Category: HBO

Seven new pieces are available for your reading pleasure in the Fan Fiction section this week – go read.(Louis Wu 14:15:36 UTC)

We neglected to point out that this week’s Double EXP Weekend playlist went live yesterday – get your Grifball on.(Louis Wu 14:15:05 UTC)

urk noticed a new episode of College Humor’s Bleep Bloop – they play some Firefight, but get bored awfully fast and go back to vanilla Halo 3. And do stupid stuff there. If you’re REALLY bored, it might be worth the four minutes it takes to watch. (Louis Wu 19:20:08 UTC)

SexyJosh stopped in to mention that his band’s regular podcast devoted its last episode to Halo 3: ODST – go listen!(Louis Wu 16:50:55 UTC)

Movies to watch via Bungie’s Comm Chatter:Drag Racing includes a new gametype you can play with your friends. (It looks REALY hard – you KNOW you’re gonna die, your job is to make sure your opponent does, too.)Sploosh shows why you should be careful when Ghost-jacking.Panic is a really short, really heavily-edited minitage. It didn’t…

According to Bungie.net, Forge Hub is hosting a mapmaking contest for Infection maps. Prizes are all Forge Hub epinion-related. Check it out!(Louis Wu 16:48:19 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy thought she’d help you with your dating – she’s whipped up the Top Ten Halo 3: ODST Pick-Up Lines for your romantic pleasure. (Some of these will get you seriously slapped unless your partner has a sense of humor.) If your boss likes to read over your shoulder, this might not be safe…

Darkphibre brought a retail stand-up Master Chief to the midnight launch at the Redmond Town Hall Gamestop – and Bungie did some product signing. He got some great pics – go look!(Louis Wu 12:03:36 UTC)

I should learn. Every once in a while, AssaultGodzilla drops by our forum and announces a music video, and I think, oh, man, not another one… but I watch it… and every time, I come away surprised – because AssaultGodzilla has a notable talent for creating well-synched, moving Halo vids. I don’t like the song,…

kabu stopped in with word of a new HBO Fan Fic Pick of the Week, written by eb4642. Apparently, there were some decent submissions last week!(Louis Wu 12:02:37 UTC)

It’s Wednesday, so it’s time to update Bungie Favorites – it’s the second week’s worth of content from Team BackFire. Go read about one of their maps… and then check out the rest!(Louis Wu 19:15:55 UTC)

Marty O’Donnell talked to GameZone about music, Bungie, and Halo – and maybe a few other little things. Go read!(Louis Wu 19:13:11 UTC)

In case you’ve forgotten – today is October 7, which means there’s a new 7 on the 7th playlist active right now. If you don’t have the 7 on the 7th Vidmaster Achievement… log on today! (As it was last month, the list is comprised of user-built maps, so there’s much fun to be had.)(Louis…

Some new movies for you, courtesy of Bungie’s Comm Chatter:3-D Halo is a stereoscopic Halo machinima – doesn’t really seem to have a plot, except to show you cool angles of Halo stuff flying at you and such. (Needs either 3-D glasses or the ability to unfocus your eyes.)Knights of the Goose is a Halo…

GrimBrother One noticed an article at Kotaku about Moonshot Games, a development company formed by ex-Bungie employees who all have extensive experience on Halo games. Good luck – we’ll be keeping an eye on the team, to see what comes out!(Louis Wu 17:41:46 UTC)

We’ve got a few comics for you today:gunluva noticed that this past Sunday’s VG Cats had a Halo mentionvlad3163 pointed out two strips from Digital Unrest – one the day before ODST dropped (snarky), one the following week (not snarky)Hawty McBloggy let us know about ODS Steve 43 (The Fallen Prophet) – some surprising things…

A couple of days ago, we let you know about some pics that Jammerfer [MunKy] took from outside the starting drop pod… that he got to via Firefight. NeoGAF’s CrazedArabMan repeated the feat – and though the film didn’t show up in his Recent Games list, he was able to record it via capture card.…

Fukerton.com interviewed Joe Staten on ODST’s release day – you can download the 11-minute discussion from their site. Thanks, hokeywebb22.(Louis Wu 12:49:55 UTC)

Mid7night has been working on his F-99 Wombat model for X-Plane – it’s now textured, looking a lot more like the version in ODST! Check it out.(Louis Wu 12:48:58 UTC)

Fyrewulff and a buddy went climbing in New Mombasa – I’m not sure I’d be up for a 90 minute walk, but…(Louis Wu 19:18:16 UTC)