Category: HBO

A number of comics were announced on our forum in the past 12 hours or so:Juesoni told us about Reconnaissance Omega Special Chapter, now on its 9th page (out of 10)The Catfish announced that 2501 Episode 6 was out – with a cliffhangerAdam Susskind is back, with word of Chaos Theory Episode 8: Fear (Part…

I’m not really sure what happened, but it looks like someone broke in and used urk’s computer to write up a fake Bungie Weekly Update. That’s the only explanation I can come up with for an update so chock-full of actual information, straight talk and undisguised answers. Highlights:A Mythic-specific playlist will go live the day…

subtheorist, from MLGPro.com, wrote to let us know about a giveaway for Halo Wars Beta codes – with one of these, you’ll be able to download the demo about a week before the general public. They’ve got 25 codes to give away, and all you need to do is post in a particular thread. Read…

The Bungie Blog highlighted a montage dominated by MLG play – it’s in HD, but bring the dramamine, the camera cuts are really jumpy.(Louis Wu 20:31:36 UTC)

HDR has some new screens from Halo Wars, snapped from the demo, due out in less than two weeks.(Louis Wu 19:21:15 UTC)

According to VoodooExtreme, Halo Wars went gold today – and the studio doors will close soon. Swing by for the full MS press release.(Louis Wu 17:47:43 UTC)

urk got word that The Running Riot podcast is moving to a live recording format, with the next episode (14) being broadcast at 9:30 pm EST on January 27th. Predator5791 will be a guest. Check out their website for full details.(Louis Wu 17:31:56 UTC)

S1kkZ, over at NeoGAF, noticed a new Halo Wars vidoc on the Marketplace – it’s 204 mb, HD, four and a half minutes long, and loaded with new gameplay and cutscene footage. If it doesn’t find its way to the web in the near future, we’ll put up a copy of our own.(Louis Wu 14:38:26…

It’s Friday, so it’s time for another round of Caption Fun at Hawty McBloggy’s. Last week’s screenshot doesn’t disappoint for entertaining responses, and this week’s promises some politically-incorrect choices. Go play!(Louis Wu 14:17:35 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue told us that Reclaimer 140 is up – and it didn’t even work out the way HE planned. Sometimes comics write themselves. (Louis Wu 14:11:44 UTC)

radiant penguin stopped in with a new set of panoramas – these are all (well, most) from Sierra 117, and they’re gorgeous. Check ’em out.(Louis Wu 14:06:44 UTC)

Only three new pieces in the Fan Fiction section today… but one of them is a novelization of the game. Wonga!(Louis Wu 14:05:28 UTC)

Laird stopped by to show off an unfinished trailer for Unyielding 3 – effects aren’t done yet, but you can get a sense for how this puppy will be laid out. Swing by his post for direct download and YouTube links.(Louis Wu 00:33:55 UTC)

Bungie’s posted a new pair of Halo 3: ODST Trailer stills on the ODST Project Page – or you can go directly to the images in question: Red Eye | Alert Zone. They’re pretty massive – they’re not just grabs from the published trailer. At 2133×1200, they’re almost too big for wallpaper, even!(Louis Wu 00:30:48…

The Bungie Breaking In series continues, today focusing on Andrew Davis, Graphic Design/User Interface. If you want to see what got Andrew into Bungie, go read this article!(Louis Wu 00:27:19 UTC)

TTL Demag0gue announced that there’s a new tutorial over at Halo3Webcomics – this one focuses on publishing a webcomic using Wordpress and ComicPress. The software is free – and thanks to Halo3Webcomics, the hosting is free… so what are you waiting for?(Louis Wu 20:09:37 UTC)

If you’ve got the Legendary and Heroic map packs, you can participate in the latest Double-XP weekend, which kicked off about 45 minutes ago – this week, it’s 3-Ball. (Louis Wu 19:44:39 UTC)

Bryan Simon put together a video highlighting some of the messages he gets on Xbox LIVE, due to his wearing of Recon armor in Matchmaking. Listen to these… and then think pretty hard about whether you actually want this armor yourself. (Definitely PG-rated language – don’t play this at work… or in front of your…

Weird Al + Halo 3 = WIN. (Especially when the actual movie is so well-thought-out.) Thanks muchly to urk for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 17:33:27 UTC)

I vowed yesterday to stop highlighting silly top 10 lists at GameDaily… but today 2900d4u brings us word of an article with some new (and interesting?) content – character studies of Halo Wars’ characters Professer Anders and the Prophet of Regret, spread out over 10 pages. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 16:05:06 UTC)