Category: HBO

kabu stopped in at our forum to announce the HBO Fan Fic Pick of the Week, for 3/19 – thanks to eb4642 for writing it up!(Louis Wu 19:33:57 UTC)

Jon Goff sent word of a roundup of pics from last week’s Emerald City ComicCon, as seen at the Halo Waypoint booth – if you’ve got a Facebook account, go look! (Don’t forget to swing by Waypoint on Xbox LIVE – there’s still new content every day!)

TDSpiral pointed out some pics of McFarlane Series 8 figures, over at Spawn.com – check ’em out! (Louis Wu 19:32:36 UTC)

It’s Headwear Saturday at Hawty McBloggy’s – check out a Daily Doodle she found, where MC finds out that Stormtroopers don’t always have it so good, and then take a look at a cool piece of wearable headwear (though it’s 75 degrees outside right now – I’m not thinking much about fleece at this point).…

As we mentioned on Friday afternoon, Ferrex was answering lots of questions about Arena on the Bungie.net forum – we’ve made his answers available in a more compact format for your reading pleasure. Give it a read!(Louis Wu 01:12:23 UTC)

The Bungie Weekly Update continues the pattern of the last few days – information, and lots of it. Swing by and give it a read – there’s lots of clarifications about new game modes and social features. You can, as always, read it in our Weekly Update Archive. (In fact, this week, there’s a tangible…

Overdoziz pointed out a Bungie.net thread in which Ferrex is answering a bunch of questions about Arena. Go check out what’s already up – we might put up an edited transcript later, to make reading a bit easier. (He’s on a lunch break right now.)(Louis Wu 20:05:41 UTC)

More coolness from Shacknews: Brian Leahy adds a third article to his Reach coverage, this one loking at Reach’s Matchmaking and ‘Active Roster’. You absolutely need to read this if you play Halo multiplayer.(Louis Wu 18:16:42 UTC)

BusyGamerNews.com is giving away a big bag of schwag collected at the Emerald City ComicCon last week – included is one of those cool Halo Reach posters available at the show. (The runner-up also gets one of those posters – that’s two shots at a very cool item.) All you gotta do is visit the…

Facility B5D is hosting a Spring Break Screenshot Contest – take a cool shot, win 1600 points. There are a few rules – check the newspost for full details. Thanks again, urk.(Louis Wu 17:15:19 UTC)

The latest episode of Halo 3 Fails shows off some epic bad luck and bad judgement – funny stuff. Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 17:14:50 UTC)

Brian Gilmore let us know about the final tips page for the ODST Firefight series at Geekscape; Teabag Prevention Presents: Firefight – Windward. Wanna see some tips for getting through this level? Go read! Now that ODST is finished, they’re going to head back and finish up their Halo 3 collection, and the end result…

bloogyo is back with three more pages of Rat’s Nest Chapter 25. New gear and a surprise… (Louis Wu 15:34:56 UTC)

There’s a new Firefight Friday offering from FyreWulff – Hero Heroics is an unrestricted Lost Platoon challenge! Go check it out. (Remember, you’ve got one more week to participate if you’d like an exclusive beta-tester marking associated with your profile on the Firefight Friday site once it goes live. (You can see a mockup of…

It’s Friday, so it’s time for another Friday Caption Fun episode at Hawty McBloggy’s – Hawty makes fun of me for seeing sex where there wasn’t any (she’s SUCH a bad influence), and posts a shot of a Bungie staff meeting for your captioning pleasure. While you’re there, thinking of some funny thing to write…

ShackNews posted a more in-depth look at Halo: Reach’s Arena system, building on the article they posted yesterday. It’s a fascinating read, and the more you learn, the harder it’s going to be to wait through the 6 weeks remaining until the Beta goes live. And it looks like they’ll have even more for you…

TripleZeroFilms has posted Mandlbaum in: “Core Tempature” [Part 5] – singing henchmen, rants about stupidity, and plump, juicy salsa. Will Evile Profesure get away? Will Roboclaw forgive his old henchman? Will Master S meet Alex Trebek? You’ll have to watch to find out.(Louis Wu 12:49:37 UTC)

This weekend’s Double XP Playlist (which went live yesterday afternoon) is Maption Sack – a collection of community created maps with a variety of slayer and objective gametypes. Tons of fun – but be careful of the 4-player teams of Generals you seem to meet every other game… (Louis Wu 12:49:08 UTC)

Morpheus told us about 17’s Labyrinth, a new puzzle map from Unlucky17. There’s a bit of info in his forum post, as well as a link to the map and gametype. Are you up for it?(Louis Wu 12:48:41 UTC)

There are four new pieces up for your perusal in the Fan Fiction section this week – go read!(Louis Wu 12:48:03 UTC)