Category: HBO

Tied The O7AH’s Cozmo23 was at the Dallas stop of the ODST Mobile Roadshow – he took pics and made up stories. Go read ’em!(Louis Wu 14:12:33 UTC)

Rampancy.net has posted its eighth Anger, Sadness and Envy podcast, covering the latter half of The Ark – it’s an hour long, and weighs in at 65 mb. Go listen! Update: Looks like this is the opening salvo in a rapid volley of upcoming podcasts; Narc says you’ll see the last three levels covered in…

If you missed last night’s episode of GTTV on Spike TV – it’s online at GameTrailers now. (Here’s the ODST segment.) If you’re insistent on experiencing ODST’s campaign with NO prior information, skip this; they spend a few minutes discussing a mission from the middle of the game. Almost no story info, but you do…

The second Red vs Blue-created ODST commercial for Gamestop is now online at IGN – it’s pretty funny, go watch!(Louis Wu 11:16:52 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy has the latest Friday Caption Fun online – captions from last week, a new screenshot to riff on… what else do you need? Go make funnies!(Louis Wu 11:16:05 UTC)

Bungie posted a pre-PAX Podcast yesterday – it’s an hour long, and it contains some interesting discussion about the development and gameplay (no spoilers) of Halo 3: ODST (among other things). Go grab a copy! (Louis Wu 11:14:08 UTC)

This is pretty funny in retrospect – but it probably wasn’t funny at the time. Yesterday, police descended on Bungie Studios, looking for a gunman reported by a neighbor. Turns out, it was just a Bungie employee carrying a replica Halo sniper rifle. Heh. Heheheh… (Thanks to gunluva (no joke) for noticing this at Kotaku.)…

Only two new pieces for you this week in the Fan Fiction section – go read!(Louis Wu 11:12:05 UTC)

Reuters has posted a press release for Spike TV, and what they’ve got planned for the month of September, with relation to Halo 3: ODST. It’s a pretty full schedule! Check it out to figure out when your TiVo needs programming… (Louis Wu 11:10:35 UTC)

Firestorm12 told us about Halopen Pencast 13 – this one’s focused on ODST (no spoilers). Go listen. (Louis Wu 11:10:09 UTC)

mr.sci-fi dropped in to announce he’d created a short video review of the NKOK radio-controlled Warthog – the video quality’s not the greatest, but you can get a sense for how it moves, and what its limitations are. (Louis Wu 11:09:32 UTC)

Bungie designer Dan Miller has been working in the gaming industry for 10 years – he’s got some good advice for you if you’re interested in getting a job in his field. Go read the latest Breaking In feature at Bungie.net!(Louis Wu 11:08:30 UTC)

IGN is releasing something ODST-related tomorrow morning at 10 am (PST) – it’s hard to tell what it is, but it’s definitely intriguing! (Thanks to urk, in stealth mode, for the heads-up.)(Louis Wu 18:47:05 UTC)

Kotaku visited Bungie’s offices, and filmed the lobby. (It’s full of cool goodies.) Haloriffic! Thanks, Vash10.(Louis Wu 18:14:05 UTC)

Over at Gamasutra, there’s an interesting piece on first-person perspective in games, and how it might not drive immersion as much as you thought – at least not for all of us. Halo 2 makes an appearance as the game that convinced the writer to give first-person perspective another chance. Go read!(Louis Wu 17:21:31 UTC)

2good4u2 put together a panorama montage – he collected some of his best panoramas, and synched them to high-class Halo music. (He’s embedded it in his forum post, but you’re much better off watching it in HD at YouTube.(Louis Wu 17:10:53 UTC)

NeoGAF’s CrazedArabMan noticed that there’s a new trailer for tonight’s GTTV episode focusing on Halo 3: ODST up at GameTrailers; pretty much the only new info is that there’ll be an interview with Marty, too. Go watch! (Louis Wu 16:59:22 UTC)

Out of Work Spartan is back – Episode 2 has him teaching you about a new communication technique developed by the UNSC. Wouldn’t you know it was the Bungie Blog that brought this to our attention?(Louis Wu 16:58:18 UTC)

Black Water Ops is getting into the podcast business – they’ll be recording their first episode live on Saturday, September 19 at 9 pm Eastern. Special guest is Kete, from The Running Riot podcast. (I sense logrolling in our future…) In addition, Facility B5D is ALSO doing its first podcast as a live broadcast -…

Remember that contest we mentioned two weeks ago, where Ready Up Live wanted to know who was the biggest fan? They’ve picked their winners – you can watch the video to see who took home the goodies. Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 16:56:33 UTC)