Category: HBO

Forerunners.org is giving away a copy of Halo – all you have to do is sign up by March 31. Visit their Giveaways page for more details. (Thanks to B.net for the heads-up.)

Seven desktops for you – you’ll find ’em in our Wallpaper section. Back to Fanfic…

I’ve been lax about image submissions recently – busy with the Fan Fiction backend, I guess. Here’s the first batch – 6 images for the Miscellaneous Art section. (Once again, there are a number of uploaded images I could not include, because they came with no attribution… and several people, not seeing their artwork displayed…

Matt Soell has posted a news item on Bungie.net about Halo 2’s release date – it will not be shipping in 2003. They’re not willing to rush the project in order to make the Holiday deadline. on the plus side, Matt states that Halo 2 will be shown at E3 in May. Straight from the…

One of the earliest Halo Trickster teams, and one of the most impressive, Team 7hr33 has overhauled its website. Most of the changes are under the hood, so it’ll LOOK the same… but there’ve been a few very nice additions. Most importantly, though, is new content… and there’s quite a bit of that. Hit the…

Bungie’s Pants Contest is over… Alex Edwards was 7 cents shy of the correct total of $50.57. (That’s almost twice what I’d have guessed was in there… I think I got the size wrong.) There are more details (and a better writeup) in the B.net article, so go read it.

The HBO XBL Gamertags list has become slightly more functional – you can now (finally) limit your search to a specific starting letter (either HBO Forum Name, or XBL Gamertag, or, if you’re clever, both). For Fan Fiction authors who are getting frantic to submit their work, take heart; this change was made because I…

Pallor reminds us that some of the Bungie guys will be attending the Game Developers Conference this week: Lead designer Jaime “Flawless Cowboy” Griesemer will be on the On All Levels panel, discussing level design. Jaime, tools/AI programmer Mat “MSN” Noguchi, and audio director Marty O’Donnell will present Halo: Development Evolved, discussing Halo’s design and…

Yesterday, there were several posts on our forum revolving around the Pants on the Bungie webcam (which were opened yesterday, and their contents counted). Bungie.net will be posting the winner of the contest soon (probably today), but in the meantime, if you missed the Opening of the Pants, Cybrfrk has graciously provided a recap. (You…

Gonna be anywhere near south central Connecticut at the end of this month? Come visit.

Folks have GOT to learn to read: There are four (count ’em, 4) new movies in our uploads folder in WMP9 format. There are no alternatives for any of these – which means we (on Macs) can’t watch them, which means we (as maintainers of this site) can’t post ’em. There’s a note, in big…

poena.dare, man-about-town, has discovered a very interesting tidbit of chatlog from Larry Niven’s website, in which he discusses the fact that he was approached about writing a Halo novel (and that he turned down the invite). Now that would have been an interesting news post by Louis Wu, wouldn’t it have? pd also had this…

Interesting. The World Cyber Games Organizing Committee has announced two titles to represent console games in the WCG 2003 Tourney: Halo and SSX Tricky. This rounds out the total list of 8 games to be played at this year’s contest.To be chosen to represent consoles in a traditionally PC-oriented competition is a notable honor; moreso…

The Grand Rapids Frag Pile had another LAN party recently, called SWAMPCANDLE. (There was a small contest on the Frag Pile’s Seventh Column chapter site concerning this image of the prize trophy… but it’s over now. A larger version of the image is available on the contest page, should you want to play along.) What…

Bad news for Haloplayers – their host managed to delete the website, with no backups. 🙁 They’re rebuilding from scratch, and will be back up asap. (poena.dare had nothing to do with this mixup, as far as we can tell. You never know, though…)

Whoa. Major Story page update – Finn goes crazy. No details, because who knows, some non-spoiler types might be reading this… but a serious dent has been put into the backlog. (And to ensure that poena.dare makes it into every news post today, Finn included a wonderful Jefferson Airplane sendup by… well, you know.)

poena.”I wanna be in all of the news articles today”dare points out that he’s posted an interview with Brannon Boren over at Bungie Sightings. Brannon is a Microsoft contractor who (among other tasks) helps integrate the Halo storyline across various products (Halo videogames, books, etc). He’s also the man behind Dr. Catherine Halsey. For more…

poena.dare points out that Bungie.net has posted a new poll: “Which Halo gametype do you enjoy the most?” (He also has pretty strong feelings on what your answer should be – but then, there wouldn’t be need for a poll if you all agreed with him, so go vote!)

Last month, the rage was to see what could be done with a hacked copy of Halo. Most folks seem to be ready to move on, since the benefits of hacking require more risk than they’re willing to take… but before we go, we’ve got one more film for you. This one is from Dozi,…

In keeping with our desire to eliminate the backlogged movie queue, we present to you Jiberish Halo Productions’ version of ‘Halo Safety Dance’. It’s 9.6 mb, 1:17 long, in QT format, and brings back memories of the early 80’s. At the very least, it should bring a smile to your face. Thanks to Brian Towne…