Category: HBO

Oops, we’d like to apologize – this got lost in the E3 crush. Last week, Bosskiller51 sent us a note about a new French Halo Clan – Halo French Clan (HFC), in fact. There’s not a lot there right now… but we’re sorry we missed the link anyway. (Blame Crux.)

Thanks to XNOR, of HaloPlayers, who mentioned (on our forum) that the Tritin Films remake of the original Halo trailer (dated now, but still very fun to watch) has been redone in Real format. The filesize on the .rm version is 7 megs – less than a quarter of the original .mpg. If you’ve never…

Sometimes, they just don’t stop. I was about to call it a night, when a short but sweet fanfic dropped into our inbox – Chess, by Jasper. Check it out.

In addition to our overflowing Fiction coffers, we have a plethora of Miscellaneous Art submissions, as well. Steen Nielson sends in a pair of composite pics for your enjoyment. Check ’em out in our Miscellaneous Art section.

Whoa… the content just flows in. We’ve got 2 new fanfics for you this evening – one is a second offering from Anonymous Coward, called ‘Rescue Mission’… the other is the debut of Koontzy, called ‘Land of the Unknown’. Read ’em, then go through the REST of the Fan Fiction section and see what you’ve…

It is astounding to me how much mail we receive from people who are ready to believe the worst, despite all evidence to the contrary. To wit: in the past few days, we’ve gotten an enormous number of notes from people who are sure the PC version has been scrapped. Matt Soell popped up last…

Thanks to carbon, who noticed an E3 report over at somethingawful.com. Lowtax didn’t like Halo very much:The climax-inducing title Halo, which has been causing gamers across three universes to collectively wet their Spider-Man underoos, looked like crud. Take a generic FPS, add the maps from Giants, subtract 80 frames a second, and you’ve got Halo.…

By Saturday, I was E3’d out – I’d seen all I wanted to see, and decided I’d spend most of the day getting in as much Halo playtime as possible. I wrote up some of my thoughts about the day, and posted them to our forum – there’s a lot more that can be said,…

“The private viewing chamber of the Celestial Palace can be found on the 292nd floor of the main building. It is almost the tallest point on the building: there are energy generators above it. Nevertheless, this building is the tallest on the planet.”New fiction by $erial-ki!!A – actually, an overhaul of last year’s work (pulled…

Man, I’m so far behind, it’s not even funny. Here’s a recap of Halo stuff from around the web that we’ve missed (thanks to Rampancy.net and Battleground: Halo for some of these): News/comic reports Firing Squad caught Joe Staten’s Halo presentation last Wednesday Penny Arcade comments on the size of the Xbox controller MSJolt loved…

Well we’re all back from E3. Louis is sleeping off his jet lag, that happens when you get old. We’ll be posting a big Halo update later today. Pax.

Thanks to Massa and Harry for sending us word that Xbox.com have a short Halo interview with John Howard from Bungie. It’s in Windows Media Player format. Pax.

Aardvark points out that xbox.ign.com has updated their Halo section with an E3 report (they’ve put all their notes, starting with the original 1999 Macworld look, on a single page)… but this one has an… um, interesting claim.Admittedly choppy when battling it out with four or more buddies, the frantic squad-level action still has a…

More streaming media – longer, this time, and more scripted – at xbox.com. Gorgeous – if only it could be saved to disk! Thanks to Cartack for pointing it out. (There’s also a lo-res version available.)

There are a whole series of gameplay videos (streaming format only, unfortunately) at Gamespot – thanks to Harry “kick-ass store minder” Al-Shakarchi for the heads-up.

Apologies for the downtime – I can’t explain it, since I’m 3000 miles away from the folks responsible for this connection, but I’ll get to the bottom of it as soon as I get back – in the meantime, we have two new mirrors for you on the fanfest videos posted recently:blam.psyjnir.comHaloEmpireEnjoy!

Halo on CNN says jon Keegan and TCB on our forums. What next?

Kudos to Harry of Oni Central who sends word of MacGamer interview with Bungie’s Studio Manager, Alexander Seropian, and Interface Architect, David Candland. Here’s a great piece: Although no time frame was given for the release of the Mac Halo, Bungie assured MacGamer that a simultaneous Mac/PC port is planned. David says, “We’re planning on…

Loud, big, and… big. Really big. We did a LOT of walking today, and really only saw about 30% of the show. We did, however, manage to spend a bit of time in the Bungie area of the Microsoft enclave, and watch some pretty slick Halo gameplay. We noticed some fun driving hijinks in a…

Wow. Sometimes you just wanna see the game. Freewill filmed all the Xbox goodness last night at Bungie Fanfest V – we’ve been rendering the movies all night. There are three of ’em, and two should be up soon on both the Bungie Sightings page and the bungie.org E3 200l coverage page – but the…