Category: HBO

Biff let us know that a video showing off the Master Chief buying Halo Wars at the Midnight sales event in College Station, Texas is now online. Fun night!(Louis Wu 16:53:06 UTC)

Is it Friday again? I think that means there’s another round of Friday Caption Fun over at Hawty McBloggy’s. Check out last week’s top captions… and come up with something clever for this week’s truly bizarre pic.(Louis Wu 16:40:59 UTC)

This is totally random – but nice and short, and pretty funny. (An extra cookie for those who get the title reference.)(Louis Wu 16:37:21 UTC)

Zy1on submitted a three and a half minute montage to the Bungie Blog – it’s heavy on the editing, but has some nice gameplay. (I kept looking for synching between the music and the gameplay… but you’re gonna have to be happy with the play itself.)(Louis Wu 16:33:53 UTC)

Remember Bob? JeSteR 343 has made some Facebook flair for him. That’s actually a pretty cool button!(Louis Wu 16:27:09 UTC)

Edge Online listed what they considered to be The Top 100 Best Games to Play Today (it’s an abridged version of a full-length article in their 200th print issue) – and across all plaftorms, and all time, Halo 3 pulled in at the number 9 spot. Go check out the whole list! Thanks, LoneRanger 2.5.(Louis…

Loot Ninja wrote up a review of the Mythic Maps – go see what they thought!(Louis Wu 16:16:23 UTC)

Six new pieces are available in the Fan Fiction section this week – some monsters, even. Go read!(Louis Wu 16:14:25 UTC)

It’s Friday, so it’s time for another Comic update…The Catfish let us know about 2501 Episode 26 (Decisions)Chronicles of ODS Steve #17 (Onward to Bravo) was up on Wednesday, but we heard about it after the Wednesday updateBloogyo told us that there were updates for both Rat’s Nest and Vendetta (hopefully, one of these days…

There’s a brand-new ‘Broken In’ article (I guess that’s what you get when you talk to someone who isn’t BREAKING in at the moment) – this one focuses on Roger Wolfson, the Server Software Development Lead at Bungie. He’s the guy that makes stats (and such) work so well on Bungie.net. Go see what got…

It’s Thursday, so it’s time to start a new Double XP Weekend! This week is a return to Legendary Brawl – 12-player FFA on mostly-DLC maps. Go play!(Louis Wu 19:28:28 UTC)

The GrifballHub.com crew put up ‘Pup and Friends – March 2009 Double XP’, a video showing Grifball enthusiasts being enthusiastic. Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 17:08:46 UTC)

Wanna see how silly you can be and still earn achievements? Check out Rooster Teeth’s Geoff and Gav as they work on the Tank Dropper achievement. I think there must have been alcohol involved.(Louis Wu 17:04:55 UTC)

The Bungie Blog got word of ‘Alpha Zombie’, a machinima from Ze Royal Viking Productions. It’s a bit long (12 minutes, spread out over 2 segments – Part 1 | Part 2 – with about three minutes of credits between them), but it’s a coherent story. Give it a shot.(Louis Wu 16:50:31 UTC)

Luke McKay continues to play with Halo images – a couple of weeks ago, he sketched up a great angle on the Master Chief, and today he released a shot done in a new style he’s been experimenting with. Pretty nice work! We’ve added both of these to his Gallery here. Update: Oops, almost missed…

The 2009 Game Developers Conference kicks off in a little over a week – and here are the Bungie/Halo related presenters:Max Hoberman (former Multiplayer Lead for Halo games) has a talk called ‘From Bungie to Bootstrapping – Starting an Independent Developer Studio’.Allen Murray (Producer, Halo 3) is sharing production challenges in a talk entitled ‘Building…

It’s been a while since we’ve heard from This Spartan Life – but they’re coming back! There’s a new trailer up on their website, showing off their unique combination of interesting interviews and… well, bullets to the head. Thanks to finalcutmin for noticing!(Louis Wu 12:17:19 UTC)

The Bungie Blog posted a fan-made video showcasing the Mongoose – it’s a lot of fun. Go watch it in HD!(Louis Wu 12:17:00 UTC)

Wow. Just… wow. vector40 (who was once a large contributor to our Fan Fiction section) stopped by last night to mention that the textbook being used in a course he’s taking on video game structure contains a Halo-based fan-written poem… taken from our Fan Fiction section. In fact, it was written by UNSC Trooper, who’s…

Went out to buy a new headset for my phone, came back to a batch of new posts on Bungie.net. Lessee here…There’s a writeup on My Halo Life, a series of montages being put together by a tight-knit community (though they’re happy to include your fun clips). Episode 1 is online now.There’s some news about…