Category: HBO

Halo 3 Screenshots wants to give you stuff – just enter the ‘Most Creative Use of a Crate Contest’! That’s right – use a crate creatively in Forge, snap a screen, and you could win a copy of Red vs Blue Reconstruction, or the DK Halo Encyclopedia. What a long way we’ve come from STC!(Louis…

TTL Demag0gue stopped in to announce that Reclaimer is out of hiatus – the latest episode, #244, has Reclaimer being decisive.(Louis Wu 15:57:46 UTC)

Littlebigman noticed an article at Toy News International about McFarlane Mongoose sets. Nice!(Louis Wu 15:54:39 UTC)

Minime637 announced a giveaway at Defend the House – post your gamertag, and you’ve got a shot at winning Halo 3: ODST. Free access to the Reach Beta (and the chance to play a pretty fun game, to boot)!(Louis Wu 15:54:05 UTC)

rowboat went through the GTTV footage, removed all the interview stuff (and clips from older videos), and put the remaining (Boneyard-specific) footage together with some rousing Halo music. The result is a 5-minute Boneyard trailer – awesome!(Louis Wu 15:21:35 UTC)

Heh – someone’s selling a custom-painted McFarlane Halo figure, inspired by a real-life suit of Spartan Armor seen at the games of the New Orleans Saints this year. NIce! Thanks, rolandk73.(Louis Wu 15:21:04 UTC)

AssaultGodzilla visited a Japanese forum with a bunch of Halo artwork – not a trivial task for folks who can’t read Kanji! He collected a few dozen of his favorite pics – you can see them in his forum post, or in our local mirror (if you have trouble with his image host). As he…

AssaultGodzilla has whipped up a new Halo music video – this one uses footage from Halo Legends, set to Breaking Benjamin’s Blow Me Away. Very nicely done imagery!(Louis Wu 15:18:15 UTC)

Rampancy.net has posted the second half of their ODST Episode of Anger, Sadness, and Envy podcast – it’s an hour and 40 minutes, 95 mb. Go listen! (Louis Wu 19:44:04 UTC)

ubald is back with another render – this one shows off a bunch of Marines taking on a Scarab. He’s getting closer to his ultimate goal…(Louis Wu 14:59:18 UTC)

As usual, a new Top Ten Halo 3 Screenshots collection was posted on Friday at Halo3Screenshots.com – this one was themed ‘Dual Wielding’. I’m amazed by the coolness of the shots.(Louis Wu 14:57:47 UTC)

TDSpiral created an image that pays tribute to Halo Legends – really nice work! Go look.(Louis Wu 14:57:25 UTC)

With an article entitled ‘Post Invasion Debut Speculation’, Dani continues his drive to place Forward Unto Dawn into the preeminent ‘Halo Analysis Website’ slot – I’d have to say he’s doing an awesome job! He’s gone through the GTTV footage with a fine-toothed comb, and pulled out some tidbits you might have missed. Go check…

RedGrimRune let us know that his most recent 6th Circle comic has some Halo references (along with some drug references)… and the latest Grin + Bear It says goodbye to Halo 2 (and pleads for something that will likely never happen). Funnies with your coffee… (Louis Wu 14:44:46 UTC)

Zeouterlimits noticed a chance to collect your favorite Master Chief songs in one package… good stuff.(Louis Wu 14:44:24 UTC)

The most recent ‘Inside Gaming’ episode (NSFW, really) contains a Halo 2 tribute – thanks, Kibbles. (Louis Wu 14:44:03 UTC)

Gametrailers TV: Reach Beta Info If you missed last night’s GTTV on Spike, you can watch it online on Gametrailers.com – it contains brand-new information about Invasion mode, something we haven’t heard about very much, before now. There are lots of other tidbits, too, and new footage of Reach multiplayer in action… go watch!(Louis Wu…

The Reach Developer Blog posted a really nice little bonus last night – ‘On the Wings of Love’ is a QuickTIme VR movie of an air-to-air assassination, seen from any angle. If you don’t like QT, NeoGAF’s Letters whipped up a GIF version (9.6 mb).(Louis Wu 13:48:03 UTC)

Bungie Weekly Update’s up – and it’s a good read. Info on what’s coming in the Beta (including nice descriptions of gametypes), a fun pic of Joe Staten… and a Stosh-uncovered video that should make you laugh. You can, as usual, read this in our Weekly Update Archive, if you so choose. (All resources are…

There’s an amazing new article up at Bungie.net today – One Final Effort details the memories that have stuck with Halo 2’s developers over the years. It’s an incredible collection of thoughts, regrets, reminiscences, pictures, and video. Spend a little while digging through it.(Louis Wu 22:55:45 UTC)