Category: HBO

Pete Cooper stopped in to announce that the Operation Chastity Warthog would get its public unveiling at the London Games Festival on October 24 – nice!(Louis Wu 14:12:45 UTC)

R3dnaxel4 stopped in with some preliminary renders of an ODST drop pod – it’s untextured so far, but it’s still pretty cool! Check it out.(Louis Wu 13:33:11 UTC)

BOLTAR94 stopped in with word of another no-dialogue French-made machinima – this one’s called ‘Bad World’. Lots of nice effects… though I’m not sure I understood what was going on. Certainly a nice watch, in any case! Much more info (along with multiple options for viewing) can be found in his post. (Louis Wu 13:32:40…

TTL Demag0gue stopped in with word of Reclaimer 221 (Encounter) – will Bold or the Reclaimer EVER get the upper hand over the other? And NeoGAF’s Benjamin Birdie chimed in that today’s episode of The Rack (Lateral Thinking) has an homage to Halo 3: ODST.(Louis Wu 13:31:19 UTC)

Is it Friday already? Guess that means it’s time for another episode of Friday Caption Fun, over at HMB. Check out last week’s pithy responses, and come up with your own for the equine entry this week!(Louis Wu 13:30:57 UTC)

The Loot whipped up a tribute to Dutch, in the spirit of Firefly. (If you’ve never watched Firefly, you need to know it’s a space western.) Fun!(Louis Wu 13:30:31 UTC)

CaptainTony ran across a bunch of cool stuff on Greg Bear’s website – Greg had gone to the Halo 3: ODST Launch Party in Seattle, and came home with a pretty cool postcard… and some information about the trilogy of books he’s going to be writing in the Halo universe next year. There’s even some…

kabu informed us that the HBOFF Pick of the Week is live now at the Fan Fiction forum – kr-1426 wrote this one, and you can peruse it for the best of the seven stories released last week.(Louis Wu 13:28:05 UTC)

Twelve new pieces for you this week in the Fan Fiction section – a goodly collection! Go read.(Louis Wu 13:26:41 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy highlighted a hilarious vid yesterday – it’s called ‘Inside the Mind of the Greatest Halo 3 Player’, and it has a nearly-pro Halo 3 prodigy narrating a match he played on Narrows (MLG Team Slayer). We have ALL met this guy. (Louis Wu 13:14:26 UTC)

Sarcastic Gamer posted an episode of their [GAME] in 30 Seconds series focused on Halo 3: ODST – the actual ODST part is 45 seconds, but hey, who’s counting? (I’m still waiting for the funny part.) (Louis Wu 13:12:35 UTC)

Geekscape’s Teabag Prevention Team is taking on the Vidmaster Challenges, to help you earn that coveted Recon armor. Week 1’s article – focusing on the Endure achievement – is live now. Thanks, Brian Gilmore.(Louis Wu 13:11:41 UTC)

GamesRadar posted an article about pompous game ads – and Halo 3’s Believe campaign made the list. Twice. And the ODST live-action ad is ALSO there. 3 of 10 – not bad! (Warning – some browsers don’t show the entire article; not sure why.) Thanks, UNSC Trafalgar.(Louis Wu 13:10:24 UTC)

Yesterday’s Breaking In article at Bungie.net had animator Mike Hoffman talking about what he’s doing on the Halo: Reach team and how he got to Bungie in the first place. Want to follow him? Go read!(Louis Wu 13:09:45 UTC)

gunluva won one of the ‘limited edition, exclusive UNSC Spartan’ figures from Mega Blocks Halo Wars Authentic Collector’s Series. Pictures of the packaging and the figure are available in his post.(Louis Wu 19:10:10 UTC)

If you’ve got a copy of Halo 3: ODST, you can participate in this week’s Double EXP Weekend, Mythic Brawl. Go get those last few Halo 3 Achievements! (Or the first few, if ODST is your first excursion into Halo 3 multiplayer…)(Louis Wu 19:06:00 UTC)

Decadence Night took a bunch of Firefight panoramas on Crater – some great action shots in there!(Louis Wu 18:45:25 UTC)

Bunch of new vids, courtesy of Bungie’s Comm Chatter:H3 Wheelmen’s YouTube Pitstop is a new home for the videos of the H3WM – and they’ve whipped up a promo vid for it.Funny Halo 3 Productions created their fourth Splattertage – To Hoedown from Rodeo. Lots of people beat up by lots of stuff.There’s a Community…

thebruce0 has summarized the new puzzle tidbits found on the ONI Alpha Site Memorial – if you’re good with mysteries, swing by!(Louis Wu 14:35:05 UTC)

pete_the_duck spent some time getting a clean mosaic of Mombasa’s Streets – if you’re building something where you want to show people where something is, this is a great starting point. (There have been other maps posted online – but none of them are this clean – or unmarked.) I wrote this up for posting…