Category: HBO

According to the Reach Developer Blog, the team is shifting back towards Campaign – just because YOU’RE waiting for the multiplayer Beta, doesn’t mean THEY’RE sitting around doing nothing!(Louis Wu 20:37:57 UTC)

Ross Mills pointed out that a sample character in Eclipse Phase (a recent pen & paper RPG) is a pretty close match for Cortana. You can see a couple of sizes of the image in question in this post.(Louis Wu 20:30:37 UTC)

Firestorm12 sent word that the Halopen Pencast 18 is now online – it’s all discussion about Reach. You can download it from PodBean, or discuss it on the Halopen forum.(Louis Wu 20:18:51 UTC)

As expected, Shacknews has a pretty interesting article online right now – it discusses some of the new Matchmaking and social features coming in Halo: Reach. Active Roster and Arena, terms we’ve heard before but had no explanation for, are now laid out – along with a description of better voting options, queue-joining, new party…

A couple of new videos, courtesy of Bungie’s Comm Chatter today: Peeps created his first Halo 3 montage – Peeps likes his sniper rifle. And Hudson Creations whipped up ‘The Wheel’, a short Halo 3 machinima about the wheel of death.(Louis Wu 18:34:08 UTC)

Dani was kind enough to stop by with a summary of some information dug up by the HaloGAF crowd – looks like SOMETHING is getting revealed today… we’ll have to wait and see what.(Louis Wu 13:03:13 UTC)

This is why you want to watch how much rage talk you allow yourself to spew after a bad match. Thanks, Tashi0106, for a seriously funny look at self-delusion.(Louis Wu 12:56:37 UTC)

Aymeric Neau, of Halo.fr, sent word of an article (with lots of pics) about Operation Chastity – it’s in French, but Google will translate acceptably. A bunch of interesting tidbits in there… go give it a read! There’s a second part of the article coming next week, with the promise of a huge reveal… so…

padraig08 whipped up a wallpaper that uses the Halo skull logo – swing by DeviantART for a look!(Louis Wu 19:48:54 UTC)

Pete Cooper stopped in with a work in progress – it’s an Assault Rifle (the MA5C) for Operation Chastity. What do you think?(Louis Wu 19:47:22 UTC)

It’s Wednesday, so the Bungie Favorites page has been updated with another batch of files from Monitor Built. Swing by Bungie.net to read about one of the maps in particular.(Louis Wu 18:31:59 UTC)

It’s Wednesday, so the Bungie Favorites page has been updated with another batch of files from Monitor Built. Swing by Bungie.net to read about one of the maps in particular.(Louis Wu 18:31:59 UTC)

GandalfTheGreat put together a montage of Halo 2 sticks – nice memories! Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 18:31:08 UTC)

GandalfTheGreat put together a montage of Halo 2 sticks – nice memories! Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 18:31:08 UTC)

We don’t often get looks at individual Forged maps – but Bungie.net highlighted one they picked up from Forge Hub this morning, and it looks pretty cool! Swing by and read about Descended Vale – or visit Forge Hub and view screenshots and a download link! (Louis Wu 18:30:47 UTC)

We don’t often get looks at individual Forged maps – but Bungie.net highlighted one they picked up from Forge Hub this morning, and it looks pretty cool! Swing by and read about Descended Vale – or visit Forge Hub and view screenshots and a download link! (Louis Wu 18:30:47 UTC)

The over-40 crowd at 2old2play held their final Halo 2 tournament last night – DEEP NNN has a few links for you, if you want to see how it went (and where this all started). Old folks playing an old game!(Louis Wu 15:54:40 UTC)

OXM UK has posted a preview for Halo: Reach – there’s not a lot new in there, but it’s a decent summary of what we know so far. Thanks, Schlist.(Louis Wu 15:07:06 UTC)

Comedian Aisha Tyler (a confirmed voice actor for Halo Reach) did a little ETC Extra interview in which she admits her obsession with Halo in a pretty funny piece. Thanks, Hedgemony (who found this via Twitter). She also mentioned that Coby Bell will be doing voice work.(Louis Wu 11:58:14 UTC)

Chris Sauer noticed a Halo-themed tattoo on College Humor – I’m thinking that girl might have some trouble explaining that to her grandkids in a few decades. (Louis Wu 11:57:46 UTC)