Category: HBO

Red vs Blue Recreation Chapter 5 – Local Host – is now available for viewing at the Rooster Teeth site. Donut goes home, Grif doesn’t have to die, and Caboose finds… someone. The mysteries continue!(Louis Wu 13:17:08 UTC)

Mr Sark and the crew of G4TV’s X-Play have released a video preview of Halo 3: ODST – go watch to see a little more Firefight footage, and get some first-hand impressions of the game.(Louis Wu 13:07:18 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy ran across some very cool donuts – go take a look. I think her obsession with balls might be going a bit overboard… but these DO look delicious. (And the fact that they’re made by Hot N Creamy Donuts just made me laugh.)(Louis Wu 13:06:16 UTC)

If you live near Manchester, in the UK, you might be interested in a tournament to be held at the Manchester Gamerbase this Thursday – full details can be found in this Bungie.net blog post.(Louis Wu 13:05:12 UTC)

The TriBlox Team stopped by with an announcement about Halo: Out With a Whimper, the sidescrolling Halo game they’ve been working on for a while. (We last mentioned it back in January.) A new demo will be out at the end of the month, in time for the SAGE Convention (go and register on their…

A new Tag and Release feature is live at Bungie.net – ‘Boom’ seems to pull out some truly explosive shots. Go find your own!(Louis Wu 17:45:28 UTC)

Pierre Tartaix pointed us to Change of Scenery, a new machinima created by TGO GMBH. I have absolutely no idea what happened during this film… but the cinematography was great, the music was great, and the dialogue was at times very funny. Be aware that while the voice actors are predominately English-speaking, the group making…

Queso Man has whipped up a sixth montage – nice gameplay, liberally mixed in with moments of self-ownage. I particularly liked the betrayal at the top of Blackout, in the midst of a sniper spree – clearly, that grenade to the back of his teammate’s head mean “GET THE HELL OUT OF MY WAY”. Four…

Looking for fun Halo-themed creations this morning? Swing by Hawty McBloggy’s. She’s got word of a Halo 3 Pelican Cake (looks delicious, and that’s no lie), and a bunch of Halo/Nintendo mashups from CrazedOne1988 (some of these could be serious fun!). Go by and read for yourself!(Louis Wu 16:30:51 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy has posted the winning numbers from the Fundfax Fairraiser – they were all picked live, last night, in front of a studio audience (the studio, this time around, being the internet). $6500 was raised for Marissa and her family – and 57 winning numbers were picked to give out a huge passel of…

ElusiveEagle519 is keeping up on changes in the Halo music sphere – the latest Bungie podcast has been added to his revamped Music Resources page here at HBO. A promising precedent – thanks, EE! (To all those who offered help recently, and were told that I’d get a list of things that need doing -…

CyReN stopped in to announce another Halo CE 2v2 Tournament at Unleashed Gaming in Canton, MI on August 2 – their first one took place yesterday, and given that they’re announcing another one, I think it can probably be considered a success! Swing by the Unleashed Gaming Center page at MySpace for more details.(Louis Wu…

ODST Sarge let us know that Unexpected Chapter 1 (Killed in Action) has been released – it’s a machinima about a soldier that resigns from an army that was fighting in the Canadian Civil War. (Yeah, right?) Check it out! (Louis Wu 13:52:31 UTC)

A couple of new comics for you this morning: Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked Episode 79 – Doubt is live (our Marines are second-guessing themselves, and may be meeting more trouble soon), and TTL Demag0gue informed us that Reclaimer 203 – Manipulation – is online as well… it ties some interesting astronomical theory…

LoneRanger 2.5 ran across a short article on an Indian website that summarizes some of the changes Bungie will be implementing in Halo: Reach, based on comments made during a talk at this year’s GDC. It’s unclear whether the comments were made specifically about Reach, or about gaming technology in general… but it’s out there.(Louis…

Bryan Ojeda attended a rehearsal for the Video Games Live performance that took place last Friday in Vienna, VA at the WolfTrap Filene Center with the National Symphony Orchestra. He brought a video camera. You can watch the 10 minutes of Halo footage on YouTube. (Louis Wu 13:43:01 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy is holding the drawing for her Fundfax Fairraiser in just a couple of hours – sorry for the short notice! She’ll be picking the winners live, and you can get into the chatroom if you’re interested. Swing by and read the details!(Louis Wu 23:06:10 UTC)

Brandon Krichick pointed out an article at IO9 – ‘The Most Badass Female Space Pilots Of All Time’ does a really good job of picking out some great female space pilots in science fiction. (You KNOW it’s a good list when it includes mentions of pilots from stories by Iain Banks, Vernor Vinge, and Alastair…

Halo 3 Mythbusters has released Episode 11 – you can watch it on their site (thanks, Minime637) or directly on YouTube. 7 minutes of glitches and little things you might never have known about! (Louis Wu 17:35:18 UTC)

ukilledkenny7 let us know about a video created for a gaming show called The Dashboard, airing this fall on GoodGameTV – he thought it would be appropriate to share it early, given recent events.(Louis Wu 17:34:41 UTC)