Category: HBO

Hawty McBloggy has been building a Firefight Teammate Friends List – you can use it to help find people in your local time zone to play Firefight with. Finish the fight!(Louis Wu 21:27:47 UTC)

Peter Molyneux listed what he considered to be the five most revolutionary games in the past 20 years – and Halo made the roundup. Not too shabby! Thanks, rolandk73.(Louis Wu 13:25:17 UTC)

ElusiveEagle519 noticed that the interactive Halo timeline is now live at the official Halo Portal run by the Waypoint team – you can check out key events in the Halo universe, and get more information about them as you choose. Nice work!(Louis Wu 13:24:56 UTC)

I <3 Halo 3 Screenshots has their latest Top Ten Screens of the Week online – I’m seeing stuff in there that would be suitable for framing at HaloScreenshots.com. Gorgeous stuff – go look!(Louis Wu 13:24:34 UTC)

Yesterday was busy, so we missed this… but IGN has posted another ‘Top 10 Halo 3 Kills’ video, collected from user-submitted clips during the week of October 11. Nothing super-special, but they’re entertaining clips, filmed nicely – definitely a good example of the fun to be had in Halo 3 matchmaking! Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 13:24:15…

The Bungie Weekly Update is live – and it’s full of nice tidbits. Reach progress info, a survey (you can get stuff if you play), lots of ODST killin’, Bungie-downloadable Dramatis Personæ copies, FLAG details, November Playlist details, and more. Go read! (It is, of course, also available in our Weekly Update Archive.)(Louis Wu 01:56:18…

Double XP this week is Team Flag – and the list is live. Full details can be found on Bungie’s Playlists page (or hey, Bungie.net’s front page) – but hey, it’s Flag. What more do you need to know? Go capture some.(Louis Wu 18:43:38 UTC)

XForgery is hosting a contest that uses the Halloween Double-XP Playlist coming in a couple of weeks – be the user with the highest number of Living Dead experience points gained during the weekend, win a bunch of Microsoft points and some site-specific stuff. Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 18:19:00 UTC)

Comm Chatter video roundup this afternoon: CustoM RecoN whipped up an MLG minitage.The guy who created ‘Master Chief vs Mortal Combat’ is back with ‘Halo vs Super Mario Kart’ – and we all learn something about the Princess.Ativan put 89 ODST screenshots together to make an ODST landscape montage.R for Rodzilla fired a Fuel Rod…

elzarthebam noticed a new ViDoc on Xbox LIVE Marketplace this morning – it’s called ‘Dramatis Personæ’ (well, that’s what Bungie calls it; Marketplace lists it as ‘Unmasking the story of Halo 3: ODST’). It’s just under 8 minutes long, and it’s FULL of story spoilers – but if you’ve played the game, it’s a great…

Leveling Down (a blog from an older gamer) has a series of tips and strategies for getting many of the Firefight achievements – check it out!(Louis Wu 13:54:40 UTC)

MasterChiefn has decided to take a more photographic approach to his pan-cam work in the Halo universe; you can find the beginnings of a collection that will eventually include at least one picture from every map on his DeviantART space. (Louis Wu 13:54:12 UTC)

A10M1C sent word that Mindless Distortion Productions has just finished up ‘I Can Haz Help?’ – a Halo 3 machinima that follows the travels and travails of a Halo 3 player looking to add Recon to his armor portfolio. Check it out. (Louis Wu 13:53:33 UTC)

Missed this a couple of days ago, but better late than never… Hawty McBloggy pointed out a pic she found on Flickr, showing off a couple of killer costumes. SOMEBODY’s got cool parents…(Louis Wu 13:52:55 UTC)

Yesterday was Wednesday – so the Bungie Favorites section on B.net was updated with a second batch of files from the Upper Echelon folks. Go look!(Louis Wu 13:49:57 UTC)

AssaultGodzilla is back with another Halo Music Video – this one is set to Thousand Foot Krutch’s ‘Phenomenon’. Timing is quite good.(Louis Wu 13:49:41 UTC)

Enjoyable things you can do with Forge today (thanks to urk for noticing): Forge Hub is offering a puzzle to challenge the soft squishy parts inside your skull, and Forge Cafe has got a Halloween Forge contest running (I have no clue what the prizes are, because you have to be a group member to…

Old Friends Week continues in the Halo Comic world. Current staples Reclaimer and ODS Steve have the day off, while old-timers One One Se7en, Calvin and Halo, and Halo Action Figure Theater all have new strips for you. Stuntmutt adds game spoilers to the latest One One Se7en in an attempt to give you excuses…

Hawty McBloggy has posted an article entitled “Top Ten Signs You May Be a Camper” – don’t feel bad if you are, it’s a legitimate strategy. Whoops!(Louis Wu 14:33:01 UTC)

Remember that short video (covered with ads and text) of the Master Chief dancing at a Saints game, taken from a CBS broadcast? Someone recorded a minute’s worth of the dance on their iPhone – much better look. Thanks, Dirtbag. (Louis Wu 14:32:15 UTC)