Category: HBO

sbear stopped in with some pics of a pepakura rifle he’s building, from a source file he got from the 405th. Great start! (Louis Wu 13:03:14 UTC)

A company called ‘PalTalk’ is suing Microsoft for patent infringement on a pair of patents it bought from MPath Interacive; it says that the technology it now has the rights to was infringed upon by the Halo games. According to the article,Microsoft said it did review the inventions and chose a different path in developing…

Lando Griff1n sent word of his second Halo 3 montage – it’s called ‘Lando – First Blood Part II’, and you can read about it (and download it) at Halo3Montage.com. Heavy on the effects, available in both a massive 470+ mb HD version, and a smaller (80 mb) version formatted for iPods – take a…

Hawty McBloggy ran across a Microsoft job listing for a software development engineer to help build what sounds like a successor to Bungie.net. An “immersive Halo world that follows the dedicated Halo fan wherever they go”? Hmm…(Louis Wu 12:32:12 UTC)

Domino Theory, undaunted by the insane amount of reading he needed to do to pick a winner in the Ask a Rookie contest last weekend, has kicked off ANOTHER contest – this one is for a Legendary map code. All you have to do is enter. Do it only once, and do it before Friday…

Bryan Simon is hosting a contest – cover one of his Halo 3 songs, and you’ve got a shot at a bag of sunflower seeds, a year of Xbox LIVE, and a spot on his Friends List. What more could you want? Thanks to urk for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 22:38:33 UTC)

urk highlighted a very cool speed painting of a Halo 3 ODST, done by Sean McCoy – I love watching these things, especially when they’re done by great artists!(Louis Wu 18:56:40 UTC)

sniper2477 pointed out a video by Sp00nerism which takes those ‘Message to all Friends’ messages on LIVE to task. If you’re tired of hearing them… well, don’t watch this video, because there are a bunch of them here. (Wait, I’m pretty sure that’s not the right way to promote this vid…)(Louis Wu 18:34:29 UTC)

Jamie98s is back to Machinima-making, and this one’s a little… different. He’s got a full explanation for it – but you’re better off watching it, and seeing what you get out of it on your own. It’s called ‘2’, and it’s available on his site either streaming (via YouTube), or downloadable (from RapidShare). Because we…

It’s Monday, so Bungie’s got another Tag and Release feature for you. Today’s tag: ‘Night’. Did they find some cool pics? You bet your nightvision they did! Go see if you can grab anything better!(Louis Wu 17:45:29 UTC)

Ready Up Live is giving away ANOTHER pair of Mythic Map codes – all you have to do is come up with a good acronym for ‘MYTHIC’. Swing by the Bungie Blog for details (or go straight to RUL’s contest page).(Louis Wu 17:43:41 UTC)

skullkruncher13 and patfan8326 put together a Halo 3 rap called ‘Halo 3 Rimz’. Some of the rhymes are a little sketchy, but overall they did a nice job! Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 17:40:26 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy found a life size Halo 2 Master Chief for sale on eBay… being sold by an adult film star. Not sure why that’s relevant (except that she shows up in the image pics, with clothing)… but hey, if you’re looking for a reason to browse this sort of listing… there you go.(Louis Wu…

gunluva noticed a post at Kotaku that contains a large collection of Halo Wars concept art. They got it from conceptart.org, where it had been posted by Marco Nelor, apparently an artist with Ensemble who didn’t want to see this material lost when the studio doors close. The conceptart.org versions are larger – but I’m…

We’re going to shift the way we report Halo-related comics; there are simply too many of them to provide a newspost for each. So: every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, there’ll be a summary of all releases since the last update. This should keep total comic-related posts to a tolerable level, while still keeping readers informed…

chris10023 was the first to let us know about Halo 3 Fails, Episode 12 – but be aware that this is the first episode since Episode six that has earned the Hawty McBloggy seal of approval (she’s really happy they’ve gone back to clips that we all can connect with, and that haven’t been totally…

Missed this yesterday – and sorry I did. Hawty McBloggy discovered a cake created by a DevianARTist that looks AMAZING. Halo in all its glory… and edible! (Louis Wu 13:55:44 UTC)

A couple of fans on our forum have provided some help with the Halo Wars timeline – HaLo2FrEeEk transcribed the beginning of the ‘Halo Timeline’ available in the main Halo Wars game menu, and Bry unveiled a document that contains not only the full timeline, but detailed biographies of the characters, as well. Nice work!(Louis…

Missed this yesterday – Xbox360Achievements.org is giving away 10 Mythic Map codes – email them with the answer to a relatively simple question, and you’re in the running. Thanks, urk. Update: ran across two more. ViP Gaming (a CoD blog) is giving away a code to the funniest ORIGINAL Halo joke – swing by the…

Z wrote to let us know about a Str8 Ripping Team Montage over at Halo3Forum.com. If you can handle the 640 MB HD download… you should grab it. (Watch it at whatever size, if you can’t manage the big one – but that one’s incredible.) The gameplay (not surprisingly) is amazing, the editing is quite…