Category: HBO

Another Waypoint tweet points to Major Nelson’s latest podcast – it’s number 343, it was posted on the 343rd day of the year, and all of the guests work for 343 Industries. Go listen! (Louis Wu 13:44:39 UTC)

calmkiller noticed a tweet from 343 Industries – Sotaro Tojima from Kojima Productions (the guy credited with Metal Gear Solid 4’s sound direction), has joined the MS Halo team. GrimBrother One found a followup on Kotaku with a bit more detail.(Louis Wu 13:44:03 UTC)

Bryan Simon has been away from the Halo scene for a little bit, but the appearance of a Ranked Grifball playlist last weekend brought him back for another song – swing by YouTube for ‘Grifty (Grifball 50)’, his latest musical offering! (Louis Wu 13:43:36 UTC)

GrimBrother One ran across a story on IGN wondering whether Microsoft could make more money releasing Halo Reach for free, and then charging for downloads? Feedback on our forum is mostly negative – but what do you think?(Louis Wu 13:43:07 UTC)

Siliconera has a bunch of photos of a 360 Kiosk in Japan (including one during a sad, sad ODST promotion) – I guess those Japanese really don’t care about 360s.(Louis Wu 13:42:27 UTC)

AssaultGodzilla stopped in with word of another Halo music video set to Three Days Grace’s ‘Break’ – it uses footage from pretty much every Halo-related product under the sun… but it STILL holds together. Amazing. (Timing and judicious matching of clip to lyrics makes the difference.) I think a fun game might be seeing how…

Machinima.com is kicking off the ‘Inside Gaming Awards’ this year – to be held the day before Spike’s Video Game Awards. Halo 3: ODST is up for an enormous list of awards: Game of the Year, Best Trailer, Best Narrative, Best Control, Best Original Score, and Best Weapon (for Silenced Pistol). Good luck! (The community…

Morpheus pointed out an article in the latest issue of Game Informer – it’s their 200th issue, so they put together a ‘Top 200 Games of All Time’ list. Halo was #39, Halo 2 was #110. Neither Halo 3 nor ODST were on the list. This isn’t online at this point.(Louis Wu 18:05:50 UTC)

Morpheus pointed out an article in the latest issue of Game Informer – it’s their 200th issue, so they put together a ‘Top 200 Games of All Time’ list. Halo was #39, Halo 2 was #110. Neither Halo 3 nor ODST were on the list. This isn’t online at this point.(Louis Wu 18:05:50 UTC)

So I’m over at IGN, looking for the end of their Top 25 Xbox 360 Games article (no Halo games in the top 5 – I suppose, in hindsight, it makes sense that Halo and Halo 2 didn’t even place, since both were original Xbox games), and I run across… this. I mean… really? (Yes,…

So I’m over at IGN, looking for the end of their Top 25 Xbox 360 Games article (no Halo games in the top 5 – I suppose, in hindsight, it makes sense that Halo and Halo 2 didn’t even place, since both were original Xbox games), and I run across… this. I mean… really? (Yes,…

Love for Sangheili knows no bounds – or at least isn’t stopped by plain old jeans. Blueskyfish added a very cool image to the leg of her pants – and Hawty McBloggy highlighted the image. I’d wear those!(Louis Wu 15:25:11 UTC)

Love for Sangheili knows no bounds – or at least isn’t stopped by plain old jeans. Blueskyfish added a very cool image to the leg of her pants – and Hawty McBloggy highlighted the image. I’d wear those!(Louis Wu 15:25:11 UTC)

AngelicLionheart found a Crysis mod in progress – someone’s porting Blood Gulch to that engine. Looks pretty! (Louis Wu 15:24:37 UTC)

Narcogen has updated his contributions to the Google Earth Network Layer with audio log locations from Halo 3: ODST – swing by to see! (Louis Wu 15:24:09 UTC)

Narcogen has updated his contributions to the Google Earth Network Layer with audio log locations from Halo 3: ODST – swing by to see! (Louis Wu 15:24:09 UTC)

343 Industries’ Corrinne Yu, the Principal Engine Architect for the Halo team, talks about programming with Channel 9’s tina10. It’s pretty interesting to see where she’s coming from – and where she’s going! Thanks, Zeouterlimits.(Louis Wu 15:16:28 UTC)

Feed Your Console is giving away a free copy of Halo 3: ODST and some other Halo-related schwag – there are a few ways to enter, but you have to be Canadian, and you can’t be in Quebec. Check their contest page for full details!(Louis Wu 22:47:23 UTC)

Just a couple of tidbits today: Grin + Bear It makes an obvious connection with a humorous outcome, over at Hawty McBloggy’s… and also at Hawty’s, HolyJunkie has created some fan art inspired by ODS Steve. Go read! (Louis Wu 20:49:45 UTC)

Hey – want another chance to win a Halo 3: ODST Official Soundtrack? Domino Theory wants to help you! Swing by the ‘No Monks Allowed’ contest page and fill in your info – he’ll be picking a winner later this week! How can you go wrong?(Louis Wu 15:55:26 UTC)