Category: HBO

In a masterful piece of storytelling, urk takes us back to the early days of Halo’s development, and the evolution of the Flood – where the idea came from, what it started as, how it looked before being fleshed out (so to speak). It’s a fascinating read. And it comes with some great concept art…

Tony ‘ubald’ Marcotte has created another pair of renders (‘Pan_test01’ and ‘Pan_test02′) using the Hunter and Marine models he started working with a few weeks ago. The second one includes some Elite renders that add some killer atmosphere to the pic! Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 20:28:17 UTC)

The Tag and Release feature this week looks at orange screenshots. Mostly. Go see what got tagged!(Louis Wu 18:32:23 UTC)

The newest Bungie Podcast is up over at Bungie.net – Chris Carney and Sage Merrill dish the dirt about Reach. Just over an hour long – go listen!(Louis Wu 18:13:39 UTC)

Anoj has released his Top 10 Kills Episode 51 – Top 10 Kills on Narrows. Sticks, snipes, and some funky shenanigans. Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 17:08:12 UTC)

Bryan Simon is back with a new song – it’s called Ke$ha Tik Tok Remix – Halo Reach Beta. You can find it linked from his Twitter account. (Thanks, I guess, to Bungietweets, who re-tweeted it… sort of.)(Louis Wu 16:26:52 UTC)

Last week, a video went up on Xbox LIVE’s Spotlight – it was an interview with Marcus Lehto, recorded by OXM at the Game Developers Conference. There wasn’t a huge amount of new content, but for folks looking for every tidbit of Reach coverage out there, it’s worth a look. It got posted on YouTube…

Tommy92L is back with a new film – it’s called ‘Without End – Part One’ and it tells a story of a Spartan escaping a crumbling, polluted civilization, hoping to start fresh. Nice cinematography – intrigued to see where this goes!(Louis Wu 13:26:16 UTC)

TDSpiral has signed on to Cody Brigan’s Fall of Reach movie project – swing by and see the latest piece of artwork he’s created for this!(Louis Wu 13:25:27 UTC)

Gtag=Reluctant Chaos found a video called ‘If Video Games Were Real’ – smosh.com took a look at a few video games to see how they’d play if they were realistic – Halo is among the targets.(Louis Wu 20:20:40 UTC)

NeoGAF’s Shake Appeal has taken a literary look at Halo 3: ODST – and drawn some pretty impressive parallels between the game and Dante’s Inferno. It’s a masterpiece of educated videogame discussion, and a fascinating read – and it makes me more enamored with Bungie’s story-telling after seeing some of the subtleties that worked their…

Dani, the man behind Forward Unto Dawn, received an in-game message last night during HaloGAF’s weekly custom games. The message came from his girlfriend, and was facilitated by DiabolicalBagel, a friend. The message resulted in a shiny new ring for Dani, some unprintable words for Bagel, and a pretty cool story to tell to the…

Nabsuh let us know about The Gift of Mercy, a machinima project directed by Drift0r that uses Halo 3, Modern Warfare 2, and straight-up CGI to tell a story of misunderstanding and betrayal. Narration is done by bs angel. Overall, a great piece of work – go watch it! (Louis Wu 16:29:09 UTC)

Nabsuh let us know about The Gift of Mercy, a machinima project directed by Drift0r that uses Halo 3, Modern Warfare 2, and straight-up CGI to tell a story of misunderstanding and betrayal. Narration is done by bs angel. Overall, a great piece of work – go watch it! (Louis Wu 16:29:09 UTC)

Marcus is back with more information about the Campaign portion of Halo: Reach, over on the Reach Developer Blog. Give it a read to see the overall roadmap for game development that Reach is using to get from the team’s brains to your Xbox. Go read!(Louis Wu 15:48:36 UTC)

HaLo2FrEeEk is back with another cool panorama – this time, it’s a 20mb version of Valhalla. Check his forum post for details on how it was created, then swing by to his panorama viewer to play with it! (The Little World version of the map is pretty cool, all by itself.) And if you have…

SoundWorks Collection is a site devoted to ‘profiling the greatest and upcoming sound minds from around the world’ – and they’ve posted some material they recorded at the Game Developer Conference this year. The second video on the page is an interview with Marty O’Donnell, talking about where he came from, and how he’s carved…

Almost missed this – kabu stopped by to announce that the HBO Fan Fic Pick of the Week is live on the HBOFF forum – (ENS) Rabid_Gallagher wrote it up, complete with pics. It’s EXTREME!(Louis Wu 19:55:53 UTC)

MsValentine remade her Cortana costume – a second iteration of the Halo 3 Cortana – for MegaCon 2010, which took place earlier this month. It’s pretty amazing, and you can look through a collection of shots she sent us for a gallery here. If you like what you see… swing by her site and click…

Marcus Lehto has updated the Reach Developer Blog with an apology – and some serious excitement. I guess it’s going well!(Louis Wu 14:56:53 UTC)