Category: HBO

We’ve got two for you: Hawty McBloggy let us know about ODS Steve 40 (Secrets), and TTL Demag0gue let us know about Reclaimer 214 (Dumping Ground). Solid entries in long-running strips!(Louis Wu 10:13:25 UTC)

We recieved word that Peter William Marks, known to Bungie fans as Mordia, Lud, and “the guy who built Hang ’em High” (among other things), passed away on September 7th, 2009 at 11:35 p.m. He fought to the very end, and will be missed greatly. The page we set up a couple of years ago…

GameTrailers has posted the HD, full-length ‘We Are ODST’ short that showed for the first time on Spike TV last night – swing by and check it out!(Louis Wu 17:46:40 UTC)

The latest Average Joe at Bungie.net is BerserkerBarage – he’s been around for a while, and has a long history of Bungie game fannage. (Fannage? That’s not right…) Go see what drives him!(Louis Wu 17:43:16 UTC)

Today’s Tag and Release term at Bungie.net is ‘Dark’ – and the resultant images are just that. Go look!(Louis Wu 17:40:42 UTC)

Pup and Friends whipped up a Grifball highlights reel for PAX – it’s online now. Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 17:37:53 UTC)

Dennis Powers let us know about new stuff at HaloMaps… The Halo Custom Edition archive jumped by 120 new submissions during August, bringing the total to 4,333 files. Highlights of the new stuff include Maridia (Public Beta) (Metroid total conversion), TM Immolate, and Garden CE (very cool-looking). The Halo 2 Vista Map Archive got 22…

The record-it-live train continues to barrel through the Halo podcast scene – Episode 21 of The Running Riot podcast (guest-starring CMNeir) will be recorded September 14 at 9:30 pm ET, and Episode 5 of Zoxin It Up! LIVE (guest-starring Bryan Simon) will record on September 19 at 9 pm ET. Read the B.net posts about…

BSG Surgeon let us know that BSG’s MB012 and Tied the Leader’s TTL Locke were in Texas at the ODST truck stop – and took pics and wrote up impressions. Go look, go read! (Louis Wu 17:20:40 UTC)

Azrael stopped in with word of the latest chapter of his Minutemen: The Crucible fan fic. Swing by his blog to read it! (Louis Wu 17:19:15 UTC)

We forgot to post this yesterday – but Hawty McBloggy put up the latest Grin + Bear It (now hosted by her) on Sunday. Adult humor. Bad puns. What more do you want from a Halo comic? (Louis Wu 17:18:08 UTC)

Looks like Best Buy will be running midnight store openings to celebrate Halo 3: ODST’s release on the 22nd – swing by to see if your store is on the list.(Louis Wu 17:16:53 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy has a set of pictures of folks in costume at PAX – more than enough of them are Halo-related to warrant a newspost here. (She’s in a few herself…) (Louis Wu 17:15:02 UTC)

HaloHolics is celebrating the release of ODST with a Forging contest – follow the rules, win, and you’re eligible for some prizes.(Louis Wu 17:14:25 UTC)

chris10023 let us know that Halo 3 Fails Episode 25 was live – three minutes of bad luck and bad decisions. My favorite was the Driving Failure Fail. I want that Mongoose.(Louis Wu 17:14:05 UTC)

JAY132 sent word of a thread at The RFP – Howlrunner bought the Toys R Us Plasma Blaster and did some work to it. Looks great!(Louis Wu 17:13:45 UTC)

Looks like Red vs Blue Recreation Episode 12 is up REALLY early for Sponsors (it’ll go live around 9 CST, as usual, for the rest of the world). Things are getting crazy – both back in the canyon, and in the desert. Old friends, old enemies, new acquaintances… things are heating up. Go watch! Thanks,…

Eurogamer got word from Brian Jarrard at PAX that Firefight could be included in Reach… if folks like it enough. Thanks to NeoGAF’s enzo_gt (who got this from Joystiq) for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 21:45:28 UTC)

Devin Olsen posted pics of his second day of PAX goodness (lots of Halo stuff) – as well as an offer for a bunch of PAX shirt codes for your Xbox LIVE avatar. (I’m guessing that by the time this hits the front page, they’re all gone – but it’s a pretty cool thing to…

ConK3rS let us know that Halo.fr found the extended version of the Halo 3: ODST live-action trailer – it’s got extra footage compared to the original 90 second version (and some scenes are slightly different, as well). Take a look!(Louis Wu 19:06:05 UTC)