Category: HBO

Three new fan fics this evening (though one is actually a concatenation of a pair of submissions; they both came before I got to this update, and the second was too short to stand alone, and they’re both part of the same story…)ODST Saga, Chapter 2, by Robo42786Well Enough Alone, Part III, by RyanHalo: Combat…

Macgamer.com has put up an interview with Peter Tamte, of Destineer Studios… and while this shouldn’t even need to be said, it does:One thing which Mac Halo naysayers tend to focus on is, even though Bungie has stated repeatedly that Halo will come to Mac, Microsoft pulls the financial strings (suggesting that it’s not for…

Xbox.com reports that according to NPDFunworld (the folks who keep track of video game sales), Halo has sold over one million copies to date… and has become the fastest million-unit seller ever for any next-gen console. (‘Next-gen console’ means PS2, GameCube, Xbox.)Statistically, this means that more than six copies of Halo: Combat Evolved have been…

Jeff Green, who wrote an editorial at Gamers.com yesterday, predicting that PC Halo would be cancelled after all, stopped by our forum to clarify his position. Seems he DOES want to see Halo on a PC – he’s just afraid that MS wants to milk the Xbox dollars as much as they can before allowing…

When Brian Josselyn, of Blackstar Productions, released ‘Halo: The Movie’, a ‘trailer’ of a ficticious Halo movie, Bungie employee Dave Candland asked, “Want a job at MS marketing? ;)” He was kidding… but Brian’s most recent production, ‘Halo: The Movie Teaser’, shows it wasn’t a fluke. If Bungie ever DOES make this movie, the advertising…

Purgatory has created some Master Chief artwork (both alone an as a poster) we’ve added all 5 variations to the Miscellaneous Art page.

A sizeable Fan Fiction collection for you tonight: ODST Saga, Chapter 1, by Robo42786 The Saga Continues: Halo 2, by Edward Parker Roughneck Two-Zero, Chapter 3 and Chapter 4, by Anthony Coronado Damuis, by Mr Bill Jr V Effusion, Chapter 3, by Tursas In The Beginning, by Kellen Squire The Past, by SkyRyan1 The Long…

Florian writes to tell us about HalosHome.de (also reachable at HaloSource.de), a new German Halo site. Check it out!

Apologies for the news blackout of the last 36 hours – HBO HQ was host to a 15-player lanfest yesterday (guests started arriving at 9 am, we closed the last door around 11 pm), so updating took a second seat. 🙂 In that time, Computer Gaming World columnist Jeff Green put up an article at…

A month ago, Xbox Au posted a Halo review – they said it was derivative, but gave it a 9.4. They’ve now yanked that review, and written a new one – score has dropped to 8.8. (They were unhappy with the short replay value. Guess nobody told them about the exploration possibilities.) We’ve adjusted our…

New Wallpapers at Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site – six images, in four resolutions each. (Spoiler warning is necessary for the last one.) Check ’em out!

Heh – it’s not every day that fans find out something that BUNGIE didn’t know… three weeks ago, Matt Soell created the Rumor Control Database in an effort to debunk the most common (false) rumors concerning Halo that have been circulating the internet. One of the most persistent has been “If you beat the game…

Loren Judah has turned in another desktop image – this time Hunter-based. You’ll find it (in two resolutions) in our Wallpaper section.

Another pair of Halo reviews has come to our attention: Xbox Advanced and Gamespot UK. We’ve added both to the Reviews database. Thanks to EssBee and DT_Spike, respectively, for the heads-ups.

Tarrsk posted a very nice MC sketch to our forum – we’ve added it (and two partial sketches, showing the progress of the work) to our Miscellaneous Art section.

The daily Fan Fiction influx: Banserki’s Journal, Part 4, by Sarge The Hell of War, Part 4, by Jaywhit10 Covenant War, by Slith The Rookie, Part 2, by The British Commando Order of the Seraphim, Part 3, by Jehkoh I’m also impressed by the level of feedback being given on the Fan Fiction entries -…

Yes, it took FOREVER – but the Gameplay Tricks queue is CLEARED! There are 10 new entries, almost all from new tricksters – the collection is seriously eclectic. 8 new tricksters, 9 maps covered… explore. Highlights for me included the cool teleporting marines glitch on Silent Cartographer and the gorgeous vistas found above the waterfall…

Djoey.154 sends in version 2 of his Halo Winamp skin – again, since we don’t have a downloads section, you’ll find this in the Miscellaneous Art section.

The Japanese box art for Halo on Xbox is up at the Japanese Amazon web site. Check it out here. Pax.

That Weasel Television has mirrored 3 flavors of ‘Halo: The Movie’, and both flavors of the Rocket Dance video, for anyone having trouble getting any of these films. This community is great. (The ‘Halo: The Movie’ mirror list has been updated – and hopefully I’ll actually compile a Rocket Dance mirror list today.) Update: Mirror…