Category: HBO

Remember way back (well, yesterday), when we mentioned a teaser for ‘Once More, With Feeling’, a new machinima project from Adam Susskind and CMNeir? Well, Adam stopped by to say that at long last (23 hours and 55 minutes, to be exact), the actual product is out. It’s 8 minutes long, and pretty nicely done.…

Having trouble adjusting to the gameplay changes in the Reach Beta? Bungie wants to help – they’ve hosted a Reach Beta Survival Guide from NeoGAF veteran Shake Appeal (the man’s got a way with words) that should help. Go give it a read! (Bring a BIG cup of coffee, though… it’s a monster – more…

New videos from Bungie’s Comm Chatter today:Halo Reach Beta Shenanigans is Chris of the Dead’s latest offering – some great clips.Bagel – Halo Reach Beta Minitage is a collection of multikills. First half is watchable – second half gets a little clip-happy.Cursed Lemon whipped up a Halo 2 tribute called ‘In Remembrance’ – pour one…

Bungie Central (a fan-run Bungie.net Group) is hosting a Reach Beta FFA Tourney – swing by to read all the details. Thanks to urk for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 19:48:57 UTC)

Urban Reflex also dropped off a very cool piece of music – he recorded the Reach Beta Menu music, and saved it in a high-quality MP3. 7:39 long, 17.5 mb – you can enjoy this music without having to boot up your Xbox! (Louis Wu 19:13:10 UTC)

Getting late in the day to start updating… let’s see what we’ve got. Urban Reflex was the first to let us know that Halo 2 is officially over on Xbox LIVE; the last man standing was APACHE N4SIR, as of about 7:30 (eastern) last night. Then, at 2 am this morning… he was booted, and…

Adam Susskind sent word of a new machinima, written by Adam, edited by CMNeir, called “Once More, With Feeling”. A teaser can be seen here. Looks exciting!(Louis Wu 19:52:59 UTC)

Bungie’s Comm Chatter is a cornucopia of Halo goodness this afternoon:Hope Unto Dawn has a free Beta code to give away.GamerdadsLive is raising money for Life After Loss – go play Halo with ’em for a good cause!Halomontage.com is hosting a Reach Beta Movie Competition – go see how you can win.AsiiM’s got a Reach…

SpartanT77 sent us a link to ‘The Multiplayer Experience’, a video set to Princeton’s ‘LvUrFR3NZ’ – it’s a look at how the experience actually works for many of us. In-game footage is filmed off the screen, but the look works pretty well, overall, in the context of this project. Take a look! (I’d forgotten just…

Hawty McBloggy had a busy Halo Weekend:You can suicide by tripping over a trash can, apparently.The latest Grin + Bear It takes a look at Reach’s Credit system – I want to be a unique and deadly snowflake!Awesome truck art is awesome.(Louis Wu 14:10:24 UTC)

Dave ‘Gamewatcher’ Kramer let us know that the latest Busy Gamer Podcast is Reach-focused – Beta impressions, tips, and a review of Halo’s music from day 1 through ODST. They’re thinking about following up with a review of Halo fan music – let ’em know what your personal favorites are! (Louis Wu 14:07:19 UTC)

Slushy’s whipped up a new Halo 3 montage – it’s called ‘Unwind’, and you can stream it on YouTube, or download the 100 mb HD .wmv from FileFront. Not your typical montage – it’s more about the grace of the game than it is about any one player. Just two and a half minutes… check…

Ars Technica has posted an article entitled ‘Deconstructing Reach: our time with the beta’ – and you can pretty much guess the topic from the title. Things they liked, things they didn’t like – go see if you agree! (Louis Wu 14:00:06 UTC)

Not slowing down – Tony ‘ubald’ Marcotte has a new render up for you; this one was inspired by the ODST live trailer, and shows off a pretty frightening Brute. Check it!(Louis Wu 13:53:11 UTC)

SK1LL4XED sent word that Postgame Carnage Report has a pair of Beta codes up for grabs – just jump over to their forum and post a short story about Halo – your favorite moment in campaign or multiplayer, your first Halo experience… swing by and see what’s up. (You’ll have to register to get in.)…

kapowaz let us know about some Halo content in the next issue of Edge – looks sweet!(Louis Wu 13:40:14 UTC)

AssaultGodzilla is back with another music video – this one contains clips from an amazing variety of sources, and paints an emo picture of Spartan culture. Timing, as always, is quite nice. (Louis Wu 13:39:56 UTC)

Frankie stopped by our forum last night with heartening words for folks looking forward to the next Halo comic project – check it out! (Louis Wu 13:39:23 UTC)

A few folks have pointed out videos from Cr1TiKal – he makes a lot of MW2 vids, but he’s got some Reach vids that are worth watching, too. They’re funny (though not particularly safe for work, if your boss doesn’t like hearing swearing coming out of your speakers) – check out Halo Reach Fun Tactics…

BlueNinja whipped up some panoramas he calls ‘Before the Fall’ – go see ’em on his ‘Views from the Edge’ blog. (Trendt jumped in with a cool cleaned-up image of Boneyard’s background – then made it available in a 1920×1080 size for folks who want to use it as a background image.) Update: BlueNinja has…