Category: HBO

NeoGAF’s Warm Machine posted an image of some Mega Bloks stuff that looked fantastic – so I did a little digging. Came up with this. I know there are folks who aren’t happy with Mega Bloks… but I’m lovin’ some of this stuff.(Louis Wu 13:06:09 UTC)

MattDratt created a two and a half minute trailer for Red vs Blue’s Reconstruction series (which originally ran from May through October of 2008) – it gives away a tad too much (in my opinion) to be great for folks who haven’t seen the series yet, but is nicely frenetic, and fits the style of…

Arithmomaniac whipped up a Jackal costume for Purim this year – check out the pics!(Louis Wu 19:16:10 UTC)

pennyzyj stopped by with a link to a cool speed painting of an ODST – check it out!(Louis Wu 19:15:37 UTC)

Marcus Fenix sent along a link to a band page for Modern Athletics; why is this Halo news? Well, because three of the four band members are Bungie employees working on Halo. Cool!(Louis Wu 19:15:05 UTC)

Awesome. RvB’s OboeCrazy had a big concert a couple of days ago – and decided to play some ODST music (on an oboe) to warm up. Just 36 seconds long – go watch it!(Louis Wu 19:31:19 UTC)

Two Halo-related deals popped up in the Google news feed this morning. Amazon.com will be offering a pretty cool bundle, starting Tuesday: an Xbox 360 Elite, bundled with Halo 3: ODST and Forza 3, for $300. And Buy.com is offering the Halo Wars Limited Collector’s Edition for $30 – well below its original $80 pricetag.…

The Halo Waypoint team sent word of cool stuff you can find on their channel this week – The Halo Reach Multiplayer Vid is there, along with the final episode of Rooster Teeth’s ‘Grifball Expansion’. Tomorrow, there’ll be a new feature on the Forerunner Fleet, promising a look at the mysterious ships as they appeared…

LikeTotallyAwesome’s Matty boy did his own Reach MP Trailer analysis – nice presentation, and he fits an awful lot into 3 minutes. Check it out!(Louis Wu 15:40:23 UTC)

The Top Ten Halo 3 Screenshots theme this week is “Faces’ – if you hated Oonsk, don’t visit, because these will get stuck in your head. Shots like ‘The Inner Child’, though, are simply amazing. (Louis Wu 15:40:04 UTC)

In honor of Marcus Lehto’s birthday, the Bungie Developer’s Blog has released a ringtone (in a couple of flavors) of Marcus describing his neuronal firing. Go grab a copy! (And not only a Happy Birthday to Marcus, but a belated one to Joe Tung, who was fêted on February 28 – we managed to skip…

Toxic Mayhem pointed out a video that went up on YouTube just a few days ago – but it was clear that it’s a much older vid, so I did a little digging. Apparently, it was originally released in September 2007, just before Halo 3 came out. (We missed it then.) Regardless, it’s funny -…

No, the Bungie Weekly Update doesn’t provide you with the skinny on the Multiplayer Trailer teases. That doesn’t mean it’s not worth reading, though – lots of good stuff in there. Everything from a clean version of the trailer’s soundtrack (C Paul – you rock) to winners of the emblem contest, to a really funny…

Pretty odd movie on Bungie’s Comm Chatter today – ‘The Bomb’ is the latest film from Tommy92L, and while it’s only 3 minutes long, it manages to draw you in to the ending. Give it a watch!(Louis Wu 18:13:10 UTC)

Thanks to XerxdeeJ for the heads-up about a pretty cool Reach Multiplayer Trailer analysis, done by TTL’s Hoovaloov. Rather than step through the trailer frame by frame, as others have done, he’s taken a more systematic approach, and grouped changes and intriguing bits by content, rather than reveal time. It’s very comprehensive, and I’d say…

We forgot to mention this yesterday, but Mythic Brawl is once again the Double XP Weekend playlist. Ranked FFA play – though if you’re looking for those last few pesky MP Achievements, realize that this list seems to be full of very high-level players either building up accounts to sell, or simply donging on noobs…

Hawty McBloggy is back with another Rorschach Inkblot Test – she’s provided some of the best answers from the last one of these (which looked at Orbital), and now brings you the heatmap from Longshore. What do you see?(Louis Wu 14:10:50 UTC)

Today’s Ctrl+Alt+Del comes back to Halo – amazing what a little flying pack can do. Thanks to Hawty McBloggy, and Toxic Mayhem. (Louis Wu 14:09:52 UTC)

FyreWulff has set up another Firefight Friday – this one is called ‘My Way or the Highway’, and is available in all difficulties on the map Last Exit. Go read about it – and see if you can do it! (The site is getting out of beta at the end of this month – and…

Wow. There’ve been a few forays into single-player gameplay with Halo: Custom Edition – but mostly they’ve been recreations of the standard Halo PC campaign levels, or small tests. Check out Lumoria – a full campaign experience from the TM Mapping Team. It’s not available for download yet, but the link above should show you…