Persecution Parallel.’

Red Loser, a forum regular, has written up a Guide to Recognizing Spam. (No, not the luncheon meat… the annoying blather that sometimes fills our forum.) The aim is to give people guidelines on what does, and doesn’t, constitute spam on the forum, in order to improve the overall signal-to-noise ratio. Worth a read, if…

Wow. The ‘Not in 2003’ news on Halo 2 is big enough to be reported by Reuters. Now that’s impressive for a videogame release date status update… (Thanks to mnemesis for the heads-up.) Update: Griffon points out that it made the BBC news, as well. When was the last time you saw this sort of…

And the Fan Fiction keeps rolling in. The latest installments: Life of a UNSC Marine Part I, by Tygpj The U.N.S.C. Thunderbird, by Tommarrow Chapters 1 & 2, by LostRock The Battle for Rackma VI: Part 1, by gwinnalex Legend Hunting Part Five, by Dispraiser Assault on Edina 2, by Steele Part 3-The Incursion, by…

If you’re like me, there are certain comics that simply made you sad when they stopped. Bloom County, The Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes… well, our very own Warbow has resurrected one of these classics and updated it for the present day. We’re proud to bring you the first four strips of Calvin and Halo.…

Fan Fiction writers: early submitters have pointed up a couple of errors in the system. The biggest one, however, was simply a misunderstanding; folks didn’t seem to be able to figure out my explanation of why their ‘filename’ was being rejected. I’ve rewritten a section of the directions to clarify this problem. (Scroll down to…

::crosses fingers:: Okay, I’m approving the first batch of user-submitted Fan Fiction; here’s hoping it all works properly. Stories for you today:Halo: Reunion from Destruction Part 4 of 5, by Frensa Geran7- The Flood Zero, by nicholas5 Way War Part VI: unwelcome neighbors and Part VII: Redo’s new life, by DemosthenesChapter 2-Explanation/Touchdown, by Ultra Sonic…

I’m fallin’ out of my seat, laughin’. We got a note from ed, asking us if we knew anything about the new Halo 2 shots showing at Giga.de, a german TV affiliate of NBC-Europe. In ed’s words,Giga is a well-known show about all sorts of internet-themes, and I don’t think they would lie, but I…

PlanetXbox has posted what they call a ‘narrowed down’ release date of Halo 2: someone who works for PXB who was at the GDC heard from someone that the ‘slated release date’ is Q1 2004. Now, given that Matt Soell (who is DEFINITELY more of a known quantity than an unknown source at a gaming…

Okay, I think it’s ready. The Fan Fiction section now has an online submission form, and it’s the ONLY way we’ll accept stories. (Upload them, or email them to us, we’ll politely point you to the form, the first time. After that, we’ll simply discard them.) Now, it’s been tested, but not RIGOROUSLY tested; I…

Hehe… BOLL is building a new desktop, and needs help with a caption. Do your stuff. Update: Looks like BOLL changed his mind – he doesn’t want captions. (The pic is still worth looking at, though…)

Forum regular Shishka was at the Game Developer Conference yesterday; you can see his report (and a few pics) in this forum thread. I want one of those ‘Make Your Mother Proud’ signs! Update: Dan Chosich pointed out an article at HomeLAN Fed on the talk given by the Bungie folks on Halo. It’s not…

Interested in making a decent chapter site at Bungie’s Seventh Column? Well, sit right down and read what SketchFactor has to say on the subject – after you read his ‘Building a Better Chapter’ article, you’ll be on your way to a fantastic home for your group!