Category: HBO

TDSpiral painted his Firefight character – a labor of love.(Louis Wu 17:32:13 UTC)

Just a warning, for Gamefly subscribers… if you rent ODST, you get only the Campaign/Firefight disc from them. (They’ll SELL you the Mythic disc, but don’t consider it a part of ODST, as far as rental goes.) Thanks to several people for reporting this – 95ss provided the official Gamefly response.(Louis Wu 17:31:46 UTC)

FassinTaak whipped up a nice retro poster – go check it out!(Louis Wu 17:31:22 UTC)

Devin Olsen and goatrope got out of Uplift Reserve, and went exploring. The video and screenshots are pretty cool!(Louis Wu 17:30:58 UTC)

PyroSmile has posted the next two episodes of their Road2Recon series – Episode 4 covers the last three Mythic skulls, and Episode 5 covers the Vidmaster: Classic Achievement. Just two more!(Louis Wu 17:30:34 UTC)

Bungie’s posted a new Weekly Update – and it’s full of stuff. (It’s also full of new formatting, which looks great on Bungie.net, but was a lot of work to incorporate into our Weekly Update Archive. Don’t worry, though, that’s not your problem, and the update is available in both places.) It looks like urk…

Since the very first Halo, there have been characters you simply cannot kill – they’re immortal because they’re critical to the storyline. Usually, you hardly notice – if they’re fighting alongside you, you’re generally too busy keeping yourself alive to pay attention to how much damage the NPC is taking… but occasionally, you find yourself…

milesprower invites you to join the Friday Night Firefight group, or just watch – there are 1-month XBL Gold cards on the line for the highest-scoring team!(Louis Wu 17:25:54 UTC)

BlueNinja created a few really nice ODST-based panoramas – swing by Views from the Edge to see ’em!(Louis Wu 17:20:40 UTC)

It’s been a few weeks, but the Aesthetic Artist Interview series is back – COL0NEL SANDERS sent along an interview with (and some sweet screenshots from) The U2 RoKKeR, a relatively new screenshot artist who’s got quite an eye for composition. Check it out!(Louis Wu 17:08:31 UTC)

There’s a fun montage linked from Bungie.net – Salaya’s The Experience has some very enjoyable clips. Go watch it!(Louis Wu 17:01:50 UTC)

Adam Pavlacka let us know about an interview with Nathan Fillion over at WorthPlaying – he talks about how he got into Halo in the first place, how the voice acting went, and more. He’s got more problems than you do when he plays ODST:When I’m playing the campaign with my friends — I was…

So yesterday I posted a little clip from ‘Deference for Darkness’, one of the most gorgeous tunes on the ODST soundtrack, because a riff in it had reminded me of the 90’s song ‘Macarena’. Most readers were amused, but a couple suggested they couldn’t hear the resemblance. If you’re one of those… Postman has your…

thebruce0 (the guy behind The Haunted Apiary) noticed some interesting graphics during his search through the streets of New Mombasa. (I’m not marking this with a spoiler tag, because I’m guessing it’s more of an easter egg than a story spoiler.) It looks like Braille… but it’s not. If you read through his posts, you’ll…

Hawty McBloggy has a couple of things for you this morning – there’s her standard Friday Caption Fun (the new image is lolcat-grade)… and there’s a birthday greeting to an old (in software years) friend. Go read!(Louis Wu 14:32:15 UTC)

Wesley Burket pointed out a thread on Bungie.net being used by folks finding ODST discs to be unreadable by their 360. If you’re in this boat, swing by!(Louis Wu 14:29:12 UTC)

Yesterday was Thursday, so there’s a new Breaking In article on Bungie.net – this week, it’s Senior Animator Tom Saville – he passed on a promising career in werewolf training to work for Bungie, so go see how he got there!(Louis Wu 14:11:15 UTC)

There are seven new stories for you this week in the Fan Fiction section – give ’em a read! (And don’t forget to check out the Feet First Into Hell Contest winners announced a couple of days ago, if you haven’t already…)(Louis Wu 14:06:57 UTC)

We neglected to mention an article posted yesterday afternoon on Bungie.net: ‘Link Up with the B.net’ seemed, at first glance, to be aimed at newcomers who wanted to tie their in-game experience in to Bungie.net’s amazing stat tracking system. It didn’t really seem like ‘news’ for the average HBO reader. A closer read, however, shows…

NeoGAF regular GhaleonEB pointed out that yesterday afternoon, a pretty cool milestone was hit, according to Bungie.net’s stats: Players (All Time): 15,000,231. Wow!(Louis Wu 13:20:06 UTC)