Category: HBO

Tony ‘ubald’ Marcotte is beginning to put together some of his recent renders in preparation for a cool comic; check out Page Take 01, in his gallery here.(Louis Wu 11:44:02 UTC)

It’s Friday – so Hawty McBloggy has another round of Friday Caption Fun for you! Some great ones for last week’s pics, plus a new pic that has great potential – go play!(Louis Wu 11:36:29 UTC)

FyreWulff also updated his Double EXP Playlist database – upcoming playlists are included through the end of the month. Go see what you can be playing in Halo 3! And don’t forget – it’s the 7th of May; if you still need the 7th on the 7th Achievement, today’s another chance.(Louis Wu 11:31:57 UTC)

Dwood pointed out a trailer for ‘Overdose’, a Halo CE mod about a militant group trafficking in drugs. Doesn’t look ANYTHING like any Halo I’ve seen before… some cool stuff!(Louis Wu 11:31:39 UTC)

Anton P. Nym pointed out a Halo: Reach Beta “Play and Win” Contest available to Canadian LIVE users – if you visit the Spotlight portion of the Dashboard, there’s a contest with a top prize of Reach Legendary Edition plus a year of LIVE plus a Reach hoodie. This does NOT seem to be available…

FyreWulff posted info about a new Firefight Friday – this one’s set on Lost Platoon, and is available in all difficulties. Go check it out!(Louis Wu 11:30:56 UTC)

cbwilliams17 posted a new Halo Legends parody (his first one is here) – this one’s based on The Duel, and it’s pretty funny. Go watch!(Louis Wu 11:30:24 UTC)

Toxic Mayhem noticed that Wednesday’s episode of Virtual Shackles was Halo-related. Made me smile…(Louis Wu 11:30:01 UTC)

Sean P., over at NeoGAF, pointed out a review of the Halo: Reach Beta from Spartan M619 a little bit ago. It’s… pretty entertaining.(Louis Wu 11:29:25 UTC)

3 new pieces available today in the Fan Fiction section – go read!(Louis Wu 11:28:26 UTC)

Yesterday, SketchFactor posted a bunch of screenshots he’d taken in the Halo: Reach Beta. Fun stuff! If you don’t like ’em, though, he tells us there are plenty more to choose from… as of yesterday, more than 375,000 screenshots had been snapped in the Beta. If a picture is worth a thousand words… that’s a…

I’m so far behind on news right now… ugh. Sorry. Mid7night compiled a bunch of the images shown on the Reach Beta stats page on Bungie.net – it’ll give you a sense for what’s availalble (so far). Give it a read!(Louis Wu 11:26:39 UTC)

The Guiness Book of World Records held a poll to see which videogame franchise was the most popular amongst gamers (that voted in their poll). Halo ranks #1. Wonga! Thanks to Soup Nasty, who found this at Kotaku. (Louis Wu 19:24:31 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy let us know about a couple of new bits on her site: Halcylon whipped up a pretty slick ‘All Halos Included’ wallpaper, and Omega created a pretty slick Halo case mod for an Xbox 360 Elite. Check ’em!(Louis Wu 19:21:53 UTC)

A couple of new vids on Bungie’s Comm Chatter today:IGN’s got another Top 10 Halo Reach Kills vid up for the week of May 4 – good assassinations, some fun moments. (They seem to have snagged a number of the clips Bungie’s already highlighted on Comm Chatter…)Mr Sark and the Dead Pixel team up again…

Capt Spanish, previously known (at least here at HBO) for the fantastic work on his Halo 3 Terminal project, is back with a new masterpiece: he’s recreated the Sadie’s Story Audio Logs from Halo 3: ODST. The interface he built himself – the hi-res images and pristine sound files, we snagged from Bungie. The project’s…

GrimBrother One noticed an article on IGN that’s worth a read – it’s commentary on WHY you should be pumped for Reach. Check it out!(Louis Wu 22:32:00 UTC)

AfroRyan and friends made cake to celebrate the Halo: Reach Beta. After looking at the pics, I think you’ll agree that though the cake is pretty amazing, it’s AfroRyan’s ‘fro that really makes the celebration. Enjoy.(Louis Wu 22:19:53 UTC)

pete_the_duck wrote up a fun-sounding game of SWAT on SwordBase – and annotated it with movies. Check it out! Tell him what you think, either on the blog itself or in our forum.(Louis Wu 22:07:18 UTC)

Boatloads of Beatificality at Bungie.net today:Shocktology 2 is a Halo 3 montage from Aftershock (gameplay) and TM22 (editing). Pretty stuff! (Even for an OLD game…)Spectacle is a Halo 3 montage from Sandman (gameplay) and SillyGoose (editing). Still old graphics, and no armor abilities, but hey – the gameplay’s pretty good.Eamonn’s Halo Reach Betatage has nice…