Category: HBO

Some great Grunt shots are available over at Bungie.net – collected with a simple search for ‘Grunt’ using Bungie’s tagging tools. Go look!(Louis Wu 22:46:38 UTC)

urk found a longish montage collected by the Legends of Blood Gulch team – fun stuff. Always good to play with friends! (Louis Wu 22:46:17 UTC)

The Halo 3 Mythbusters have released their first community podcast – swing by the Bungie Blog for a download link. 45 minutes, 35 mb. Go listen!(Louis Wu 17:37:57 UTC)

According to VideoGamer.com, the downloadable version of the Mythic Map Pack will be released on Xbox LIVE Marketplace on March 3. If that’s true, you’ll be able to buy the three maps on the same day (in the US) as you could acquire them by buying the Halo Wars Collector’s Edition. We’ll wait and see…

Professor Frink sent word of a video showing off Fission, a homebrew 3D engine for the Wii. (It is being built so that homebrew developers can put together studio-quality games without having to write an engine first.) The two flythroughs on the public demo? Zanzibar (the Halo 2 version) and Blood Gulch. Check out the…

About a month ago, we let you know about a video of a reporter from OXM riding around in Weta’s Warthog – the story that goes with this is now online on the OXM website.(Louis Wu 14:46:40 UTC)

Hawty McBloggy ran across a very cool custom-made Master Chief mini on DeviantART – swing by for all the details. What an awsome gift!(Louis Wu 14:44:35 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue let us know that Reclaimer 144 is online – and the virus status has been updated.(Louis Wu 14:44:06 UTC)

So Halo (the original game) was released in November, 2001 – and within a month or so, folks were exploring the boundaries of the maps. 2002 was the ‘Golden Age’ of Halo tricking; the Xbox hadn’t been hacked yet, and Halo PC wasn’t out yet, so folks were getting out of the maps the old-fashioned…

DigitalPh33r released Hard Justice: Episode 10 – the cidy of Esoteria is still screwed up. Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 20:56:01 UTC)

Master Ph0bia was first on our forum with word of a new render someone’s created of Sandbox; DopeteK, from the Kill 4 Fun clan, posted it up on Bungie.net this morning, but it nearly immediately started making the rounds without any attribution… and so has appeared in a number of places as a leak from…

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has a story about one man’s goal to fund his MLG dreams… by getting local players to pay to play him. (In theory, they’re doing it because they might win themselves, and head to MLG tourneys on someone else’s dime.) I thought it was fun Sunday reading.(Louis Wu 18:24:52 UTC)

MasterChiefn noticed that Halo 3 Fails Episode 8 is now live – there are some awesome funny moments in there. (My two favorites were the failed ghost-jacking on Snowbound, and the invisibility-induced betrayal on The Pit.) Go watch! I’m happy to see there are people who make the same silly mistakes I make.(Louis Wu 17:12:05…

urk stopped in over the weekend (careful, urk, it’ll become part of your job description if you keep doing that) to post word of a stop-motion Halo machinima. It’s not what you might think – it’s not action figures, filmed in stop-motion… it’s Halo 3 action, filmed in stop-motion. Watch it to see what the…

Hawty McBloggy brings us an update on the Virtual Reality Halo helmet she first noticed a couple of months ago. Headplay has upgraded the optics, added speakers, and is working on an accelerometer. Check out the progress video!(Louis Wu 18:06:19 UTC)

The ‘Top 10 Halo 3′ series from Anoj continues with a Multikill entry – Episode 22 shows off 10 impressive multikills. Some have been seen before (the danger of multiple Top 10 series, I guess), but they’re all fun to watch anyway. Check ’em out! (There’s also an honorable mentions collection.) Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 18:01:41…

A Montreal-based 3D-animator who goes by the name ‘eL gRizZLy’ just put up a blog post bubbling about how he’d just wrapped up his 5-month-long work on the Halo 3: ODST cinematics. Looks like it was a crew of freelance animators that was brought in to work on these cinematics, rather than using in-house resources.…

The Catfish let us know that 2501 Episode 9 is live, and anthraxgoon also told us that X36 Chapter 2 Issue 1 is online. Have you gotten your Halo 3 Screenshot comic dose today?(Louis Wu 17:04:03 UTC)

ODST Sarge stopped in with word of a teaser for Sovereign, a new machinima series. Aspect ratio on the YouTube vid is a bit off, and there’s not much going on… but the storyline is laid out in the forum post and the teaser, so go see what you think.(Louis Wu 16:58:08 UTC)

Juesoni stopped by to say that the next episode of ‘David’ (his Halo 3 machinima’) would be broadcast live today at 12 PST (8GMT/UTC, 3 EST) – just three hours from when this post is being written. Swing by his forum post for full details.(Louis Wu 16:55:40 UTC)