Category: HBO

Bungie posted ‘Let’s Get Mythic’ yesterday – it’s a nice overview of all 24 maps available on the Mythic disc of Halo 3: ODST. Check it! (Louis Wu 15:37:50 UTC)

Whee doggies. Something to watch for, in the future… I pre-ordered two copies of ODST from Amazon back in July. This morning, an unlock code for Sgt. Johnson appeared in my inbox. When I wrote to Amazon to find out where my second code was, I was told that their policy was 1 code per…

Whoa – swing by Sumthing.com’s custom ODST page to listen to full, uncompressed versions (320kpbs mp3s) of four of the tracks on the Halo 3: ODST Official Soundtrack. NICE!(Louis Wu 22:27:14 UTC)

JDcongote dropped into our forum with word that he’d imported a portion of Delta Halo and Regret (from Halo 2) into CryEngine2 (the game engine behind games like Crysis). The stuttering made my head hurt – but the graphics were cool. Go watch!(Louis Wu 21:45:45 UTC)

Totally missed this when it went live yesterday… but Bungie has posted a sizeable Frequently Asked Questions list for Halo 3: ODST – and they’re continuing to add to it. If you’ve got questions… they’ve got answers. You should DEFINITELY read through this – I learned a bunch of stuff from it.(Louis Wu 21:12:37 UTC)

It’s Wednesday, so it’s time to update Bungie Favorites – week two of Forge Union’s prize stuff is now live. Go check it out!(Louis Wu 21:10:41 UTC)

kabu let us know that the winners for the HBOFF Feet First into Hell contest have been chosen – go see what they won (and read the stories submitted the grand prize winner and the runners-up)!(Louis Wu 19:15:24 UTC)

Narcogen has posted the image gallery that goes along with yesterday’s podcast discussion of the Cortana level of Halo 3. Narcogen is doing what he can to stay busy until his copy of ODST arrives, on yak-back, at his remote outpost in Inner Mongolia (or Kazakhstan, or wherever). Go check ’em out, and make him…

Decadence Night stopped in with a whole bunch of new Halo 3 panoramas – go see the pretty stuff! (Louis Wu 19:11:20 UTC)

HBO forum regular Mid7night was featured on Xbox.com’s Gamer Spotlight today – go learn a little more about him!(Louis Wu 19:10:29 UTC)

Pyrosmile Productions has posted a trailer for their ‘Road2Recon’ series – I’m thinking the series will really be a guide to getting Recon, even though the trailer is more… how not to get it. Go see.(Louis Wu 19:05:48 UTC)

Both shiruken and Paul Shelley let us know about Side Note with Paul Shelley, Episode 7 – it’s got some Firefight tactics, and it’s also got detiils on a new contest that Treeskunk Productions is running. Go watch, go enter!(Louis Wu 19:03:43 UTC)

Wow… these guys have aleady gotten out of Lost Platoon – check the vid. Unclear how far they can go… but MAN, the views from the edge are already amazing. Thanks, Devin. Update: link fixed. Eep!(Louis Wu 17:17:55 UTC)

Kotaku Australia was at a midnight launch event, and took pics. Go see. (Louis Wu 17:17:34 UTC)

Gamasutra has a ‘Critical Reception’ article about ODST – they talk to a few different reviewers (folks from the high, middle, and low – or low middle, anyway – end of the scale), to see what they liked and didn’t like about the game. Nice overview.(Louis Wu 17:16:59 UTC)

RvB’s MsValentine turned us on to this image at DeviantART – it’s a pretty cool pic, but what’s cooler is that other DeviantARTists colored it in. MsValentine’s favorite is this one – I’d agree, that rocks! (Louis Wu 17:16:11 UTC)

Comics are light today – folks are playing ODST, as expected. ODS Steve has only a ‘gone fishin’ pic (of sorts)… TTL Demag0gue, bucking the trend, has posted a full episode of Reclaimer. 219 (Trading Blows) has Bold and the Reclaimer… well, trading blows.(Louis Wu 17:15:07 UTC)

GameDaily is posting a strategy guide – it seems to be aimed at selling the Prima guide. An example page is ‘Know Your Enemy’ – all other pages are easily found in the ‘Training Grounds’ sidebar at the top of the article.(Louis Wu 17:14:13 UTC)

Bunch of new content on Bungie.net already today (I’m really late getting started)… let’s summarize what’s there for you:Burnie Burns did a video interview with PPMooCowPP, the Commissioner of Grifball, about the sport.HaloCharts has summarized the progress made by folks who took up their Campaign Challenge – wow, those guys killed a lot.Some Bungie forum…

Joystiq wrote up a mini-FAQ for ODST – check it for stuff you might not have thought about.(Louis Wu 22:44:37 UTC)