Category: HBO

The Charisma+2 journalists at Kombo For Women talked to Corrinne Yu, the head of the Halo team at Microsoft. If you read carefully, there are some fun tidbits about upcoming Halo-related work in there! Overall, an interesting interview. Give it a read! Thanks, Jason Zook.(Louis Wu 23:30:48 UTC)

urk pointed out ‘Unidentified Failing Object’, a ‘failtage’ showing off some pretty funny stuff. HD, 3 minutes, M.I.A. soundtrack. Go watch!(Louis Wu 23:29:30 UTC)

Eep – almost forgot! Bungie’s updated the Bungie Favorites files with the second batch of goodies from Real 7alk – go read about one of the maps on the Bungie Blog, then check out the rest!(Louis Wu 21:42:51 UTC)

Over at the Halo Maps forum, ChocolateNugget and Yodajammies are building Spartan Armor in a pretty unique way – they’re milling the pieces on a CNC table, using 3D models, then molding and casting in more traditional methods. You can see a bunch of pictures in the HM thread – check it out! Thanks to…

There’s a new developer blog entry over at HaloWars.com – one of the animators discusses the animations he created for the Arbiter and some Spartans. THere are sketches and a couple of short videos illustrating his text. Check it out! Thanks, 2900d4u.(Louis Wu 19:43:46 UTC)

The Game Critics Awards Nominees for Best of E3 2009 have been announced – Halo 3: ODST pulled nominations for Best Action Game and Best Online Multiplayer Game. Winners will be announced on June 23 – stay tuned!(Louis Wu 17:08:05 UTC)

Wow, nice. Bry noticed that Argos (a UK game distributor) is selling Halo 3: ODST for £26.99 (about $44, US) – a heck of a deal! If you live on that side of the pond, you might want to check this out.(Louis Wu 17:03:26 UTC)

Rapper Asher Roth is the next celebrity to jump on Xbox LIVE to play Halo 3 with us little people – his Game with Fame session is Monday, June 24 at 4 pm ET. Read the Xbox.com page for full details!(Louis Wu 17:00:27 UTC)

Couple of entertaining clips for you today over at Bungie.net: ‘Halo 3 AA Gun Strikes Back’ shows that even machines can get in on the action… and ‘Mini-Mythisode 1: Killing the Elephant Driver’ looks at a strange glitch in the vulnerability of Elephant drivers, from the MythBusters crew. Go watch – they’re both short!(Louis Wu…

Bunch of comic listings for you today:Dennis Powers let us know about Shipwrecked Episode 71 – Weather Watch on Monday afternoon. Sorry for the delay! The Catfish is back to updating Bungie.net about 2501 – episodes 64-66 can be found here, and 67 is here. Hawty McBloggy let us know about ODS Steve #29 -…

CaptainTony noticed that Marvel’s posted a Details page about Halo: Helljumper #3.. with some fantastic cover art. (Looks like THOSE Helljumpers will be up against Elites…) (Louis Wu 23:16:58 UTC)

A couple of vids from your friends at the BungLog™ today – ‘Spartan Expose’ is proof that if you give people the tools, they’ll get sex into ANYTHING, including Halo… and ‘The Lawltage’ is a pretty funny montage made up of community clips showing zaniness.(Louis Wu 23:06:53 UTC)

Heh – Cody Miller put his… hmm, body where his brain was, and prepared to drop. And then dropped! With your friendly neighborhood Superintendent as a companion, even…(Louis Wu 22:46:52 UTC)

Dennis Powers let us know that over 160 maps and game assets were added to the Halo CE Maps file archive in April – the total is now over 4000 files. Notable maps include TM Fracture (a large Halo-based Forerunner canyon by the TM mapping team) and Captus, an abandoned Forerunner prison by CLS_GRUNT. There…

Minime637 is getting in on the Halo 3 panorama action – check out 12 new images in his DeviantART gallery. Great stuff! (Warning: some of the images are ENORMOUS. The Road to Voi, for example, is 18000×4589 (!!!), weighing in at 27 mb. This is probably enough to crash the browser of someone using an…

The latest Bungie Ninja to be profiled at Bungie.net is Foman – a Halo fanatic with a lot more to him. Go read about the guy who probably banned you!(Louis Wu 18:52:54 UTC)

Heh – looks like Halo’s being used to sell PC motherboards these days! Linken91 noticed an ad on the Asus website advertising the Rampage II GENE motherboard. As Psychophan7 points out, it’s common for PC manufacturers to use images from games to help sell their products – what makes this different is a pair of…

Looks like Halocharts has rescheduled its Road to Recon contest, because of the Xbox LIVE outage today. Check this Bungie Blog post for full details. (Louis Wu 18:51:40 UTC)

ForgeHub’s announced the winners of its Forgotten Treasures contenst (remakes of older Halo maps) – go see what won! Thanks, Decadence Night.(Louis Wu 14:02:48 UTC)

radiant penguin whipped up some new panoramas – I gotta say, the landscape shots are amazing.(Louis Wu 14:02:28 UTC)