Category: HBO

The BS Police noticed a review of ODST that’s… less than kind over at Associated Content. No spoilers – so if you feel like getting the other side of the story, here’s a place. (Fair warning: the reviewer spends the first page telling you that he doesn’t plan to bash Halo at all… and then…

The Countdown to ODST continues on Spike TV – GTTV will have a bunch of Halo 3: ODST content… as well as “the world premiere of anime segments from Halo Legends’ first episode, ‘The Babysitter'”, this Thursday, September 17, at midnight. You can watch the promo trailer on YouTube. Thanks, Geoff Keighley. (Louis Wu 16:11:25…

Some awesome artwork posted this morning, from a variety of sources:Fragclone noticed a thread on polycount showing off some cool ODST renders by Heart_Murmur.Leviathan has whipped up some ODST wallpaper, both simple, and with interesting extras, inspired by Bungie’s use of ‘noir’.TDSpiral tried a different style – and ended up with a really interesting piece…

Over at Hawty McBloggy’s, Antithesis is back with more clay figures – check out his grunts, brute, and prophet! (If you swing by his website, you’ll even see two more – a CQB Spatan and a Scout Spartan. Hawty manages to bring the whole thing back around to sex, of course.(Louis Wu 16:05:24 UTC)

GameStop is hosting a Halo 3: ODST Tournament where you can win $5000, or one of thousands of other prizes. Round One (held in almost 2300 stores across the US) will pit 32 players per store against each other, with the top 4 per store advancing to Round Two. The top 2 finishers from each…

Morpheus announced the end of the most painful-to-judge contest… ever. Congratulations to all! (Louis Wu 16:04:35 UTC)

Patrick Cavanaugh had a bizarre experience yesterday, while downloading Battlefield: Bad Company on Xbox LIVE – his Xbox told him he was downloading ODST, instead. Sort of. He took some pics. (Does this mean that ODST is coming to Games on Demand? Probably not. Still pretty odd!) (Louis Wu 16:04:11 UTC)

XerxdeeJ let us know that Tied the Leader continues to hound the crew members of the ODST Roadshow – a whole passel of TTL members have gotten their Firefight on as the truck rolls through the US.(Louis Wu 16:03:49 UTC)

kabu dropped by to announce the latest HBOFF Fan Fic Pick of the Week, courtesy of eb4642. Go see how it worked out! (Louis Wu 16:03:29 UTC)

Last night, Rooster Teeth posted Chapter 13 of their Red vs Blue Recreation series – this one’s pretty serious, but pushes forth a lot of story material. Go watch! (Discussion, on our forum, if you’re interested.) (Louis Wu 16:03:06 UTC)

Terra Incognita is the latest masterpiece from the behind-the-scenes crew at Bungie – it’s a ViDoc in the original Bungie sense of the word. It cuts interviews with the crew who made the game in with cinematically-filmed gameplay – no huge spoilers, but I suppose if you obsessed about the tidbits in here, you could…

Thanks to Blublur1, who pointed out a Tweet from Bungie that implies that staying up late tonight might be worthwhile… (Remember, we’re still waiting on a ViDoc.)(Louis Wu 00:55:26 UTC)

Spase is selling a couple of helmets on eBay – the ODST replica is currently at $285 (with just under 2 days to go), and the Recon Helmet (which finishes an hour earlier) is at $200 right now. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 22:25:02 UTC)

RevDotNed ran across a very cool feature at Digitial Photography School – 21 Great Reader Shots (and how they were taken). #14 is called ‘Master Chief’s Bad Day’, and it’s not only a great shot, the story behind it is pretty fun!(Louis Wu 22:24:45 UTC)

Azrael stopped in with word of the latest chapter of his Halo fanfic, Minutmen: The Crucible – go check out Chapter 12: An Evening with Rachel Lynch.(Louis Wu 22:24:27 UTC)

Today’s Tag and Release feature at Bungie.net was based on the keyword ‘-blam!-‘ (which I think is subbed in for any curse). Resultant images range from sexually implicit to painful. Go see what they found!(Louis Wu 22:17:08 UTC)

geekinabox was at the Cleveland ODST Roadshow stop… and wrote up his experiences for a less-than-obsessed audience. Check it out!(Louis Wu 16:12:53 UTC)

Brian Jarrard and Joe Staten will be participating in a live chat on the Best Buy forums tomorrow night, September 15, from 6-8pm central time (7-9 eastern, 4-6 pacific, you do the math if you’re outside the US) – if you’ve got questions, submit ’em!(Louis Wu 14:02:54 UTC)

Can Brian Jarrard justify the purchase of Halo 3: ODST in 30 seconds? You decide.(Louis Wu 13:59:45 UTC)

NeoGAF’s Popeck pointed out the GTTV Bonus Round’s Pax Panel over at GameTrailers – Brian Jarrard, N’Gai Croal, and Randy Pitchford discussed marketing and development of games. Sketch once again confirmed that Halo Reach’s engine is new:Something like Reach, obviously, we don’t want to use a three, four year old engine and technology, so we…