Category: HBO

Couple of new comics for you today: Hawty McBloggy’s got the latest ODS Steve (#52, Sconed) – weapons are found where we look for them… and Halo Action Figure Theater #191 (I’m Looking Through You) brings back the Blue Lady. Go read!(Louis Wu 15:56:06 UTC)

kabu let us know about the latest HBOFF Fan Fic Pick of the Week, compiled by J.D. Ford – swing by and read!(Louis Wu 14:51:04 UTC)

Time Magazine came out with their Game of the Year list – and the UK’s Guardian is unhappy that Halo 3: ODST was ranked above Uncharted 2. Oh, snap!(Louis Wu 14:07:28 UTC)

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)